Dear Abby advises a reader on what to do when her sister visits her home and items go missing when she leaves.
I’m having a problem with my sister, who visits me on the average of once a month. She lives four hours away. Her friend and her husband accompany her. They are my only company. I used to enjoy them but no longer. After their visits, stuff is always missing from my house — a hairbrush, my dog’s electric nail file, random dishes and plates, rat traps, laundry detergent packets, dollar store craft items, etc.
Abby, I hid the laundry detergent packets, but she found them, and I knew she took them. When I confronted her, she angrily denied it and insisted I was accusing her of things she never did and would never do. When I told her about the beads, she said she never saw them and didn’t know what I was talking about.
After that, I didn’t see her for about three months. We made up, and she did it again! Her husband knows. I set a trap for her friend previously, and she didn’t steal anything. My sister was bringing her dirty laundry with her to wash at my house in order to save on her water and electric bill.
