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Your option b! Then post her reaction here for us to enjoy too

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I think i shall, just for my own amusement if nothing else

ROTFLOL! I so wish I could claim it was my idea, but credit must go to a poster whose name I never took in from here a long long time ago!

Oh you have to leave a note planning her murder and get one of those teddy cams to film it. Then if she really gets to you put it on youtube and make it go viral. Yes I can be an evil bitch. I value privacy. And next time say no to her babysitting, dont leave her alone in your house.

When I was 15 I thought DM was opening my mail, so I sent a letter to myself that contained a note saying nosey old bag. I got grounded which I don't think is fair as it must have been true.

Do what bogeyface said!!!!

Oh, please please please post an update after tomorrow night!

My Mum and Grandma were snoopers... I once caught my GM as I had to pass through the dining room were we were babysitting to get to the loo and she was so engrossed in looking through letters she didnt notice me. She later told my Mum some info from my Uncles solicitor (going though divorce) saying she just happened to see a letter "lying there open"...well it was after she had rooted through a pile first. My Mum used to snoop as well and go though all my letters and even up until recently would shift things around on my brothers desk (in my house) and lift up stuff on my notice board. I tell her loudly now not to be nosy. It drives me to distraction

Anyway....I would write out lots of DONT SNOOP notes and put them everywhere

You should leave pics of him shagging a horse, while eating a burger with a tesco bag in the shot

sydlexic very clever of you, but so obviously true

Yes i will, I have just printed off a load of info on emigrating to australia and even printed an application form for bbc show "wanted down under" with a post it note written on the top to dp, i've filled these in can you sign them so i can post them, and have you got round to telling your mum yet as they may need to film her for the show.

Too evil????

Not at all!

Just make sure that DP is on side to tell her that it was a set up because you thought she was nosing and that she isnt to do it again.

Oh oh oh you're sooo bad! Do it! I can't wait for the update!

Get loads of fetish gear,sex toys, lube and vibrators, fill the bedroom drawers, take what look like kinky pictures random body creases, print them out leave in the cupboards.

I bet she will stop looking.

My boss used to do this. I now make sure that I have an opened packet of Tampax at the top of every drawer.

Put a notes in your top drawer:YOU
Middle drawer:NOSY
Bottom drawer:BITCH
Then you will also know if she looks in every drawer or just some of them.

Also print out an application form for the Jeremy Kyle show. Make sure it's the episode who ma baby Dada? Mention your lap dancing and colourful past. She won't be able to resist asking you about it

haha i love the jeremy kyle show idea now too, i promise if she doesnt mention the australia thing i shall do that next time, and i will most certainly let you all know what happens tomorrow evening.

Thankyou! knew i'd get some good ideas on here

My neighbour has done the washing up while babysitting, even though there were just a few things (and the dishwasher was going with the other stuff). It made me very uncomfortable, wondering whether she had "found" anything else to do. Even that is hard to bear, and, luckily, I can distance myself: it's a lot harder with an avowed snoop to whom you're related!

How about you print off some posters/flyers for fetish clubs and leave them in the drawers or swingers clubs?

It's annoying if she is snooping, although her talking about SIL not claiming tax credits and the hospital where you had your son not being good enough doesn't demonstrate she was snooping does it? Definitely do the note thing. I'd probably go down the "Hallo Doreen" note in every drawer route.

Obviously that won't work if her name isn't Doreen though.

When DH and I lived "darn sarf" we used to have to visit for weekends and often suspected MIL had gone through our stuff but as we were in their house we never liked to sayanything.

Fast forward years and years, we had family round to visit, DS had snuck off to his room but she hadn't noticed. He said he heard the door go to his sister's room and thought DD had also snuck away until MIL, not noticing him, crept into his room! She was right in the room before she noticed him and got such a fright! It has amused us for years.

Every time they visit, when she says she is going to the bathroom, I say sweetly "No problem, you know where everything is" Passive aggressive or what?!

You could combine the two. Apply to JK "How do I tell my mother I am leaving the country?"

ooh, no better than that "My mothers snooping is making me emigrate"

Syd That's hilarious - I'm actually crying. DH is asking what's so funny but I can't actually speak in order to tell him.