Mother has no respect for my privacy!

I am so angry, my mum just went through my things in my bedroom 'looking for the remote' and came across my padlocked box (hidden at the very back of one of my drawers) to which I keep private things. I was in the shower she then banged on the door demanding to know what was in there and rattling it about. I am seriously at my wits end. But the annoying thing is that SHE is the one angry at ME cos she thinks i'm hiding something! I'm eighteen!! I'm moving out in September but have no where to go until then. I have tried sitting down with her and talking about it but she's the one who gets angry at me saying I'm hiding stuff. She opens my mail and reads my texts. The reason I bought the padlocked box in the first place was so she wouldn't be able to go through my things but I guess this has not worked. I'm so worked up right now, and I know for a fact as soon as i'm off to college tomorrow she will somehow manage to break into the padlocked box cause that is what she's like. When I was a bit younger she went through my phone and found some messages to an ex that were slightly 'naughty' and went mental at me, didn't talk to me for weeks even though she invaded my privacy, she doesn't even care about that. I could forgive her then however as I wasn't legally an adult but now i'm nearly nineteen I am so angry, I can't stop shaking.

Has anyone ever been in this situation?

What's in the box?

WHAT'S IN THE BOX??!?!


This thread has no answers. Until I have further notice I will assume the box contains OP's collection of toenail clippings.

Lol why are you now giving advice to hide stuff
You just spent ages slagging people off who get annoyed when their parents go through their things.

You've clearly just never had any privacy from your parents, don't worry, you'll get loads when you move out

whas the use for a door then? to stop someone or something from coming in.

I don't think thats the point of the thread. I just wanted to know if other people had been in this situation.

erm cose thas just common sense, if you really have issues about privacy then obviusly you should hide it so it isnt getting attention.

And yes i do get privacy from my parents and thas why i aint the one that is complaining about privacy issues =/

As mentioned earlier, walls insulate the house by reducing loss of electrical heat and draft. Now, of course we could have walled-houses without doors, but that wouldn't be particularly intelligent. In regard to windows, they also let in natural light.

Agreed!

Yeah but you've contradicted yourself, you were preaching about how it was acceptable for people's parents to look through their things and how we shouldn't hide stuff then you said that.

No you don't get privacy. You said your parents look through your things. That's not privacy.

i wasnt talking about hidden objects, in this case the box is obviously in sight and has a padlock on it there for raising curiousity in the parents mind this can obviously be avoided by hiding it so it cannot be seen in the first place, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

If it was hidden objects then i dont see how they would have any reason to go through your stuff for which they dont even know about unless you were a trouble child and they were worried about you.

Well the OP said the box wasn't on direct display and that the mother was 'looking for the remote' so don't write in capital letters like I'm an idiot, because I'm not. You've taken this thread completely off topic with your contradictive and nonsensical views

I don't know how to respond to that second paragraph because you have completely changed your views since you first started posting, probably because you realised you were wrong.

No i havent taken it off topic, its all the people that complained about my original post that have taken it off topic so DONT BLAME ME haha, and no i aint wrong, its not my fault if you people are too stubburn to understand my point... read my original post and read the rest of them and you will see that i aint changed my mind.

its basicly like the whole world can call a normal person mad and then he will be "mad", i aint really bothered im pretty sure what i said was helpful (unless was a reply to idiots who commented on other aspects of what i was writing).

no offence to any of u lots , but ur all typical white people =/ what u lots crying bout privacy against the person that raised you, ur still living in there house and what ever is inside it belongs to them basicly and even if your "paying" to be there its still there property and they have the right to know the contents of it. BTW putting a padlock on a box does tempt curiousity obviously anyone would want to know whats inside it once they have seen it, cose its a bit like saying "theres something in hear that your not allowed to see" and thas like the dumbest thing u could say to ur parents since after that they WILL want to see whats inside it. Anyways bout hiding what ever ur hiding it makes more sense to hide somewhere where no one ever goes or somewhere hard to get to gl.... neg rep the hell out of me roflmao cose the truth hurts!

your first post was:



How is that helpful? I don't think I need to say anymore tbh.

no offence to any of u lots , but ur all typical white people =/ what u lots crying bout privacy against the person that raised you, ur still living in there house and what ever is inside it belongs to them basicly and even if your "paying" to be there its still there property and they have the right to know the contents of it. BTW putting a padlock on a box does tempt curiousity obviously anyone would want to know whats inside it once they have seen it, cose its a bit like saying "theres something in hear that your not allowed to see" and thas like the dumbest thing u could say to ur parents since after that they WILL want to see whats inside it. Anyways bout hiding what ever ur hiding it makes more sense to hide somewhere where no one ever goes or somewhere hard to get to gl.... neg rep the hell out of me roflmao cose the truth hurts!

yeh you should learn to read...