How to deal with family members who keep throwing away my stuff?

Dad retired a few years ago and is now staying home 24/7. I’m guessing due to the long hours at home, he is getting frustrated with the “mess” at home and it starting to clear things bit by bit.

Ok granted our house is not the neatest, but it’s very much liveable (3 of us are always out, we’re too tired to deal with any housework.)

I can’t understand: he could have just cleared his own stuff (yes a ton of it). Why tf does he keep throwing our stuff???

Once he threw away an old sewing machine (worth 100+, passed down from prev gen) and that really made mom REALLY mad.

She demanded him to pay her back but obv this strategy does not work.

Idk?? Isit coz we are living in a house under his name so he feels he can do anything to our space??? I thought of locking the door but I don’t want to create any hostility within the family?

And how tf do I lock the living room space???

Please share if any of yall have similar experiences.

I’m writing this as my blood boils, please be nice 🙂

Netizens’ comments

• Throw away the dad

• Posted about this in the past. I also had parents who just throw away my stuff without asking, sometimes things that are irreplaceable. For instance, boxes for some expensive figurines I bought, which had all the alternative heads, hands and weapons inside. Those accesories can’t be bought separately and the figures themselves cost well into the hundreds.

Unfortunately talking to them did not really work as they very much believe in “my house, my rules” philosophy. After that incident, I took to keeping away my important stuff in locked drawers and also labelling boxes “Do-Not-Throw”. I did consider locking my door but similarly, I think it will be too hostile.

My family can see/sense ghosts, I didn’t believe them until it happened to me.

Growing up my family was able to sense things that were not there of course I didn’t believe them since I was the kind of person who would say “seeing is believing”.

Be careful what you wish for, because that’s exactly what happened to me. My siblings can see and sense things, while my mom only sense them. I never had any of that, so I would just call them crazy or insane.

Well we moved into this nice home, and already my sister hated it, I tried to get her to tell me but she told me I would just laugh at her face and call her names.

A few months later she warned me, told me the spirit hated me, would follow me to school, would watch over me sleeping, would get angry over little things, and hated how I was happy all the time.

I didn’t listen to my sister because I thought my sister was just trying to get me scared. But one day I was getting ready for school, I went to get something until I felt a shove, the hands were small like 8 years old, but nobody was there, it went through me causing me to almost fall down.

And when she went through me I felt jealousy, sadness, and anger all at once, like I wanted to kill someone. Crazy how it was only for a few seconds and I felt like a horrible person, I felt so disgusted and violated.

I don’t really like violence that much I cringe at seeing or hearing broken bones, if someone were skateboarding I would look away because I was scared if they were to fall and hurt themselves I would see blood.

but whatever came through me wanted me to kill my family. I cried for so long it gave me a panic attack, I called my sister who was upstairs at the time and I told her, she was of course was also scared.

I love them with all my heart I could never see myself hurting them, they’re all I got. I ended up getting a cross for protection, we went to church to get it blessed by a priest because my family believed it’ll prevent me from ever being possessed.

I’m now 20 years old and that happened to me five years ago, I can now see their faces and sense what they feel.

My friend cheats on his girlfriend with prostitutes and I’m seriously considering sending an anonymous text to her.

This has been going on for about four years and I found out about it a year and a half ago.

He’s been with about fifteen prostitutes. He told me this himself and has spoken about going to Amsterdam on a holiday and hiring hookers.

I lived with this guy too, and one day he told me he was going to the shop. When he came back he revealed he actually went to get a “hand massage” at a massage parlour. No massage, just a “tuggie”.

He’s been with his girlfriend since they were in school, so they’re dating about seven years. She loves him so much. They’re renting a house together now and are outwardly the perfect couple. But I feel like it’ll come out at some point in their relationship and I think it would destroy her forever.

I think it’s messed up and disgusting. I want to send an anonymous message to her and just let her know what’s happening but I don’t know how many people he’s told. I think he’ll know it was me. I don’t know what to do.

Netizens’ comments

• For her hygiene and safety I would. She deserves to know that.

• IMO I wouldn’t want to be friends with someone like him, and therefore I’d spill the beans, so it depends on how much you value your friendship. In my mind dishonesty isn’t limited to one relationship. If he’s lying to her he’d lie to you about important things too, if he hasn’t already. I personally wouldn’t trust someone like that.