Not “outsiders”, but I do have a couple of relatives who are major snoops and gossips and would love to go thru our things.
Yes and no.
- the only valuables I worry about are my guns, but those stay in a safe anyway.
- I’m not on any medications.
- I don’t throw any parties.
So I think I’m good 
Yes, this. If you have opiates around, please do hide them. Not my issue, thanks be, but I hear a lot of recovering addicts talk about this particular temptation. They don’t want to go through your medicine cabinet, but they might, and it’s a gift to them not to find anything. And, truly, you might not have a clue about their struggles.
We don’t leave anything like that in the guest bathroom. Party guests have no business going into the bathroom where prescription drugs are stored, and it’s far enough away from the “public” parts of the house that no one would do it by mistake.
We do hide any booze when my MIL, a recovering alcoholic, visits. She won’t take it, but it is rude to put it in front of her. We don’t lock it, just put it out of sight.
I don’t have parties where I don’t know everyone coming over. When I throw a big party, it’s with friends and family I grew up with and know everything about. I do have a few family members who have addictions - in which case I will lock up expensive jewelry and pills so that they won’t be tempted. I’ve never had a problem of theft.
I just hosted a bridal shower for my SIL’s stepson’s fiancee. I’d never met her family before, and there were a slew of them.
Then you have sports fundraisers, political fundraisers, charity dinners, neighborhood cocktail parties, work pig roasts where people bring their spouses, you name it. Any party where you have servers, caterers and/or bartenders milling around.
I don’t have any prescription medications, valuables or large parties, so I’ve dodged that particular bullet.
whew
Thank god you never noticed.
I do a big Fourth of July bash. While I know everyone I invite at least casually (clients, acquaintances at church, etc.), they are encouraged to bring family and friends.
Plus, the neighbors also have their own parties and some years it’s like a big communal block party with guests wandering around.
Most of the festivities are outside, but the doors are unlocked so people can get to the bathrooms.
Something else to think about. A few years back, my parents had a new furnace installed in their house. My sister was home when they were doing it and (to make a long story short) wasn’t paying a ton of attention to them. She doesn’t know what they should and shouldn’t be doing. Later on, another family member got home and she asked what the HVAC guys would be doing [in other parts of the house]. That’s when they realized that every bathroom, closet and drawer had been looked through and just about all the drugs had been taken. There were two guys. Only one of them was poking around and probably made off with 40 or 50 Percocets and Vicodins.
All he had to do was say things like “I’m going to go up to the second floor to adjust the t-stat so the furnace kicks on” and as long as my sister said ‘okay’ and didn’t follow him around, he could do whatever he wanted up there. It wasn’t until my other sister got home and caught him in the closet and poking around in drawers.
It was interesting hearing him try to talk his way out of why he was in the kitchen or the second floor bathroom. His story was that he was ‘checking the pipes’.
So, it doesn’t just have to be a party or times when you’ve invited guests. It can happen any time there’s people in your house.