Anyone Else's House Full of Booby Traps?

Well, I don't have kids yet (working on that), but my HUSBAND loves to booby trap things and leave them for me (especially in the mornings because I'm so sleepy)!! In the last 2 months, he has:

1) tied my loofa to the shower door so I couldn't get it off (yes, I soaped it up anyway, no, it doesn't work)
2) hid the electric toothbrush and replaced it on the base with a tube of toothpaste (why is the toothpaste charging? and where the hell is the toothbrush? Oh, under that stack of towels. Great)
3) put a lemon in my lunch bag instead of an orange (thanks, now I'm hungry)

I HAVE to think of ways to get him back!!

LMAO!! That's so funny, and yes, my daughters shared room is always booby trapped. They love tying strings, ropes, ribbons on things, literally making trip wire... ugh.

My husband complains all the time because I'm always too tired at night to clean up the baby toys. I told him that was my booby trap for burglars... he laughed and agreed... MANY TIMES he's ventured out into the living room at night and just about died from stepping on stuff, LOL!!

ETA: Luna's husband made me laugh, because my guy is the same way. He used to tie string from the bedroom door handle (this is what I get for trying to sleep in), so when I went to pull the door open, it was wrapped around 1/2 the sh!t in the house, and everything would fall over! D'OH!

I got him back by taking his favorite baseball cap, putting it in a small personal cooler, filling it with water, and freezing his hat in a solid block of ice :)

One time I installed one of those nets to hold all of my daughters stuffed animals. Then a few months later I was calling upstairs for her and she didn't answer, so I went up and looked, and called, and searched everywhere. I could not find her anywhere....and then out of the corner of my eye I noticed a slight movement...she had taken out all the animals climbed into the net herself. She was 5 yrs old in KG. How those hooks held up I can only thank God.

My biggest complaint were the small Lego pieces that got left on the floor and I would step on with all my weight while going pee in the middle of the night, or walking through a room with a loaded laundry basket.

HAhaha... my son used to do all that stuff. I'm assuming that you have a son, right? Until he was about 9, he was always tying things. He still pulls out old shoestrings (from outgrown shoes and sometimes shoes he still wears, and he is 13) and uses them for things. It started out as Spiderman webs. He had one of those multi-articulated spiderman action figures, and he would tie the strings to his wrist and have him "swing" from his webs, lol. Then he'd tie them to his dresser knobs/drawer pulls. Then the closet doors. Then from the dresser across to the door knob. Then from some toy in the floor to the closet door. Then from this hanger in the closet to the bed post.
Now that he's older, he uses thumbtacks quite ingeniously. He sticks them on his corkboard with a string attached (naturally) and hangs things from them. Like "emergency" stuff. (an emergency flashlight anyone?) This is right next to his light switch. Or he has some in his ceiling that have shapes and pictures attached to the end of long strings. At one point he taped some strings to his ceiling fan so he could hear the "whoosh" when he turned it on.
Boys. ;)

ETA: okay.. I just had to come back and add this (yes 3 days later, lol). My son is homeschooled, he's 13. So I go crack open his bedroom door to see how things are going as he is busily working on his laptop at his desk on the far side of the room. He chats with me for a minute, then when I am straining to see from across the room exactly what lesson he is working on/what page is loading on his laptop, he reaches down and ever so subtly picks up a red shoelace and starts to sort of reel it in... as the door starts closing on me! He had rigged a string of them together, run it along the floor, up his bookcase against the wall and to the door handle, and he was pulling the door shut from across the room!!! LOL

My son(age 9) did one on purpose that was really funny and not dangerous. He tied clear fishing line onto a shelf behind his door, and then hung a plastic spider on the end. So when we went to close his door, it looks like a spider running up the door. Really surprised dad.
Other not-so-funny ones: tied a jump rope to the fence at recess and kids tripped over it. Used the base of a lamp as a plate for a half-eaten lollipop. Used a pinball game as a plate for an ice cream sandwich. Plugged in a desk lamp across the doorway from the desk. Attached a long wire that went around his room as a radio antenna. A blanket fort using the handles of the dresser and books on the bookshelf as supports. Lost his glasses between the bed and the wall, and when I went to find them... grrrr.... there was a random pile of sewing needles, small lightbulbs, chewed gum, and wires.

I opened my daughters closet to find sharpened pencils ready to swing directly into my face from an ACTUAL booby trap.

Mine doesn't leave surprises, but he is a "hoarder" and will steal mine and my husband's clothing and belongings and hide them in his room....

DS isn't doing this as yet. Too young, but Hubs and I worked on eliminating some of our own long standing booby traps. I replaced all our mugs and glasses with ones which neatly and safely nest so that they don't come crashing down when you pull one off the shelf.

Yesterday, I hit the open button on the DVD player to remove a disk, and a bunch of red crayons popped out. Don't even get me started about stepping on mega blocks when I get up at 3:00 am to pee. We are always searching for batteries removed from remote controls and such.

Two years ago on April 1st my daughter added chocolate syrup to the milk. Unsuspecting Dad added the milk directly to the pancake mix without uisng a measuring cup. He threw it out and started again. I wonder how they would've tasted.

:)