Ever Get Caught?Even though a good chunk of you said you'd never snoop, 55% percent of you boasted that you'd never been caught. Innnnnnnteresting. 38% said that they've never been caught because you've never snooped, and 7% admitted that they'd been interrupted in the act of rifling, which is an impressively low figure.
While we're a little embarrassed that our readers seem to snoop way less than we do, we're impressed with their ability to get away with it when they do. (You're nothing like the guests from hell we covered last week!)
You guys are welcome at our place any time! And not just because we keep all our weirdness under lock and key. Here's how you can protect your stuff from that sneaky 53%.
Lock It Down: Your first line of defense seems obvious, but you can't secure your medicine cabinet unless you have small children and have an excuse to put those plastic protectors on every drawer. If you've got a room that locks, keep your unmentionables in there.
The Imaginary Velvet Rope: If you don't want people looking in your bedroom drawers, then don't give them the opportunity. Keep coats in a closet or on a rack instead of piled onto your bed. Remember the "nobody's allowed upstairs" rule from high school? Put it back in place. People will think you're private and clean instead of, you know, paranoid.
Quality Control: Figure out where guests are likely to be. If you have, say, a tub of creme bleach in your bathroom that you'd die if anybody saw, be sure to tuck it away someplace totally guest-proof. Get a shopping bag, group all of your shameful items and put them someplace that it's unlikely anybody would look, like the back of your closet, or under the bed.












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Saturday 17 October
By GB
Keep a squeeky clean house and make sure the party is so much fun, noone wants to take the time to poke around in the bathroom/bedroom, Place marbles in your medicine cabinet or a powder bronzer that will fall out and spill all over (happened to me). What a mess. I had to lock myself in the bathroom for 20 mins to clean it up. Never again snoopy.
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Sunday 18 October
By hockibabe
LOL....I don't mean to laugh, but I did something similar to that and scared the death out of a few snooper's....
Saturday 17 October
By jimmy
being snoopie is just natural so be ready for it ! We all are like cats in ways !
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Saturday 17 October
By Mike G.
I don't mind if people snoop whilst attending my social functions. They will behold only normal, boring adult stuff.
When I was younger, I would carefully place a handful of marbles in the medicine cabinet and just wait for them to be "hoist by their own petard"(blown-up by their own fart) .Marbles make a loud noise.
Mike
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Saturday 17 October
By Michelle
Everyone seems to be concerned about guests and significant others snooping. Ladies, do NOT forget about your parents!!! While hanging curtains with my mother one afternoon, she spotted a very nondescript, plain , closed brown bag...along with a few other items. All of the above were stored be an oversized chair angled caddy-corner in my living room. Her eagle eyes focused on the bag, wanting to know "WHAT'S IN IT????" Give the time of year, I told her Christmas cards. Of course she wanted to see them. After minutes of bickering and nonviewing...up to the bedroom they went. My husband and my sex toys. Where they belong. That could have been a bad scene.
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Saturday 17 October
By Christie
I find that some people are slightly turned off to snoop when a place is really messy an unorganized. its because things cant be put baack excactly how they were and in that course making people realize that their place has been snooped.
that marble trick is a good idea tho. beware of determined snoopers who may pick locks and such
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Wednesday 28 October
By gypsie
Being nosy is a natural human impulse. Remember the phrase: whatever you do don't look down. now what's the first thing people do directly after that phrase pops out? Look down!!! If something appears 'forbidden', say medicine cabinets or dressers, take your personal items out and hide them elsewhere until the party is over. That's what my mother always did before hosting parties. Since you don't need medications or *gasp* sex toys during family parties or Viagra during 'men's night in' hide them where nobody would think of looking! If something is none of their business or something they shouldn't be getting into, DON'T leave it where it can be found. Especially with kids, who like to 'experiment' with 'unknown' objects or minors getting into your booze closet.
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