About a month ago I became official with a guy named Tim. Tim is great, really responsible, honest, has a good career, etc. So far our relationship has been great aside from the fact that since I met him, my scrunchies started going missing.
It sounds stupid, I know, but I always stash scrunchies throughout my apartment. I use them every day and like them to be easily assessable. I have some in my bathroom, both of my bedrooms, my living room, my car, etc. I probably had 20+ scrunchies randomly disbursed throughout. I’m down to 6, three of which were in my car. At first I thought maybe I just lost one or two, but before long I noticed that entire stashes were missing. It’s gotten annoying because anytime I go to reach for one, it’s just gone. For example, I have a drawer under my sink where I had kept around 5 scrunchies (sounds crazy, but I tend to take them, tie my hair back, do something else, and take it out in a different room. This assured me I will always have one on hand in the room I usually need them most. I return 5 to this stash on Sundays when I clean if they got moved). The drawer now has none.
The only factor in my life that has changed is my boyfriend. My dog doesn’t bother them, but even if she had somehow gotten into drawers and taken to eating them, we’d probably be in the pet ER right now because 14 scrunchies is quite a lot. I don’t think anyone is breaking in to steal my scrunchies. I KNOW I haven’t lost this many.
Is my boyfriend secretly a ferret? What could he possibly be doing with all of these scrunchies? My friends are joking that he has a shrine of me in his closet. One friend thinks that he’s stealing them to test if I notice when things go missing and has plans to steal more which has me sort of sketched out. He’s never in my apartment alone, but he’s somehow finding enough time to be alone to do this and for me not to notice. Does anyone have any ideas? I was going to confront him, but I don’t want to accuse him of something so silly. But I also just don’t get it. Help!!
Edit:
Some of y’all just aren’t any fun. OBVIOUSLY no one but him knows. I just wanted to preemptively prepare myself for reasonings as to why he could be doing this. Also, it’s just kind of funny so I wanted to share. I thought the way this was written would kind of show that, but some people are taking it wayyy too seriously.
He’s planning on coming over tonight, so it’s definitely on the agenda to inconspicuously ask him where they’ve gone. At this point if he says he doesn’t know, I’m just going to set up a camera because A) he’s lying and needs called out or B) SOMEONE unwelcomed is in my apartment stealing my stuff. Someone asked if it could be my dog, but I’ve pulled my couch out since this has started happening and honestly my dog doesn’t really steal things, so I’m 99.9% positive it’s not her. She’s an old gal and just sleeps mostly. Unless there’s some other creature sneaking in and stealing, it’s definitely a persons doing. A lot of people have said he might be tidying them up, but this is honestly impossible because they’re NOWHERE to be found. I have a fairly large apartment, but unless he’s storing them in a vent or something, they’re just straight up missing. Either way, I should have some update tonight!
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Reminds me of Broadcity when Ilana’s ex steals her remote for his shrine he made out of her underwear
That is definitely odd…does he have long hair? Or a cat?
He might be using them for CBT on himself (and no, not the therapy).
Guilty. I have often taken one from my wife and put it on the gear shifter in my car. Rough day? Angelic smelling scrunchie to the rescue.
It’s the small things……
You should read that story about the guy whose girlfriend kept stealing his stuff and kept a box of it on top her closet. Check if your used qtips and nail clippings go missing too.
Has he ever mentioned preferring you with your hair down?
I’d very casually say “Have you seen my pink scrunchie? I swear I left it right here.” If he says no, say something about being concerned about your landlord and thinking about putting a security camera inside.
NGL, I’d be getting a spy cam and set it up in the living room aimed at a place I kept a stash of scrunchies and wait and see.
Seriously though, have you asked him about it?
If he is taking them, this is a huge red flag. he’s either deliberately messing with you to make you think you are going crazy or he’s just an ass who thinks its funny to take shit that doesn’t belong to him or finds pranks funny.
Next time he is at your place, ask him “have you seen my blue scrunchie”, or whatever color is missing.
Have you asked him?
Fellow long haired female here.
Maybe he is throwing them away because he doesn’t like it when you have your hair up. His logic is that if they disappear you won’t put your hair up. And he is a stupid little man and doesn’t understand that you have to put your hair up so you don’t get it in your face and get stuck in things.
He doesn’t understand that long hair move around and think that you’re using it as a “fashion statement” (which is totally ok, I love scrunchies!)
My dog takes them and hide them under the couch. Scrunchies and socks.
Every once in a while we need to pull out the couch to reclaim all our socks and scrunchies.
You sure it’s not your dog?
Well. All the dots? When connected…. seem to point at your boyfriend stealing your scrunchies
Is nefarious scrunchy sequestration a break up worthy offense ?? Maybe ??
Stealing or reorganizing your stuff … Definitely heading towards break up territory
Ask him if he knows anything about it.
Set a scrunchy trap if you want absolute “proof” before your discussion with boyfriend
There is a small chance that there’s someone else involved but you don’t need reasonable doubt here …
His pubic hair has grown unmanageable?
Maybe try this, just to judge reaction:
Insert into a conversation: “I think I want a pixie cut…” pause for reaction.
There’s this thing I saw on TikTok or somewhere where dudes toss scrunchies in their friends’ cars when they’re not looking, like on the floor or back seat, and then their girlfriends find the scrunchie (that they know isn’t theirs) and it starts a fight or whatever. Maybe Tim is satan.
Updateme
Just ask him. Rather than all the negative assumptions, my guess is that he doesn’t know why there are random hair scrunchies everywhere and is moving them. My husband used to get driven crazy by me moving his stuff that he left out on counters constantly until he finally said that’s where he preferred to keep it so he doesn’t lose things. I thought I was being helpful by cleaning up after him, but I was driving him batty.
Buy a large package of scrunchies and put them in a big bowl on your countertop or dining room table
Place the bowl in front of a discretely placed nanny cam
Then just wait and watch
If he finds the camera, tell him you think your dog is stealing your scrunchies and you put the camera up to try and figure out how the dog is getting them and where he is hiding them
At no point ever admit you bought the camera to spy on him
Tell him you assumed it was the dog and wanted to catch him because you thought it would be a funny video to post to TikTok
IF he flips his shit and accuses you of spying on him, that is a pretty good indicator he is tossing them
Didn’t someone on here say their bf was THROWING THEM OUT because he thought they were single use??! Maybe that
… does he have long hair?
Best solution is directly asking. Playing games about spy cams and stuff just sets you up to be equally as insane as scrunchie theft. If you dont trust the answer just dump him.
I read online that narcissists (way over used, I know) often will steal or hide things like phone chargers and then enjoy the chaos of you looking for it. It also works to make you start questioning yourself. That way when you question their cheating/lying they say “oh please you can’t even remember where your phone charger is in your own apartment, your memory is terrible”. This is a huge red flag.
One lady found a bag full of phone chargers hidden in the garage after a separation, the guy had been taking them and hiding them by his tools where she would never look. Then, she would get mad at her kids thinking they were using and not putting back her chargers. He watched her yell at her kid’s about it too. Had her thinking she had a bad memory, was crazy, all kinds of stuff.
I read a story where a girl felt she was going crazy because she couldn’t find any of her gazillion bobby pins. It turned out her boyfriend thought they were a one time use thing and would throw them away when he found them. He genuinely was clueless and was super embarrassed when the girlfriend said they are very much reusable. Maybe something like that is happening with your boyfriend?
Everyone is making light of this but it sounds like he’s a gaslighter.
Or he’s “tidying up” and put them all together somewhere
There is a possibility that your dog is reacting to the change (boyfriend) and taking the scrunchies because they have so much of your smell, even though it’s a new behavior! Probably weird boyfriend stuff but I would look around your house in “dog” spots where they could be hidden. My dog has only ever destroyed up two things: a flip flop, and a favorite hair clip, both crimes committed when one of her favorite people wasn’t around as much and she was looking for them everywhere.
Of course stashing scrunchies or hair ties around your house doesn’t sounds weird, but I’m a woman so I get it.
I unintentionally stash them everywhere because I take one off and set it down and then forget about it. But they are all over, and I’m always so please when I find one when I need it.
My husband has learned from my ouch ouch you’re on my hair comments so he never messes with my hair tie trail around our living spaces, even though I know he likes when my hair is down. But sometime it’s just gotta go up and away.
Maybe he’s trying ( the wrong way) to get you to let your hair down.
Hate to say it but my first thought is he’s stealing them to masturbate with 😬
I met up with a guy once and after the date my favorite velvet scrunchie was missing. I looked everywhere for it and then finally asked him if he’d seen it or it maybe got lost in his car. He said he “took it as a souvenir” and would give it back the next time we went out. I decided I didn’t want to see him again, so I was out my favorite velvet scrunchie. Idk why your bf would take so many, maybe he likes your hair down better, but why would he care if you’re doing chores in the privacy of your own home using a scrunchie to keep your hair out of the way? If he’s not even there, why would he care? But I 100% agree, this new bf is taking them for some reason.
I really want the UpdateMe on this one.
I think you should mention casually how weird it is that all of your scrunchies are going missing, especially when you have them EVERYWHERE. Maybe tell him how strange it is that they went missing from one particular place that you don’t actually have them, and see if one shows back up in that location.
Like in between a sofa cushion. Let’s see if he “finds one” there!
After just casually mentioning that You think you’re going crazy as your scrunchies are disappearing and gauging his reaction….I would have them somewhere obvious and have a nanny cam or something like that trained on them. Hopefully there’s a reasonable explanation but if he is in fact taking them that would mean to me that he’s trying to mess with me and gaslight me. And if it’s that he likes your hair down that’s still out of line and You should dump him. You don’t take someone’s stuff because you have a preference about their hair. Hopefully that’s not the case though…..
Lol. Time for a pixie cut because, “I can’t stand all that hair in my face and I keep losing scrunchies!” See what he says then. What a dick.
Scrunchie fetesh. Doing dirty things with them
UpdateMe!
RemindMe!
Steal his wallet. When he mentions it, bring up that you’ve noticed the apartment is making stuff disappear… your 14 scrunchies are still missing.
Ask him to buy you some scrunchies. If he does it youre good. If something weird happens… dump him.
Hmm 🤔 maybe he puts them on his ding dong when he’s bored
He’s masturbating with them, wrapping them around his balls or something.
I have so many ideas. All of which are fighting fire with fire so if that’s not your thing then disregard.
Option 1: Shave your head. Tell him it’s because you couldn’t find any scrunchies and couldn’t pull your hair back, so you figured why not just shave it off. Await his reaction. (If you don’t want to actually shave your head consider a realistic bald cap)
Option 2: Steal his socks one by one, take one sock from each pair so he slowly goes mad because he can never find matching socks.
Option 3: Start doing weird stuff in his apartment. Place a bible in the middle of his bed. Make a picture on the wall crooked. If there’s something he always places in a specific spot, you move that item and put it in a different spot. He will think the place is haunted.
Option 4: Buy an abnormal amount of scrunchies. Place them in a drawer at his place. Add some weird shit to the drawer too like a voodoo doll or crystals or piece of your hair. Open the drawer and scream and ask in horror why he has a scrunchie shrine.
Option 5: Get a camera and set it up in your apartment. Get footage of him stealing scrunchies. Create a compilation video. Tell him there’s a YouTube video or movie or something you want to watch. Then BAM it’s actually a compilation of his scrunchie heists.
Option 6: Just ask him why the f*ck he keeps stealing your scrunchies (this is the least exciting option, and therefore not recommended).
Okay I am going to comment to say this could be a red flag & potentially a controlling/misogynistic thing. “She leaves her girlie products all over the place what a mess, she doesn’t need so many of them, I’m going to toss them to show her”.
Why are you asking strangers on the internet? Maybe try communicating with your bf?
He probably doesn’t like the look of them and is throwing them out.
No joke, but in the late 90s some women’s magazine suggested using a scrunchie for a cock ring.
Do you really want to be official with Tim when he clearly has some strange behavior going on?! Maybe suggest that you need a therapist. Why? To understand how to trust someone and deal with someone who is stealing or throwing away my hair scrunchies. Then, just look him in the eye. And then wait quietly and patiently.
I have not read much of the comments, but am I the only one who immediately thought “he’s wrapping them on his dick”?
is your bf a cat?
He jacks off with them. He really likes your ponytail.
There was another post similar to this where someone found out their BF was throwing away their hair ties because he thought they were “single use” and just litter she left around the apartment…
In other cases, I’ve seen people deliberately do stuff like this to prep their gfs to all the gaslighting they were planning to do to them and seeing how gullible they were. I hope this isn’t the case but those stories are always in the back of my mind when I hear things like this.
I fully want to believe he’s three ferrets in a trench coat.
My ex used them as cock rings 🤷♀️
Yes, you’re dating a ferret. Please, provide him with fresh water daily. Ha!
Please give us the update after the conversation. I am fascinated.
I knew someone who used scrunchies to close chip bags and the like. But like youd notice that so idk
YOU: You planning a man bun?
HIM: ???
YOU: Well my scrunchies seem to really like you, and migrating to your place.
🤣 Who knows, I can’t imagine a single plausible reason for scrunchie theft.
Is he using them to tie up bags of chips? That’s where mine go. Drives me crazy.
Buy one made of thick material, slice it open and stuff an AirTag in it and sew it back up. See what happens to it.
Put glitter on them lol
I didn’t wear scrunchies, but my ex had multiple jars of all the ones he had stolen over the years. He thought he was so fucking cute to do it, laughed about watching girls (mostly high school) get frustrated. It was one of those things I just said “hmm” to, during the early relationship energy. In hindsight, people who violate small boundaries will violate big boundaries.
Im just throwing my guess out there— this sounds like some petty girl shi-. Does he have a sister, or a girl best friend that comes over a lot when you’re not there?
I’m a veterinarian. I once removed 10 hair ties from a cat’s stomach. I suspect the dog.
He’s definitely wearing them as cockrings.
Casually mention that since all your scrunches are disappearing you’ll just have to get a pixie cut
I had a coworker that was married to a man that hated when she put her hair up in a ponytail. NOT saying he is stealing them, but maybe moving them so you can’t put your hair up?