Do i tell my wife?

[Bookriddle]

So ive not long woke up and decided to have a midnight snack, for some reason i was craving coco pops and remembered we had a box in the cupboard!

So i have gone and opened the box up and its full of snacks(no coco pops) some of the stuff is from the weekly shopping that i thought disappears quite quickly and stuff she obviously buys here and there!

Aibu to not mention to my wife i have found her hiding place for snacks and just help myself whenever i fancy a snack!

Allow your wife to have this little secret. I'm sure you can manage to create your own secret stash.

Wow if you ate my snack stash id be ltb

She hides them for a reason, to have a bit of something for herself. Set up your own stash if you need one.

Aw. I’d love this to be true but it’s not.. on the extreme offchance it really is real, let her have this.

Yeah, don't eat her stash. That would be cuntish behaviour. Forget you ever saw it.

Why would she have to do this?

I think wife needing to keep a secret snack stash plus midnight coco pop snacking equals you are
a greedy bastard.

My DH has a (not so) secret stash. Every once in a while I'll take a little something.
Not very often and not very much so he can't actually be sure I'm doing it and he can't ask me without outing his secret 😁

Why would anyone need to hide food?

Does she have an eating disorder or do other people eat more than their fair share, leaving her with nothing?

@DougRossIsTheBoss

Why would she have to do this?

I think wife needing to keep a secret snack stash plus midnight coco pop snacking equals you are
a greedy bastard.

Surely it makes my wife a greedy bastard for having a stash, once in a blue moon i will wake for a midnight snack to be fair!

This is Mumsnet treason to fuck with a secret stash drawer. Make your own. Enjoy yours.

I'd even be so nice as to top it up occasionally. Small gestures are good.

Throw them in the road under a garbage truck next to the fault-line to hell

The only reason people usually have a secret stash is because they live with a greedy bastard and they never get a look in with the snacks.

I changed my vote, you need to tell her so she can find a new hiding place.
We favour the boot of the car for maximum child/ teen proof.

I don't think this sounds massively healthy unless you hoover some of the nice stuff up and this is the only way she'll get some of it

The fact you're contemplating helping yourself whenever you feel like it shows that you're greedy. No wonder she has a secret stash.

Whats stopping you making your own secret stash? Why eat hers?

Don't let on you know. Instead add some extra snacks that she likes to her stash without telling her. It would be sweet.

You could also create your own stash in a frosties box and see how long it takes her to notice.

I hide the good stuff too otherwise gone within a half day with DP and kids. Let her have her secret hiding place.

I'd even be so nice as to top it up occasionally. Small gestures are good.

That's so sweet, Whistles. I wish I could say I'd do the same but I'd probably sneak little snacks out of it (though I do think if this is real, it's not great that she needs to hide her food from you, OP)

Leave The Bounty

I have a not secret stash behind my monitor, death to anyone who touches it! Everyone in the house gets personal treats and does with them as they please, that doesn't cause drama.

Goodies 'released into the wild' on a first come basis are a cause of endless fights for the DC

I call fake, no way would a stash stay hidden in a cocopops box...
totally missing the point

Who wakes up for a midnight coco pop snack? Are you 5? Leave your partners snacks alone

This is so weird.

Why are people hounding you for having a snack at midnight? (do none of you lot get hungry at night?)

Why does she feel the need to hide snacks? (are others in the house greedy and leave none for her? does she have disordered eating and feel the need to hide food?)

Why wouldn't it be ok for you to take a snack from said box and tell your wife and then replace it later? Although do you not share food and food costs?

The thread seems like a logical one to post, some of the responses are bizarre.

I'm with IVflytrap, possibly take a snack but replace and maybe add to it, start your own stash and make it a running joke. When she realises maybe suggest separate snack cupboards/drawers/bags if she would like to have her own - the coco pops box seems like a sure fire way for them to be eaten by someone eventually!

All that sugar would be very bad for your poor wife.
Eat it all and run like hell. Leave the country under an assumed moustache. Gallant and misunderstood, you die alone in a watering hole now shunned by the leaders of fashion; it is secondary diabetes plus tertiary syphilis. You wheeze your last in the half-deserted Winter Garden and beg a bored waiter to take this choc-ice, this flawless choc-ice, to the spouse you cruelly abandoned as a sign that in extremis you thought of her....
She still won't forgive you, but might if pushed scatter your ashes at sea rather than in the cat litter.