She Wore A Designer Perfume Gifted By Her Mother-In-Law For A Family Dinner, But Her Mother-In-Law Got Upset That She Didn’t Save It For A Special Occasion
Throughout this 30-year-old woman’s life, she’s never been particularly interested in perfume. Sure, back in high school, she did have the Christine Aguilera deodorant– but that was just because every girl in school had it.
So, for the past 10 years, she’s just been using some average drugstore deodorant each day. And honestly, that’s perfectly fine with her.
But her mother-in-law, on the other hand, is apparently super “into” perfume. In fact, her mother-in-law even layers two or three different designer scents on top of one another to create her own custom scent every single day.
“Which is fine, don’t get me wrong,” she noted. “My mother-in-law smells nice, not too strong, and if that’s something she enjoys, I won’t judge her for it.”
Recently, however, her mother-in-law asked if she wanted some old perfumes. Apparently, her mother-in-law had tried out a few scents but decided against them for some reason.
But she decided to be honest with her mother-in-law and admit that she really did not care about perfume.
Plus, she claimed to have already told her mother-in-law that in the past– so she didn’t think the news was a surprise.
Nonetheless, her mother-in-law wound up insisting that she take the bottles.
“And I’m someone who thinks, ‘If it’s there, I’ll use it so that it doesn’t go to waste,” she said.
Olga Krivokoneva – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
That’s why, when she ran out of deodorant a couple of days ago, she decided to try out one of her mother-in-law’s perfumes instead of buying some more.
The scent was a Michael Kors perfume, and it just so happened that the day she decided to wear it, she and her husband had invited her in-laws over for dinner.
So, as soon as her mother-in-law showed up, she got complimented for smelling good. And at that point, she just said thank you and detailed how she was wearing one of the perfumes.
This led her mother-in-law to ask which one, to which she responded, “Michael Kors.” And immediately, she recalled how her mother-in-law had a super shocked look on her face. Then, her mother-in-law claimed that the perfume was very expensive and thought she would only save it for special occasions.
“I told my mother-in-law that I feared the perfume would go back if I didn’t use it and that I thought she had intended for me to wear it when she gave it to me,” she reasoned.
Still, her mother-in-law just told her that if she stored it in a cool, dry, and dark place, then it would not go bad. Her mother-in-law also said she “should know not to waste designer brands.”
Anyway, after that awkward conversation, she and her mother-in-law did not talk much throughout the rest of the evening. Plus, following the dinner, her mother-in-law texted her husband and claimed to be “very disappointed” in how little value she placed on her mother-in-law’s gifts.
So now, she’s been left wondering whether wearing the designer perfume from her mother-in-law was actually the wrong thing to do.
How could she have known her mother-in-law wanted her to save the perfume for a special occasion if it’s public knowledge that she isn’t “into” perfume? Why do you think her mother-in-law took such offense? How can she reconcile this situation?
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