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YOU'VE BROKEN INTO SOMEONE'S HOME BUT YOU CAN'T STEAL ANYTHING

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Ali08 Tue 03-Oct-23 05:29:55

Instead you have to change something to make things awkward for them:
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Zippers, I've changed them all for press studs instead

jools66 Wed 04-Oct-23 16:37:21

If I gave you my keys could you please clean my oven? grin

rocketstop Wed 04-Oct-23 16:36:46

change the mirrors for those hall of mirrors ones !

biglouis Wed 04-Oct-23 16:18:39

Some people have no sense of humour.

springishere Wed 04-Oct-23 16:12:36

Why would you want to do all these things? Would you like someone to do them to you?

biglouis Wed 04-Oct-23 16:10:11

Leave a lovely wrapped up gift for their return. Mark the box "open this end" and they will find its a spring loaded glitter bomb with extra glitter! Be sure to disable all the hoovers and hide the dustpan and brush. What fun!

RakshaMK Wed 04-Oct-23 15:59:24

Put insulating tape on all the light fittings so no matter what bulb they use, they won't work...
I did actually do something similar to a coworker for April fools - to her cordless drill so it didn't charge overnight. confused

inishowen Wed 04-Oct-23 15:53:02

In his youth my granddad and his friends changed the gates all along a street. Each gate could be lifted off and slotted into another!

oodles Wed 04-Oct-23 15:08:46

Put little bits of plastic in battery powered items covering part of the terminal so that sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. Remove fuses from random electrical items, scrunch up bits of clingfilm and put into the necks of washing up liquid and suchlike, green this too, as it would take longer to squeeze out so they would.use less.
Put pairs of crotchless knickers in the knicker drawer

Secondwind Wed 04-Oct-23 14:47:30

Block the toilet!

HurdyGurdy Wed 04-Oct-23 13:27:24

Cambsnan

Gosh why would we do any of that. What about you break in and have to do something nice for them to find when they get home. A nice cooked dinner, flowers, the oven cleaned….

Because that's what the thread is about! (No one is suggesting they'd really do these things!)

Feel free to start an alternative thread, where you break into someone's house and do a good deed though 😉

If it were me, I'd swap the locks on the front and back doors 😈

Jnan Wed 04-Oct-23 13:26:07

Pair up all the socks with the wrong other half.

Growing0ldDisgracefully Wed 04-Oct-23 13:23:07

You are all very norty!

Hide screws, bolts etc under the bottom sheet of the beds.
Find the car keys, and go out and put a kipper under the bonnet.
Loosen the bolts on the toilet seat.
Set any radio alarms to come on very early in the morning, at full volume.

nanna8 Wed 04-Oct-23 13:17:46

I don’t think any of these are funny. Just nasty.

Dee1012 Wed 04-Oct-23 13:08:49

Remove all batteries, alter clocks by an hour backwards.

Cambsnan Wed 04-Oct-23 12:48:38

Gosh why would we do any of that. What about you break in and have to do something nice for them to find when they get home. A nice cooked dinner, flowers, the oven cleaned….

Jess20 Wed 04-Oct-23 12:47:25

Hide all the reading glasses

25Avalon Wed 04-Oct-23 12:42:03

Throw shelled peanuts on the floor - try to vacuum them up and they break into lots of little pieces.

Throw a whole toilet roll down the toilet, flush, and put a second down.

vampirequeen Wed 04-Oct-23 12:20:45

Loosen the light bulbs. Unwire the plugs but leave them looking as if they're still intact. Hide the spare toilet rolls. Spray starch on their underwear. Move all their pictures and photos around.

grandtanteJE65 Wed 04-Oct-23 12:05:50

Wheniwasyourage

Or put the toilet paper somewhere in the bathroom where it can be seen but not reached from the toilet.

Knowing the average bathroom that will be hard, as the spare roll already is so placed that you cannot reach it from the toilet!

EEJit Wed 04-Oct-23 11:51:48

You are an evil lot

JackyB Wed 04-Oct-23 07:59:50

Put cling film over the loo.

travelsafar Tue 03-Oct-23 23:43:27

Screw down the toilet lid. Put glue over the holes of the shower head.
Snip of the corner of all their teabags🙈🙊

crazyH Tue 03-Oct-23 23:24:20

Take the cat and leave a rabbit

Grannynannywanny Tue 03-Oct-23 22:51:09

My Mum grew up in rural Ireland in the 1930’s. One of 9 children living in a remote farm cottage. Her 5 brothers were mischievous and sometimes went to extremes to entertain themselves .

They went to a neighbouring farm one day when they knew the couple were away for the day. It was a little old thatched house with a narrow door just like their own. They were sent by their father to return the old wooden cart they’d borrowed for some farm work. They unhitched the donkey from the cart and set their plan into action.

They removed the large wooden wheels from the cart, turned the cart on its side and slid it into the house. Then rolled the wheels in and reattached them to the cart. Then ran off.

Oreo Tue 03-Oct-23 22:19:29

Remove and hide all sink plugs