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Strangest thing someone has ever done In your home?

166 replies

Ilikechips · 16/08/2021 19:22

Seen lots of these type of threads lately and I love them! So go ahead, what’s the strangest thing anyone has ever done in your home?

OP posts:
GinJeanie · 17/08/2021 00:06

Delivery driver (one of two delivering furniture) asked if he could use our loo as had been on the road for a while. Of course we said yes, assuming he meant a for a pee. Was in there about half an hour. When he came out, he said, "yer window seems to be stuck, I tried to open it but no luck. I wouldn't go in there for a while"! He'd taken a huge dump and seemed quite unembarrased 🤢. DP at the time tied a tea towel around his face and went in to try and loosen the window. Came out retching.

GinJeanie · 17/08/2021 00:09

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296

Anyone remember this? Poor woman 😳

AlwaysLatte · 17/08/2021 00:13

Party at my house when I was 20 ish and there was a very helpful rearrangement of the little cactus collection I had. Behind sofas, in the cistern, days before I found them all.

ItsNotNormalLove · 17/08/2021 00:35

An old friend became homeless temporarily and came to stay with me for a few weeks. She went out one day and I went to use the bathroom only to find she hadn't rinsed the bath out after she'd used it. It was COVERED in her shaved off leg hairs. Not impressed.

LemonSwan · 17/08/2021 00:37

Had an after party at my/parents house when late teens. Fell asleep.

Woke up to everyone playing with 'my dog' in the garden. I still dont know whos dog it was, who found it or how it got back home.

A week later my mother asked me why I had bought a 50cm pepper grinder that was in our kitchen. I hadnt. Again no idea but assume someone stole that from the previous party.

DoWhatYouWantToAndShh · 17/08/2021 00:45

@ExhaustedGrinch

Well this is outing but fuck it. I don't care. I'll never not be mad about it.

A family member (through marriage) was watching my DS while I went shopping. I made a mental note to get toilet paper as we were out. Get back and DS proudly declares FM had done a smelly poo. I was slightly puzzled because I knew we didn't have toilet paper but figured they'd sacrificed a sock. When they left I discovered a missing hand towel!

Okay, so in desperation I can see why someone would use a hand towel, whatever. I figured must be in the bin or washing machine, or they'd smuggled it out in their bag. Nope. They'd flung it in my cupboard under the stairs! WTF!

I put gloves on and placed said towel in a plastic bag. Next time FM was over to watch my son so I could shop I placed the bag with the shitty towel in ON TOP of my bin with the bag open so they would know I know. Very passive aggressive I know. Anyway I get back and FM loudly announces "Oh there was a shitty towel on the bin, DS had left it there so I've flung it in the wash" ... !!! DS says "NO I DIDN'T" to which FM again says it was DS. I was, possibly for the first time in my life, fucking speechless.

I told FM's partner about it and how hurt I was and that I didn't want them in my home alone ever again. FMs partner was mortified obviously. I've never raised it with FM (now divorced from family anyway) but it's something that really hurt me, possibly more than it made me mad, to disrespect my home in the most disgusting way and then to top it off blame my DS was just something else completely.

Well you left them with no bog roll. Not saying they should have hidden towel etc but you say watch my child, then leave a house with no paper. You're at fault.
ThreeFlowers · 17/08/2021 00:50

Yea ex SIL went through my old photos that were right under the middle of the bed while she was supposed to be looking after my toddler….she found a naked pic of an ex boyfriend of mine, I’d completely forgotten I even had the photos. She left it in the middle of our hallway floor.

Same ex SIL while she was cat sitting gave her friend one of my rings, not just any old ring, it had great sentimental value. I never got it back.

She was a v messed up jealous person who’s behaviour ultimately ended our marriage.

Thefellathatrocks · 17/08/2021 00:54

Ate a jar of Chicken Tonight at a party. Didn't cook chicken or anything, just ate what was in the jar.

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 17/08/2021 00:55

A lodger of mine, biker chick. Used to go out with all kinds of ruffians.
My husband at that time was working away for a month.
I had a small baby and was on maternity leave.
Woke up one morning to find a Hell's Angel sleeping on my sofa. He wasn't a Hells Angel but I don't want to out myself saying which national club he belonged to - needless to say a particularly rough one.
Massive, hairy bloke.
I took biker chick outside and hissed at her, who the fuck is that and why is he on my sofa? She said well he's staying for a few nights he's on the run from police and you'd better not shop him in.
I waited until they both went out, threw all her stuff out onto the street and locked all the doors and called the police.
I was expecting a revenge attack but I never saw either of them again.

Mammyloveswine · 17/08/2021 01:04

@ExhaustedGrinch

Well this is outing but fuck it. I don't care. I'll never not be mad about it.

A family member (through marriage) was watching my DS while I went shopping. I made a mental note to get toilet paper as we were out. Get back and DS proudly declares FM had done a smelly poo. I was slightly puzzled because I knew we didn't have toilet paper but figured they'd sacrificed a sock. When they left I discovered a missing hand towel!

Okay, so in desperation I can see why someone would use a hand towel, whatever. I figured must be in the bin or washing machine, or they'd smuggled it out in their bag. Nope. They'd flung it in my cupboard under the stairs! WTF!

I put gloves on and placed said towel in a plastic bag. Next time FM was over to watch my son so I could shop I placed the bag with the shitty towel in ON TOP of my bin with the bag open so they would know I know. Very passive aggressive I know. Anyway I get back and FM loudly announces "Oh there was a shitty towel on the bin, DS had left it there so I've flung it in the wash" ... !!! DS says "NO I DIDN'T" to which FM again says it was DS. I was, possibly for the first time in my life, fucking speechless.

I told FM's partner about it and how hurt I was and that I didn't want them in my home alone ever again. FMs partner was mortified obviously. I've never raised it with FM (now divorced from family anyway) but it's something that really hurt me, possibly more than it made me mad, to disrespect my home in the most disgusting way and then to top it off blame my DS was just something else completely.

How do you know it was FM who had a poo?' And how would ds know to say?

How long did you Keep the shitty towel?

And how rude not having a scrap of loo roll for your FM doing you a favour in babysitting??

Notashandyta · 17/08/2021 01:09

I'm actually crying here GrinGrin
Thankyou so much all...

Thefellathatrocks · 17/08/2021 01:13

Oh I don't know. I have quite a lot of shitty towels so that whenever family members visit I can give them one in a bag.

I'm sure I learned how to do it on a previous thread about towels on Mumsnet

Iamtheweedonkey · 17/08/2021 01:25

@exhaustedGrinch. Very similar thing happened to me, it was the evening after my dm had died, I didn't want my dad to stay alone in the house, so he stayed at mine. We had a curry, he told me in the morning that he wasn't well, my DH had to drive him home with a changing mat on the seat. When I was tidying up, I saw a towel, a very large, lovely, soft bath towel covered in shit. Just hanging up ready to use! Not impressed, chucked it away.

Shuffalo · 17/08/2021 01:31

DH and I thought we’d entered into a passive aggressive war about wether the mugs were stored up or down. I prefer down and they kept being turned up. He prefers up and I kept turning them down after they’d been turned up again. I got in such a hump with him for being so petty. Turns out it was the cleaner doing it. No idea why - they’re stored in a cupboard and there was no need for her to go through them all turning them over each week. Unless she and DH are both correct about mug storage which I refuse to accept.

LemonSwan · 17/08/2021 01:35

@Shuffalo

They are! Grin

SamiReed1 · 17/08/2021 02:32

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TheFrogsAreDying · 17/08/2021 03:20

My housemate 20 years ago cut my cat’s whiskers off, she was a trainee police officer and a right b*tch.

lovethisjourneyforme · 17/08/2021 03:30

Back when brother and SIL were dating (as teenagers) they used to have lots of sex in my bed when I wasn't home. I was 12/13. She also borrowed my clothes and returned them with what was very obviously cum stains on them. I would get very upset but they both found it hilarious.

It made me very possessive and obsessive about my stuff and my space, I still have issues about it even now.

avamiah · 17/08/2021 03:33

Nothing as I don’t let weirdos into my home .

unidentifed · 17/08/2021 04:00

Not my home but I'll never forget two people (one was a friend!) being caught have sex on r bathroom floor at my friends party....it was a one bathroom home....

userhuman · 17/08/2021 04:08

I think not leaving any toilet paper for guests, then keeping a shit towel, then inviting the person back and confronting them with it might need to go on the thread 'strangest thing you've ever done' rather than this one.

UnRavellingFast · 17/08/2021 04:29

Male visitor sneaked into my bedroom cupboard and stayed there till I got home from work and was about to change. Opened wardrobe, was shocked and angry and his excuse was that no one loved him.

DrNo007 · 17/08/2021 05:23

When I was a kid about a hundred years ago a strange man knocked on our door and explained he was the main man on the kids’ tv show Magpie. He noticed from our aerial that we had a colour tv—think it was the first one in our village—he said he was passing through the area and could he come in and watch himself on tv. My parents said fine and he did just that, then had a cup of tea and left when the program finished. I remember I was pissed off because Magpie was on ITV and I wanted to watch Blue Peter on the BBC.

Shoxfordian · 17/08/2021 06:22

Keeping a shitty towel in a bag is indeed an odd thing to do. Didn’t it smell really badly?

I lived in a houseshare once and started dating a man who also lived there but then he moved away, we carried on dating. A very strange unfriendly girl moved into his old room, I told him about her and it turns out that she’s his ex. She knew it was his old room and moved in when he moved out rather than find somewhere else in the city, don’t know why but strange behaviour

coodawoodashooda · 17/08/2021 06:34

Lay on my bed, wore my slippers and rearranged my chopping boards.

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