Blue sparks are coming out of my ears as I write this so bear with me ( GRRRR) Some rotten so and so has nicked Stinkfoots Dog Fund. The wee soul has been saving up £2 a week in a jar so she could measure her progress and one of my elder spawn has nicked it. Checked all the other places it could be in case I mislaid it and no its not there, questioned all kids and no one is owning up to it.......... Suspect SF has done it out of spite or to buy school dinners but I cant prove it. Wish Id stuck to having DOGS at least they just nick your food.

Oooh poor Stinkfoot, siblings can be evil to each other, I also remember my younger sis could be a tad light-fingered on occasions, guess it's a teenage thing :(
Will you be replacing Stinkfoots Dog Fund?? in a safe place!!!

liberty

If your "gut feelings" are anything like mine were when mine were weans, you will be right!!!

Couldn't you just kill her?   I know when one of mine went through a "sticky fingered" stage, I could have thrown them out on the street!

Don't know what to suggest - apart from locking the dosh away - I started keeping everyone's cash tins locked in the car, I think!

Margot

What a shame, poor Stinkfoot, I really do feel for her, the poor wee soul :(  Do you give Gothboy and Satan's Filly pocket money?  Cos you could always tell them neither is getting any until Stinkfoot's Dog Fund is back to what it was, and then if you are lucky the non-guilty one will beat the guilty one into admitting it was them!!!!

Lesley

What a shame, I hope the guilty party is shamed into admitting it.

Karen

My sister who is nearly 40 will still not admit to my mother that it was her that engraved my name on a freshly painted window sill. I got a right rollicking for it !! :(

It'll be the curry fairy!!  All houses with more than two children have one.  Mostly it eats the curry off the plates of those people who aren't in for their meal.  But it also steals money/sweets/cd's/videos/dvd's/dinner money/homework etc.  Among other things it also shuts back doors so dogs can't get into the garden, it leaves dishes in the sink, it leaves rings round the bath, smears toothpaste on the walls and it doesn't flush the toilet!  Can't be the darling children because they look so angelic when they are denying any involvement.

Calmed down a bit now, just steam coming from ears and not blue sparks :D Thanks for reassuring me that my kids are not the only ones who do such horrible things to each other!  Margot, I could murder her about 14 times a day but Im not going to prison for that wee ( deleted) I have replaced the Dog Fund into a savings can which holds £100 and told the offending 2 that their pocket money is now docked. Stinkfoot is remarkably calm about this BTW.

Do you think that girls are the worst ? I remember when my two were small, someone made a big mess in the bathroom. I knew it was daughter (2 years younger than son) as it was the sort of thing that she would do and she always lied about everything, but neither would admit it was them. I got really cross (we had been trying for a long time to get daughter to see that she would get in more trouble for lying than for committing the 'crime') and threatened some dire punishment on them both :) Son broke down in tears and said that he had done it  - so I had to punish him :( Much later daughter admitted that it was her - but she had quite happily let her brother (big softy) take the punishment :(

Daisy

I think there must be a whole family of curry fairies living at my house
The one thing that is guaranteed to make sparks come out of my ears is the children denying that they've done something :rolleyes:  I find that the best remedy is 'natural consequences' - someone stole the money therefore they will all go without until its replaced/ someone did'nt do the dishes properly (my pet hate) therefore that person with eat off the manky cutlery and plate! and will redo the dishes until they are spotless - they obviously need the practice!  Only half a job done - again?  Then I'll do half a job - a still-frozen dinner at lunch time makes the point perfectly :D

You should have seen Trollgirls face when I gave her her clean clothes (unironed, unfolded) and told her to go and throw them on the bedroom floor (where she always threw them!) and no she couldn't iron them to go out!! She soon started to learn that if she wanted uncreased clothes then they had to go in the wardrobe :D

Dill ~ the evil one :D

Its good to see that im not the only one with a daughter who uses the floor as a wardrobe!
The most annoying thing my 13 yr old does is.. sprays my best perfume (y'know the one that i tried hrs to convince my husband to buy!) and then says it wasnt her... BUT i can smell it lol

Mad!

Donna and charliex

I told my family the other night that I am now on strike !!  was sick of being a household skivvy.
Told my 2 boys, almost 9 & 11 that unless they start helping out more, then I will not wash their clothes.  And if I don't wash their clothes, they will eventually run out of clean clothes and so not be able to go out to play :D
Told my partner that I will go on sex strike unless he finishes a job he started a couple of months ago, and then just left it, unfinished.
Funny how you can get them to move, and volunteer to do chores..heehee :D

When I was in my teens Loreli, my sister (2 years younger than me) stole money from our mother and never admitted it until recent years.  Mum said she'd known all along who had done it but had wanted to shame her into admitting it.  It never worked.....she'd lie even if you caught her in the act.
But her conscience finally came forward when she grew up, and confessed and apologised......better late than never, I suppose

Good one Steph! :DCards were marked in this house last weekend and now my dear man is trying to plan meals, shop and cook and balance the books. Hes doing well so far with help form Minibeast who says sadly " No daddy, not that one Mummys middle name isnt Carnegie, it has to be the cheap c£$%^"  Our lot all have jobs but if Im at home they tend to let it slide........

Well so far, things are going well in our house ;)   but then again, it has only been 2 days.
Doesn't this always happen tho', everyone mucks in and helps, then slowly but surely, ends up fizzling out.
I got an excellent deal with John....he's agreed to do the cooking (I HATE cooking) if I do the poo picking  :D :D :D YAAYYY........considering I already DO do the poo picking, think that worked out really well ;)