He’s not quite two years old, and I discovered my shoes in the garbage and my wife’s hairbrush in the toilet this morning.
Haven’t told her about the brush yet. It’s wooden, so I don’t know if bleaching it will destroy the finish on it. Any suggestions?
Need answer kinda fast.
Can’t answer your question, but when I was that age, my dad had a machine shop in the garage. At one point, there was a horrible stink in the garage, whose source couldn’t be located for a few weeks. Until my dad opened up a panel on the side of his mill and found a couple of my milk bottles stashed inside.
Suggestions for what, the kid or the brush?
Vigorously apply one to the posterior of the other to prevent recurrences of the behavior.
Yeah, this is a fun stage. It’s why I own two watches.
elastic bandages, your stuff will stay safe and the kid will get isometric exercise.
My nephew used to hide things in the oven. Imagine my mom’s surprise at the smell when she pre-heated the oven and opened it to find several plastic toys.
Good luck
About your wife’s hairbrush, just wash it with soap and hot water. There are fewer germs in the toilet than in the kitchen sink.
We think the remote from the TV was hidden in the garbage. Twelve+ months on, there’s no sign of it - we expected it to turn up when we recarpeted the entire house and had to move everything. Nope.
We did find her shoes hidden in the garbage, fortunately.
My car keys vanished for six weeks before turning up under a couch cushion… despite my repeated searches of the couch in the interim. Fortunately I had a spare car key. Unfortunately it was at my parents house and I had to take a taxi to collect it.
Toddlers. Small sacks of awesomeness.
I came home from work the other day and my wife told me ours carried off an avocado while she was washing dishes. A few minutes later he was playing with his truck, no sign of the avocado. Later I found it in the bottom drawer of the oven.
She found her wallet in a trash can (which we’re not using for exactly that reason).
And we’ve stopped him from trying to put a roll of toilet paper and then the tv remote into a full bathtub.
Going to move this to IMHO.
I remember when my niece discovered the toilet. Hairbrushes, watches, phones, remotes, keys.
You name it, she flushed it.
They grow out of it eventually. Usually. 
This toddler tendency led directly to me hacking my Wii - my daughter simultaneously developed the twin interests of pushing buttons and putting things in the trash. Unfortunately, one of the accessible buttons she could reach was the eject button on the Wii.
Thus, our Super Mario Galaxy II disc is assumed to have found its way into the trash, and all of our Wii games are now safely loaded from a USB drive.
Cecil discusses germs in the toilet and elsewhere.
An excerpt:
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As Professor Gerba’s research would later determine, however, the bathroom was hardly the most dangerous part of the house, microbe-wise. The real pesthole: the kitchen sponge or dishcloth, where fecal coliform bacteria from raw meat and such could fester in a damp, nurturing (for a germ) environment. Next came the kitchen sink, the bathroom sink, and the kitchen faucet handle. The toilet seat was the least contaminated of 15 household locales studied. “If an alien came from space and studied the bacterial counts,” the professor says, “he probably would conclude he should wash his hands in your toilet and crap in your sink.”
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My kid used to shove money into the slots in the VCR and computer.
Yeah, I was going to say some kid proofing is in order.