Cleaner threw away/moved/stole my secret booze stash

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I rarely drink, I haven’t since Dv was born and since Peri kicked in and made me ill, every time I did.
Things have been stressful recently and Ive been having the odd drink on the balcony at sunset on my own. I usually don’t drink it all and usually put the remainder behind my bedroom patio shutters outside

Anyway, I came to have some tonight and they’ve all gone, cleaners came yesterday so an assuming it’s them as they clean the patio area too

Why would they do that?

*Dc was born

*Am assuming

Do you have a partner who may be concerned about your secret booze stash and has moved it?

Maybe they thought it was for throwing away

Possibly looked like a pile of empties or finished-with bottles. Why not keep half-finished bottles in a cupboard indoors (or the fridge) if you plan to come back to them, are you deliberately hiding them?

Why do you feel the need to hide it?

I wouldn’t have thought he’d even see it there, he wouldn’t be concerned as I barely drink, if anything he’d drink it, but don’t think that has happened

Why is it a secret?

One opened, one unopened, surely that wouldn’t be thrown away

Because they were outside, and not in a cupboard/fridge/normal storage place so appeared to be trash.

Leaving it there is a) weird, and b) makes it look like you're finished with it.

Have they put them in the fridge? What was it?

If I found myself drinking in secret and hiding the bottles I’d be very worried about myself. I think your booze disappearing is the least of your worries.

I don’t really feel the need, but it’s just my little thing, we don’t generally have alcohol in the house since Dd came along, not keen to drink in front of her, it’s just my peaceful time alone

Maybe they tidied them into a cupboard or something thinking that behind patio shutters was a strange place to keep drinks.

Not in the fridge, just small Somersby bottles

Why do you feel the need to hide it ? That’s my greatest concern.

It is annoying if you wanted it, though, OP. Sorry about that 😡

Yeah they’re in a non standard place. I work as a cleaner sometimes and if I found bottles outside I’d definitely presume they’d been left there by accident/ because of untidiness. And remove them.

Your cleaner may also think you are an alcoholic and not know what to do with the empties and full ones.

Either way, keep them in your fridge, job done.

I doubt it was the cleaners.

It's much more likely that your secret drinking isn't a secret anymore and your DP has binned it.

Nobody on MN can know why your cleaners might do anything, why don't you just ask them?

As I said above I don’t feel the need to hide it, just not a fan of drinking in front of Dd. My dad was/is an alcoholic (he wouldn’t say so, but he is) I hated seeing him drink, I vowed to not have booze in the house, which we don’t as I barely drink normally and Dh will have a few with colleagues on a Friday night, we don’t buy in anymore since Dd was born

Stop saying you barely drink. You do drink and your hiding it

He wouldn’t though, if he found he’d either put in the fridge or polish them off himself

As I said, only recently and it’s every few days, one bottle if that, compared to everyone I know that is barely drinking, its also a very low alcohol and small bottle, I haven’t had wine, spirits, beer etc for 7 or so years

So leaving it on the patio is ok because that means you "don't have alcohol in the house"? You're fooling yourself.