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Rachel James's avatar

I once found my husband with two pairs of scissors in his hands asking why we had so many scissors and should he take some to Oxfam. I’m still traumatised by the conversation

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

lol this is hilarious 😆

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Jo Boddy's avatar

Totally feeling the pain!! I banned blue tack because they started COLOURING it, then all the walls and doors ended up with multi coloured stains from the bloody stuff! Totally banned now (fairly certain the 11yo has a secret stash but she daren’t use it because I’ll remove & bin it!)

I keep scissors scattered around the house and am extremely vocal and negative if any of my 3 pairs go walkies!! Ditto tape. I buy the children tape as ‘presents’ so they can’t complain they don’t have any.

Starting to notice make up is being played with, not impressed as bought her a whole stash for Xmas to pre-empt the stealing!

My sanctuary is my studio (am an artist) which only the dog is allowed to enter and have been terribly horrible to anyone who dare enter and TOUCH ANYTHING, or even think about touching. NOT WORTH IT!!!! (I’m so mean!!)

I tell them all I love them and hug them all the time. But DO NOT ENTER my sanctuary (where I regularly move my own scissors and tell the dog all about how inconvenient it is not to be able to blame anyone else!) 😁😉🤣

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

I think I might actually need my OWN HOUSE

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Jo Boddy's avatar

My best friend and I said we should live together next door to our lovely boys.. we like them, we just like kitchen surfaces without the crumbs that they can’t see. Not sure how this plan would work with children….

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

It’s on the vision board nonetheless

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Jo Boddy's avatar

☺️ one for the university years… ‘daddy has more space darlings, come home to him and I’ll pop round from next door with a cake you can disgorge after I’ve left and don’t have to look at it’

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

…also YES my children also colour Blu tack. WHY?

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Deborah  Baker's avatar

All of the above but you have omitted the most grievous offence that of the empty loo roll in every WC PLUS using the last roll in the house and not telling !! Hideous 😡

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

Yes. This is indeed the most bad thing

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Margo Leach's avatar

I once bought a safe to keep my face powder from marauding daughter. No internet in those days - had to go to London to buy it

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

This is next level Margo. I need a safe.

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Meirion Shaw's avatar

I always hide things in the drawer with the drying up towels - as I promise no one EVER looks in there (apart my mother-in-law so remember to remove everything you don't want her to find before she comes round)!! And don't get me started on the "WE" expression ......

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

You mean you’re not sharing your best chocolate with your MIL??? How very dare you!

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amanda stone's avatar

Books! What is worse is that when you ask for their return because it's been over a year, the borrowers take offence and even begin to criticise you for asking!!!

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

JAIL.

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SometimesinPorto's avatar

When the kids were at home I never had any iPhone chargers

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

I can disclose they were all in my husband’s box of wires

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Jessica Fellowes's avatar

Very funny! Husband steals my stapler and decent pens, but it does bring that office politics vibe to our marriage, which helps mix things up a bit, I guess….😬

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

Does he ask you whether WE have a stapler?

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Jessica Fellowes's avatar

Oh yes. See also: ‘What have WE bought my mother for Christmas?’

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Lynn's avatar

Usually on Christmas Eve, when the shops have shut and I used to panic wondering if "we" might have forgotten. I never had forgotten, of course!!

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An ordinary life's avatar

Good chocolate should always be hidden (particularly from OH who prefers his from the fridge). Never mind make up - this week I discovered my fancy deodorant had walked itself to my child's room... Tape is always taken but can be reliably found dangling from the edge of a table/chair all twisted up and leaving it's tackiness to ensure you also stick to the furniture.

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

They are nothing if not reliable

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Anne Wareham's avatar

Secateurs and the potting shed key. And something else, which I've forgotten.

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

Search his underwear drawer

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Sam Butler's avatar

Good chocolate in my desk drawers (under a notebook obvs.) Crisps behind the baking trays in the corner of the corner cupboard that no-one ever goes in. Pot Noodle behind any dried pulses. No-one but me will ever be soaking a dried pulse in this house!

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

Yes… and then suddenly you grow up and want to make hummus! Are they your pot noodles? I am in love with you for adoring pot noodle!

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Sam Butler's avatar

Yes, my pot noodles. Out and proud. I'm a foodie, but not a snobby one. Everyone loves a grubby pot noodle now and then.

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Lucy Williams's avatar

Screw drivers, hammers, diy measuring tape, batteries, FABRIC scissors, all my other scissors, dark chocolate digestives, best pens, certain cheeses.

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

Fabric scissors are basically under lock and key

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Anne's avatar

Wait till they leave home and have their own places - you visit and spot loads of “missing” items from your own home which you have been looking for ages. Bedlinen, towels, cushions, rugs, and hell of a lot of Tupperware!! All camping equipment too whilst I think of it. Bless - NOT.

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

I have opposite problem; my mother brings random stuff to my house and LEAVES IT THERE 🤣

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Jillian Head's avatar

So so familiar made me lol brilliant I have men in the house so at least some things are out of bounds 💄🩲🤣

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

Yes luckily for you your pants are safe x

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Emily Barnes's avatar

I can relate to this so much, particularly the bulk bought snacks, empty bottles, empty packets in the cupboard, makeup and some underwear 😅 I'm glad I'm not alone. Made me chuckle.

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

That’s the other thing though…never being alone.

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Katharine's avatar

I have grown children and I’m still hiding things! Now it’s from my husband, children and grandchildren. As you say, I often end up hiding it from myself.

It’s been happening for generations. My father in law used to chain his tools to his work bench. My mother in law used to write ‘Mummy’ on the back of her tennis shoes when her 5 sons were roughly the same age and everyone wore plain white tennis shoes.

My daughter would regularly take my new expensive tights for her evening out. The same daughter ‘borrowed’ my brand new cardigan complete with shop tags. Recently I heard my eldest daughter saying, “Oh no, whatever you do, don’t touch her pens!”

And yes, my husband still leaves empty shampoo bottles, loo rolls and just a teenie drizzle of milk in the carton.

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

Like, ONE ANCHOVY, in the tin.

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