Okay, let me start off with the whole situation.

I have virtually no money. I have 91$ left at the end of the month for food and personal expenses, like food. For the past 6 months, someone has been taking my razors, shampoo, conditioner, body soap, food, and anything else that they can get their hands on. Last night I came home at about 12:30 in the morning, looking forward to a warm bowl of spagetti-os. Low and behold, someone fucking god damn mother fucker ate them. Normally, I would have been like, "Whatever, .89 cents." However, it's been going on so long, I feel like I'm going crazy. On top of my spagetti-os being missing, someone has been into my icecream! Regardless to say, I flipped the fuck out. I woke every. single. person. in this house up, and demanded to know who ate it. Regardless to say, no one fessed up, until my mother told me my brother had been eating my icecream, and that he was most likely the one eating my spagetti-os.

I don't have money to keep replacing things that people are taking, and I really cant take all of my shower supplies or food in my room.

My mother and boyfriend seem to think I'm overreacting. "Who cares, it's .89 cents!" It's not about it being cheap, it's about the fact that it's mine and some asshole keeps taking it. [Asshole = my brother.] So far, it seems like he's taken around... $400ish or more worth of my things. I'm fucking furious.
[Razor blades: 20+, shampoo and conditioner: 20+, food: 50+ x 6 months]


So tell me, am I overreacting, or do I have a good point?

no I don't think you are overeacting. I myself have the same kind of problem. I only get payed every once a month because I am on disability. And I get things for me and it has to last thru the month cause I have bills to pay for too and trying to save up the money to get stuff. But no I don't think you are. Its your stuff not theirs. They shouldn't be in your stuff. And why can't you take your stuff in your room? I do..I also have mini fridge to keep cold stuff in like my drinks and stuff. You should tell your brother stop taking your stuff. He should have money to get his own stuff. People can be so mean and don't understand that people like me or anyone that has not much money shouldn't take other peoples stuff.

Nuu. You aren't overreacting. Well, waking up everyone in the middle of the night could be considered too much, but anyone who's been having their personal space and rights violated constantly for six months would do the same thing.

Also, your family is saying, "oh, it's just 89 cents," and sure, Spaghettios are only 89 cents, but you said your brother has been stealing your razors, too? Or at least someone has. I don't know what razors you buy, but mine cost $15 AT LEAST for a pack of four blade refills, so you have a right to be pissed. I'd whoop somebody's ass for stealing those. I'd whoop somebody's ass for stealing anything that's mine unless I gave them express permission to have or use something.

Shampoo ain't cheap, either. Or at least it ain't free. I have to buy uber special shampoo because of my sensitive skin, and someone would die if they used up a bottle of that stuff. Seriously.

Anyway, keep to your guns. It doesn't matter how little something cost, or how much, the fact is it's yours and that should be respected.

If worst comes to worst, you can at least buy yourself a shower tote to take your stuff in and out of the bath with you to make your life easier so at least no one can steal that stuff.

Honestly, I would have snapped long before you did.

I had a roommate in college do that. One day I made cookies to bring to people the next day in class...I woke up and all two dozen of them were gone...just an empty container. One of my roommates wasn't there that night so I knew it wasn't her, one of my other roommates is my best friend and always asks before using anything of mine so that left roommate number 3.

My best friend made a pumpkin loaf one time to bring to a potluck she was going to the next day for her research lab and the next morning it was gone.

I had icecream in the freezer and when I went to open it, it was an empty carton.

My dishes were used all the time as well as my sponge, soap, etc but they were never cleaned. The dishes would sit in the sink for weeks because I refused to wash something that someone else used. This girl would use my sponge and then leave it in a pot of dirty water to gather bacteria.

She would talk for hours late at night on TWO cell phones at a time over speaker phone...kept all of us up all night. Then she would do...naughty things in her room and to cover her disgusting moaning she would turn her music up all the way which just made everything worse.

I had talked to her by myself, with my roommates, and with the RA on several occasions about the noise and using my things...but she just kept doing it.

One day she ate some of my food and I was SO furious that i moved EVERYTHING of mine into my room. My best friend thought I was overreacting a bit but I was just over it. I didn't have a lot of money and when I bought food it was super cheap stuff because i was so poor. I had a minifridge that I ketp in my room so even all my food went in my room. and my dry food went into a bin. The ONLY thing I kept out there was my frozen food because I had no way to keep it in my room. But I even moved my dishes and stuff into my room and brought them out when I needed them.

I couldn't take it anymore. It was SO annoying.

So no...you aren't overreacting. He should ask to use things before he does and if he DOES take something he should have to replace it for you.

One thing that does pisses me off..if I ask the person I know who did it then they said they didn't do it trying to blame that it was already like that. When I KNOW they did it.

That makes me want to cry. Actually, it happens once a month or more. I eat the plums in the house and the kiwis. Most of that fruit? Mine. Also, the cheese sticks? Mine. Strawberry or Lime drink? Mine again. I'm very very territorial about my food and other belongings. My mom used to steal my deo and razors and stuff, my brother and his friends would break through my window and steal my food and drinks I keep in my room. Oh and they'd mess on my PS3, too. So, I know where you're coming from. And for fucking 6 months? Fucking berate your family and have a stern discussion with them.

Look, we both know your place is as the daughter, however sometimes parents and siblings do need to know what is yours, is yours. I've had to have a talk with my family before, now I have a lock with a key to my door, my father who I trust a lot, keeps the other for just in cases. I berate and snap at my brother every time he breaks through my damned window and every time something of mine goes missing. I also berate his friends. His friends are just like him, eat everything in the house.

A lot of people on Mene sympathize with you, sit your family down and explain to them the situation. Tell them, "No interruptions, wait until I'm done." Hold firm and lay down rules. If you have to, save money up for a safe or something and shove all you can in that thing and hide stuff in your closet/s, drawers, under the bed and under your pillows... In hollowed things and behind things. Seriously, hide everything. Even after you give the talk and get your brother to admit his wrong doings, and anyone else, hide that shit. Hide the important stuff and see about getting a safe a lock with a key on your door. I keep a lot of my bathroom stuff in my room due to this. :/

AH, my mom and sister steal my razors ALL THE TIME! I get so pissed! And they worst part is I DO keep them in my room, they just go in there and steal them.
Last month I bought a new pack of four, after I was done with the first one and I went to get a new one there was only one left! My mom and my sister both stole one out of the same pack. >.<
My sister is the worst though. She does it to everyone in the house. She just thinks everything is free for her to use.
Two weeks ago she took one of my sweatshirts while I was at work...guess what happened to it? She got drunk off her ass, puked all over it and then threw it out because she didn't think I would "want it again after that," but does she replace it? No. And she's done that multiple times.
I hide food in my room, I literally have a bottle of nail polish remover hidden in the bottom of my sock drawer because she always uses it all and then wont buy a new one.

And the worst part is that she has WAY more money then I do. She makes more money at her job, and my grandparents gave her her car and pay for her car insurance, AND they're constantly giving her money so she can "Spend a little on herself."
But she's been doing this since we were little kids. >.<

Get a lock box.
My sister used to steal my things all the time (in fact, when I went to college she stole some of the things our DEAD MOTHER left for us right out of my bedroom in a drawer hidden away!)

You're not overreacting at all. My best advice is get a large lock box (or perhaps a chest to store your things in) and save for a minifridge of your own. You won't be able to keep ice cream in it, but, you can hide anything else that needs to be refrigerated in there.

I once had a roommate who would eat my food all the time, while I paid more than half the rent and also fed the other roommate we had (my best friend and later boyfriend--a guy that the other roommate had agreed to help support while he was looking for work...but didn't). And then if I even asked to take a spoonful of jelly or something for a sandwich he'd hold it over my head until I just bought him a whole new jar.

Shitty roommates suck, especially when they're family.

Secure your shit, try to find another job, and lock everything away where the thief can't get it!
My experience says talking to a thief rarely produces results, because they'll deny they're doing it because they somehow feel entitled to it!

---------- Post added 07-20-2012 at 11:49 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Amelia

AH, my mom and sister steal my razors ALL THE TIME! I get so pissed! And they worst part is I DO keep them in my room, they just go in there and steal them.
Last month I bought a new pack of four, after I was done with the first one and I went to get a new one there was only one left! My mom and my sister both stole one out of the same pack. >.<
My sister is the worst though. She does it to everyone in the house. She just thinks everything is free for her to use.
Two weeks ago she took one of my sweatshirts while I was at work...guess what happened to it? She got drunk off her ass, puked all over it and then threw it out because she didn't think I would "want it again after that," but does she replace it? No. And she's done that multiple times.
I hide food in my room, I literally have a bottle of nail polish remover hidden in the bottom of my sock drawer because she always uses it all and then wont buy a new one.

And the worst part is that she has WAY more money then I do. She makes more money at her job, and my grandparents gave her her car and pay for her car insurance, AND they're constantly giving her money so she can "Spend a little on herself."
But she's been doing this since we were little kids. >.<

UHG. My sister did all of that too!
And then whenever I asked my brother (my guardian through all of high school) for money to replace things he would accuse me of lying and tell me to stop losing things or wasting them!!

Thank god it's not just me. The thing that gets me, is sometimes these things are tucked away and hidden, like my razors (a 4 pack of those gilette 4 blade w/ trimmer things, so about 20 bucks), were in the bottom of a drawer, with doggy training pads over them. On top of that, sometimes he uses them and PUTS THEM BACK.

My boyfriend and I have decided that we'd really rather move out before we buy any more food, or personal products. We now only bring in food or personal products in small amounts, like travel size shampoos. Try stealing those, asshole!

Thats good move out! that way no one will be in your stuff!

Good for you RetroTV! :)
Take a stand. I hope you guys find a nice place to move into!!