{"id":24592,"date":"2025-12-15T19:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24592"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:15:54","slug":"i-let-my-sil-use-our-house-over-christmas-when-we-returned-it-was-trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24592","title":{"rendered":"I Let My SIL Use Our House over Christmas \u2013 When We Returned, It Was Trashed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I thought letting my sister-in-law stay in our house over Christmas while we finally took a real family vacation was the kind thing to do. I had no idea I was basically handing her the keys to blow up our trust.I&#8217;m 34, married to Dave (36), and we have two kids: Max (10) and Lily (8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are aggressively average.Soccer cleats by the door. Crumbs in the minivan. School lunches, permission slips, laundry that never ends.Last Christmas was supposed to be our Big Thing.We hadn&#8217;t had a real vacation in years. No more &#8220;three days at Grandma&#8217;s&#8221; and calling it a getaway. We finally saved enough for a week at the ocean. A rented condo. A balcony. Just us four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought letting my sister-in-law stay in our house over Christmas while we finally took a real family vacation was the kind thing to do. I had&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":604,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24594,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24592\/revisions\/24594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}