Builder nicked my candle!

[maiacam]

Hi I had a limited edition Jo Malone candle in my downstairs loo that had never been used and has been treasured since 2009.
We have builders working in the garden this week and have come in to use loo twice yesterday.
Noticed candle has disappeared and it was 100 percent there yesterday. Both builders are acting normal and friendly.
AIBU to feel rather miffed. Haven't said anything DH wants to but I am not so sure.

Help!

Quite a few years ago now I had someone from a big plumbing company in my flat redoing the bathroom and after they had left, I found an unbelievably haunting and passionate unrequited love poem on my fridge using my fridge magnet poetry (which had previously been used mostly for juvenile, filthy word play by myself and my friends during dinner parties). I found it hard to reconcile the poem with the guy who'd been retiling the bathroom all week, but there was no one else it could have been. So I for one have no problem imagining a Jo Malone-loving builder.

That sounds lovely nandocushion !

A few years ago we had builders outside too.
I had a radio in the garage/utility that they were using for water. The radio disappeared , I asked, they denied all knowledge. I didn't get it back, but they knew, that I knew, they had taken it . The teas/coffees and choc biscuits that I had been supplying stopped !

I would put money on one of them taking the candle, if they had broken it I wouldn't expect their cleaning to be that good that you wouldn't have noticed something .
I don't agree with the idea that builders don't know the value of "things" . Just because they are builders doesn't mean that they have don't like / buy exspensive things.

Can I just say... as a fellow Jo Malone lover ... I would be absolutely devastated so you have my deepest sympathies

Thats the issue I can't see them admitting to it. I have stopped the tea and biscuits also today!

I imagine a builder married to MNetters know how much a Joey Malone candle will cost. The average builder however, won't have a scoobie.

I think its time for you to line up the builders facing a wall and frisk them in, case they are hiding the candle on their bodies.

I think maybe the taste police finally turned up and confiscated it for crimes against scents. Cheapy ikea candles smell much nicer.

But, I will take a minute to remember the Jo Malone Candle. Gone, but not forgotten. Burn well, old friends

Maia my DH is in the building trade. He would know what a Jo Malone candle is because I have asked for one for Christmas.

He was at the price but I believe he would know what one was.

He's off work this week it's defiantly not him in your house.

Have you got the candle back or not? Why not strike up a convo with them about Christmas ... then ask if they have got their wives/girlfriends a present yet...then say 'do you know what would make a lovely present?' .... you get the gist...

No I have not got it back yet!

You sure it wasn't your kid selling it to make money to buy xmas presents?

Workmen nicked my engagement ring and other jewellery. They were painting the windows so had access to inside and outside the house. Fuckers. I claimed on insurance.

Builders have girlfriends, Xmas is coming, people nick stuff.

Look love your can wax lyrical about your candle, but you're just going to get on everyone's wick.
I think your DH has a secret back sack and crack waxing fetish, maybe he's waiting to surprise you.

Why would you keep a candle for so long & not burn it?
It's probably lost its scent by now.

And why keep it in the toilet if it's so precious?

Everything about this is odd, n way did the builders take it

No my kids have not sold it - it was there in the morning when they were at school and gone before they got back

Stripeydeckchair

I bought it as I liked the coulour and then hoarded it until we moved into new house

It is not precious I just liked it and wasn't expecting it to vanish!

It is odd I agree and I don't know why they would want it

Funniest thread ever, has actually made me cry with laughter a few times! Sorry OP, you have my sympathies....but I'm crying at the Tesco hand wash and hard times...

Thanks for sympathies scrumpybetty I am almost wishing we did have a poltergeist ...

Oh please let your dh ask!!

Or just throw it into conversation how you must be going mad because you thought you had a candle in the downstairs toilet but the kids must be playing tricks on you... yada ya

Ask them OP or they will be secretly having a huge laugh at your expense , if a builder did take it but poltergeists aside and if only they had access then I'd say YANBU

And what Jelli Belli said

The problem is one is older and its his company and the other one is very young - I wouldn't want the younger one to get laid off because of a candle- maybe he couldn't stop himself maybe hes a kleptomaniac?

Who the f* is jo malone?

Goodbye Jo Malone
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to sit on the shelf
While those around you used the loo
They were builders doing woodwork
And they smelled that you were nice
So they set you in the skip or bin
And they made you melt away

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the smell set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just on the internet
Your candle never burned out long before
Your legend ever did