So, my parents opened my SN package while I was at work. . .

[Heart Shards]

So, I came home from the coffee shop earlier today--was working on the manuscript for my new novel. An open package was sitting on the coffee table--my SN! I might get my wish after all(my parents just might kill me when they confront me over it when they wake up.) Wish me luck. Can someone talk me down? I am a anxious wreck.

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

So sorry this happened to you. Is there somewhere you can at least hide it ??? Or did they just leave the empty box ???

 

[MaybeMaybeKnot]

So, I came home from the coffee shop earlier today--was working on the manuscript for my new novel. An open package was sitting on the coffee table--my SN! I might get my wish after all(my parents just might kill me when they confront me over it when they wake up.) Wish me luck. Can someone talk me down? I am a anxious wreck.

I'm so sorry you have to deal with this anxiety. Let's think this through together, out loud. So they found it. You said they left the open package. Did they leave the SN? Do they know you've had ideations or have you attempted?

 

[Meant2Die]

Put the SN into a different bottle and hide it. Make sure to seal it as well as you can. By putting a plastic baggie between the bottle and twist cap, it' can seal pretty tightly when you twist it shut. The only prob with that you'd have to use it pretty soon. Put sugar into the SN bottle , make up some excuse as to why you got it. When they throw it away they will think it's the real thing inside.

 

[MaybeMaybeKnot]

You said they're asleep. Would they typically have waited up for you if they had a concern?

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

Put the SN into a different bottle and hide it. Make sure to seal it as well as you can. By putting a plastic baggie between the bottle and twist cap, it' can seal pretty tightly when you twist it shut. The only prob with that you'd have to use it pretty soon. Put sugar into the SN bottle , make up some excuse as to why you got it. When they throw it away they will think it's the real thing inside.

I was thinking the same thing … maybe you could put something else in the bottle like sugar or salt.

 

[Heart Shards]

They know. I've been hospitalized five times.as for why they didn't confront me when I got home,I don't know. Perhaps, they were tired. The bottle is in the package still, unopened.

 

[MaybeMaybeKnot]

They know. I've been hospitalized five times.as for why they didn't confront me when I got home,I don't know. Perhaps, they were tired. The bottle is in the package still, unopened.

So I'll assume they don't know what it is for. What can you tell them about that? Dietary supplement? I'd also get everything put out of sight, like it's no big deal.

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

They know. I've been hospitalized five times.as for why they didn't confront me when I got home,I don't know. Perhaps, they were tired. The bottle is in the package still, unopened.

I would hide it in a secure place then or replace the SN first and then hide that in a secure place.

 

[MaybeMaybeKnot]

Could you play it off as something for work or school? Something you ordered and accidentally had shipped to your house out of habit?

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

So I'll assume they don't know what it is for. What can you tell them about that? Dietary supplement? I'd also get everything put out of sight, like it's no big deal.

I totally agree. As long as they don't google what SN is. Maybe they didn't look close at the label ?

 

[SerenitySeeker]

They know. I've been hospitalized five times.as for why they didn't confront me when I got home,I don't know. Perhaps, they were tired. The bottle is in the package still, unopened.

I don't think they'd leave the package out for you to still receive intact if they knew for sure that it would be used to CTB. Even if they didn't stay up to confront you on it. Stranger things have happened though and you know your parents best.

 

[Morphosis]

I don't think they'd leave the package out for you to still receive intact if they knew for sure that it would be used to CTB. Even if they didn't stay up to confront you on it. Stranger things have happened though and you know your parents best.

I agree with this, they probably will have a question or 2 about what it is, but if you act all blasé and unconcerned... "Oh yeah that's just my nitrite salt, it's the latest craze - for guarding against mineral deficiencies in the body. Also used in food processing so people are already getting it in some foods without even realising it." (That way if they google it they will see the second bit and hopefully also believe you about the rest of it.)

I don't think they would've gone to sleep and left it sitting for you if they were overly concerned, but I would still stash it somewhere safe.

If it WAS a "normal" product that you had innocently ordered, you wouldn't leave it sitting there like "Evidence Item A" waiting to be examined, you'd take it away up to your room or wherever?

 

[Soul]

I'd put the SN in a jar or something, then fill the real bottle with salt. I have a friend who hunts who keeps saying he wants to try curing meat. It's for him.

 

[Deleted member 1768]

So, I came home from the coffee shop earlier today--was working on the manuscript for my new novel. An open package was sitting on the coffee table--my SN! I might get my wish after all(my parents just might kill me when they confront me over it when they wake up.) Wish me luck. Can someone talk me down? I am a anxious wreck.

Sodium nitrate is sometimes used as a salt substitute. As far as appearance is concerned the only difference is the dye they use to make nitrate pink. You can purchase the sodium nitrate at a lot of grocery stores. Take the bottle to your room and if they ask lead your folks to believe that it is nitrate. If they inspect it more closely there is only one letter different in the chemical name. The company could easily have sent the wrong stuff. Does that help? Hugs.

 

[schopenh]

Just say it's for baking

 

[Deleted member 1768]

Just say it's for baking

There you go. Just don't let them try it...:)

 

[LegaliseIt!]

Another plausible use: treating cotton fabric after dyeing it. Also known as colour-fasting. If my sigO intercepts my SN, I am using that as my cover, because I do some textile art projects.

 

[MissNietzsche]

I agree with this, they probably will have a question or 2 about what it is, but if you act all blasé and unconcerned... "Oh yeah that's just my nitrite salt, it's the latest craze - for guarding against mineral deficiencies in the body. Also used in food processing so people are already getting it in some foods without even realising it." (That way if they google it they will see the second bit and hopefully also believe you about the rest of it.)

I don't think they would've gone to sleep and left it sitting for you if they were overly concerned, but I would still stash it somewhere safe.

If it WAS a "normal" product that you had innocently ordered, you wouldn't leave it sitting there like "Evidence Item A" waiting to be examined, you'd take it away up to your room or wherever?

This. I'm a dietetics student, and it was so easy for me to get away with my SN lol. I literally just said it was sodium. And I've ordered NaCl tablets before..

Just say you want the "electrolytes" lmao