With due respect,…you have been told she laughed when she said this. Who the heck told you this? He/she is the one who is to blame here. Not your MIL. This is one case where you should definitely kill the messenger. All over a 1500 rupee dinner set!
You have formed a lot of preemptive opinions about your MIL, and it seems to be fashionable these days to curse the MIL anyway, and you can get a lot of support for your ‘cause’ on this forum too, but Im sorry, this life forum is just turning into a bunch of hormone driven-*too immature to get married-*caught between two cultures girls, who think coming up with a new “bash-the-MIL” story is the IN thing.
Grow up girls! By doing all this gheebat and chughli (most of it based on wrong precursors), you yourselves are turning into what you are portraying your MILs as. I truly pray that you women grow up fast, and become MILs yourselves, so that your DILs can make you realize what its like wearing someone elses shoes.
Yes, there are bad apples everywhere, but sorry, (most of) the problems that we read on this forum are just spewing venom for no good reason. Gupshup should perhaps make a new forum for “InLaws”, or specifically, “MILs”, where like minded girls can get together and play “throw-the-boot-at-the-MIL”.