His toiletry projects? Wellllllll, lets see. He played in a $15 container of product similar to pomade that I had. Yes, played. Dug a lot of it out made designs in it and finally just filled the container with water. Used a full bottle of my conditioner to Wash. His. Feet. He's cut the cords off of 2 or 3 of my curling irons. He dug out all of the powder in my compact, slid a pair of my clip on sunglasses that came with my glasses and made something. Not sure what it was but he made it. (And left the pile of scrapped out powder on the floor) Other things have been using my stuff (facial scrub, shampoo, whatever) constantly without asking and using waaaaay too much than he needs, to the point that it's wasteful. If he would just ask, a lot of the times I would let him use some of my stuff but he won't ask. If he sees it, wants it, it's gone. We've tried making a stuff box for him. Anything from around the house that could be used by him for his projects would go into the box and I even brought funky stuff from work. (I work in a Body Shop). It kind of worked but eventually he would "shop" around the house to add to the box. He's also got into the habit of using whatever cleaning product he can get his hands on to clean whatever. He recently used full strength CLR to Clean. His. Shoes. On my bathmat. The stuff ate a hole right through the bath mat.....I'm surprised he didn't fry his hands and his shoes in the process. (Don't tell him though but I've been taking advantage of that hole! There is part of it where the fuzz is gone but there is still some hardened backing showing through. I have a spot on my foot that always itches and it's hard to find something to scratch it "just right" and that spot on the bath mat works great! lol )
We've tried so many things to harness his creativeness but he either loses interest in our solutions (many of which he's either come up with himself or contributed to the idea) or went so far outside of the boundaries that we set that it became ineffective. I've pretty much just resigned myself to the fact that I only replace things on an as needed basis, lock up what I can and not bring anything "nice" into the house until he is no longer living here.
