‘Is this not crazy behavior?’: Audacious neighbor sneakily donates woman's package to Goodwill, containing her son's Halloween costume

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Oct 1, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

When will people learn that they shouldn't take and open packages that don't belong to them, let alone donate the contents of the package to a thrift store?

You never know who you're living next to, and there are a lot of people out there who are on the lookout for your belongings. Even if UPS has delivered your package to someone else by mistake by mistake, you'd think the first thing your neighbor would do is leave it at your doorstep. That's what good neighbors do, right? Well, the mother in this story clearly lives next to a rather audacious person.

This mom was excited to dress her son up as Draco Malfoy for a pumpkin patch outing and ordered all of the materials needed for the costume online. Half of the costume arrived in one package safely at her doorstep. The other package containing the rest of the costume was delivered to her next-door neighbor. The mom then calls her apartment complex office, which confirms that the neighbor not only received and opened the package but kept a part of the costume for herself and donated the rest to Goodwill.

The neighbor attempts to reimburse her, but the mom cannot believe the entitlement. Scroll below to get the full story. Additionally, you can read some of the comments from equally frustrated Redditors.

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    FRAGILE HARDLE WITH GAR
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    My neighbor donated my package to goodwill
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    So just like the title says... I had ordered a Halloween costume for my 2yo son because we went to the pumpkin patch today. He is Draco. So I ordered the robes/tie, which came in one package to me, and then I ordered the white
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    button down shirt and the slytherin patch that I was going to iron onto it. (We live in a hot climate so the robes aren't realistic for an extended period of time) The robes got delivered to me, but the shirt and
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    patch weren't at my door but said delivered. No biggie. We live in a townhome in an apartment complex, so a lot of times. if the package is small enough, they'll deliver it to the mailbox. This was
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    Thursday. Thursday I worked until 7pm, still had to pick up my son, make dinner, etc. so I left it in the "mailbox". Friday after work, I went to the mailbox but it wasn't in there. So I checked my app and it
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    showed the photo but it wasn't our door. (Fake #s) but let's say I live at 105. It was delivered to 107. So I went to "107" and looked but it wasn't on their porch. So I came back today (Saturday) this morning. I knocked so no
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    one answered. So I called the apartment complex office because if it had happened to me, I probably would've just taken it to the office if I hadn't put it back on the person's doorstep since it SAID MY NAME AND
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    ADDRESS. Anyway, they said they would call her and ask if she had gotten it. Then the called back. She DID get it. She opened it. Which I can understand tbh. I've done it before where I was expecting a package and
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    got a neighbors by mistake and opened it on accident without looking at the name... but then I took it to them straight away. Anyway, after that, her next logical step was not to return it to me OR the office, but to keep the
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    patch for herself and to donate the shirt to goodwill. It's one shirt. I get it. The package was maybe $30 total. We are in a situation now where this isn't Devastating. But we were
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    in the position not long ago where my son outgrew his clothes overnight and I didn't get paid for another week, and I didn't know how I would clothe him for that week. How did she know we weren't in that situation
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    and that wasn't his only shirt? Either way, when you see that it's not yours, and especially it's something for a kid??... just do the right thing. Anyway the apartment called me back like an hour later and said she
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    had had time to reflect and regretted her actions. and wanted to reimburse me for the package so I could send them the receipt. But still??
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    Is this not crazy behavior? Like am I overthinking this?? I would never donate someone else's package to Goodwill??? I was so shocked. Anyway, my kid ended up looking super cute at the pumpkin patch today anyway. So there's a silver lining.
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    Ok_Prepara... • 2d ago • Isn't donating it to goodwill more effort than just putting it on your doorstep? That's the strange part to me. It's nice that she's willing to make amends, but weird behavior for sure.
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    Asleep-Stand-... • 2d ago. No matter the price it's theft. What idiot gets a package they weren't expecting and donates it. The neighbor is stupid and I would tell them to return stuff to the office if they accidently open someone's mail.
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    Abracadaver00 • 1d ago • She's likely lying to management. She probably gave the shirt to a relative and instead of admitting that she knowingly stole a neighbor's package she made up this wild story about donating the shirt. She's offering to pay you back because she got caught.
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    Akitapal 1d ago • • Bet she made up the story about donating that shirt! It just doesn't gel that she'd go out of her way to donate it. More likely she gave it as a gift to a friend or relative and it had
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    relative and it had already been worn. She Only pretended to show remorse after being found out. How
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    anonymo... • 7h ago. I'm sure she donated it to someone... maybe her grandchild? What a umbag. Definitely take the money and go over there and face her
    via anonymousanonymiss

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