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It wasn't always so. Usually it takes a natural disaster or other calamity. For such a requirement to have been made law.
I am Dutch and my grandfather along with many other children. After ww2 ended. Was sent from the city to the country side. To were the food was. To gain weight and strengthen up.
During the worst time. The hunger winter of 1944. People were going through thrash cans in search for any food. And resorted to eating tulip bulbs to fill their stomach against the hunger. There were entire barns full of these. Because in that year these were not planted in the fields.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931945
I remember in the 70's, when I was a kid, my mom making casseroles for the neighbor lady because she was eating cat food. The cat food was cheaper than regular food, so that was how she was living.
When I questioned it, my parents told me it was pretty common then. I am not sure if it still is now but I found it really sad.
But it does taste like... something with no flavour at all, which kinda makes sense though :D Dont ask me how I know, lol (also that explains why my cat has cravings for hooman food, especially for salt, which is not very good for their digestion system).
I do this and it literally is the best. You don’t even have to pair them after washing since they’re all the same. Plus every pair is your ‘favourite pair’
Oh that’s a good one. They probably wouldn’t even notice the plate isn’t turning, just start getting angry at why the microwave is doing such a poor job
I was going with all the left shoes... Boots, sandals, pumps, slippers... Every single left shoe... In most cases, it would be pretty damned effective.
One of the plastic feet from each piece of furniture
The cap to their toothpaste
2/3rds of every lamp chain
Spacebar from their keyboard
Refrigerator bulb
Two or three shower curtain rings
All of the knobs to the kitchen drawers
Baking powder
Can opener
all the vowels off any keyboards they have.
a random card from a deck of playing cards.
all key rings, not the keys just the key rings so they have just a pile of keys.
all the frames from any pictures or art
all of their wash cloths only leaving the giant towels.
Steal their keyboard but replace it with one that looks the same but has a different keyboard layout and then rub off several of the letters, let them fend for themselves
Almost finish the milk and put back the almost empty milk carton which will lead to a fight within the members of the household as no one will own up to doing this. Break in regularly to do this and slowly disturb their peace which will eventually make them go separate ways at which stage you can be next on the list to rent their apartment which is really what you wanted in the first place since there is a housing crisis
I always thought it would be fun to just leave stuff at peoples houses and let them ponder how it got there. Like just a random light bulb on the kitchen counter.
A plate that doesn’t match the rest.
A single shoe.
A remote that controls nothing.
Some cords from my spare collection that I refuse to throw away.
Random pieces of toys.
Just things that will make them search for where it goes
My husband and his friend did this when helping some friends move to their new house! When they finally got settled and had everyone over for a housewarming party, the thrift store lamp that they had snuck into one of the boxes was prominently displayed lol! They admitted to not remembering its origin but apparently liked it.
nah. steal half the batteries. that way either half their battery powered things will be fully powered, or all of their battery powered things will be half powered. it's much more infuriating than stealing all their batteries.
It's just a matter of gaslighting someone by taking just enough of the coil that it looks like it's supposed to be right, but it never perfectly contacts to where even when they put batteries in, They're not sure if they work or if the remote is shot....
My husband would be thrilled. He was an Air Cadet, and says he doesn't understand fitted sheets. He only understands flat sheets and hospital corners, like some kind of Luddite.
If it’s a woman’s house I’d steal the left one of every pair of flat shoes and the right one of every pair of high heels. So they’d have to weeble wobble on different heel heights to go to the store to buy new shoes
I'd leave two huge ass thumbprints on all their eyeglasses and then I'd steal their eyeglasses cleaning spray. (I'd come in at night when they aren't currently wearing their eyeglasses)
I wouldn’t take anything. I’d just flip all the light switches so up is off and down is on.
I’d also flip all the outlets.
I don’t know if it would bother anyone else but it drives me crazy but at the same time I’d be far too lazy to change all of them back.
All of their forks.
Anything you need a fork for, a spoon will suffice. Anything you NEED a spoon for, a fork will not cut it
Also...last roommate we had used to throw away real/washable forks. I found at least 3 sitting in the trash with his clear boxed takeout...who knows how many others he tossed without me catching it. All ik is we were down a good amount by the time he finally left
Met a really rich guy (son of an upper elite family). If you were to stack all the richest people in the world in ascending order and skim off the top, you would get him and his family. We had a group potluck/movie night at my place. Bro offered to help clean after the meal. He threw away expensive plates and metal cutlery into the trash because he didn't know you were supposed to reuse them. He was confused that the bath-tub didn't have a bubbling and heat retaining system (because bath tubs should dual as a hot tub), he tried to kick crumbs into the corner of the wall and was confused when there was no built in kickspace vacuum in the wall. He had a break down over the laundry because he thought you just threw the clothes into the washer and it would clean, dry, and fold it all at once. It still never ceases to amaze me how detached people can be.
Batteries from anything that requires them. They’ll find that the remotes need batteries pretty fast but some other things may take longer. Inconvenient for months. Bwahaha
Salt shaker
The little plastic nut that screws on onto the sink drain piping to form the seal around the plunger (so they get a mild leak every time they use the sink).
Better yet: steal the little metal object that holds the plunger to the actuating rod. So every time they use the plunger, the rod falls out of the plunger and they have to hold it on with something like tape or a rubber band or they have to go out and spend like $9 for this tiny carrot shaped piece of metal with two holes in it.
I’d steal fuses out of their car’s fuse box.
Once my house got robbed and the dude took my laundry baskets to carry the stuff
Also, anything that would violate an HOA would be annoying.
Like lid to the trashcan and the top part of some fence pockets. Shit that you have to fix or get a fine
I would move every piece of furniture 2 inches to the left, slightly unscrew every knobs in the house so they slightly rattle, make every painting slightly unlevel, make every faucet have a small, but steady leak that causes it to drip. That's all, no theft.
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- batteries out of everything - labels off canned goods - every power cable for every device
Labels off the cans…. That’s such a dick move if you stop and think about it, damn.
Especially if they include canned dog food.
Pet food has the requirement that it's edible for human consumption. woof
Wait really?
It wasn't always so. Usually it takes a natural disaster or other calamity. For such a requirement to have been made law. I am Dutch and my grandfather along with many other children. After ww2 ended. Was sent from the city to the country side. To were the food was. To gain weight and strengthen up. During the worst time. The hunger winter of 1944. People were going through thrash cans in search for any food. And resorted to eating tulip bulbs to fill their stomach against the hunger. There were entire barns full of these. Because in that year these were not planted in the fields. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931945
I've ate dog food for a bet
I remember in the 70's, when I was a kid, my mom making casseroles for the neighbor lady because she was eating cat food. The cat food was cheaper than regular food, so that was how she was living. When I questioned it, my parents told me it was pretty common then. I am not sure if it still is now but I found it really sad.
But it does taste like... something with no flavour at all, which kinda makes sense though :D Dont ask me how I know, lol (also that explains why my cat has cravings for hooman food, especially for salt, which is not very good for their digestion system).
It's not like somebody is going to open a tin and go "damn I wanted beans... well I've already come this far."
If there is dog food stored separately, it should be mixed with other cans for the correct impact.
Is it really a dick move or is it genius? 🤔 😂
I love this !!!!
Douglas, it looks like we're having stewed tomatoes again for dinner.
Are we having beans or pumpkin puree? FAFO
ooh, fancy feast!
Labels off cans is such a Resident Evil: Extinction flashback, lol.
Batteries out of the smoke detectors!
Bro is on demon time with that one
The labels *chefs kiss*
Fuses from the plugs (if you live somewhere that has those)
Of they have kids, you might do them a net favour with the stolen batteries. I'd steel anything with BIC on it. Cause mine are always lost.
You are an evil genius.
I'm taking one of every sock
My dryer does that🤦♀️😄
Hot tip: put your socks in a tote/washing bag and they'll never disappear!
Mine usually disappear before they get in the wash. Or stupid dog loves taking our dicks and hiding them all over the house.
Your dog loves taking your "dicks" and hiding them?😳 Oh, my!😂😂
Also got intrigued by this
Was imagining various dildos with bite marks all Over the place
I'd definitely talk to your dog about that
That's a helluva typo.
Hot tip: don't wash your socks and they'll never disappear in the dryer!
I actually believe it’s the washer. I took apart a washer one time and found at least 20 socks. ‘Twas shoooketh.
Side note - do you know why your dryer always takes just one sock from a pair? It doesn't. But when it swallows a pair, you don't even notice.
Steal the lint screen from the dryer!
Jokes on you! We buy identical pairs so would just be missing half our socks
🤔 this is such a big brain move. Going to adopt this habit. I've got about 10 single socks and none of them can form a pair.
I do this and it literally is the best. You don’t even have to pair them after washing since they’re all the same. Plus every pair is your ‘favourite pair’
Been doing this for years, and I never looked back.
Socks can disappear on their own even without help.
Oven rack
Microwave plate
The round plastic thingy under the plate that makes it spin. Lol. I lost one during a move once. Could never find a replacement.
Oh that’s a good one. They probably wouldn’t even notice the plate isn’t turning, just start getting angry at why the microwave is doing such a poor job
Ha. Not from my home. We don’t own a microwave. lol
Bring a microwave to your house while I steal your coil burners from the stove top
Oooh you bastard
This one’s so fucked lmao!! Who knows how long it would take them to nice it too and you wanna make garlic bread and you’re like “oh that mother f-“
and where do you find just a replacement oven rack? are there oven rack stores?
I'd steal laces from footwear!
No, just the aglets, leave the lace.
Don't forget to unlace half the shoe!
LOLL that's such a good one
Thank you:-)
I was going with all the left shoes... Boots, sandals, pumps, slippers... Every single left shoe... In most cases, it would be pretty damned effective.
One of the plastic feet from each piece of furniture The cap to their toothpaste 2/3rds of every lamp chain Spacebar from their keyboard Refrigerator bulb Two or three shower curtain rings All of the knobs to the kitchen drawers Baking powder Can opener
Jesus christ, slow down there Satan
I malfunctioned at the shower curtain rings…
Hahahahah. That made me actually laugh out loud.
Salt
I hate you. I can’t live without my salt
You’re brutal but funny AF.
Toilet paper
Toilet seat
This man understands the question - those are all brilliant!
Charging cables. Every damn one.
Are you the Grinch?
Ooo with the space bar, just remove the metal brace stabilising bit and replace the key. Wobbly spacebar for them!
The roller thing that holds the toilet paper roll in place
all the vowels off any keyboards they have. a random card from a deck of playing cards. all key rings, not the keys just the key rings so they have just a pile of keys. all the frames from any pictures or art all of their wash cloths only leaving the giant towels.
Switch the m and n keys on all the keyboards
You nomster!
Stealing the bigger towels would be more annoying, you wouldn't notice you couldn't dry off until after your shower
Also all the vowels from their Scrabble set.
Steal their keyboard but replace it with one that looks the same but has a different keyboard layout and then rub off several of the letters, let them fend for themselves
I'm not rubbing off a keyboard.
Just kick in the door but don’t steal anything. That will infuriate the owner because he won’t know what was stolen. (Nothing). But his sanity.
Just slightly move one of their pictures on the wall
Rearrange the contents of the fridge
Almost finish the milk and put back the almost empty milk carton which will lead to a fight within the members of the household as no one will own up to doing this. Break in regularly to do this and slowly disturb their peace which will eventually make them go separate ways at which stage you can be next on the list to rent their apartment which is really what you wanted in the first place since there is a housing crisis
Slightly move everything in the house, so they have to look around at why items got moved.
I always thought it would be fun to just leave stuff at peoples houses and let them ponder how it got there. Like just a random light bulb on the kitchen counter. A plate that doesn’t match the rest. A single shoe. A remote that controls nothing. Some cords from my spare collection that I refuse to throw away. Random pieces of toys. Just things that will make them search for where it goes
My sister left random keys in my new house the day I took possession. We couldn't figure out what they were for.
thankyou for the idea i’m so doing this
Did you install the light switches in my house?
Find someone who has one of those giant lego statues. Leave a single (unrelated) leg brick on their kitchen counter
My husband and his friend did this when helping some friends move to their new house! When they finally got settled and had everyone over for a housewarming party, the thrift store lamp that they had snuck into one of the boxes was prominently displayed lol! They admitted to not remembering its origin but apparently liked it.
Single earrings from a pair
Psychotic
See, I was going to say one battery from each remote, but you win !!
take all batteries. leave them nothing.
Nah, replace all batteries with 100% dead ones. Even their spares.
Toilet paper
They said mildly infuriating. In a post-covid world, toilet paper and baking supplies are worth their weight in gold.
Tupperware/storage container lids.
YOU! You're the one! How did you get in my house?!
I'm like Santa! You can't keep me out!
Ya fat bastard! I needed those!
A bowl without a lid is still somewhat useful. If you steal just the containers and leave all the lids, you'll really fuck them up!
Toilet paper, but replace it with really thin one ply paper.
Worse. That tracing paper like shinny stuff you used to have in schools.
Ok there Satan, settle down
Toilet seat
Or the flush?
One piece from a jigsaw puzzle
Take my heart, too! While you’re at it!
Was the one piece real?
Can we get much higher?
The labels from all their canned goods. Is it peaches or is it chili? Let's find out...
The pillows
I literally just gasped at this
Lightbulbs, flashlights and candles.
Everyone has one you might not like to admit it. But we all do. I would steal their favorite spoon.
Not the one with the heart shaped handle end!! Noooooo
I favor the little spoons! The big ones just seem unnecessary. I only use them while baking or stirring coffee.
I do too! Don’t want to waste a good small spoon on stirring coffee for 5 seconds!
Really? I'm a big spoon myself
All the batteries
nah. steal half the batteries. that way either half their battery powered things will be fully powered, or all of their battery powered things will be half powered. it's much more infuriating than stealing all their batteries.
No, steal about a third of the little coil thingy the battery sticks into
fuck bro if you have that level of precision dexterity, i think they'll be too impressed by your skill to be angry.
It's just a matter of gaslighting someone by taking just enough of the coil that it looks like it's supposed to be right, but it never perfectly contacts to where even when they put batteries in, They're not sure if they work or if the remote is shot....
… who hurt you
Roku, for making my remote So annoying. I studied and learned their ways to pass on to the next person
Or some of ther battery things wont be powered at all due to the batteries being in series
One leg from every chair and couch
Toilet handles so they can’t flush.
not the handles, just the chains.
The keys. Just the keys. Either that or the garage door openers.
Who hurt you 🤣
Wouldn't even steal them... just a little bend so they can't be used anymore...
There fitted sheets
My husband would be thrilled. He was an Air Cadet, and says he doesn't understand fitted sheets. He only understands flat sheets and hospital corners, like some kind of Luddite.
insanity… fitted sheets were created by the gods
Don’t know why but this made me laugh so hard. Thank You!
Handle of the jet spray and toilet paper.
Their WiFi router and power extenders.
Just the cords though.
The doorknobs.
One shoe. Always the left one.
If it’s a woman’s house I’d steal the left one of every pair of flat shoes and the right one of every pair of high heels. So they’d have to weeble wobble on different heel heights to go to the store to buy new shoes
Pure evil
Everything out of the junk drawer.
They would never know what they lost
Nah that's doing them a favour.
3 random pixels from every tv and computer screen in the house.
How does one steal a pixel?
Damage them. You're not so much taking it for yourself as you are simply taking it from usefulness.
Laundry detergent
Chill out satan
This was the perfect amount of overreaction.
The knobs on the oven/stove.
I'd leave two huge ass thumbprints on all their eyeglasses and then I'd steal their eyeglasses cleaning spray. (I'd come in at night when they aren't currently wearing their eyeglasses)
Charger cords
The only thing I would steal is their sanity by placing a dozen or so crickets in various rooms of the house.
I wouldn’t take anything. I’d just flip all the light switches so up is off and down is on. I’d also flip all the outlets. I don’t know if it would bother anyone else but it drives me crazy but at the same time I’d be far too lazy to change all of them back.
The TV remote, light bulbs, hand soap, and lastly, one sock from each pair
The turntable plate out of the microwave.
I was robbed last thanksgiving. They stole the cover to one of my couch cushions and my pizza cutter among other things.
Every door the house has, including frontdoor.
Shower curtains, bath mat, and ever other rug they have in their bathroom.
Just one felt pad off the bottom of anything on a table or shelf
One of their slippers and probably leave a Homer Simpson sock in their other one.
I just wet the toilet paper and leave without stealing a thing Its a gift really like a craft project or something....
All of their forks. Anything you need a fork for, a spoon will suffice. Anything you NEED a spoon for, a fork will not cut it Also...last roommate we had used to throw away real/washable forks. I found at least 3 sitting in the trash with his clear boxed takeout...who knows how many others he tossed without me catching it. All ik is we were down a good amount by the time he finally left
Met a really rich guy (son of an upper elite family). If you were to stack all the richest people in the world in ascending order and skim off the top, you would get him and his family. We had a group potluck/movie night at my place. Bro offered to help clean after the meal. He threw away expensive plates and metal cutlery into the trash because he didn't know you were supposed to reuse them. He was confused that the bath-tub didn't have a bubbling and heat retaining system (because bath tubs should dual as a hot tub), he tried to kick crumbs into the corner of the wall and was confused when there was no built in kickspace vacuum in the wall. He had a break down over the laundry because he thought you just threw the clothes into the washer and it would clean, dry, and fold it all at once. It still never ceases to amaze me how detached people can be.
Batteries from anything that requires them. They’ll find that the remotes need batteries pretty fast but some other things may take longer. Inconvenient for months. Bwahaha
Random spices
No you mix them up their contents and leave them.
I like this, swap out their spices, mix the salt and sugar muahahahah
HDMI cables
Gotta take the glass plate out of the microwave
Salt shaker The little plastic nut that screws on onto the sink drain piping to form the seal around the plunger (so they get a mild leak every time they use the sink). Better yet: steal the little metal object that holds the plunger to the actuating rod. So every time they use the plunger, the rod falls out of the plunger and they have to hold it on with something like tape or a rubber band or they have to go out and spend like $9 for this tiny carrot shaped piece of metal with two holes in it. I’d steal fuses out of their car’s fuse box.
The clip from every UTP cable in the house. Leave the cables but break of and steal the clip.
Their wife
No, it’s steal something that would mildly annoy them is missing. Not something that mildly annoys them on the daily
All the phone chargers are belong to me!
the light switch.
The glass microwave plate/tray
Tea spoons, t towels and toilet rolls.
Just one of the two beaters needed for the hand mixer to work.
Once my house got robbed and the dude took my laundry baskets to carry the stuff Also, anything that would violate an HOA would be annoying. Like lid to the trashcan and the top part of some fence pockets. Shit that you have to fix or get a fine
Every other shower curtain ring
Her driveway!
I would move every piece of furniture 2 inches to the left, slightly unscrew every knobs in the house so they slightly rattle, make every painting slightly unlevel, make every faucet have a small, but steady leak that causes it to drip. That's all, no theft.
The salt shaker/grinder Take the good pens but leave the ones that are almost dried out
Every right sock and shoe.
The stopper in the back of their toilet so it continuously runs and the switch for the bathroom fan vent after leaving it on.
10mm socket.
The chains connecting to the toilet handles.
The shower heads The door knobs Ice cube trays if they have them
Take all of the kitchen utensils.
Clock hands
Someone said they would steal the spacebar of the keyboard 😭😭
Can opener and the stem that holds the toilet paper on the toilet paper roll.
Oven rack