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50 Snooping Parents Who Accidentally Uncovered A Side Of Their Teen They Weren’t Ready For
Parenting is always an adventure: sometimes sweet, sometimes stressful, but never predictable. Some days, your children are angels, and other days they leave you scratching your head, wondering what on earth goes on in their rooms. One thing’s for sure: you’re always in for a surprise.
Today, parents are spilling the tea on the weirdest things they’ve ever found while snooping (or accidentally stumbling) through their children’s stuff. From suspicious jars of liquids to carefully collected balls of cat fur, these discoveries will shock you, creep you out, and probably make you check under your child’s bed tonight, just in case. Keep scrolling if you dare!
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#1
I’m not my parents, but they told me and my sister that the weirdest/funniest thing they ever uncovered were the s****y “adult” comics my sister and I drew for each other when we were young teens. We would take turns drawing a row of panels so we would add onto the story we were building together.
Mostly it was an excuse to say swear words we weren’t allowed to say. The one that forever lives in my head is one my sister drew herself and slipped under my door to share with me while we were supposed to be sleeping. It was a really well-drawn SpongeBob comic that had him going around town and saying “f**k you” to everyone and him waking up the next morning, thinking it was a dream. All the towns people were in his bedroom and told him “f**k you!” as a response, because it wasn’t a dream after all.
Our parents discovered our hoard of comics hidden under my sister’s mattress when they went to replace it. My sister and I were both in tears, thinking we were both going to get in trouble, but our parents were laughing their asses off!
My sister still has those comics somewhere and she recently found them again and we read them all. Our childish humor still mostly holds up! We both still make comics in our spare time so that was the beginning of a side hobby we share.
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#2
I went to my 10-year-old daughter’s school for parent-teacher conferences and opened her locker to take a look inside. There wasn’t much in it, but lying in the bottom was a book from our local library about how to plan a wedding. Not a fun one with pictures of wedding dresses and stuff. It was called “Wedding Rites: A Complete Guide to Traditional Vows, Music, Ceremonies, Blessings and Interfaith Services.” I was baffled and her teachers and I had a good laugh about it.
When I got home and asked her about it, she explained she and her bestie were trying to marry their dogs to each other.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I once married my tuxedo cat to my Pomeranian dog when I was a kid! My dog (Champ) absolutely LOVED my cat (Kaz) and my cat... well, he tolerated her XD My friends and I had a whole wedding ceremony with costumes and everything. I even made wedding invitations and printed them up. I'll see if I can find the one I saved - it's in one of my old photo albums somewhere XD kaz_and_ch...ca5139.jpg 
Cee Cee 4 months ago
Those dogs look like some vile person has clipped their ears. I hope I'm wrong...
Kira Okah 4 months ago (edited)
Going by another stock image linked on the page with the same dogs, they're unclipped. French bulldogs are known for thin stick up ears, and the angle could account for the clip look on unclipped ears. Here is the other angle of the ears: photo-1603...307244.jpg 
#3
I was the teenager getting snooped on. I had undiagnosed schizophrenia at the time. And I was building a time machine from old PC parts that I got from people’s trash. Thankfully she found it because the way I had designed it, I was going to electrocute myself to send myself back in time. Unfortunately at the time when I found my Time Machine was gone, I thought the government was on to me and basically made myself homeless so they wouldn’t find me. I was 14 or 15 at the time. I’m medicated now and doing much better these days.
winterwidow87 4 months ago
Glad OP is doing better now, i can't imagine how scary it must have been for both them and their parents.
Uncle Panda 4 months ago
Did you ever get the time machine to work, and if so, may I borrow it for last weekend? That party was so epic I want to do it again.
Anne Roberts 3 months ago
It is a difficult disease to manage and live with. My son's best friend (M37) got that diagnosis a few years back. I wish you all the best.
No matter what age they are, children always find new ways to surprise us. One day they’re digging up worms and storing them in jars under the bed, the next day they’re using dry pasta to build oceans for plastic sea creatures. Children have endless imaginations and an uncanny knack for turning the ordinary into something unexpectedly weird, which is probably why so many parents have stumbled across head-scratching “treasures” in their kids’ rooms.
Of course, things get even more interesting when they reach their teenage years. Suddenly, they’re not just collecting bugs or hiding candy wrappers, they’re experimenting, hoarding strange objects, or stashing away things you’d never expect to find. From mystery bottles to odd DIY projects, teens have a knack for testing boundaries, exploring curiosity, and pushing your parental patience to its limits.
#4
Found a notebook labeled “Top Secret Plans.” Inside was a full blueprint for how they’d fake sick to skip school, complete with fake cough sound effects and backup crying strategy if I didn’t buy it. I was half impressed, half offended.
They even wrote: “Mom might pretend to be mad, but she’ll secretly respect the hustle.”
…They were right.
T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago
You fake a stomach cramp, and then, when you're bent over moaning and wailing, you lick your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then... so is high school.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 4 months ago
A friend found a couple of sheets of his early-teen's attempts to forge his signature in the trashcan next to his desk. He said he wasn't sure which to be more disappointed in, the forgery attempts or that they were stupid enough to leave the evidence in plain sight.
Ginger ninja 3 months ago
I had a recipe for fake vomit. Cream of chicken soup (with the chunks), carrot chunks and a little bit of food you recently ate
#5
My mom would do this when i was a teenager ....I got a diary and hid it. When she found it and opened all she found was in big writing "THOUGHT YOU FOUND SOMETHING GOOD, HUH?" She laughed about it for the next 20 plus years. I miss her.
Chuck the Cat 4 months ago
I’m so sorry you lost your mother, that must have been absolutely heartbreaking ❤️. And yes, I know the OP won’t read this.
fruitloopdingus 4 months ago
why didn’t i write that in my diary when i was 11? my mom found it and read it in my sleep (the majority of it was just horribly written lyrics of my own songs. i feel embarrassed about it to this day.)
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
My ex forced me to journal every single day "instead" of going to therapy (I was not allowed to go to therapy, he said journaling and meditation would "fix" me.) I eventually just started writing "FÜCK YOU. I FÜCKING HATE YOU FOR FORCING ME TO DO THIS. GO FÜCK YOURSELF" over and over until my time limit was up XD I left the journal on my desk at his house when I moved back home... I wonder if he's found it and read it XD
PetePanda 4 months ago
He forced you to journal?? Wow. Not even sure how that would work but glad you got away.
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago
My high school diary had about 10% of the boy I liked, and 90% analyzing the motivations of characters from the soap opera "Loving"!!
#6
When I was a teen, my dad found home made d**dos I made out of pencils taped together, a sock, more tape, and saran wrap. He knew what it was and was mad. I wish he left it alone but he confronted me, and i was adamant it was actually an art project so I painted them and left them on display to dry for weeks to try to prove my point….
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
My stepdaughter asked me to help her pack to move a few years back. She forgot she had left her “toys” out inside the nightstand. I opened the drawer, saw them, closed it and said “hey I’ll let you get this drawer and proceeded to the closet. Never said one word about what I saw to her Dad. I don’t think that it’s anyone’s business. She thanked me at a later time at which I gifted her a nice velvet storage bag :)
Dolevaal 4 months ago (edited)
Tbh its a s**t move that the dad insisted about it, especially when she was a teenager.
maswartz 4 months ago
best case scenario he was worried about her getting injured by shoving something homemade up there.
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AndyR 4 months ago
I think it's reasonable not to just turn a blind eye to it - that's got trip to hospital written all over it. Surely get a female family member to have the chat and point her to the nearest Anne Summers?
Chuck the Cat 4 months ago
Anne Summers? What’s that? It might be a girl thing.
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Seadog 3 months ago
I'll never understand, why get mad about s*x toys? Why get mad about them watching p**n? There are so many worse things they could be doing. and so many worse places they could be. What's better, for them to have some prior knowledge or just wing it as they go and likely end up pregnant, getting a girl pregnant, or worse?
When kids hit their pre-teen and teen years, their bodies and brains are on a wild rollercoaster ride. Hormones surge, voices change, moods swing like pendulums, and parents are left wondering where their sweet child went. It’s messy, confusing, and sometimes funny but it’s also completely normal. No matter how weird it gets, it’s just a phase that eventually passes.
#7
I don't snoop but I do clean and organize from time to time. Teen knows this, also knows that unless I find some really illegal s**t I'm not real worried.
Having said that... a suit of armor he had made out of watermelon rinds and forgot to toss out. Whole new ecosystem was growing on it all.
Cole Earnhart 4 months ago (edited)
It wasn't what they expected, but I got WATERMELON to keep me protected!
#8
Is it snooping if it was in the laundry basket? And I don't mean in his pocket. It was a letter that was literally just in between two pieces of clothing. But I found out that the current girlfriend was using emotional manipulation adjustment him. He was 16 or 17 and didn't want to date her anymore because she was bats**t crazy, among other reasons and she told him she was going to off herself if he broke up with her.
I didn't say a thing about the letter. I just dropped it beside where the clothes basket sits in his room as if it fell there instead of in the basket. Logically, it likely fell off his dresser. Anyway, my daughter was only a year older than him and I waited till she was home a few days later and we were all in the living room and I brought up an article I had read and showed her. We started talking about it and it was about teenage s*****e. And we were talking about warning signs and what to do and the difference between an actual mental illness like depression and just being sad blah blah blah and that's when I pointed out that when somebody uses it as a threat they're trying to control you because they want you to do what they want. Not because they're actually going to do it! Even if you don't give in, they're not going to do it. It's just a threat!
He kept turning his head towards us while we were talking. But I ignored that and acted like I was just talking to her. About 2 weeks later he finally broke up with her for good. She's still alive and should be about 29 now. So I guess I was right? lol.
Tricia Neville 4 months ago
Whatever, it makes it damned difficult to read if your constantly trying to fill the gaps.
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Winnie the Moo 4 months ago
I would have talked to my son in hopes he will understand that it is not his fault. BUT this plan is a magnificent second!!
Uncle Panda 4 months ago (edited)
The way to manage this if it happens in your life is to immediately contact the authorities if someone threatens suic ide, even mildly. You may save a life, if only for that day if nothing more, and if they were not serious, they will never say that to YOU again.
Chuck the Cat 4 months ago
Thanks everyone for providing the censored word.
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#9
My mother found my collection of 10 compacted balls of cat fur in my drawer once. They shed a lot, so i have a habit of collecting it off brushes and rolling it into compact balls then keeping them for some reason. She threw all the ones she found in the trash, but i had more in a different drawer.
I still have some. One of my cats died so it's kind of a limited edition cat ball now. I might get a container for them and label it all at some point.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I got a little needlefelted wool sculpture of my German Shepherd, Ember, after she died of cancer. I saved some of her fur and sent it to the artist, who incorporated the fur into the sculpture. It's awesome... but yeah, also a little sad. I also have a bag full of my childhood dog's fur somewhere... she died in 2000, when I was 18. I think I used to have this idea that someday I'd be super-rich and I could clone her and have her back :( She had been my best friend since I was 2. (Attached is photo of the needlefelt sculpture of Ember - you can see her real fur on the back!) shepherd_e...e64d4d.jpg 
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I have STRONGLY considered saving some of Stilgar's floof when I brush him out for spinning into yarn! Since we don't know how long he'll live because of the whole distemper thing, it would be a wonderful way to have a physical memento of him after he's gone.
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Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
So, not as weird as you might think, aside from the fact that they're keeping them in a drawer. My brother's wife taught us how to make tiny little compacted balls of fur we get from brushing the cats and as it turns out, they're like some of the cat's favorite toys. They probably play with them more than the ACTUAL toy balls we buy them. I'm guessing it's something to do with it being like chasing a tiny furry animal.
therian-wolf(mutogen-demigen) 4 months ago
lol my cats love balls of fluff more than toys too!
Load More Replies... Dawn Marie 4 months ago
Keep it forever by using them as the stuffing for throw pillows. They are nice and soft and will remind you of your friend when you lay your head.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 4 months ago
I do that too, I’ve been trying to collect enough so I can needle felt a tiny version of my cat.
BookFanatic 4 months ago
I'm sorry, and I don't mean to be insensitive but the phrase "limited edition cat ball" made me giggle.
It helps to remember that the teenage brain is still under construction. The part that handles logic, impulse control, and big-picture thinking, the prefrontal cortex, is far from fully developed. Meanwhile, the limbic system, the part that fuels big emotions, is working overtime. That’s why your teen might burst into tears over something small or stash something questionable “just because.”
#10
When I was 19 I came home from a night out with my girlfriends to my mother, hysterical and crying, dramatically asking "How could you this to me?!" She had found a sandwich bag with an unknown substance in it and somehow came to the conclusion that it was h****n, and I had secretly turned into a d**g a****t.
It was small bacon flavored dog treats for our chihuahua, which I had portioned out so they wouldn't get stale. Pretty obvious that my mother had no idea what h****n looked like.
Chuck the Cat 4 months ago
Censored words are: héroin, drúg, addíct, and héroin again. Really, it’s a good thing the mother didn’t know what it looked like.
Nimitz 4 months ago
Omg thank you! It's ALWAYS amazing when someone complains about the automatic censoring. Thank YOU for your service. So helpful, so insightful. You'll definitely make a difference
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
It wasn't bacon, though. It was bacon-flavored dog treats broken into pieces. I can guarantee you that every single "bacon-flavored" dog treat I've ever gotten for my dogs has NOT looked like bacon. Even Beggin' Strips don't look like actual bacon.
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#11
I was like 13, living in a rural area, and my best friend at the time was always up to something. For some reason, we got it in our heads that we could secretly raise chickens in the forest behind my house, so we bought an entire chicken starter kit, complete with feed, lights, a book on how to do it right. We attempted to shoplift a few baby chicks in her sweater from the farm supply store, but got caught on the way out. The plan never materialized because no one would sell us baby chicks.
Later, my mother found the starter stuff in my closet. It was a weird conversation. She was expecting to find d***s. She was mainly mad the store didn't call her when we got caught attempting to shoplift baby chicks.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
When I was a kid in the 90s, I rode my bike to the local pet store (which still sold puppies and kittens in those dark distant days) and bought a kitten. I was by myself, no adult in sight. The pet store employee sold me a kitten without hesitation XD I biked home with him (in one of those cardboard carriers) and basically showed up at home with a new pet >_>; My mom was P!SSED. She was going to make me take him back or take him "to the pound", but my dad intervened. But yeah, the tl;dr is that sometimes shopkeepers didn't care what a kid bought, back in the day, as long as the kid had money XD
Teutonic Disaster 4 months ago
Saved up pocket/birthday money. The stuff is neither that expensive nor age restricted and if the cashier/salesperson asked them, they could've just as well lied and claimed it was for a school project. Remember, OP said they lived in a rural area, so "teens buying low level farm equipment" probably isn't out of the ordinary where they lived.
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After he moved out I found a huge pencil case with every single pen he had used throughout high school, like 90+ pens, all completely out of ink. I messaged him about it and he’s like “yeah, that’s my pen graveyard” like it was the most normal thing ever. It’s not a home made f**shlight, but it definitely made me pause and wonder what kind of hoarder I had created.
Janissary35680 4 months ago
Might even fetch a few quid on something like "Cash in the Attic" or "Yorkshire Auction House". 🔨
Load More Replies... Ryan Mercer 4 months ago
Tape them into a bundle, put a sock over it, then more tape, then some saran wrap... stop me if you've heard this.
fruitloopdingus 4 months ago
i used to hoard my used clarinet reeds in 6th grade. oh, i also named them.
Horace Von Snot 4 months ago
It’s the name of a s*x toy for men, the censored part is ‘flesh.’ Not really offensive, but apparently Bored Panda thinks it is.
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Maureen Mitchell 2 months ago
I can see that being kind of neat, like it's a testament to all the hard work he did getting through high school
So what can you do when you stumble upon a weird find hidden in their drawer or backpack? First, breathe. Overreacting rarely helps. Instead, approach it like a detective, not a judge. Talk to them calmly. Try to understand why they kept it. Sometimes there’s an innocent explanation. Other times, it’s a chance to have an honest talk about safety or boundaries.
#13
My mom found w**d in a plastic baggy in my sisters room. Replaced baggy with new baggy of lawn grass.
#14
Five bottles full of urine. The bathroom is literally right next to his bedroom…..
Nimitz 4 months ago (edited)
Sometimes there's a good reason. My mom was so incredibly a*****e, toxic, and despicably evangelical Christian that, even though my bedroom was literally right next to the washroom, I would p**s in bottles when she was home. That way I didn't have to interact with her. I wanted to k**l myself because she made me feel so trapped, powerless, and depressed.
Dragon Ashes 4 months ago
I'm so sorry. It's like you were trapped in your own home. I hope you're doing better now.
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greenideas 4 months ago
Unless this is some sort of science experiment, it's a mental health issue.
#15
I loved sugar as a kid and I had a big zip lock bag full of powder sugar, also near it a spoon that for some reason I was melting chocolate on because I thought it looked cool, I was 12, mom thought I was doing d***s.
ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 4 months ago
Drսgs, BP. She expected drսgs. << recycling this comment because why not.
Uncle Panda 4 months ago
It's not really recycled after you append the 'value added' bit. Now it's 'refurbished.'
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Peppy 4 months ago
I think they mean icing sugar, pretty sure it’s called powdered sugar in the USA
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This is where your role as a guide, not just a rule enforcer, becomes vital. Be someone they trust enough to confess the weird stuff to. Be the adult who asks questions, and listens without jumping to blame. Sometimes teens just need to know they’re not about to get grounded for every little misstep.
#16
I found a rolling machine in my teenage son’s bedroom. I was horrified. He was only 13. I couldn’t find any trace of weed in the machine and it looked clean. Took a photo and sent it to my husband. He wrote back it was a magic trick used to make bank notes disappear 😂.
Peppy 4 months ago
I can make bank notes disappear like magic, unfortunately make them appear isn’t as easy
#17
My mom found super dirty notes my boyfriend wrote me in high school (early ‘90s). She went ballistic when I got home from school because she thought we were having s*x. Not that it would have been a huge deal. We were 16. But we hadn’t done anything. He was just writing erotic fantasy starring me. Lol.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
How nice for you. No one in this story was actually having séx, by the way.
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#18
Not my kid but my best friend found used period pads under her daughter's bed. Her daughter had not started her period yet and no sisters, so no clue where she got the pads, but my friend was changing her daughters sheets and >! smelled it. If you have ever had a period, you know. !< My friend threw them all out but never asked her daughter about it. The kid is 22 now and I still randomly remember this from time to time and wonder.
Mobey Drunk 4 months ago
She might have started her period and was too embarrassed to tell. It's a tricky part of life. Sometimes, you should be able to talk about this to your parents, but you have trouble doing it. Even though this is obviously something I never had to do, but there were things during puberty that I'd dread speaking to my parents about.
Seadog 3 months ago
I asked my wife if she wanted me to have THE TALK with her granddaughter that was living with us at the time. So I did. I didn't have girls, so just told her the facts, very bluntly and to the point. She thought it was funny. I hope now that she's about to start college, she remembers what I told her.
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HardBoiledBlonde 4 months ago
She wanted the used pads to conjure up her having her period like her friends.
Parmeisan 4 months ago
My guess, a friend had to change a pad while over at the house, likely a sleepover, and was too embarrassed to use the garbage can. Young enough not to think through them obviously being found eventually anyway - or just thinking she'd be long gone. I bet the daughter had no idea.
Cydney Golden 3 months ago
Geez, I would hope she'd finally have a conversation with her daughter about her body.
It helps to be more than just “Mom” or “Dad,” be their safe space. Let them know they can talk about anything, even the embarrassing or awkward parts of growing up. It can be hard to hear what they’re really thinking but trust us, it’s way better than not knowing at all. Offer advice when they ask for it, and sometimes, just listen.
#19
I was in my 12 year old daughter’s room and saw a small box with the lid off, so I went over to take a look. It was like something from a b grade horror movie, so much to take in. First off I couldn’t work out what it was but realised it was the head of a bird still with feathers and eyes sunken plus the bonus of the stench of rotting. She had it sitting on tissue, so obviously put some effort into the heads comfort. Next to that was a miniature bible and a cross she made of wood. The whole thing was like a weird shrine thing. I eventually found out what this all meant, she found the bird head outside, felt sorry for it and had made an open burial or something for it. She loves animals but still..
fruitloopdingus 4 months ago
my step dad lives in the woods and my step brothers keep finding dead birds behind the house. no idea why, but they’re just there.
Ai 4 months ago
Many dead birds in the same place next to a building often means they crash at the one specific window.
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Uncle Panda 4 months ago (edited)
My dad made us come back and clean out the attic of the childhood home when he downsized. My lot included boxes of pretty rocks and shell, corroded batteries, parts of model rockets and, for unknown reasons, a small shoebox completely and solely filled with GI Joe arms. Just the arms. No idea.
#20
A rusted train nail. Not snooping. She folded it up in a sweatshirt to keep it safe and I was putting away laundry. She thought it was an artifact. Couldn’t believe something could be that rusty without being 100 years old.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Not going to lie. I'd probably still keep it. I do love me some good rusty baubles.
Tracie Thomas 4 months ago
I have had one since I was a teen in the 90s.....now I am feeling called out! I don't know where I got it, or why lol
#21
Not a snoop, but a complete clean of the room after a week of warnings. Found a mini Halloween pumpkin under the bed. This was in April.
BrownEyedGrrl 4 months ago
My daughter's room stank so bad. I finally tore through it looking for the source. Found an Easter egg tucked up in her bed frame. It was August.
Seadog 3 months ago
I've smelled one after about 2 weeks. 4 months? How did you make it that long?
Load More Replies...Giving them trust also means giving them space. Teens crave independence, they want to test freedom and see how far they can go. Instead of locking them down, set clear boundaries that protect them without smothering their need to grow. Privacy is precious to them, so respect it but also keep your eyes open for real red flags.
#22
My son had been sneaking booze in the house and I kept finding empty bottles around. I was in his room and it looked like a half empty bottle of cola with a weird smell like Dr. Pepper. I took a taste to see if it was alcohol in it and realized I had just taken a swig from his spit bottle. 🤢.
les 4 months ago (edited)
one of my friends did the same. I was home with a phlegmy cold and had a glass i was spitting in. he had a habit of just walking in and helping himself to food or drinks and this day i was dozing/zoned out on the couch. he came in and saw a glass of what he thought was juice and took a big swig of it. Just seeing it made me throw up over him so his visit didn't last long. he never helped himself again though, lol. I wonder how spencer is doing now?
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
I have work diagrams and charts showing exactly why this is a bad idea, and though they're meant for industrial environments, I assure you they are even more important in a child's bedroom.
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Jude Corrigan 3 months ago
Bottles that people spit into. Sometimes they spit chewing tobacco or phlegm. It is horrible.
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#23
My mother found around £500 tucked away in a drawer. She came to the conclusion that I was a d**g dealer and hiding it from her. Don’t know how she came to that conclusion but when I got home from school, she sat me down all serious like and cried over it.
No, I’d just been saving Christmas and birthday and lunch money for years to get a dog because my parents said they couldn’t afford it. Still wasn’t allowed to get one though.
28 now and I’ve got two though so I’m not mad anymore.
Seadog 3 months ago (edited)
And my brain immediately starts singing David Lee Roth I'm Just A Gigolo. Thanks Bill. LOL
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#24
My mom didn’t snoop per se, she was just cleaning my little brother’s closet, donating old clothes and throwing out trash. She found a bag of clothes she thought were dirty from one of his trips to his dad’s house. It was not dirty clothes. It was femme clothes— dresses, stockings, and such. She stuffed them back and never confronted him about it, just told me to get it off her chest.
Nimitz 4 months ago
Hope they found ways of affirming the kid to help them on their journey. To find something like that and pretend it's a dirty secret or "never mention it again" type thing does not help
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
True, but I don't think most people are naturally equipped to know what to do under the circumstances either. Main problem is you don't know if it's a gender thing or if it's a kink thing and the two require entirely different approaches.
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It's a shame so many people still feel the need to closet themselves in - and it's a disgrace to humankind that in a lot of countries and societies, they are still right about not opening up for fear of repercussions. I do hope that, at some point, we as a society become something better.
One of the biggest influences during these years? Friends. Teens are deeply shaped by the people they hang out with. Peer pressure is powerful, so gently keep an eye on who they spend time with. Encourage positive friendships and talk openly about situations that feel off. You can’t pick their friends for them, but you can teach them how to choose wisely.
#25
I snooped through Google searches. Two hours of chicken butts. I'm not joking. After ten pm.
Do chickens poop eggs?
Chicken laying egg.
Chiecken cloaka.
Chickn laying slowmo.
Cloaca.
I was convinced my child was j**king off to chicken butts. Turns out there was an earlier discussion about different kinds of eggs that come from non-mammals (snakes lay soft eggs, birds lay hard eggs, bug eggs are sometimes laid in lines or groups, spider eggs are laid in a sac, etc.) and he thought chickens laying eggs was hilarious. It hadn't occurred to him that multiple hours of this after ten pm could be viewed as... possibly sexual.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
I mean, I feel like chicken cloaca is generally non-sexual to humans. Just... maybe keep an eye on his hand-placement if you guys ever decided Chicken Run is this week's family movie night.
#26
"Science" experiments. Like the insides of stress balls emptied out. Hair gel mixed with glue. Glue mixed with stress balls goop. Pencil with layers of glue like it was dipped. Glued fuzzy sticks- "art" apparently.
Other teen just has empty snack wrappers stuff behind their bed. Thankfully he does put his used Kleenex in the trash can.
#27
Found a pile of trimmed pubic hair under my high school son’s bed (though I wasn’t snooping).
I was just like “Well… I guess someone’s been shaving…” and threw it away in the trash and moved on with my day.
Never said anything to him about it.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
If I had to guess, irrationality caused by embarrassment. Growing up I had a mother with the eyes of a damned hawk and would have to be careful what I threw away, especially in the bathroom bin. Oddly enough, pubes were not one of the things that I bothered hiding, but I get not wanting a parent to notice you've been shaving your pubes. Beyond that, people have a tendency to... erm... horde embarrassments/inconveniences. On the extreme end of this thing you'll see people who just kind of live with a corpse of a loved one that died because the stress of the situation renders the person unable to handle disposal/handling of the situation. Obviously, that's much more extreme, but the principle is there.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 4 months ago (edited)
Should have dumped them in a yoga classroom. I found playing, "That's an eyelash, right?" to be very motivating when trying to keep my face off the mat. My cobra pose looked like I was trying to touch the ceiling with my nose.
That said, some finds are too strange to ignore. If you ever stumble across something genuinely dangerous or deeply troubling, don’t panic but don’t sweep it under the rug either. Bring it up calmly but firmly. Talk about what it is, why it worries you, and what you expect going forward. If you don’t know how to handle it alone, don’t be afraid to get help.
Well, these posts reveal some truly questionable and downright bizarre things people choose to collect. Which one surprises you the most? What are your thoughts?
#28
An entire dresser drawer of dirty dishes and silverware.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
In theory. At least they were keeping them contained to one drawer, I guess...
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My oldest is 20 now, but back when he was 17 his friends kept hanging out until the early hours of the morning and he would come in *exhausted*.
Like drop his s**t on the floor and pass out for 12hrs on the couch exhausted.
So, curious, I went into his room and looked around.
Right in the middle of the room was a damned traffic cone. One of the huge triangle ones.
I was like, wtf?! Asked him about it and he said it was going to apart of his Halloween costume. Low and behold he was a massive traffic cone for Halloween and came home at a decent time.
I have weird kids... But I'm proud of them.
Chrissie Anit 4 months ago
What does him being exhausted have to do with the traffic cone? I don't get it.
les 4 months ago
i think the parent was worried they were on d***s. my mum did the same, but she never checked my cd player, lol
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#30
She'd been in trouble at school because after her father left, she found an old MJ vape pen of his and got caught with it. So I went to make sure there wasn't anything else like that in there and found a love letter from her boyfriend promising to take her to McDonald's every day and play panic at the disco at their wedding when they got married. It seemed like she was sleeping with this letter under her pillow. I put it right back where I found it.
Delicate Fcuking Flower 4 months ago
Girl that's exactly how my brain interpreted it too lol 😆
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Uncle Panda 4 months ago (edited)
My late buddy was a weed smoker and his wife was not (not an issue for them as a couple). After he died, I went in three extra times to remove all of his accumulated smoking related stuff. "Oh, thanks," widow said, "But I got it all." "Nooo, you didn't." Three trips.
#31
My co-worker found all the lunches she had packed for her son under his bed. Weird smell mystery solved!
Seadog 3 months ago
LOL. A coach got hold of my lunch once 8th? grade. He called me to his office to chew me out and said he was calling my mother. I told him to go ahead, she packed it. This made him madder because he thought I was lying. What he really thought was that I was packing my own lunch and she had no idea what I was packing. He did call her. And she laid him out, big time. She was still pissed when she got home that evening. Not at me, at him. She asked me who the hell he thought he was. She packed what she knew I would eat. Wasn't the healthiest or most nutritious items but something is better than nothing and I got good home cooked meals at home so no big deal. He avoided me the rest of the year and best I remember he didn't return the following year. Coincidence?
#32
A GIANT bag of googly eyes with a Johnny cash CD (we are Brits living in the US for context). I have found some weird stuff after that kid for many years (legal and illegal) but the googly eyes did it for me.
Dread Pirate Roberts 4 months ago
Nevermind the illegal stuff, the real issue is that bag of googly eyes! 😂
tresgatos72 4 months ago
"Eye keep a close watch on this heart of mine, Eye keep my Eyes wide open all the time...Eye walk the line." 🤣 I'll show myself out...
#33
Not a parent but my mom found my business plan for selling candy at school when I was 14.
Jay Cee 3 months ago
At 13 my nephew's son J was renting THREE school lockers for his stash. He'd buy multi packs of candy bars and soft drinks and sell them on at a profit. My brother, his Grandfather popped in to see him in his bedroom while on a visit and saw a stack of £10 banknotes on the bedside table - there must have been £500 there. "It's all mine Granddad, and it's all legal . . . sort of!"
#34
I once found a syringe and needle inside her Tickle Me Elmo doll.
Was the first proof I had my daughter really did need help.
I flew her to rehab out of state within a few months.
tee-lena 4 months ago
If in the US beds are d**n near impossible to find. It can take months for openings.
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I couldn't legally buy alcohol so I was fermenting it in my closet. Unfortunately, my room reeked of yeast and Co2 so it's hard to say they 'snooped'.
Auntriarch 4 months ago
I made "wine" at school. Yes I forgot about it. Yes it bubbled all over the shelf. Yes I kept quiet about it.
Andrew Burke 4 months ago
Yup, we made cider in the locker at school! Friend of ours (her family had an orchard) brought the apple juice. Another fried brought baking yeast (!). Blurgh, that was vile. And the janitor couldn't find where the stench was coming from!
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a guy i was at school with was a jehovas witness and was desperate to be accepted by everyone because he had been taught everybody would hate him at secondary school. In his teenage brain he thought making and selling alcohol would be a great way to make friends because kids are dumb. it was all going pretty well for him until he had to go away to one of their conference things for church. This is when it all went wrong for him. he used plastic bottles for the fermenting and before he went away he put the lids on the try and stop it spilling. can you see what the problem was yet? yup, he came home a week later to a bedroom absolutely drenched in home made alcohol as most of the bottles had exploded while he was away
Pferdchen 4 months ago
The vintners of Champagne, France could have warned them about corking the bottles before fermentation has completely stopped.
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#36
A jar of pickles. I only found it because I was getting bedsheets ( after asking them to put them in the laundry for a week ). When asked about it my teen said he didn't want to share and liked the juice.
#37
When I was living with my aunt in the fifth grade she found a baggie with a greenish hairy substance and immediately starts berating me for having weed. I was like 11 mind you. And I just started laughing because I had never seen weed but surely it couldn’t look like the dissected owl pellet and mice bones in that bag from school. LOL.
#38
I continue fighting to forget when my dad discovered my explicit fanfiction in my desk.
You never do, though.
Parmeisan 4 months ago
I am over 40 and when I sent my parents a draft of my fantasy novel, I removed a few mildly suggestive comments from the narrator. This... is a whole other level of pain.
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Melanie Filmer 4 months ago
My youngest has been writing fanfic since she was 14, she's always been open with the content with me. But we are a really open family and she knows I have "grown up" books on my kindle
#39
Food that had formed new life by the time I found it.
Amy Smith 4 months ago
My mum told me that when I was about 15 or 16 she was once tidying my room, had a look under the bed where she had spotted a pile of washing and in pulling it out found behind it an old lunch box which contained a banana that was basically a mouldy puddle and a sausage roll that in her words had grown a Rod Stewart wig. Kind of wish she had taken a picture before she threw it, tupperware and all into the bin. Mind you, at that age I would have had it under my microscope so probably for the best.
#40
When my oldest daughter moved out, she thought she took her whole knife collection with her. Wrong. We found seven more knives over the course of the next year as we slowly cleaned the room out. Knives that she didn’t even remember she had. It wasn’t Creepy like something is wrong with her, it was just like how in the world do you amass this many collectible knives by the age of 18?
Doing laundry and finding a pile of the nastiest crustiest stiffest most use up men’s socks one could ever encounter. Those socks held an entire planet wide generation of semen. I said it was the last time I would EVER do our son’s laundry as he was 15 and more than old enough to do his own. Only became more disturbing when I realized that was my very adult mid-30s brother’s laundry, left over from when his washer had been broken and he was washing at our house.
For my youngest, worst thing we’ve found is a fart bag where she and her bestie were trying to save up farts. They had one at besties house too — her mom made them throw it out saying it was “unsanitary.” I just howled and left it alone. A fart bag. Hilarious, why didn’t I ever try that as a kid!
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Been there, done that. Literally had a small tote of knives until I eventually gave most of them away. I try to keep it down to 5 knives of varying sizes for general use, not including any knives I have for specific tasks. Like, handy/craft work, not stabby work. Can't relate to the other two.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I'm also a collector of useful knives XD I have a lovely small thumb-flip Sarge (chroma-colored!) that I keep on my belt as my everyday/utility knife. I've got a couple of Buck folding knives here and there, a Kershaw or two, and a gorgeous 9" Gerber fixed-blade knife that is my "van knife" - it stays in the side door pocket of my van, and if I need to go somewhere late at night or somewhere I feel unsafe, I pull it out and fix its sheath to my belt. XD I don't go anywhere without my little Sarge on my belt, though (unless it's a place with a no-weapons policy) - it's amazing how handy a pocketknife ends up being in everyday life. I've got a couple of sets of woodworking knives as well, and somewhere there's a Mall Ninja katana my ex got for me when we were in our 20s XD
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Jane Hower 3 months ago
Talk about being nieve - I had been washing my son's STIFF socks for years and didn't know why until I asked him, after he was 20 or so, why his bedsheets never had seamen stain when he was a teen and he told me he 'took care of it in his socks'!! OMG OMG OMG!! I handled those socks and wondered what the heck. But I was a young mother - had him when I was 19.
Seadog 3 months ago
Knives? Try swords, axes, flails, my son even has a unit that goes on your hand to the wrist that would make Wolverine proud. Ever see the Underworld movies? Remember the silver whip they used on the warewolves? Yeah, he's got one of those too and yes each section of that whip is a 4 sided blade meaning you won't grab it and hold on for long if it was actually being used on you. He's just big into collectibles, especially those linked to movies and video games. One ax he had to get from overseas. Took 3 months to clear customs. Thing is huge, the case it was shipped in is about 6 feet long and takes 2 people to carry it. When he got married and moved out, took me a week to fill all the screw holes and paint his bedroom walls where he had all that stuff on display. These days it's all boxed up.
Jonathan Setter 4 months ago
My grandfather started my knife collection before he died, I was just a toddler (first fishing rod too). I was not allowed it at that age though, of course. Wise move of course, not because it was dangerous, but because as soon as i got it at ten or eleven i lost it on a river bank. Still in the end I have found more knives on the riverbank than i have ever lost, so that is a plus I guess. Still collecting, only cheap ones mostly because I am poor. I do have some worth over a hundred bucks each though, presents from wifey.
#41
Found while cleaning: a Costco sized bag of grated Parmesan cheese with a spoon in it, sitting next to his bed.
#42
Idk if it’s “weird”.
But I found out my son is queer. Didn’t say anything. But he came out about a month later. I’m the only one who knows (outside of his lil friend) and I’m just glad he felt comfortable telling me .
Gave him lots of love & affirmations.
#43
My wife accidentally found a half rotten whole cucumber stuffed between my at the time 15 y/o step daughters bed and the wall.
She wasn't even snooping intentionally. She was sitting on the bed talking to her and her phone slipped down there so she reached in to grab it.
I wish I could have seen the look of horror on either of their faces in that moment. Three years later and my wife and I still announce "these cucumbers are for eating" whenever we are putting groceries away.
In my personal history, in high school I had a big, like 4 foot tall PVC type hookah for smoking weed that I kept hidden in my closet. My mom searched my room and threw it away while I was at school one day. However we lived in an apartment complex so I went and fished it out of the dumpster. A couple of months later she threw it away again and I went and got it back again. She kind of gave up after that.
Peppy 4 months ago
D**n the 15 y/o must be so embarrassed, I don’t think mentioning it every time they buy a cucumber is the best idea
Papa 4 months ago
I got the impression that part is just between OP and his wife.
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Lene 3 months ago
Oh my! This reminds me of a time when I was about 10yo and I'd gone to bed and I had just started some eehhmm.... self-pleasuring under the duvet WHEN MY MUM CAME INTO MY ROOM, SAT ON MY BED and wanted to talk about something. It was soooooo scary for shy me! She was so close to busting me doing that! Lol. When I was 17 or 18 she still had this lovely idea that I had neder másturbated in my life. The look on her face when I told her that I started with that when I was 5-6yo (I started early, I know) was simply amazing. Haha! There she was, clearly having practised how she'd talk to me about másturbation and it was all for nothing. Lol.
#44
So, there were a few instances where I had to go into my stepsons room to look for something. He came into my life when he was 11 so this was maybe 12 or 13. Found a box of women's underwear all stretched out, including one of mine. I put it back and told his Dad. It started when he was 7 his Dad said, but he was an a*****e narcissist that I divorced a few years ago, so who knows. So, I had the pleasure of finding that box a few times over the years. The last time he was prob 17 and about to or had graduated. I got home from work and found my bureau had been sooo obviously rifled thru. I was so mad and felt so violated. Also, very angry. He wasn't home yet so I was like, ok, let's see how he likes it. Oh, the s**t I found. 4 or 5 big d**dos, lots of stretched out underwear, women's clothes, tampons. The list goes on. I had a talk with him about how violated I felt and how when his guy friends catch him stealing their gf's thong life is gonna be different. No matter how caring, loving, and nice you are you are always gonna be the guy that steals panties. I told him I couldn't make him stop and as long as he's not hurting anyone I don't care. What a feeling a helplessness.
Becky Samuel 4 months ago
It sounds like this kid needed therapy rather than everything being swept under the carpet. Either they have gender issues or they have other things going on, especially if they've got an abúsive and absent father. The mother isn't helpless, she's negligent imho.
Mabelbabel 4 months ago
It sounds like she divorced her husband so she's maybe not in the ex-stepson's life any more.
Load More Replies... Pferdchen 4 months ago (edited)
The conversation may have been more productive if OP had also gifted them a brand new set of undies, hopefully eliminating the compulsion steal.
#45
A container of the cat's shredded nails.
#46
I have 2 boys. I generally try to avoid going through their rooms unless it's absolutely necessary.
So background information is they're not allowed to take food in their rooms. They're allowed to snack or whatever, I just want them to do it at the dining table and clean up after themselves.
All the spoons disappeared. I found them and a bunch of pudding cups in my oldest's nightstand.
House started to stink. The air return goes through my youngest son's closet. I looked and found a suitcase full of half eaten food that was turning into a science project. He'd sneak food in his room and think he was about to get caught, so he'd stash the scraps in the suitcase and toss it in his closet
Oldest moved out for college, the stink arose. I found a pint of Ben& Jerry's sitting on a shelf in his closet.
Jonathan Setter 4 months ago
your rule was to stop this stuff from happening but instead just made it worse. YTA
Dragon Ashes 4 months ago
Yep. Having to eat at the kitchen table for every little snack is extreme.
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#47
A full human t**d inside of an empty face wipe container. No toilet paper. I was more concerned than if I had found a baggie of pot.
Jude Corrigan 3 months ago
OP didn't give anymore details sadly. But someone suggested it may have been 'a 43 year old deputy superintendent of the local school district.'
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#48
My mom found a Tanya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan skit I was writing for my 6th grade class. She made a copy and she and my dad laughed about it for years.
#49
A coworker found a small jar hidden in her son's room filled with his j**z.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
He probably didn't want to explain the crusty socks and washcloths, so tried to come up with a different solution? XD
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A bucket full of snapping turtle eggs. My kid and their friend saw the turtle nesting, robbed the nest and stashed the eggs near the heater hoping to hatch babies. Wasn’t really snooping, was trying to recover some missing dishes.
Family's_disappointment 4 months ago (edited)
I may get downvoted for this but I don't care, so I'm gonna say it anyways - they shouldn't have done that. At all. It's downright cruel and very illegal. If police found it, they have no idea what would have happened. Good intentions or not, it's a horrible act. Not only that they have no idea, how dangerous and poisonous (their bite can cause severe infection) snapping turtles are. (I'm wildlife vet-in-training, and unless and until it's necessary, we keep our distance from them)
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
No they bloody shouldn’t , I was gonna say that to ,cruel totally not to mention illegal tbh
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The diary stories in here are sad. I actually bought both my daughters, 10 and fixing to be 12, diaries of their own with combination spin locks on them. Told them that they were allowed to write or draw anything they wanted and promised that I'd never read them. I know for a fact that my eldest, becoming QUITE the angsty preteen, has written terrible things about me when she's mad at me...because I told her to haha I swore I'd never touch their diaries because I know that I'm not always the easiest to talk to. I tend to go into immediate "fix it mode" when sometimes they just want to vent...which I'm working on. I also know that I would for sure get my feelings hurt if I read their diaries..so that's just nope zone for me 🙃
As for the weirdest thing I've ever found in their room...probably the accidental hooch slurry I found when my youngest stuck a sandwich bag full of apple slices and tangerines (for some reason?!) in her jewelry box and forgot about it...in the closet. The bag eventually popped and I couldn't figure out why I was smelling alcohol and ROT right before I found it 🤢.
#52
Kept finding my kitchen salt container in my teenagers closet. Still don’t know why and never got an answer. And yes it was just sea salt, no other substance.
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
They’re either battling literal demons (Supernatural anyone?) or they could have a sodium deficiency. I had a sodium deficiency as a teen and I craved salt. I used to pour small handfuls and eat it at times. I learned this stopped me from feeling dizzy/faint. Now I’m old, have inherited hypertension and can’t tolerate much salt these days.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
I'd be more likely to lean towards the occult phase. Kid probably would have realized something was up when they needed a private stash of salt. Or the parent would have noticed something off dietary-wise. Not necessarily, of course, but I remember borrowing some of the house's condiments for various rituals/concoctions. Actually, never remember using salt for anything, but olive oil was the base of some blessing oil, if I recall.
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#53
A large sun bleached bone.
It was something he found at camp. But it still felt weird.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Oh. That reminds me. I left a coyote bone in one of the filing cabinets a few jobs ago. Wonder if anyone ever found that. Before you ask, I was making a bone handle for someone, and that was the one I messed up.
#54
My dad was moving my car in the driveway, yelling out the car window about how it smells like pot. He reaches into the center console and pulls out a pack of cigarettes, “and what about these?? I thought you didn’t smoke cigarettes!”
“I don’t, they’re crayons.” Sure enough, the cigarette box was full of crayons. I was a stoner, not a cigarette smoker.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
"I don't have the time or crayons to explain it to you. Oh wait, yes I do!"
#55
My ex's son had risqué photos of her and I. His Mom's face was in a few of the pics so it's not like he didn't know whose privates he was looking at.
#56
I once found the subway wrapper to my sub that he "helped me look for" 5 months prior when I was 8 months pregnant, under his bed. I was looking forward to that sub so badly. It had tomatoes and banana peppers on it and when I saw he had taken them all off it sent me into a rage. It just disappeared and he helped me look for it in the refrigerator. It's been over 7 years , he's 17 now, and I still bring it up.
#57
Wasn’t snooping, just collecting dishes after a sleepover and found a needle loaded—my heart sank—it turned out to be insulin from one of the girls that spent the night. Lol
The Mom called in a panic and cleared it up before I had a super tough talk with my daughter. *phew!*.
#58
A very creepy stuffed animal, hand carved out with a mason jar stuffed inside of it.
Yep. A homemade stash jar.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
Oh. That's... uh... not what I thought of first. The internet has ruined me.
#59
In high school. A friend's mom found their bong. The mom said she was gonna throw it out. About a month later, different friend goes to steal a little bud from his dad's secret stash, and finds the bong. This lead to us uncovering that the mom and the dad were having an affair.
#61
My son was 15 at the time. I went into his room and tried to get him to clean it, because it was a d**n disaster area. I was ranting at him. "Look at all the garbage all over the floor! Look at the dirty dishes!" Then I spotted a drinking glass, like a pint glass, on the floor. I said, "You have GLASS on the FLOOR where you could step on it and slice your foot wide open!"
I leaned down and picked it up. It had stuff in it. I took a closer look. He had stuffed it with a couple of socks in the bottom and taped a nitrile glove over the top. The glass was slippery in my hand. I stood there looking at it with dawning horror as I realized that I'd found his homemade f**shlight.
I just set it down on the floor and walked out. We've never spoken of it since.
#62
My mom would snoop through my things constantly. One day, when I was 18, I was going through my room and getting rid of things. So I had a black trash bag that I was putting things that couldn't be resold or were worthless. This included 2 or 3 large-ish d**dos that were kind of melty because I didn't store them properly.
She went through the bag and asked me about the 'other' items. Why would you go through my f*****g TRASH? Well I hope she liked what she saw.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Yup. Learned that embarrassing items go in the bottom of the kitchen bin whenever you're doing a deep room cleaning growing up. The bag you throw out is the first they check. Well, some check.
#63
My mom used to find candles and rope in brother’s room and women’s items since he was around 11. She would confront him about it and he never gave any answers. 20 years later and he’s kidnapped and SA multiple women 🙃🙃.
Teutonic Disaster 4 months ago
Ok that took a turn. Hopefully the b*****d rots in prison, preferably including a makeshift castration.
#64
My parents thought the Rubbermaid bin was still full of Barbies and My Little Ponies. It was full of Hilroy notebooks that were full of bandfics.
Note: this was 1997, and I didn’t even know fanfic was a thing. It was. But I was on the Canadian prairies pre-internet and the wildest thing I’d ever read was Flowers For Algernon and a copy of Ms. magazine. But I was writing wild three-way kisses between the members of Fugazi and The Datsuns, and writing an epic fiction where I was the new bassist for the Smashing Pumpkins with an epic rivalry with D’Arcy.
I didn’t know they’d read them until my dad teased me one day saying, “Would you say that to D’Arcy?” I thought he said Darby, who was a friend of mine. But he repeated, “No, D’Arcy. That girl you have a crush on.” I was 12 and scared that I might be a lesbian (turns out I’m bi after 30 more years of deliberation lol) and hotly denied I knew a D’Arcy.
Terrifying. I actually snuck the whole bin out at night and threw them in the dumpster at the nearby townhouse block. When my dad asked me in high school if I still wrote stories, I told him no, I was too scared to write stories and no longer kept a diary. I threw that away, too, when I realized it was not likely private anymore.
#65
Not my bio child (was parentified so it was my youngest sister) but when she was a young teen, I was trying to be nice and wash her bedding. I scraped the back of my hand on something rough on what should have been a very smooth wall when pulling off the fitted sheet. I scooted her mattress away from the wall to figure out what it was because I didn't want her cutting herself on something. DRIED BOOGERS! She had quite the collection wiped on the wall.
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
Why do kids do this?!? It’s a b*tch to get off the wall too! We had to scrape and repaint.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
All the kid knows is that his nose feels itchy/goopy inside and they want it out. Wished they'd use a tissue more often, though...
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1. At least 8 glasses of water like it’s g*****n “Signs”.
2. Literal piles of trash under her covers that she definitely slept with.
3. Random half eaten bags of various chocolates… so many
4. Just gobs of boogers on the headboards
5. Unopened capri sun pouches that based on flavor are artifacts… in her drawers
6. Clustered used pimple patches on her dresser, in her dresser, the walls, just so many.
This child is an honor student.
Btw I was not a snoop, I was usually excavating for a missing Chromebook.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
I suspect the number of snoops in this thread is significantly higher than the number implied by all these declarations of "I wasn't snooping."
#67
A YouTube watch history full of NJM insurance commercials (she's on the spectrum and was obsessed with insurance commercials for a minute).
#68
Reminds me of the case where a mother was cleaning her sons room and found a head from a guy he k**led.
#69
Searching kids internet histories. Kid one: p**n. So much p**n. Kid two. “How tall is the tallest bridge?” “What layers can you see n the Grand Canyon?” “Happy goat videos.” Kids , man.
Nikki Angulo 3 months ago
My brother printed out p*rn when he was a teen. I found it. Told my parents. I guess they dealt with it because I didn’t find it again. By find it, I mean I was in the computer room looking for something, probably blank paper for homework, and it was shoved under a pile of stuff. Why he did t keep it in his room where I never went, I don’t know! It was right next door to the computer room.
#70
Not snooping, but was sitting on his bed chatting with him one day and glanced over and noticed a hand towel behind the chair. Grabbed said hand towel. Immediately regretted it. Gave him his OWN towels and told him he was responsible for washing them from then on out.
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
Hahaha! Parents you can avoid such awkwardness by teaching your pre-teen to do their own laundry!
#71
A tentacle "toy".
Delicate Fcuking Flower 4 months ago
I truly love your views on finding private toys and whatnot 🤘🏻
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Not me, but a customer of mine.
She comes in, gets her usual and I ask her about her day, she tell me shes worried because she found something in her son's room and it's bothering her because she doesn't know what it is plus her son is in high-school, I think a freshmen or sophomore. Now, I work at a smoke shop, so she tries describing it and is asking me if it could possibly be a smoking device or some type of bong or maybe even something worse. I couldn't figure out what she was describing, she said a white hard cased thing that looks sorta like a to-go cup. I tell her it might be a discreet smoking device that looks like a cup or something and if she had a picture of it, she told me that she actually has it with her and goes out to grab it. She comes back in carrying the mysterious object in a towel. She proceeds to open the towel up for me to see, and you know what looked me dead in my eyes ? A d**n pocket p***y. S**t you not i started bursting out laughing telling her not to touch it and to wash her hands asap. A lot of crazy s**t happens in that smoke shop but this was one of my funnier experiences 😂. I had to explain it to her, which was kinda embarrassing for the both of us.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
A fake vágina made out of silicone. Sometimes ridged/sculpted inside so that it "feels" very realistic.
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I found a strange little contraption made of metal and shaped like a cylinder. It comes apart. It appears to be something that can be used to have nangs. That’s my guess. I took it and hid it. My kids struggle with d***s so sometimes I check for bongs and stuff.
#75
My mom found my “lyrics” once. She thought I was depressed and s******l. I was just mimicking the lyrics of the music I listened to (and still do) at the time.
#76
A bunch of snapshots of Pewdiepie in his underwear.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Not sure if this is in reference to who the person is or the general wtf-ery for the find, but Pewdiepie is a popular video game streamer. I have not seen him in his underwear, so I can't attest if it's worth having snapshots of it. Seems pretty lanky, though, so I'm going to assume there is a significant lack of junk in the trunk to justify having snapshots of it.
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#77
An empty coconut under the bed.
Rinso The Red 4 months ago
Are you suggesting the coconuts are migratory?
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I wasn't snooping per say, but she had just left to go to the Renaissance festival for the weekend with her boyfriend and friends. I went into her room to just do a quick scan for any dishes to fill up the dishwasher (also just being low on silverware like usual with teenagers). And boom, vibrator right on the edge of her pillow. Like she meant to hide it, but the pillow got pushed back or something right before she left and she didn't notice.
I just grabbed all the dishes I could see and left. Never spoke about it or brought it up.
Also she used to work at spirit Halloween and I guess the managers and employees will place stuff they want next to the dumpster (after they finish cleanup for the season since it all gets tossed anyways) and she had sooooo much spooky baby stuff lmao. I miss her.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
I wasn't snooping per say, but here's what I found when I was snooping-
#79
Female clothing. My child was born a male.
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
I feel like this is normal kid behavior. When my stepson was 3-4 years old he used to ask me to “make him pretty like me” so I indulged him. I did his makeup, put some curlers in his hair, and painted his fingernails a very light pink. His father was really unhappy about it at first but later caved as he saw how happy he was! We also have a video of him walking in my high heeled shoes (so cute). He’s 29 a full time paramedic and engaged to a lovely woman. He doesn’t remember me doing his makeup. I wouldn’t read too much into this one.
Cailyn B 4 months ago
I completely agree! I have a younger brother who would have our mom paint his nails when she’d paint me and my sisters nails. We’d also dress him up in dresses and he lived it! He also would pretend he was a cat when he was younger, but it’s just a kid playing and having fun! It doesn’t mean they’ll be a furry when their older, they’re just kids
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My Mum went through my phone when I was younger
She saw some f’d up femdom chat…
She never said a word but had photos of the chat on my phone taken via her phone
To this day, I don’t leave my phone anywhere….
#81
Found photos from a party my daughter had when I was on a business trip. Also found an alcohol stash.
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
I used to have parties when my parents weren’t home also. My mom confessed years later that she always knew because of how clean the house would be when she came home. I asked her why she never said anything and she said because it was so nice to come home to a clean house lol! :D
Kim Shannon 4 months ago
When my hubby was a teenager and his parents would go out of town occassionally, he would have his buddies over for poker parties. He got away with for a long time until someone left a piece of pizza stuck to the living room window.
What do you think ?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I'm not a child any more, but I purposefully leave my collection of glittery, multicolored Bad Dragon-brand d!ldoes on my kitchen and bathroom countertops. (They are unused d!ldoes - the Bad Dragon items are so weird-looking that I bought them as art pieces.. they're, er, not shaped for comfortable use, shall we say.) I live next door to my mother and sister, and they come into my house when I'm not home, purposefully to snoop around/see what's in my fridge (to see if I've been ordering Uber Eats/fast food, etc.) So I leave my d!ldoes in plain sight, on the countertop. They don't go into the kitchen any more XD When I was a kid, we weren't allowed to close the bedroom (or bathroom) doors ever, so we had ZERO privacy. I want some now that I'm an adult XD (Yes, I'll show y'all a photo of the BD d!ldoes if y'all really want to see them... XD )
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
You are just so awesome Lakota! I hope mom and sis enjoyed the view! XD!!!
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KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
I’d like to add that I never snooped. I always asked my stepkids the day before I cleaned if it was okay to clean their rooms/get laundry, ect. When my stepdaughter came home reeking of alcohol and marijuana at age 15, we sat down and talked. I told her I wasn’t at all angry, that experimenting is normal, however, her dad and I need to know where she is (no lying) and to call us before she gets in the car with anyone who’s been drinking. She called me once when she was 16 around 2am because her “friend” that she went to the party with left her to go to a guys house. She was so worried I was going to punish her, I took her shoe shopping (her favorite) because I know my kid trusts me, and I trust her! :)
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
Sounds like people do not develop a sense of smell until post teenage years.
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
My youngest has ASD. She has fairly regular accidents and will not say anything to anyone. You will smell the poop on her, and (hey honey, I think you might need to go to the bathroom). She will reply that she doesn't and continue on with whatever she's doing. Has had multiple UTIs as a result of this behavior. She will also play with the p*o, and I have had to scrub the walls of her room multiple times when I find her "drawings", usually behind or under bed, and often by the smell alone. I will also often find hidden clothes that are soaked in pee or covered in feces. It's a problem for sure. We have a Urologist, GI specialist, Psychologist, and Psychiatrist. The school is also involved. My daughter is 8 years old. My GF's daughter is a therapist and she has a patient with the exact same issues, also autistic, but this patient is 17 years old. It is a daily struggle.
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
Oh, when my son was about 13, he opened his laptop in front of me to start his homework, and he had forgotten to close a tab of p**n that he had been watching. I laughed about it, and I had a talk with him about how pornography isn't real, and that's not how sexual relationships really work. I've since had many other conversations with him about s*x and relationships. He has had a few different girlfriends over the years, but he's pretty serious about the current one. They've been together for over a year now, as he's about to start university. I have bought him condoms, and I just hope he uses them.
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Francesca Annoni 4 months ago
My mom found a bag of "bangers" or "firecrackers" in my sister's nightstand.. these little pebbles wrapped, one by one, in paper. She thought they were some kind of strange d**g. When she confronted my sister, she started laughing until she cried while my mom remained serious, looking for explanations. Then my sister took one and threw it on the ground where it exploded with a little "bang!" After 30 years, we still remember it with laughter.
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
I thank the universe regularly for blessing me with two wonderful and relatively normal stepchildren!! Some of these are sad…finding needles and such. I’d be devastated to find out about it in that way. :(
Su Boddie 3 months ago
I am more concerned about how many iterations of "Never said anything to them about it." there are. I was a single mom. One child, a boy. We talked about everything because I was a parent who understood what parenting was. He's married, with two children. I don't know if he talks with his wife, but I do know he talks with his children. My job is done. And yes, he still texts if he has questions. OH, yeah, we don't talk about the specifics of politics very much because ick!
Dragon Ashes 4 months ago
I was never a snooper, but I was looking for something and thought it might be in my son's room. There were several stacks of off brand pop. I asked how he's even gotten the money for that (he was a freshman in highschool). My kid (who barely managed to graduate) figured out he could sell pop at school for half what the pop machines were charging and still only pay 50% of asking price. Yes, he does now own his own business.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I'm not a child any more, but I purposefully leave my collection of glittery, multicolored Bad Dragon-brand d!ldoes on my kitchen and bathroom countertops. (They are unused d!ldoes - the Bad Dragon items are so weird-looking that I bought them as art pieces.. they're, er, not shaped for comfortable use, shall we say.) I live next door to my mother and sister, and they come into my house when I'm not home, purposefully to snoop around/see what's in my fridge (to see if I've been ordering Uber Eats/fast food, etc.) So I leave my d!ldoes in plain sight, on the countertop. They don't go into the kitchen any more XD When I was a kid, we weren't allowed to close the bedroom (or bathroom) doors ever, so we had ZERO privacy. I want some now that I'm an adult XD (Yes, I'll show y'all a photo of the BD d!ldoes if y'all really want to see them... XD )
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
You are just so awesome Lakota! I hope mom and sis enjoyed the view! XD!!!
Load More Replies... KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
I’d like to add that I never snooped. I always asked my stepkids the day before I cleaned if it was okay to clean their rooms/get laundry, ect. When my stepdaughter came home reeking of alcohol and marijuana at age 15, we sat down and talked. I told her I wasn’t at all angry, that experimenting is normal, however, her dad and I need to know where she is (no lying) and to call us before she gets in the car with anyone who’s been drinking. She called me once when she was 16 around 2am because her “friend” that she went to the party with left her to go to a guys house. She was so worried I was going to punish her, I took her shoe shopping (her favorite) because I know my kid trusts me, and I trust her! :)
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
Sounds like people do not develop a sense of smell until post teenage years.
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
My youngest has ASD. She has fairly regular accidents and will not say anything to anyone. You will smell the poop on her, and (hey honey, I think you might need to go to the bathroom). She will reply that she doesn't and continue on with whatever she's doing. Has had multiple UTIs as a result of this behavior. She will also play with the p*o, and I have had to scrub the walls of her room multiple times when I find her "drawings", usually behind or under bed, and often by the smell alone. I will also often find hidden clothes that are soaked in pee or covered in feces. It's a problem for sure. We have a Urologist, GI specialist, Psychologist, and Psychiatrist. The school is also involved. My daughter is 8 years old. My GF's daughter is a therapist and she has a patient with the exact same issues, also autistic, but this patient is 17 years old. It is a daily struggle.
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
Oh, when my son was about 13, he opened his laptop in front of me to start his homework, and he had forgotten to close a tab of p**n that he had been watching. I laughed about it, and I had a talk with him about how pornography isn't real, and that's not how sexual relationships really work. I've since had many other conversations with him about s*x and relationships. He has had a few different girlfriends over the years, but he's pretty serious about the current one. They've been together for over a year now, as he's about to start university. I have bought him condoms, and I just hope he uses them.
Load More Replies... Francesca Annoni 4 months ago
My mom found a bag of "bangers" or "firecrackers" in my sister's nightstand.. these little pebbles wrapped, one by one, in paper. She thought they were some kind of strange d**g. When she confronted my sister, she started laughing until she cried while my mom remained serious, looking for explanations. Then my sister took one and threw it on the ground where it exploded with a little "bang!" After 30 years, we still remember it with laughter.
KrazyChiMama 4 months ago
I thank the universe regularly for blessing me with two wonderful and relatively normal stepchildren!! Some of these are sad…finding needles and such. I’d be devastated to find out about it in that way. :(
Su Boddie 3 months ago
I am more concerned about how many iterations of "Never said anything to them about it." there are. I was a single mom. One child, a boy. We talked about everything because I was a parent who understood what parenting was. He's married, with two children. I don't know if he talks with his wife, but I do know he talks with his children. My job is done. And yes, he still texts if he has questions. OH, yeah, we don't talk about the specifics of politics very much because ick!
Dragon Ashes 4 months ago
I was never a snooper, but I was looking for something and thought it might be in my son's room. There were several stacks of off brand pop. I asked how he's even gotten the money for that (he was a freshman in highschool). My kid (who barely managed to graduate) figured out he could sell pop at school for half what the pop machines were charging and still only pay 50% of asking price. Yes, he does now own his own business.
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