50 Snooping Parents Who Accidentally Uncovered A Side Of Their Teen They Weren’t Ready For

Found while cleaning: a Costco sized bag of grated Parmesan cheese with a spoon in it, sitting next to his bed.

Idk if it’s “weird”.

But I found out my son is queer. Didn’t say anything. But he came out about a month later. I’m the only one who knows (outside of his lil friend) and I’m just glad he felt comfortable telling me .

Gave him lots of love & affirmations.

My wife accidentally found a half rotten whole cucumber stuffed between my at the time 15 y/o step daughters bed and the wall.

She wasn't even snooping intentionally. She was sitting on the bed talking to her and her phone slipped down there so she reached in to grab it.

I wish I could have seen the look of horror on either of their faces in that moment. Three years later and my wife and I still announce "these cucumbers are for eating" whenever we are putting groceries away.

In my personal history, in high school I had a big, like 4 foot tall PVC type hookah for smoking weed that I kept hidden in my closet. My mom searched my room and threw it away while I was at school one day. However we lived in an apartment complex so I went and fished it out of the dumpster. A couple of months later she threw it away again and I went and got it back again. She kind of gave up after that.

So, there were a few instances where I had to go into my stepsons room to look for something. He came into my life when he was 11 so this was maybe 12 or 13. Found a box of women's underwear all stretched out, including one of mine. I put it back and told his Dad. It started when he was 7 his Dad said, but he was an a*****e narcissist that I divorced a few years ago, so who knows. So, I had the pleasure of finding that box a few times over the years. The last time he was prob 17 and about to or had graduated. I got home from work and found my bureau had been sooo obviously rifled thru. I was so mad and felt so violated. Also, very angry. He wasn't home yet so I was like, ok, let's see how he likes it. Oh, the s**t I found. 4 or 5 big d**dos, lots of stretched out underwear, women's clothes, tampons. The list goes on. I had a talk with him about how violated I felt and how when his guy friends catch him stealing their gf's thong life is gonna be different. No matter how caring, loving, and nice you are you are always gonna be the guy that steals panties. I told him I couldn't make him stop and as long as he's not hurting anyone I don't care. What a feeling a helplessness.

A container of the cat's shredded nails.

I have 2 boys. I generally try to avoid going through their rooms unless it's absolutely necessary.

So background information is they're not allowed to take food in their rooms. They're allowed to snack or whatever, I just want them to do it at the dining table and clean up after themselves.

All the spoons disappeared. I found them and a bunch of pudding cups in my oldest's nightstand.

House started to stink. The air return goes through my youngest son's closet. I looked and found a suitcase full of half eaten food that was turning into a science project. He'd sneak food in his room and think he was about to get caught, so he'd stash the scraps in the suitcase and toss it in his closet

Oldest moved out for college, the stink arose. I found a pint of Ben& Jerry's sitting on a shelf in his closet.

A full human t**d inside of an empty face wipe container. No toilet paper. I was more concerned than if I had found a baggie of pot.

My mom found a Tanya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan skit I was writing for my 6th grade class. She made a copy and she and my dad laughed about it for years.

A coworker found a small jar hidden in her son's room filled with his j**z.

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. Wasn’t really snooping, was trying to recover some missing dishes.