Parents Who've Snooped Through Their Kids' Stuff Are Sharing The Weirdest Things They Found, And I Wasn't Ready For Some Of These

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Sometimes, parents just can't help but get in their kids' business.
But when you go snooping, you might find things you were never meant to see, from the perplexing to the downright horrifying. This was the topic of discussion in an AskReddit thread, where u/SensitiveCorner2379 asked, "Parents who've snooped through their teenagers' stuff, what's the weirdest thing you've ever come across?" Here's what all the nosy parents and their kids had to say:
1."I went to my 10-year-old daughter's school for parent-teacher conferences and opened her locker to take a look inside. There wasn't much in it, but lying at the bottom was a book from our local library about how to plan a wedding. Not a fun one with pictures of wedding dresses and stuff. It was called Wedding Rites: A Complete Guide to Traditional Vows, Music, Ceremonies, Blessings and Interfaith Services. I was baffled, and her teachers and I had a good laugh about it. When I got home and asked her about it, she explained she and her bestie were trying to marry their dogs to each other."
—u/ghostguessed
2."My mom was going through my sister's room after she returned from a trip to Berlin. Nothing wild, just getting her laundry together. She found a small baggie of white dust and rocks. She tasted it to see if she could recognize the drug, and when she couldn't, she confronted my sister. It was small pieces of the Berlin Wall that my sister had chipped off as a keepsake. My mother ate the Berlin Wall."
—u/briesneeze
3."An entire dresser drawer of dirty dishes and silverware."
—u/Hour_Mathematician83
4."I don't snoop, but I do clean and organize from time to time. My teen knows this, and also knows that unless I find some really illegal shit, I'm not really worried. Having said that, I found a suit of armor he had made out of watermelon rinds that he forgot to toss out. Whole new ecosystem growing on it all."
—u/OddLeeEnough
5."For my youngest, the worst thing we've found is a fart bag where she and her bestie were trying to save up farts. They had one at her bestie's house too — her mom made them throw it out, saying it was 'unsanitary.' I just howled and left it alone. A fart bag. Hilarious, why didn't I ever try that as a kid?!"
—u/wimwood
6."My son was 15 at the time. I went into his room and tried to get him to clean it, because it was a damn disaster area. I was ranting at him, 'Look at all the garbage all over the floor! Look at the dirty dishes!' Then I spotted a drinking glass, like a pint glass, on the floor. I said, 'You have GLASS on the FLOOR where you could step on it and slice your foot wide open!' I leaned down and picked it up. It had stuff in it. I took a closer look. He had stuffed it with a couple of socks at the bottom and taped a nitrile glove over the top. The glass was slippery in my hand. I stood there looking at it with dawning horror as I realized that I'd found his homemade Fleshlight. I just set it down on the floor and walked out. We've never spoken of it since."
—u/edgarpickle
7."I was the teenager getting snooped on. I had undiagnosed schizophrenia at the time, and I was building a time machine from old PC parts that I got from people's trash. Thankfully, my mom found it because the way I'd designed it, I was going to electrocute myself to send myself back in time. Unfortunately, when I found my time machine was gone, I thought the government was onto me and basically kicked myself out of the house so they wouldn't find me. I was 14 or 15 at the time. I'm medicated now and doing much better these days."
—u/konoha37
8."A full human turd inside of an empty face wipe container. No toilet paper. I was more concerned than if I'd found a baggie of pot."
—u/MooseMaster6000
9."'Science' experiments. Like the insides of stress balls emptied out. Hair gel mixed with glue. Glue mixed with stress ball goop. Pencils with layers of glue, like they'd been dipped. Glued fuzzy sticks — 'art,' apparently."
—u/MsPennyP
10."My mom would snoop when I was a teenager. I got a diary and hid it. When she found it and opened it, all she found was, 'THOUGHT YOU FOUND SOMETHING GOOD, HUH?' in big writing. She laughed about it for the next 20-plus years. I miss her."
—u/22grey
11."When I was a teen, my dad found homemade dildos I made out of pencils taped together, a sock, more tape, and Saran Wrap. He knew what it was and was mad. I wish he'd left it alone, but he confronted me, and I was adamant it was actually an art project. So, I painted them and left them on display to dry for weeks to try to prove my point."
—u/salmontoothpaste
12."I once found the Subway wrapper to my sub that he 'helped me look for' five months prior — when I was eight months pregnant — under his bed. I was looking forward to that sub so badly. It had tomatoes and banana peppers on it, and when I saw he had taken them all off, it sent me into a rage. It just disappeared, and he helped me look for it in the refrigerator. It's been over seven years, he's 17 now, and I still bring it up."
—u/Jaylamarie333
13."A rusted train nail. Not snooping. She folded it up in a sweatshirt to keep it safe, and I was putting away laundry. She thought it was an artifact. Couldn't believe something could be that rusty without being 100 years old."
—u/SideBackground6932
14."When I was 19, I came home from a night out with my girlfriends to my mother, hysterical and crying, dramatically asking, 'How could you do this to me?!' She had found a sandwich bag with an unknown substance in it and somehow came to the conclusion that it was heroin, and I had secretly turned into a person addicted to drugs. It was small, bacon-flavored dog treats for our chihuahua, which I had portioned out so they wouldn't get stale. Pretty obvious that my mother had no idea what heroin looked like."
—u/forestfairygremlin
15."Searching the kids' internet histories. Kid one: porn. So much porn. Kid two: 'How tall is the tallest bridge?' 'What layers can you see in the Grand Canyon?' 'Happy goat videos.' Kids, man."
—u/AltrusiticChickadee
16."I was like 13, living in a rural area, and my best friend at the time was always up to something. For some reason, we got it in our heads that we could secretly raise chickens in the forest behind my house, so we bought an entire chicken starter kit, complete with feed, lights, and a book on how to do it right. We attempted to shoplift a few baby chicks in her sweater from the farm supply store, but got caught on the way out. The plan never materialized because no one would sell us baby chicks. Later, my mother found the starter stuff in my closet. It was a weird conversation. She was expecting to find drugs. She was mainly mad that the store didn't call her when we got caught attempting to shoplift baby chicks."
—u/ingracioth
17."I found a notebook labeled 'Top Secret Plans.' Inside was a full blueprint for how they'd fake sick to skip school, complete with fake cough sound effects and backup crying strategy if I didn't buy it. I was half impressed, half offended. They even wrote: 'Mom might pretend to be mad, but she'll secretly respect the hustle.' They were right."
—u/DeadBoneMusic
18."My dad was moving my car in the driveway, yelling out the car window about how it smelled like pot. He reached into the center console and pulled out a pack of cigarettes, 'And what about these?? I thought you didn't smoke cigarettes!' 'I don't, they're crayons.' Sure enough, the cigarette box was full of crayons. I was a stoner, not a cigarette smoker."
—u/wildjabali
19."After he moved out, I found a huge pencil case with every single pen he had used throughout high school, like 90+ pens, all completely out of ink. I messaged him about it, and he's like, 'yeah, that's my pen graveyard,' like it was the most normal thing ever. It's not a homemade Fleshlight, but it definitely made me pause and wonder what kind of hoarder I'd created."
—u/SternFern
20."A bucket full of snapping turtle eggs. My kid and their friend saw the turtle nesting, robbed the nest, and stashed the eggs near the heater, hoping to hatch babies. I wasn't really snooping, just trying to recover some missing dishes."
—u/WakingOwl1
21."When my oldest daughter moved out, she thought she took her whole knife collection with her. Wrong. We found seven more knives over the course of the next year as we slowly cleaned the room out. Knives that she didn't even remember she had. It wasn't creepy like something was wrong with her, it was just like, 'how in the world do you amass this many collectible knives by the age of 18?'"
—u/wimwood
22."At least eight glasses of water, like it was goddamn Signs. Literal piles of trash under her covers that she definitely slept with. Random half-eaten bags of various chocolates…so many. Just gobs of boogers on the headboards. Unopened Capri-Sun pouches that, based on flavor, are artifacts. Clustered used pimple patches on her dresser, in her dresser, on the walls — just so many. This child is an honors student, by the way."
—u/donnerpartyintheusa
23."I found a pile of trimmed pubic hair under my high school-aged son's bed. I was just like 'Well, I guess someone's been shaving,' and threw it away in the trash and moved on with my day. Never said anything to him about it."
—u/Ordinary_Ice_796
24."A YouTube watch history full of NJM insurance commercials. She's on the spectrum and was obsessed with insurance commercials for a minute."
—u/pantsparty1322
25."I found a rolling machine in my teenage son's bedroom. I was horrified. He was only 13. I couldn't find any trace of weed in the machine, and it looked clean. I took a photo and sent it to my husband. He wrote back that it was a magic trick used to make banknotes disappear. LOL."
—u/Evieveevee
26.And lastly, "I found while cleaning: a Costco-sized bag of grated Parmesan cheese with a spoon in it, sitting next to his bed."
—u/donnahotterthnasauna
Have you ever found any surprises hiding in your kids' rooms? Let me know in the comments!
Note: Responses have been edited for length/clarity.
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