64 Posts From Unfortunate People Who Have The Worst In-Laws (New Pics)

Got served this disgraceful excuse for a steak at my father-in-law's birthday. Every year, I tell them I will cook my own steak because I like it cooked medium to medium rare. Every year, I get this stuff... Not only do they cook it well done, but they put it in the oven for about an hour to let it "tenderize". Not to mention there's only about 4 grains of salt and half a pinch of pepper on the whole tray of steaks. I don't know what they have against delicious, tender, juicy steak, but my god... they owe that cow an apology.

My mother-in-law decided to use my hobby tools without asking me, when I wasn't home, to cut wire. She put them back in my hobby drawer without saying anything. They cost me $80.
Also ruined another pair of cheaper clippers while she was at it.

In-laws were watching the kids at my house while my wife and I were out. Father-in-law (who’s notorious for messing with other people's stuff) decides to “test” all our fire extinguishers to “make sure they work.”
Big one in the garage plus kitchen, upstairs, and wife’s car. Now I have to go replace all 4.

He brought so much over; he had it all in his deep freezer, expecting us to eat all of it, so that it didn’t go to waste. He packed both of our freezers with all of this meat, knowing it was 12 years old. Without asking if we even wanted it.

I said, "Give him all the corners!" Chuckles all around, and then we got all the edges...

He got to ours place before us and, being in a rush, put our items in the garbage “to protect them from the rain.”

He said his wife would like the flowers and just took them home with him. My husband is going to buy me new flowers tomorrow.

My wife and I just returned from a week-long vacation to find our kitchen literally rearranged. We asked her parents to just drop by and feed our rabbits while we were away. Something they've done numerous times and are always paid to do when needed- This vacation was fairly needed, as I'm in the middle of attending postsecondary and working part-time while my wife works full-time and takes care of the house, while I pitch in where I can. And after a 4-hour car ride, we are extremely thankful for this break and look forward to preparing for another year of endless work. But lo and behold, her parents left us another hour's worth of work for us to even use the kitchen, as a joke. My wife is more upset than I am, but it certainly drew an annoyed snort from me, which I believe qualifies as mildly infuriating. The picture is just one of several cupboards.

Wondering what everyone thinks. Am I the crazy one for wanting to turn it down? He thinks it might be because I have low testosterone.

My husband shares both his Netflix and Prime accounts with his parents and pays for it. It first started with his parents using his Netflix instead of their own profile and even trying to charge a not-included film to his credit card on Prime. He asked them to stop, but they said they cannot figure it out, so he added a pin and in brackets that it's not their profile. We thought the problem was solved, but then I noticed they started using mine instead. I hadn't looked at Netflix for maybe a week and noticed today they apparently had a watch marathon - my entire history & front page is just He-Man, war films, and Christmas movies. The algorithm is completely messed up at this point. Needless to say, I got a pin now too and a note in brackets.

He decided to make chili with way too much seasoning (it was like chewing on sand) and then he cooked it for two days straight—did not stir it enough.

He’s also careless. He doesn’t flush the toilet. This is not the first time. He has been living in my house for a few months.

My elderly MIL struggles with OCD (I do too, so I can empathise (to an extent)) and refuses to reuse anything - cups, plates, and any and all silverware. I love her/them, but they should know better. They worry about water use w.r.t. showering and washing clothes, and then they also moan about the electricity the drying machine and ACs use regularly (we have solar panels and spend most of the time off the grid), but this is okay. If any of my BILs or extended family come to visit (it is only ever for an hour or so), then this can easily become 30-50 cups. We might get close to 50 if they are watching a rugby game with my BILs, for example. We certainly have enough cups with which to set new records.

My ex and I have been split up for about 2 years now, but are very civil coparenting between houses. However, often times he leaves the kids (4m and 3f) with his parents, who are like a weird cult. They own their own church, and they have rules. Women don't cut their hair, women wear dresses and skirts only, women stay home, cook, clean, have babies, and don't speak to the men about anything. They need to keep their mouth shut, etc etc.
Well, my daughter asked me to cut her hair the other day, so I said ok and gave her a really cute Dora the explora hair cut (I have pics, it looks great).
She was sooo excited and asked to call her grandparents to tell them.
Her grandma was great, "wow you look so cute!" Her grandpa said, "You're in trouble. You're gonna get it. You aren't supposed to cut your hair." And get repeating "you're gonna get it," and my daughter looked so confused.
Then their tía comes on the phone and goes, "You cut your hair?! Oh no..."
It was so gross. So I texted the kid's dad.

I genuinely don't understand... Does she WANT us to spend the holidays in the emergency room?
She isn't a mean person, she's just very air-brained. I plan on asking her what her reasoning was behind this, but I will wait until after all the holiday chaos.

Both locks are locked and stay locked unless we go out this door, which is rare. She didn't even try to open the door, but just assumed it was unlocked because the bottom one looks it. They're both locked and were locked when she was here.

They are delightful people. My mother-in-law is great, and I’m lucky we have such a good relationship, but this has my husband in stitches. How does this happen??!

I just don’t know if built-in seals exist where she is from because this happens all the time. Stale tortillas anyone?

This happened by day 3. And no, I didn’t have anything on this when I brought it over. I actually clipped some to use in a dinner I made, Trenette al Pesto. I can grow more, as I have start-ups, this one was the first of the seedlings I germinated and grew. My FIL swears he didn’t see anything on the plant. It was a full-on bush when I brought it over.

My husband doesn’t think it’s that big of a deal, so I wanted to vent a teensy bit. MIL came over to help me postpartum (stayed for about a month). Once I was healed and back in the kitchen, I walk in to a lot of things being rearranged. This one in particular made me want to laugh and cry at the same time. My poor spice jars have been written on with Sharpie. And there are multiple duplicates.
Grateful for the help, though.

Ordering a replacement this weekend, it’s obviously contaminated with bacteria and cracked all the way up and down. MIL is mad that I did this, because apparently she likes drinking filth.

Already having a bad week, didn’t need to come home and find this. The room also smells overwhelmingly like bleach, which my 3-year-old keeps complaining about.

She managed to spray beet-based batter out of a food processor and across the backsplash and the items sitting in front of it. I JUST WANT MY COFFEE THIS MORNING, but I am faced with this all over my Aeropress.
Yes, cake, beet, food processor. All the “correct” words.
Ugh. Coffee!

I had a miscarriage over Christmas week. Ended up in the ER three separate times because I needed monitoring to rule out life-threatening issues and my OB was closed. On Christmas Eve my husband told my MIL what was happening (with my consent) because I was missing the video call with them to wish them a Merry Christmas. My MIL sent me this text today, and I'm feeling really upset that she felt the need to tell more people (my husband's sisters and brothers-in-law) without asking us.

This is after she accidentally also told my husband's brother and sister-in-law what was going on while I was still in the ER one of the times. She always "apologizes," but it feels like no one can be that stupid repeatedly, right?

I've been no contact with my mother-in-law for over 5 years. My husband (also no contact with her) just dropped off his brother at her house for a visit and was handed this to give to me.

My sister and Brother-in-law just bought a house and put up contact paper on the bathroom windows, but didn't notice one area was done in the wrong direction.
He knew something was off, but couldn't pinpoint what.