And now it's time for: Things You Hide From Your Family...

[Niagara]

66. Items that I've hidden.

When my kids were little, it was the kitchen shears. They're sharp and I didn't want the kids to get a hold of them and hurt themselves or give themselves haircuts. During making dinner one evening, I left the shears on the kitchen counter. I walked away for 5 minutes to do something else, came back to find a clump of hair on the kitchen floor and my daughter walking around with a chunk of missing hair above her eye. 5 minutes, that's all it took for her to cut her hair.



Several years ago, my SO's youngest son moved in with us. He was 18 years old at the time and he treated our home like it was his own personal frat house and helped himself to many of my things. One of the items that he decided to help himself to was my chocolate bars. I took an empty Silk almond milk container, rinsed it out, dried it, cut the back of it out with an exacto knife and hid my chocolate bars in the empty Silk container and placed it in the refrigerator. Nobody helped themselves to my chocolate bars after that.


SO purchased a nice kitchen knife set for me one year for Mother's Day and I hid it. He kept asking why my Mother's Day gift wasn't out on the kitchen counter and I told him when his adult kids stop throwing away flatware in the trash that I will get the kitchen knife set out. That knife set didn't come out of it's hiding place until we had an empty nest. Yes, there were a few time that I found our flatware in the trash.