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Family wasting my stuff

So I got this nice shampoo and conditioner as a present from a friend a while back. I don’t think it’s too cheap so I can’t really buy it again, not like I should even have to! But someone is just using LOADS of it! But of course no one’s fessing up. I usually keep it out of the shower but this one time I forgot and I come back it’s down way more than I left it! I am just so pissed off because this has happened before and not just to me (someone pouring out my mom’s body wash which would have lasted her six months, 2 cans of shaving cream)

But this stuff is a luxury, and I don’t get this often, and now I can’t even enjoy it!!! I could scream right now how do I stop this?

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Answer #1

How people don’t know what moderation is. If you could buy it again, try hiding the Shampoo and conditioner in your closet buried. I’m not sure if you have siblings that might be using it and using too much, but, they need to be honest about how much shampoo and conditioner they use. I’d be mad too if someone used my personal products. It isn’t good to waste that stuff since allot of that is very expensive. If the shampoo and conditioner is a special kind, would it be possible to order it again? As far as your mothers Body wash, she should hide that too. Someone needs to confess. whoever it is, doesn’t understand budgeting, or using things wisely. Its obvious that this person doesn’t understand moderation. Find this person and tell them straight up. They’ll learn a lesson not to use your stuff or your mothers. Oh, teach this person math.

Answer #2

bring it up when your falimy is together, like an dinnertime tell them its yours, and you dont want anyone else usuing it tell them how you feel if it happens again put it in your room and only take it with you when you shower or hide in a cuboured in the room were your shower is that no one really looks in

Answer #3

talk to them. tell them you don’t care who it was. but that’s disrespectful and better stop. ask how they would feel if you were doing that to them. and even though you shouldn’t have to. hide it.

Answer #4

If nobody fesses up then quite simply you have to stash it away where nobody will ever look. Then if anybody asks “Where is it?” Tell em you had to hide it because of trust issues.

Damn, Mags14 beat me to it lol!

Answer #5

If nobody fesses up then quite simply you have to stash it away where nobody will ever look. Then if anybody asks “Where is it?” Tell em you had to hide it because of trust issues.

Damn, Mags14 beat me to it lol!

Answer #6

Well, not much you can do. Talk to everybody in your family, politely ask them to respect your personal belongings, to use something that’s actually theirs…If they know it’s yours and that the shampoo is yours, they really shouldn’t be using it up. They should be letting you enjoy it. I’d keep my personal belongings in my room like you said.. Remind yourself to put the shampoo, (Or anything else) in your room when you’re not using it.

Answer #7

if you’ve already asked and nobody’s fessing up still, tell them more firmly this is YOUR stuff, and everything you just wrote here! it’s a luxury and you want to enjoy it because it was given to YOU to enjoy! my mom does very similar things and it drives me insane…also say that you’re hiding this stuff because you can’t trust anyone in your family, see if that makes them think…

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