31 Wholesome Secrets People Are Keeping

‘I ate the crumble off the top of my mom’s apple crisp and blamed it on the cat’
31 Wholesome Secrets People Are Keeping

Some secrets have to be guarded with your life. Skeletons crammed deep in closets, with the ability to break apart families or relationships. Crimes narrowly gotten away with, that everyone would be better off not re-examining.

Other times, a secret’s kept simply because it’s easier that way. No tectonic shift would occur if that specific cat got out of the bag, it’s just a little better if no one knows about it. Redditors shared the small-time, inconsequential secrets they’ve kept, usually to everyone’s benefit. Read below for thoroughly lukewarm, but often sweet, tea.

chernygal 2y ago Edited 2y ago My friend is a major, major, Death Cab for Cutie fan. They came to our city a couple years ago, and I knew she wouldn't be able to afford the tickets to go. She was upbeat about it, but I know she was devastated by it. I bought tickets. Two days before the show, I told her that the friend I originally planned to take couldn't go, and would she please come with me? There was no other friend. Told her I loved the band and would be sad to miss them. She of
 2y ago First marriage to my late wife, on the day of the wedding, the ring got stolen out of my car. I was freaking out. My two best men went into overdrive and took a picture I had if the ring and went to I don't know how many jewelry stores explaining what had happened and if they had a ring that was similar. They went to this really great jewelry maker so said, I have something that is really close, give me a bit and I can make it perfect. Не worked his ass off and got
August-thecow 2y ago One day I came home late at night drunk and decided to walk my dog. Just when we arrived outside my house my dog attacked a racoon hanging around the area. I ended up wrestling my malamute and freed the racoon from his jaws. Here's the thing. I was drunk and the racoon kinda just stared at me infront of me and I decided to try and pet the racoon. I got maybe one pet in before it took a chunk out of my finger. I ran into the house leaving a trail of blood up to
Remarkable_Story9843 . 2y ago Edited 2y ago I convinced my sister I had entered us both in a blog giveaway, I won a coupon but she won the grand prize , a $300 gift card to Lane Bryant. My sister was a size 16, and desperately needed new clothes but would spend money on her baby grandkids and thin adult daughters. This was the only way I could make sure she spent it on herself. It's been 10 years. She's doesn't know.
Jovian12 2y ago Edited 2y ago If anyone was at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, ОН right before the Origins Game Fair in 2018, I have your white noise machine. You left it in the hotel room. I didn't even realize for half my stay...I was like oh this is actually really convenient! figuring it was just a new thing the hotel was doing. That is, until I visited my friends' room, where they didn't have one...then noticed I could unplug the one in my room, and realized it must have been left behind. I told the front desk about
Plastic_Cranberry711 2y ago My wife lost one of her favorite pair of gold earrings her parents gave her. She could not find the other after weeks of trying. It had sentimental value as it was a 16th bday gift, so I knew she'd never want another set. So I took the one she had around our big city to jewelers and shops until I found a matching one. Eventually found one, bought the pair. Dirtied it up at home and let her find it in her sock drawer. Still have the other hidden in my desk in case she loses
taalleerling 2y ago I'm Canadian, and in high school, | had a crush on this girl who was originally born in the US. To try and impress her, I pretended I was an American who immigrated to Canada too. I was so committed that I even gave her the address of my old home: it was really just a hotel I had stayed in while on vacation in Florida with my family. Since it was the early 2000s, she never verified. We didn't end up dating, but to this day, I never came clean. I wonder if she still thinks
landob 2y ago When I was dating my now wife, her son took my car for a joyride while we were out of town. When we got back from our out of town trip I noticed something was amiss on my car. When I got in it, I noticed the sunshade was installed backwards, I would never do that on accident. I then pulled the dashcam footage. Не took it around the neighborhood. Не didn't do any donuts, or burn any tires. Just a nice slow stroll through the neighborhood with the music playing and I assume waved and some
04Z51Vette 2y ago In 1998 I had a friend who was stuck in a very toxic situation at her home. She had an opportunity for a new start across country in Oregon. She had a Dodge Neon that was hanging on for dear life and decided to pass on the opportunity for fear the car wouldn't make the trip. I told her I had a friend that was a mechanic that owed me a favor and he would give the car a tune up for free. I didn't really have a friend that was a mechanic. We were both 18
YourMothersButtox 2y ago My dad is a doctor. When my daughter was little she was terrified of hurting her ankle. Like anytime she got the slightest twinge or rolled it slightly, she was convinced it was broken. My dad would take her to the office and run a fetal heart Doppler over her little ankle and tell her it was an X-RAY machine and her ankle was fine. She's 13 and still convinced that papa took actual X rays of her ankle. I'm never going to tell her otherwise.
minimegs2023 . 2y ago ® Edited 2y ago When my brother was 4 he won a stuffed animal from a claw machine and it was his favourite thing ever, slept with it every night for weeks he fell asleep on the couch and was carried to bed but left his stuffed animal on the floor and the dog decided to tear it to pieces during the night. I spent $40 trying to win another one and put it under his bed for him to find.
tacobelmont 2y ago I can't remember why, but I was mad at my Dad for something. As revenge I added extra chili powder and hot sauce to our family chili. Turns out my family never really added enough seasoning to the chili as it was, and the food actually tasted a lot better as a result of my revenge tactic. I've overcorrected as an adult on seasoning food at times, but I do make a mean chili.
gueuze_geuze 2y ago Every thanksgiving in San Luis Obispo my best friend and I are in charge of pies. We go to the Madonna Inn, a gloriously outlandish hotel/restaurant/bakery/resort, and ask for two of their pie boxes. We then go to Safeway and buy two much cheaper pies and put them in the boxes. We bring them to our large family gathering and everyone compliments the wonderful pies because of how amazing the Madonna Inn's reputation is for baked desserts. I'd like to say this is because of concerns about cost or because the Safeway pies are better, but the
FluxKraken 2y ago When I had just got my license, I was kind of an idiot (as are most 16 year old boys). It was snowing and I thought I would try to drift my car into a mcdonalds parking lot from the road. I failed, obviously, and went down an embankment into another parking lot. Thankfully my car was mostly ok, I had to replace a quarter panel and a headlight, but nothing too serious. I told my parents I was avoiding a head on collision and hit black ice. I have never told them the truth even though
Poop_OnMy_Kicks 2y ago Every Christmas I would write a fake Christmas newsletter (like those letters some people send every year with updates about their life, family, etc) and send it to my parents. I made up this guy who was a huge blowhard, but believable enough that my dad thought maybe he had worked with him at some point in the past. I had a spreadsheet to keep track of his job, wife, children, grandchildren, holidays, etc. so that I could stay accurate from year to year. My parents would get so annoyed at his arrogant writing style but I
Extension_Branch_371 . 2 2y ago only my immediate family know I threw a birthday party when I was 13 and no one came. | remember sitting at the window crying, looking out for any cars to come. | never told anyone else about this, because I didnt want to seem like a massive loser, still dont. Even the kids who didnt turn up, I told them my neighbours and friends from extra curricular came, so even they dont know.
griddles96 2y ago As a previous nanny, I've seen many first steps and heard many first words, but I never share that. When I leave I say something like, | think little one is SOOOO close to walking/talking! It's a special moment parents deserve, who am | to take that from them? One baby was walking with me for a full 2 weeks before he showed his new trick to his parents.
MicroCat1031 2y ago When I was 10 and my younger brother was 5; I pranked him and scared him so badly he shit his pants. Не cried and I felt so bad that I cleaned him, his pants, and the place in the hall where he shit. I never told anyone. (At 10 years old, that shit would have been hilarious to friends and family)
SixFootSnipe 2y ago | was seven and we were moving from one farm to a bigger one. Mom was taking garbage out to the burn barrel and burning it. In the rural eighties we just burned everything. I started looking at the fire when she went back inside and discovered a burning ice cream lid. I picked it up and threw it like a frisbee and it did a nice arc and landed right at a large stack of hay that was quite a ways away. I was horrified and went running in and told mom some paper had floated
Rescuepoet 2y ago | once told a girl I was dating I loved the dish she cooked for me. In reality, it was terrible. 25 years later, my wife is still cooking it at least once a month because it's my favorite. I've never been able to tell her, but now I've let my 8 year old daughter in on it. She'll prance up to my wife and say Let's cook Daddy's favorite tonight! Then she turns around and looks me dead in the eye with a shit-eating grin on her face.
bfg8047 2y ago My best friend in high school worked hard after school and on weekends in a butcher shop to earn money. Не had healthy savings balance and really wanted an Xbox so we could play Halo, but his parents wouldn't let him buy one even though he'd earned more than enough on his own. I knew HTML, so I made a fake website for a Australian gaming magazine advertising a competition to win an Xbox. Не entered the competition and won it. We faked the email telling him he'd won. We bought an Xbox from the local store,
No301_Illumi_Zoldyck 2y ago I farted in a Physics tutoring class consisting of 6-10 people including the tutor. A friend started yelling about the air conditioner having a bad smell. Не suspected a bird or a mouse died there. Finally we all had to move to continue the class in another room. Until this day, no one in this group knows that | farted.
GladWalrus8068 2y ago When I first met my wife's 93 year old grandma about 13 years ago, she had me try her holiday dish 'congealed salad'. It's basically lime jello made with condensed milk, and it has pineapple, walnuts, marshmallows and celery mixed in, and it is poured into a bundt cake pan to set. It's a terrible, old timey southern dish. She was so excited to let me try it that I panicked and said it was amazing. She absolutely lit up, and every year since then, she has exponentially increased the amount she makes because she knows how
Samisoy001 2y ago Edited 7mo ago In 2009 my best friend was struggling to pay rent when his TV broke. So I went and bought him an at the time 42 inch HDTV for over $1,000. I knew he would never accept me spending that much as a gift. So I took it out of the box and put a few small scratches on the back of it and told him I bought a new TV and that he could have my old one that I didn't use anymore. Well, he's doing way better now financially, but he has no
jenglasser 2y ago When I was about 15 or 16 I had a sleepover with about 10 of my friends and my sister. I decided to have some fun with them, and pretended to sleep talk. They recorded it on a cassette tape, and I figured it would just be a fun harmless prank. Well, nearly 30 years later, they still keep bringing it up. They still don't know that I was faking and I don't know how to tell them at this point because so much time has passed. That tape is still floating around. I hate it when
hedder84 . 2y ago | ate the crumble off the top of my mom's apple crisp and blamed it on the cat. Years after the cat passed, my parents tell the story of how she ate the crumble as a cute anecdote.
TheLonelyScientist 2y ago When my friend moved into her first apartment, she didn't have any tools for basic repairs. I spent a few hundred on a toolbag, socket set, screwdrivers, cordless drill, wrenches, level, etc. Took everything out of the packaging and gave her the bag of tools. I told her they were my extras and showed her how to do some of her repairs. She still doesn't know everything was brand new and, frankly, nicer than my own toolset.
Leprikahn2 . 2y ago I bought a decommissioned fire cheifs vehicle from the Richmond fire department auction and got them to donate it to my grandmother. She never would have accepted it if it came from a family member.
 . 2y ago Dad, I lied that day in kindergarten when I said I had a tummy ache and needed to go home. I was totally fine, I was just super bored and wanted to spend time with you.
000-000-000yea . 2y ago My mom / dad / people in our community kept spotting me driving to this back parking lot at a local government complex. They asked me what I was doing, and told them it was a great place to star gaze because it was kind of off the main road. Even 20 years later I still get comments if I'm going to go stargazing! No, that was my make out / sex spot in highschool. I think they know.
MomagerUpstairs 2y ago I intentionally bombed a math competition in middle school because I didn't like the teacher over the program or being forced to do it by my parents. I blamed it on nerves and was not asked back.

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