To wonder why my teen is stealing sugar?

[Tessliketrees]

One of my kids (both teens) is stealing the sugar. I don't know which one.

I noticed a brand new bag of sugar had vanished last week, I assumed it had been spilled by one of the kids who had failed to mention it. Actually that didn't really make sense at the time because neither of them is capable of cleaning a bag of sugar so well. Either way I forgot all about it.

Now a second bag has disappeared.

It's not me, its not DH. Nobody else has had access.

What the fuckity fuck is going on?

[Tessliketrees]

No other sugar related activity I'm afraid we are still on the same bag we bought to replace the last missing one.

I did find out that Oldest is shockingly entitled.

When I asked him about the common room he seemed genuinely baffled at why he would do this as sugar "just is in" the common room. When I queried where the sugar comes from he said "it's just there". I can only presume it's a bit like the room of requirement in Harry Potter.

[LineysRun]

He's going to be one of those flatmates at university, re bog roll, milk, bread ... you have a year to make this right

[Tessliketrees]

LineysRun

Luckily I have two, to be fair he got a job the moment he turned 16 of his own volition.

Now he is supplementing it with his ket dealing/jam business I should probably charge him rent.

[LineysRun]

That could work at uni - 'you buy the bread, I'll make the jam. But I'll have pop home to filch my mum's sugar first'.

(It'd be cheaper for him to my that ghastly maman preserve probably)

[NoodleNinja]

Oldest is using it to do some sort of prank at school, which is why he laughed so much.

[KingMortificadosMistress]

I read this "he turned 16 of his own volition" as freestanding and thought

as opposed to what? Turning 16 by force?

Go Inspector OP of the Yard!

[picklemepopcorn]

We're never going to know, are we....?

[MrsMozart]

I read it all and am now far more knowledgeable about drug cutting than I'd ever expected to be, but still sadly lacking the reason for the sugar disappearance. I shall check back in on a rather worryingly regular basis (who knew I'd be so keen to learn the fate if two bags of sugar!).

[QuackPorridgeBacon]

Curious now. I’d be questioning the husband too.

[usernameavailable]

This thread has me checking in all day for the updates!
Maybe you need to do something drastic to find out. Go on a day time tv programme jeremy something to get a lie detector test. We all need to know! Every time I see sugar in my cupboard I wonder who your sugar thief is! We need to knooooww

[VenusOfWillendorf]

Is it possible you've just misplaced it? I do that all the time ... have you looked in the freezer?!

[Battleax]

Has anyone suggested eating disorder yet? Or at least disordered eating.

[AuntAntigone]

Oxo cubes? You've gotta be joking Mojo! Bleurgh.

C'mon OP, ask the kids.

[sadie9]

One of them is hardly doing away with the sugar to stop others being damaged by it. Sometimes this 'clean eating' thing can become an obsession too. Sugar is evil etc so people have to be protected from it...If one of your teens is suddenly rejecting desserts, refusing chocolate etc. OK, fairly fetched but ya never know...

[highinthesky]

Leaving us hanging like this is causing considerable anxiety nationwide.

We demand satisfaction! Now!

[Battleax]

Secret binging would be more likely sadie.

[Temporary2002]

Is he building a magical winter wonderland out of sugar, where he plans to woo a young lady under glistening sugary mistletoe? Like that Ben Affleck did in "Surviving Christmas"?

[murphys]

Well this mystery is unsolved it seems.

Possible case:

Fair play I don't live in UK so this is probably not the case, but......you never know....

Monkeys love and steal sugar. I know this as I have witnessed it on a few occasions. First time, sitting at a game farm, my mum orders tea at the café.. trees above us. Next minute we have a very quick visitors who just dropped out the tree, grabbed the sugar sachet right out of my mums hand, cheeky bugger sat on the tree branch above us, opened the sachet, poured it in his hand....and dropped the empty packet on our table.

Second time, camping... took sugar in Tupperware type dish. They were in the tent. Get back, no sugar whole dish is gone. Do the wondering where the hell it is thing for a while. Neighbouring tent gets back bit later says, oh that bloody monkey was here and stole something from your tent. Yes, the sugar.

So, apart from the ds's and dh, any other cheeky monkeys nearby?

Or, have you got a friend who likes to prank? Bet they have stolen the sugar and the rest of the family are in cahoots sniggering about your confusion. I have teens. They would so go along with something like this..................

[Mac12345]

Does he do anything with cars? Sugar is a great scrub for getting engine oil off your hands.

[highinthesky]

It is very unfair that the OP is keeping us in suspenders.

[GreggsSausageRolls]

Still no update?! 😕

[Somethingfantastic89]

I ran here in the hopes that OP had posted an update lol

[Teenagerwoes]

If you haven’t caught the culprit yet I propose unpicking the bottom of a bag and placing in cupboard, it will all spill as the thief takes it and as no one can ever clean up all the sugar, at the very least it’ll be in the hoover, on the dustpan and of anything like my teen all cleaned up with a lovely clean towel!

Is there any reason to suspect a neighbour?

[mikeyssister]

@tessliketrees

Please please please come back with the answer