She’s Refusing To Let Her Sister Pass Down Her American Girl Dolls To Her Niece
This young woman recently found out that her 21-year-old sister is having a baby. So, everyone is super excited, and she is really happy for her sister.
But, in order to save some money, her sister decided to go through all of their old stuff from childhood. That way, her sister could see if there were any old toys or other items that could be handed down to the baby.
And while they were sorting through their stuff, they came across their old American girl doll collection. Between her and her sister, they have about 26 dolls in total as well as a bunch of accessories.
So, her sister decided that the dolls would be absolutely perfect for the baby.
However, out of those 26 dolls, about 20 of them were actually hers. And of the remaining six dolls, two of them were shared between them– meaning only four were actually her sister’s dolls.
“We’re three years apart, but my sister grew out of dolls way earlier than I did,” she explained.
“So, after a few years of getting them, my sister just asked for other gifts for every holiday and birthday.”
At the same time, she continued asking her relatives for more American girl dolls and actually planned to save most of them for her own children one day.
And while she knows it might seem silly to some people, she admitted to being a very sentimental person.
Olga – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
That’s why she decided to immediately point out how most of the American girl doll stuff was hers. Then, she claimed that her sister could not just take the things that were hers because she had already planned on saving the items for her own kids.
“But even at 21, my sister’s still incredibly spoiled,” she said.
So, after they got into an argument, her sister ran to her mom– because they both still live at home– and actually “tattled” on her!
After that, her mom wound up getting angry with her, too, and claimed that she does not have a boyfriend right now and will not be having a baby in the foreseeable future. Instead, her sister will be welcoming a baby really soon, which is why her mom thinks the dolls are fair game.
Still, she feels like those dolls were a massive part of her childhood. So, she tried to explain how her sister could just keep the other four dolls that weren’t hers. Plus, she claimed her sister could even take the two dolls that they used to share.
“But the others were rightfully mine, and I got them for every occasion and gift and even spent every penny I earned on them and their accessories until I was 13,” she vented.
“And that’s a sentimental thing for me, and it’s not my fault that she didn’t have any toys she was sentimentally attached to for passing down.”
Anyway, by the end of the argument, they wound up settling on the fact that she was in the right. However, her sister has refused to talk to her ever since and has accused her of being a spoiled brat.
So now, she’s been left wondering whether not letting her sister hand down her old American girl dolls made her a real jerk or not.
Can you understand why she is emotionally attached to her dolls? Is it fair for her sister to take all of them for the baby if most of them belong to her? How could she fix the tension between her and her sister?
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