To think this is a bloody brilliant idea?!

[Trulyatraditionalman]

Just that, really. Once Covid is over, I know what I'll be doing....

As someone with a hoarder for a husband I could cry at the thought of people dumping more stuff on me. I spend my life trying to limit the chaos and confine it to certain rooms/garage/shed.

think of how happy you would be to liberate some of your husbands haul. One item at a time onto random family members.

We have some friends we do this with a particular nasty drink no one wants, we take and hid it at their house, they bring it back and hide it at ours.
Drives everyone crazy when you find that you have it back.

@Trulyatraditionalman

But why is it always lacy knickers found on the MN threads, and never men's boxers..?!

Have you never heard the song

"Every suit of armour ever made has a chink
Chain mail pants with a missing link"

One of my youngsters started replacing the family photos in the house with photos of Gemma Collins - random, I know. She did one a week I think and it was a fair wee time until I noticed.

I've spent 4 months de-cluttering so I'd find it fucking annoying if anyone dumped their shit in my house.

No no no! That would seriously freak me out!

@Trulyatraditionalman

But why is it always lacy knickers found on the MN threads, and never men's boxers..?!

Not enough gay sex going on. Maybe this isn't the board for it? 😁

I did this once at work. A colleague used to leave her bag on her desk, despite reminders about thefts. To make her think, I slipped a box of paperclips into it.

Months later, she mentioned how she'd unexpectedly found a box of paperclips when she went through airport security shortly after I'd hidden them. I owned up and we had a really good laugh about it.

This may be the same colleague who mislaid her purse in the freezer for several days, so she was used to randomness in her life.

If anyone is doing Dry Jan and would like to stash some of their booze in my house please pm and I will send you my address

My ds still remembers the time we were out walking and it started to rain. I opened my umbrella and a confetti of paper spilled down and around us. One of the lads in the office had emptied the paper punch into my umbrella for a laugh. Not quite the same as leaving something in a house but the paper clip one reminded me of it.

Some friends do this! They stayed with me a few years ago and months later I received a message saying that I clearly didn’t use my cookbooks very often. I was thoroughly confused, but finally located a tawdry romance novel in German (they live in Germany) with an inscription saying that there were three other items hidden in the house. I think they were joking about that...

Once when we were away my son's girlfriend replaced a photo with a rather confusing photo, it took us a few days to notice the photo had changed and we couldn't figure it out as to who and what it was, when we realised
We now call her "dick head"

Okay, so since we're sharing stories of "adding something", I once worked with a guy who had an total obsession with the fuel economy of his new car; apparently it delivered the most amazing MPG ever, and each week for months he bored everyone about the bit extra he'd got out of it

This was in the days when filler caps were accessible, so we clubbed together and started topping it up - just a very little at first, then more and more until he was practically hyperventilating over it, his voice going up several octaves with each telling

Then we brought a siphon into work and started removing it ...

My parents and uncle and aunty have done this for several years with a little yellow rubber duck

Or just give to charity shop

Damn, just spotted it now and I thought I'd offloaded it when I was last there!
1— 0 to them. ..on this occasion...

@Plussizejumpsuit

Sorry if I'm just massively joyless but this sounds really fucking annoying.

You're not. It is annoying. And I would think less of any "friends" who thought this was a fun game. Take it to the charity shop like everyone else.

Arthur. the lemon is in play.

[quote Trulyatraditionalman]@plussizejumpsuit It's not for everybody, but I can strangely foresee some joy in finding a random mug saying "I heart Uzbekistan" in my cupboard and wondering where the hell it came from![/quote]
Oddly, now I really want a mug with “I heart Uzbekistan”.

Brilliant.
I have so much clutter and not enough friends.

I used to take something from a friend's house, wrap it up and give it back to her for a birthday present. It gave me houuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrsssssssssss of entertainment.

@Plussizejumpsuit

Sorry if I'm just massively joyless but this sounds really fucking annoying.

Agree. I have enough if my own crap I'm trying to get rid of. I'd be properly pissed off if people were bringing shite in my house and leaving it.

I was going to say we finally have an explanation for the random knickers that Mumsnetters seem to find everywhere, but I see others have beaten me to it.
Now we know - the next time someone comes on here panicking that their 'D'H is having an affair, we can reassure them that this is not the case and it will simply be one of their friends offloading random stuff they don't want any more!

Love thos idea but I'm so scatty and forgetful I don't think I've ever left my parents house (for example) without leaving about 3 items there accidentally.

When you were allowed in other people's houses I used to work from pil House a day a week and once rearranged the spices on their spice shelf to say "BOOBS". I giggled away to myself for ages but was very dismayed to see that when we next went for dinner they were out of order again - I asked pil if they enjoyed the message but they hadn't noticed

My friend did the photo thing - it was hilarious! She did multiple photos except she used Mr Bean - Put Mr Beans head on top of some group photos and covered individual portraits with him too at her mums house. And yes it took about a month to notice.

I’ve also done the Alexa thing on my dad to give him a fright. I would get her to suddenly play heavy metal or such. Problem is he’s learnt how to do it back.

I love this idea! I’m sure someone does it to me.....

I have to say I would never think to hide my old knickers - I would just Chuck those!