Yep, I did…in the very beginning after the horrendous final discard from him and while heading to divorce. All the lies, deceit, him leading a double life…Not proud of it, had no real effect on him…but hey we are all human. And now years later, it is quite funny.

So let's see…I had read the shrimp story…you probably know the one! Placed shrimp in some furniture and his golf club bag. I wrote Bible scriptures in furniture and desk drawers. I watered down his prized liquor collection. Packed up his prized boots with one missing. Kept the great mattresses and substituted with some really bad ones-switched out. He demanded a number of handmade ornaments by our daughters from our Christmas collection…so they “made" him several…no sentiments. I placed spilled cat food (canned) in the refrigerator he demanded.

The best one? I had collected art from various places we lived or visited. Over 13 years, there was quite a bit…sentimental value to me. (He never was interested.) He made it clear he was targeting several of the larger (Of course right?) pieces to impress her and decorate their new home…and mainly to hurt me. Let me toss in…he has a horrible memory and recall ..

So, in the middle of the night, I awoke with a plan. I got up, moved all the art around substituting other items and things-even with 2 from a painting class that me and a friend had attended. Shuffled them all around with my most favorites being taken down and to my closet…where some amazing friends took them the following day while we were at church and stored them in a secret location! Lol…

Then, I threw him off the trail of the larger piece by acting like I would do anything-even giving him the dining room table (Which I already had purchased the replacement of the barn door table I had always wanted!) Worked…

So, he did the walk through…surprised him with a different family friend there each time…made him nervous especially since they followed him throughout the walk through (Because NPDs are both nosey and dishonest) and he never, ever noticed the missing pieces of artwork! He even forgot thst a beautiful leather chair was his and never asked for that…Saved….lol!

I also hid family pictures, etc in crazy places throughout the house-therefore re locally they were not removed…lol…

Something a bit non-related that my friends and I really laugh about? During the first time over to gather some things, I had 2 random friends sub for me that he didn't even know! Lol…His main focus? Koozies…and cookbooks! Seriously! Not kidding! What Air Force officer cares about those? (We checked the cookbooks for money!)

Hope you are laughing.. I sure am! Again, folks are right - it really serves no high purpose and changes nothing. And some NPDs will trade revenge for even bigger revenge. So it is not a smart or wise game to begin.

But…I have been there…done that.