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You're a burglar, BUT...

139 replies

AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 02/12/2019 18:02

Instead of stealing things, you do things to mildly inconvenience your victims.
What do you do?

I'd rearrange all the kitchen cupboards.

OP posts:
Thestrangestthing · 02/12/2019 23:10

You lot are truly evil. I love it!

Eeeeeby · 02/12/2019 23:13

I would place their toilet brush in the centre of the living room, on the rug. I would then take all the chocolates from their advent calendars and place them in a circle around the toilet brush.

cheeseislife8 · 02/12/2019 23:18

A small piece of gravel in every shoe.

Tie all the tights together.

Set the radio to a weird station, preferably in another language, then put the tuning button in my pocket (my Dad did this once when my DM pissed him off).

Cling film the taps.

A kipper behind the radiator.

ConfusedAndStressed95 · 02/12/2019 23:23

Move everything 1/4 inch to the left or right.

MrsTommyShelby · 02/12/2019 23:33

Take all the labels off the canned food in the cupboard.

soupforbrains · 02/12/2019 23:40

Turn off all alarms.

Delete all recorded programmes and delete scheduled recordings

Disconnect all power leads and cables from everything in the house. Jumble them all up (making knots if possible) remove any/all identifying labels and dump them in a heap on the floor.

Turn all the books on the bookshelves around so that you can't see the spines at all.

Mix gravy granules into the instant coffee.

Swap all tea/coffee in the house for decaf.

Put washing up liquid into the dishwasher rinse aid reservoir.

Leave the freezer door slightly open.

Hide odd, dirty socks all over the house, on windowsills down the die of the sofa, under cushions behind the booms on the bookshelf, under tables, in drawers, everywhere.

Remove the last page of every book in the house.

Get out all their board games, mix up all the tokens/cards/money/counters and randomly shove a handful back into each box.

Cut the plugs off all phone charger leads.

credit for inspiration for many of these must go to my DS

FilthyBiscuit · 02/12/2019 23:48

I thought taking the labels off tins was brilliant until I saw the skipping through the house flinging glitter and sequins everywhere - truly inspired.

We actually did similar once as students visiting a friend (who fortunately had a cracking sense of humour!). We put his alarm clock, toothbrush and razor at the bottom of the laundry basket (he was doing work experience at the time and was working the following day), put cornflakes in his bed, put his CDs and DVDs into different boxes. We were very young and drunk, and he took it in good grace. I wouldn't have

youcancallmequeenE · 02/12/2019 23:49

Snip a small hole in the corner of every sock. Likewise in the crotch of every pair of pants.

Place pieces of Lego on the floor next to the bed.

Leave socks in the bed.

HistoriaTrixie · 02/12/2019 23:51

Superglue all their curtains shut.

Monday55 · 02/12/2019 23:56

Cut out/ rip out the whole passport photo page out of their passport. Their face when they have to scan past the security gates GrinGrin

Sashkin · 03/12/2019 00:08

“Adjust the fill sensor on the toilet cisterns so they don’t refill after flushing.“

This is absolute genius - just a really ineffective flush so they have to flush three or four times.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/12/2019 00:32

Replace all their cans of shaving foam with cans of that expanding, hard-setting foam they sell at DIY stores, but swap the labels, so that they end up looking like a pale Frank Sidebottom.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/12/2019 00:36

Change their wifi router name to 'Can't connect - reset router'.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/12/2019 00:39

Open up their bags of pork scratchings, eat and replace with cow toenail clippings and then hermetically reseal.

Magpiefeather · 03/12/2019 01:54

Ooh also remove all the cords from their dressing gowns Grin

timestheybeachangin · 03/12/2019 02:11

Turn off their electric for 30 seconds so they have to reset all their clocks
Replace all the pictures in every single photo frame with photos of Niles from Frazier

isabellerossignol · 03/12/2019 02:14

Swap all the tights belonging to the size 14 middle aged mother with the tights belonging to the size 8 teenage daughter so that in their rush to get ready in the morning, one is stuck with tights that don't go past her knees whilst the other spends the day pulling her tights up as they fall down like clown trousers.

lifeonaloop · 03/12/2019 02:34

Shit in the kettle

Mrsmummy90 · 03/12/2019 02:53
  • Set the tv and smart phones to a different language.
  • Hide all of the left shoes.
  • take a bite out of every piece of fruit in the fruit bowl and put them back.
PuffinDodger · 03/12/2019 07:20

This reminds me of the film Amelie where she breaks into the mean green grocer's house and does similar things.

Mercedes519 · 03/12/2019 07:27

Take all the toilet paper but leave a couple of sheets so it looks like there is enough but when you come to use out there isn’t quite...

PuffinDodger · 03/12/2019 07:35

Oh and she goes onto someone's roof and moves the TV aerial every time a goal's about to be scored in a football game

potter5 · 03/12/2019 07:44

@hirsutefirs shave the cat!! Just spat out my coffee laughing.

JigsawsAreInPieces · 03/12/2019 08:16

Leave a half-eaten tuna sandwich shoved down between the sofa cushions.

Open yoghurts so there's a tiny gap but they still look sealed. Replace in the fridge.

Make a teeny cut in every teabag.

DonPablo · 03/12/2019 08:17

Remove the power leads to everything. Especially teenagers phone chargers and x boxes.