I went back to a punk house after 4 months and got my couch/chair/ottoman that I couldn’t move when I left. Only knew one guy that lived there still… was just like Thats my stuff and I need it.
Also, MIL has said multiple times how she is planning to gift us this terribly ugly and very sentimental “side table” that is actually a 100 year old sewing machine table and really she doesnt want it anymore but cant bring herself to get rid of it. Im also not allowed to say that we dont want it… Ive been instructed that we tell her no by not acting excited when she brings it up.
man my parents were so bummed when they had to take back my grandfathers old mediocre dresser. like sure it’s cool cuz it was his and i loved the guy. but also- it was cheap and didn’t fit our space. can’t be mad about having to take it back if you’d be mad about us throwing it out. i know it’s my problem later now, but.
also they bought me an armoire from ikea when i was like 10. gave it to a homie 13 years later. “you really should have let us know we could have used that”. F. O. H.
my family never communicates their true feelings about anything at any point, so if there was any sentiment about the table, I was not aware. obviously, it was there. it was also a gigantic and ugly table. also, 39 year old me would have figured out how to keep it. 23 year old me was moving his entire life in a Toyota Matrix and just couldn’t bring it.
the boomers are absolutely insane about furniture. my in laws gave my wife her bedroom set from her childhood bedroom. it’s very high quality furniture…but it’s just not a popular style any more. however, ten years after taking it, we found out that we’re not allowed to get rid of it unless we pay my mother in law. and the price we have to pay her? THE PRICE THE FURNITURE COST HER ORIGINALLY.
so my wife told her we’d just give it back to her. no, she doesn’t want it back, she doesn’t have room and doesn’t want to pay to store it. so basically i’m storing her furniture in my house until she dies, i guess.
One of the shitty sharehouses I lived in needed a lawnmower, so a guy we knew said “here, you can have this one, it’s not running but probably just needs a new sparkplug”. It needed more than a sparkplug so I never bothered getting it running, and put it out for rubbish collection at some point. Flash forward a year, old mate comes back looking for his lawnmower, demands we give him a hundred bucks “cos it was a good lawnmower”.
that is all 100% bullshit, either she takes it back or not, wow. or just sell it on craigslist and give her the money which will definitely not be close to what she paid
yeah so we’re still actively using the set because dressers are basically just boxes for clothes and i don’t give a fuck what they look like.
she did this a few years ago with a couch. it was already pretty worn when we got it from her. i paid for the uhaul. it was in my house for years. then when it was like absolutely clapped out, we gave it to my brother in law (who didn’t even want it) because according to my MIL, it was HIS couch and wewere just keeping it for him.
i honestly find the whole thing quite funny. this is a woman who will walk into a hotel fitness center and tell a random stranger on the treadmill next to her how many houses she has and how much each one cost. i have seen her do this. can you imagine being mid-workout and having a 70 year old snotty white woman come up to you and brag about her life??