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?

[sadiemm2]

Hehehe that made me smile.. Is meth a thing in the UK now? sort of missing point

[totsalot]

Black market candy floss dealers? #unhelpful

[Insomnibrat]

I'd honestly be surprised if it was being cut with drugs. There are far more easy and easily digestible things to cut drugs with than granulated sugar (apparently). Plus 2 whole bags would keep the population of Birmingham in snow till new year. It's an awful lot. I'm assuming he's not Pablo Escobar!

Trainspotting would have been a very different story had caramel been involved.

[MummySparkle]

My money is on 6th common room and the first bag got dropped so needed a replacement

[Tessliketrees]

No still. I checked the oldests room (wish I hadn't, pretty sure I need to bleach my bloody hands) and no still, empty sugar bags or anything else illicit other than half my fucking dishes. Plates in drawers. Plates. In. Drawers.

Shall I ring him? Problem is if I do it will be easier for him to convincingly lie. Hmmm.

[CanIBuffalo]

You need to see his face. Definitely don't ring.

[Insomnibrat]

No, don't ring him. Wait till he gets home then attack him with a split feather pillow and see if they stick.

[LoveDeathPrizes]

Most of the reasons are innocent enough that he won't need to lie, surely? I'd just ask him.

[tigerdriverII]

DS recently discovered tea, which he drinks with lashings of milk and multiple sugars

[GothAndTired]

Eating disorders? My sister would buy bags of sugar at uni and only eat that for weeks when she was poorly.

[Tessliketrees]

Most of the reasons are innocent enough that he won't need to lie, surely?

True! I am such a bad mother, I just automatically assume he will lie. To be fair he lied before when I asked if he had dishes in his room.

I'm off to split a pillow.

[BlueThesaurusRex]

I have to know how this ends 😂

[LineysRun]

If this was me and my siblings as teenagers, here are the reasons, in age order:

Selling in sixth form common room to make a profit
Supplying to sixth form common room for free to win friends
Donating to food bank shouting 'power to the people' a là Wolfie Smith
Taking it to the aged grandmother to save having to visit the corner shop (whole other thread)
Making illicit hooch

[milkmoustache]

Has anyone immediately thought - he's got into making jam? Or is it just me...?

[Insomnibrat]

I am such a bad mother, I just automatically assume he will lie

You're a good Mother. He's a teenager! I think it's a fairly sound assumption.

[BMW6]

Plates in drawers!!!!!!! WTF????

[WaxOnFeckOff]

Maybe you have a black hole like us OP?

In the last week, the following items have completely disappeared from our house:

A large plastic jug
DHs jacket
a pair of my jeans
2 cans of salmon
My new bottle of contact lens fluid
DS2s copy of the girl with all the gifts that he needs for school
DS1s spare glasses
Ds2s woggle for Scouts
..and my odd sock pile has gone from 3 to 15 in the space of 3 loads of laundry
2 pairs of wellies from the garage.

Seriously these have all gone in the last week or so. It's starting to freak me out. I got DH to check the attic.

[LineysRun]

There may be a sixth form common room jam making empire, on a baby belling hot ring.

[PassiveAgressiveQueen]

I used to just eat sugar.

[Insomnibrat]

"I'm worried DS has gone off the rails. I think he's........making jam"

[Movingon1611]

Could they be using them as weights? I used to use tins of soup but maybe bags of sugar works better?

[Babababababybel23]

I once found a plate in the wardrobe
The mind boggles

[paranoidpammywhammy2]

Sugaring - hair removal?

Toffee Apples/Toffee

Candyfloss?

An elderly relative was thought to be loosing her marbles when she kept insisting several teabags/slices of bread/washing powder/loo paper etc was going missing in small amounts. It turned out NDN had done a copy of her key and was popping in every time she went out. He'd had a copy done years before.

[pinkliquorice]

Unlikely answer but when I was really struggling with OCD and eating disorders I used to count grains of sugar to calm me and give me control. I would then take handfuls with my everywhere I went to eat when I felt faint or tied and to prove to myself that I couldn’t have an eating disorder as I wasn’t scared of sugar.

Hope it’s sorted out OP and their is a perfectly reasonable and innocent explanation.

[pret]

Grinding it down and mixing it with kett is my guess.