Snooping mil

[barkisworsethanmybite]

Mil and I don’t get on. Husband asked asked her to come and check on our fish when away for a long weekend. I have previous use suspected mil has looked through my things when she’s been here but had no proof. So I set my lounge chest of drawers up so I’d know if she had been looking. She has!! Came home to find that they have been completely moved around, all documents out of their order, content of files all over the place etc. I’m fuming but feel validated that I’m not paranoid! I told husband who said he was annoyed with me (!) for setting traps. I said I did it because she has blatantly been through our things and needed proof, which I have. I’m so angry! Anyone else have experience of this? Dh won’t stop her coming over and sadly we have no one else who we can ask when we are away (which is very rare thankfully!)

She came home to a shifty mil who had tried to clean up using a damp cloth....it was never discussed but mil knew that they knew about the snooping. I’d fold three pieces together and pour glitter into the gaps.

Some people cant resist it. My daughter employed a cleaner who was someone I knew quite well. After a couple of weeks she - cleaner- idly mentioned to me 1. Details of my daughters mortgage. 2. how surrprised she was that daughter had a pair of handcuffs in drawer in bedroom. There are things that mothers dont need to know. I was bloody furious, nosy hag. End of job. End of friendship.

@barkisworsethanmybite all joking aside your husband needs to step up and grow some balls to talk HIS mother . Glad your suspicions were validated!

Invest in a slow release fish feeder and change the locks - she's so had key copies made!

Take some rude pics of dh, print off and leave in a drawer, see how he likes feeling spied on!!

I'd leave her a message in a drawer telling her what a nosy cow she is and also inform her you have secret cameras filming. What can she say?

Just wanted to say how much I’m enjoying this thread! The secret cameras message would freak her out! Also love the glitter bomb!

You could put a note in a drawer saying: SMILE! We can see you and we know what you're doing - you're on camera!!

I take back the idea of confronting her (though that might be the adult thing to do). I think it could be far more fun and probably more effective to 'go covert' (especially as your DH isn't supporting you). Another idea: photoshop your DH into some weird situations and with a tiny willy and leave them in the drawers.

Oh this made me laugh, glitter bomb and deactivated hoover, priceless. I know my Mother snooped, was annoying so I got a lockable filing cabinet for private stuff.

Tell her you’ve had the police round as your heirloom ring has gone missing from a drawer & as she was in your home recently they may need to take her prints to rule them out - see what she says.

I wouldn't make up a prison record or whatever for you. I might think about making up a load of stuff about your DH though! It could be fun to see how long it is before the story gets back to you. (Yes, I know I'm too invested. Also, I've honestly never done this.)

OP, please ignore everything I'm suggesting. I'm quite tired and just running with loads of mad ideas in my head for the fun of it.

Agree with the posters who say your husband needs to stand up to his mother. I say this from experience with an ex who wouldn't stand up to his mother and she used to root around. I remember having a pack of holiday photos (pre digital photography) and they were in sequential order and then all higgledy-piggledy when I looked again. He made up some excuse or other about his mother. It was one of the reasons he became an ex!!

I'll tell you one. When I first started going out with DH we went to his mother's. In my suitcase upstairs I had an new cardigan I'd bought but hadn't worn yet. The next day I wore the cardigan. At some stage I sneezed a couple of times. My MIL pipes up 'oh it must be the angora!' and I thought 'what's she on about - angora??'. Later on getting undressed, I looked at the label of the cardigan, and sure enough it contained Angora wool. She'd been up, been through my suitcase and even checked the labels on my clothes!!!

Glitter bomb/removing fuse is a fab idea

Oooh the bloody cheek of it. And your DH is a drip and a half!

I'd write a long, formal looking document that contains shocking secrets that will make her jaw drop, and end it with "and I'm afraid I must inform you that your MIL is in fact a nosy cow.

(Insert MIL name here) FUCK OFF OUT OF MY DRAWERS!"

You can get motion activated video cameras, not cheap but possibly worth it. People get them for knicker drawers when the builders are in, according to a seller of them I was talking to a few years ago. Big seller for him.

WellI have a couple of ideas.. I love the glitter one! How about this.. go on love honey and buy a cheap cock cage and maybe a ball gag, and leave them in your DH bedside table! Also set a mousetrap in your paperwork drawer, with a bank statement on top!

What's that you say??

Oo! Cock cages have keys!!!! It could be like a treasure hunt!!!

Leave some fake love letters to DH from an OW in his drawer and see if she says anything!

The “photoshop a tiny willy onto DH” idea has had me in absolute stitches OP I wouldn’t confront her because she can just deny it and it will look bad on you. By any chance did you do that thing where people tape hairs across doors/drawers and if it’s snapped then it’s been opened can’t remember where I saw that trick at. Glad you know you aren’t paranoid, I really would leave some sex toys in there and a live spider

@MrsHoodwink - Glad to hear it! Please don't anyone go trapping any spiders though - no need for that.