For background sake, we have been married for 10 years. This behavior is pretty recent.
This really isn’t that bad but I was hoping someone could have an explanation? Because I ask her about this and she just denies it but we don’t have kids so it can only be her.
In the last year or so, I’ve been discovering the tie strings for my pajama pants have been disappearing. It can only be her removing these because we don’t have kids and I’m the only one who actually has to leave the house to go to work, so she’s alone in the house a lot. Her pants still have all their strings but none of mine do. I have bought more pants to replace the ones with missing strings but those eventually go missing too.
We have a good relationship, and idk why she denies it when I ask about it. It’s really not that big of a deal so I don’t really press the issue. It’s just really bizarre. She is a bit of a prankster and so am I. But idk what the point of the prank is if this is indeed some sort of practical joke.
Does anyone else have any experience with this sort of thing?
UPDATE: Ok so I just got home and checked inside the waistbands of all my pajama pants. I only have 5 of them so it didn’t take long. No strings in them so they definitely didn’t retract. I need to get some sleep so I’ll check the washer drum and filter when I wake up.
UPDATE 2: Someone in the comments suggested maybe my cat had been taking them out and hiding them since cats tend to have hiding spots. One of his is under the couch. I just checked and I found one there. It’s just one but it’s a start! I’m going to check his other spots too.
UPDATE 3: Ok so when my wife woke up I told her about finding a string in our cat’s hiding spot. She was amused and wanted to help me look at his other spots for them too. Well, none of his other known spots had them. But, she noticed something weird about the back of our other couch. It had a small hole in the bottom of it. I shined a flashlight in the hole and found a whole bunch of random stuff in there! We took the cushion off this section of the couch and cut a hole next to the spring and VOILA! We found his true secret stash! ALL MY STRINGS WERE THERE! Not only that but we found pretty much all of my wife’s missing smaller squishmallows and her missing AirPods. We even found a missing pendant that we’ve been trying to find for years! I’m going to buy her a box of chocolate.
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Maybe they just get ripped off in the wash? Do you keep buying the same pants? No idea why she would do something like this.
are you by chance… married to winston bishop?
Maybe hers are sewn on, I’ve discovered many/most men’s drawstring pants have real strings and girls pants only look like they do
Are they actually cut? Or are they coming out?
You need to tie big knots at the ends
I had a few leggings ruined like this, but it came from our old washing machine.
If you don’t find the string is it possible they have gone inside the pants? I have a couple pair the string slips inside of and I use a safety pin to get them out.
Also do you have pets at all?
They’re probably going missing in the laundry. Most women’s draw strings are sewn in.
So I had this and i found out if they can be pulled out easy and are not sewn in the washing machine and removes them I’ve had them wrapped around other clothes or in the drum. My other half has shorts and the Metal end of his shorts gets stuck in the drum small holes takes ages to wiggle it out 😂. So it could be the washing machine or have a feel around the waist band Incase they are inside get a pencil and put it though and see if it catches it.
Are they disappearing into the waistband? That happens if they don’t have big knots or aiglets at the end.
Tie the strings together before putting in the washing machine, apologise to your wife.
Are you sure you’re not living in a mental hospital and your wife is actually a hallucination, like in some crappy movie
If you don’t tie them up before putting them in the wash they’re probably just receding into the band. This is very common with drawstrings. It’s slightly less common on women’s pyjamas because they often have fake drawstrings.
I wear men’s and women’s pants. The women’s ones are more likely to have the string sewn to the clothes in some area, where my men’s joggers tend to lose their strings quicker. I’m taking everything from pajama pants to joggers. Only men’s pants that I haven’t had the string disappear on are the champion or puma ones.
Occam’s razor. Why think your wife is planing some conspiracy around your pant strings with no other evidence other than missing strings, when the answer could just be that the strings weren’t secured? Dude get some help before you tank your marriage over pant string
My brother had cats that would bite the shoe laces off shoes. They would look like they were cut with the scissors.
Imagine blaming your wife because you don’t understand how drawstrings work
Get a needle & thread and tack your drawstring to the waistband in the back.
It won’t come our on the wash or be able to be pulled out.
Have you checked to see if the string is IN the waistband & just needs to be pulled out again?
This is the best thing I’ve read in a while, and I really needed something to laugh about. Sorry, maybe there is some explanation outside of your wife doing it, but I’m secretly hoping she is cutting them on purpose just to remind you that she’s in charge. That’s what you get for assigning her your dirty laundry.
She wants a ‘No strings attached relationship’ OP. Read the signs. Good luck.
Do you have cats ? Sometimes, my cat’s will get their claws on strings from clothing.
I don’t have a wife and all my hoodies/drawstring pants lose their strings in the laundry anyway, so that’s something to consider…
Have you gotten a little thicker around the middle lately?
I was just about to comment and ask if you have a cat until I saw your update. My cat does this exact thing and he only does it to my clothes because they smell like me. It’s infuriating but also so cute I can’t even get mad at him.
I don’t think it’s her unless you both have a history of pranks. Do you have any reason to not trust her word? I’d be upset if my partner wouldn’t believe me if I deny this.
Where do you put the pants when you are away? Can your pets access them? Both cats and dogs love to chew those strings, her pants probably have the strings sewn in because women’s fashion is super biased towards aesthetics vs functionality.
My relationship advice is to buy her favorite ice cream and wine and apologize for making a fuss and not trusting her.
It’s hilarious OP really thought his wife was doing it at first😂😂
Why is your first instinct to distrust your wife☠️
If you have a cat it’s your cats fault. Same thing happens to some of mine. They’re in the laundry with strings one day, and the next time wash them the strings have disappeared and a small beast shits out a suspicious pink satin cord. Because of the way that the pants move, if they chew them off right to the end, any shift in the pants really just pulls the nub into the holes.
Thank you for the updates. This made my day.
I’m glad I found this post after the three updates. That sounds hilarious!
This is the funniest, most wholesome thing I’ve ever seen on this board.
Are you not ashamed for calling your wife a liar sooner than remembering cats like to play with string?
Someone needs to add this wild ride to BORU. This was so wholesome haha
> We found his true secret stash! ALL MY STRINGS WERE THERE! Not only that but we found pretty much all of my wife’s missing smaller squishmallows and her missing AirPods. We even found a missing pendant that we’ve been trying to find for years! I’m going to buy her a box of chocolate.
Your cat is gonna be PISSED about losing their hoard…btw is their name Smaug?
The cat burglar framed the wife. I think she deserves more than a box of chocolates.
Cats are cleptos, my aunts cat stole beanies babies and hair clips from us. I found her stash at 21 she’d Been robbing all the kids for years lol 😆 . Catlived to be 24 so we grew up visiting her and my aunt
This may be the best update I’ve ever seen.
I now want to find your wive’s forum asking why her husband would be stealing her AirPods and all these other trinkets 😂
I love the update!!!!
Shortly after adopting a cat I noticed my phone chargers going missing. It was the same charger for my husbands new vape but a different one than his phone uses. I thought it was suspicious that my chargers were going missing after he had a need for them and I kept accusing him of stealing them.
He kept denying it and I didn’t believe him until we moved the couch one day and all my missing phone chargers were there along with other things my cat likes to play with. I felt so bad.