My visitors seemed to enjoy unpacking boxes from when we moved and then moving things around on us.
Let me set this up for you. I was out in the barn/garage with one of the visitors. We have a plastic shelving system that is torn apart and the shelves are on the floor with boxes on them and covered in a plastic sheet. The boxes are on the shelves because the barn floor gets wet and having cardboard boxes on it just seems like a bad idea.
Visitor: Oh, don't cover those up! I was going to take the plastic shelves and put them up in your basement so I can put the kitchen stuff on it.
Me: The boxes are too heavy for us to carry in and they need to be on the shelves because the barn leaks.
Guess what...the shelves are now up in the basement and after going through all of the boxes that are still packed, a few of the shelves have stuff on them. I just wanted them to STOP GOING THROUGH MY STUFF!!
Then I walked upstairs this morning and shouted down at my husband, "hey, did you bring this little box upstairs?"
Him, "No"
Which means visitor (same one the above box situation happened with) decided the box didn't need to be where we left it and should be upstairs.
We also know that there are some mice in the house, but Ben doesn't want to lay poison because he is worried a mouse in the wall will smell. So, after having this discussion with the visitors one of them took it upon them self to go buy mouse poison while we were at the store. Just let us run our house the way we want! We don't go into your house and change things so please do us the favor and treat our house the same way
:yikes::yikes::yikes: That's outrageous!!!!!!!!! I can't imagine anyone I know who would have the gall to do something like that. I think, if I were in your shoes and if
only I were more assertive than I am, I'd want to say something like, "Ummmm, No. Leave the boxes and my stuff where they are. Even if you're trying to help, I don't want help and it is not your place to touch my stuff." And if they
still persisted, I'd want to say, (but I probably wouldn't) "I'm sorry, but you've worn out your welcome. Please leave." But I'm too much of a chicken.
And I'd probably not know what to do, just like you. Alas...:dunno: Maybe next time, you'll be braver or better yet, avoid having them over at all. LOL. YeeGawds! that's just incredible.
I like having visitors. I've never had any visitors who are anything less than agreeable. But yeah....if it's a rather long stay, it is indeed nice to have my space back to myself. It makes me appreciate living alone even more. But then again...I wouldn't like to be alone all the time, like I was back in Priest Lake. I do value my visitors and am quite sociable while at the same time, am quite content to have an abundance of alone time.