Like the new strapless bra I got just before our wedding. I needed a new bra to go under my dress and especially needed it before I could get my dress adjusted. SD15 knew this because she was with DH and I when I got it. Two days later I picked up the bag with my dress, shoes and bra in it to take to the dress makers and decided to check to make sure everything was in there. The bra was missing but I know that I put it in the bag. I tore our room apart looking for it but it had vanished. I also looked all over the house and searched SD15 and SD14's rooms but could not find it. I told my DH that I thought one of them had taken it but he just said he couldn't see why they would do that as it wouldn't fit them (I have quite a large bust and they are about a B cup). They have taken things from me before and been caught when I found the missing items in their rooms but apparently they are now smart enough to get rid of the evidence. Also SD15 has been caught many times trying to create problems between my DH amd I. I later found out that one of her friends had been giving her ideas on how to make me look bad. When her nanna flew over from New Zealand and was staying with us a few years ago, she put her ipod in our room in one of my drawers and kept asking me if I knew where it was and of course I didn't know anything about it. She took her nanna into our room one day when we weren't at home and showed her where the ipod was. My SS said he couldn't find his playing cards and told her that he thought I had taken them. He looked through his room with his nanna watching him but couldn't find them. Later on they mysteriously reappeared in a place that he had already looked according to his nanna. She now thinks that I take things from them for the fun of it despite me explaining that if I take something from them, I tell them I have taken it, why I have taken it and when they can have it back. The youngest, SD14, hid my razor from me once but I found it on top of her wardrobe. When they get caught they just say they didn't take it and I must have put it there. They have been through our room countless other times and taken things which have been found later in their rooms. My stepson moved out last year but I still have to contend with the scheming of my two SD's. I don't know if it will work but I recently took some of their things and told them that they can have them back when I find out what happened to my bra. Its just the last straw for me and very upsetting as I have been trying to get along with them for the past 4 years. I had to buy another bra for the wedding and couldn't get the same one which fitted me perfectly and it just seems so ungrateful of them to do something like this and keep smiling and pretending that they are happy about the marriage. I suppose they would be happy having a dress, shoes and jewelery bought for them. By the way I'm new to steptalk,I live in australia and I have been reading posts for a while and decided to finally start posting. So good to know that I am not alone and there are others out there with rotten, schemimg skids as well. Any suggestions on how to deal with the monsters?