Done that! Ever turn off the water in the middle of a 30+ minute (really hour+ shower)? The screams are fantastic.

Leave shit laying around my house one too many times and I throw your stuff OUT. I'm not the maid.

Please allow me to preface this with: before I took this step, I, without fail, Every. Single. Week. had to get SS16 to go back and finish cleaning the bathroom after he swore it was done. Visibly obviously not cleaned. Once I disengaged, I'd just ask DH to follow up. But even that didn't work. Soooooo... For my own simple pleasure and sanity....

I have, on more than one occasion, scrubbed various areas in the dirty bathroom with SS16's toothbrush after he "swore" he cleaned the bathroom. He didn't. But he did get to eat it the next time he brushed his teeth.

When SD was about 13, she had a dry erase board at our house and sometimes our niece would play with it. She knew which markers to use with and and didn't ruin it or anything but SD was starting to get selfish, so said that she was taking the board home so that our niece could not play with it (her words).

So, I picked up another board at a garage sale for a buck for our niece. One weekend, SD was drawing on it. I told DH to take it away from her and tell her why. He thought I was being mean and petty and maybe I was, but I didn't think it was right for her to play with our niece's board when she purposely took hers home to keep our niece from using it.

I also called SD a liar once (loudly) when DH was on the phone with her (she WAS lying, about me). At the time, DH was recording all of his calls with her and you can hear me clearly in the background. Not my proudest moment!

SD heard me and asked DH, "Are you gonna let her talk to me like that?" Haha, seriously? He told her that I was not the one lying, so, yeah.

I told my SS I didn't like him like a child when he once went mental and told me he hated me. It was childish and I was not being an adult

I'd like to say I'm a better, more mature person than that, but apparently I'm not. Sometimes, it's more effective.

I have hidden Xbox cords in the past

I've never done anything to the skids. But I DID stoop to an embarrassing level with BM....

I've truly gotten sick of taking their crap upstairs and dumping it on the floor in their room. Never in a million years would I put it away for them, but I used to throw it on their floor. Now I throw it in the trash because it's a shorter walk. I've given the warning to skids and DH. DH has backed me, but yet they still leave their shit all over the place and then will be gone for a week (we have every other week custody arrangement). I'm not waiting for them to return for the mess to get cleaned up. It will go in the trash. Except the video game controllers, one of my dogs like to take care of the cords and that teaches them to roll them up and put them away when they are done. I love my dogs!

I often flip them off through my door, as well.

One time I told SS7, the spazzy one, that his new eating place would be on the floor and my dog would take his place because she has better table manners than him. He cried. I enjoyed it.

SD6 would sneak out of bed and come lay by our door to eavesdrop and sometimes just to make up bullshit questions to ask my DH, so maddening when you're trying to watch tv or sleep. DH told her she was not allowed to do that anymore, but she still would so I got up to get water and opened the door a little harder than usual to prove it. I didn't know her head would take the brunt of it, i assumed her body would be in that position. OOPS! Pretty nice-sized goose-egg on forehead. Best part was DH gave her ice and sent her back to bed with a pretty severe scolding for not listening. No hugs and cuddles for the princess. I was proud of DH.

I don't know if this would be my as came home one weekend and told his dad he liked being at the moms house because they go have fun with him. We was the ones raising him and he went and spent a night here there with his mom. So of course he would be getting to do fun when he went with his mom because she wasn't paying for living expenses because she was in and out of motels with the boyfriend she left my husband for.

So I told him if wasn't grateful for what he has here with his dad. I want all the new school clothes and supplies I bought and he can wear his clothes and use supplies from last year. So we took his clothes back and got our money back.

Needless to say he has never said that his dad again.

One-time my ss hit me and pinned him up against the wall and told him better never disrespectful me again. He hasn't said a rude thing or tried to hit me since

SD19 is a slob, and lives off of pasta or scrambled eggs. I hide the shredded cheese way up high in the back of the fridge now just to mess with her when she wants to make eggs. I can't tell you how many times she has left the bag of shredded cheese laying on its side, unopened in the fridge bin.

Yeah so I hide food from her. She's so lazy she won't go looking around for it. Maybe I could hide the ice cream bars in a Weight Watchers box from one of my meals. She'd never look lol! I'm going to go do that right now.....

~ Moon

I've hidden food so I got a chance to eat it. SD will binge eat some things if they aren't kept out of her reach...

I've pretended not to find something SD has lost. she loses something every couple of minutes I swear.

I've put anti-stink powder in her shoes in front of her before and it still amazingly had no effect on her desire to wear socks.

SD19 binge eats, too. DH said he's not buying cookies or anything since she's been home. YSD13 and I know we have to hide the goods from her or it will be gone overnight.

I hid the ice cream bars in a Weight Watcher's box in my freezer last night!! LOL They are 3-packs of the Magnum bars, and DH bought 2 boxes. Two were gone already. I took one flavor from each box and stashed them. It's probably SD13 who has eaten them because if SD19 found them, they would be gone!

~ Moon

Mini fridge in my walk in closet...locked bedroom door.
If not, there will be no food left.

My DH takes SS on a junk food shopping spree every time he comes over. Most of the crap sits and rots, because he wants everything he sees and it's all crap we don't eat.

I may or may not have just poured the biggest bowl ever of the cereal SS picked out to enjoy while reading all these replies. The dog was very grateful.

I also may or may not have erased pretty much everything SS has ever DVR'd since the day he very intentionally erased something that I specifically told him not to erase.

One day SS shut off the wifi while I was paying bills. He and his friend had just walked past me and saw me on the computer, and even his friend thought it was intentional. So the wifi was removed from his room (where it was kept at the time, he's a gamer). And sometimes I get the feeling while I'm at work that the wifi should be reset remotely.

I believe the kid may have learned that I may not punish him in the traditional way (that would be his father's job), but it will come back to him tenfold.

I've hidden controllers for Xbox, sky landers, infinity figures...for months. No one asked, I didn't mention it. When SS complains about perfectly fine water in the shower is too cold, I sometimes blast him with ice water when he is on my last nerve.

Eta SS is 6. So I help him shower sometimes, didn't realize this was teenage forum, sorry, I'm not a creep!

Last fall, after SD13 said she identified as a boy, I found all of her Littlest Pet Shop characters in the basement. They were all set up neatly and displayed on a window sill. I took them all, put them in a bag and hid them behind a box in the basement. I checked a few months ago and they are still there. She still plays with her Barbie Jeep, the small kind that is the size for the Barbie to fit into.

Also, SD19 used all of the pads that SD13 had under the sink in the month that she's been home from college. Last night SD13 needed pads and we have a ton (like 96-count) of Tena bladder control pads for SDog. They are too narrow and he pees out of them. So, SD13 has 19 bladder control pads to use for her cycle. Piss on it, I say.

I also go into the DVR shows and reset the recordings. SD13 will have ALL chosen, so everything under the sun gets recorded. I reset it to 5 episodes and delete everything. Then when there are 5 episodes, I'll delete 3 or 4. She has about a dozen shows in there and it's little kid stuff, Pokemon every which way you can imagine.

My daughter doesn't have her own bedroom yet, we have to build an extension or move. Anyway, her makeshift "room" is currently a corner in the living room with some dividers. SS12 gets up at 6am during the school year, goes upstairs and turns his damn video games on like right beside her???? So the worst thing I have ever done is remove the cord for the TV so he couldn't use it I did ask him nicely more than a few times first not to do that.
I didn't have to take step-shit photos out of the dining area, they did that themselves when I added my daughter's photo on the little table, now my daughter is the queen of the photo table Maybe I should also hang some pics of her beside the SS's other ones on the wall }:)

I admit that I have hid sd15's thing when she hasn't put them away so she will have to really look for them. I have gone as far as throwing some things away if it happens more than twice. I don't even think she realizes she is missing anything. I just got tired of looking at her mess and dh doesn't do anything about it so I take care of it myself.

I have said we don't have the money for something she supposedly needs but is not a necessity just so she has to wait. Now I've made dh figure out where the money is coming from without affecting our bills getting paid so it's all on him.

I bought SD13 a very nice comforter set along with matching valance, clock, mirrors and throw pillows for her room for Christmas. She literally begged for this color scheme. I went away for a vacation with my family only to find out she and my MIL conspired to completely redo her room... in a completely different color. They haven't bought a new comforter set yet, but I am already making plans to sell the whole thing on Craigslist and pocket the money.

I am also a bit ticked that of all of the colors they had to choose from, she went with the exact same color I painted my baby's room in. Coincidence? I totally think not.

Well played. }:)