Step-father steals money from 13-year-old's piggy bank, kid gets even by "borrowing" $200: 'I hid it in my sock drawer'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 30, 2025 2:00 PM EST

It can't be easy as a teenager to have a step-parent come into your life as a new authority figure, as if all of a sudden, you are now expected to listen to someone you have just met. Now, you would think that as new step-parents come into the picture, the adults in the family would carefully consider the various acceptable ways in which they can navigate this transition.

Unfortunately, there is a reason why the caricature of the evil step-parent exists… because stories like these happen. Here, we have a step-dad who for whatever reason felt compelled to steal money from his teenage step-kid's piggy bank…

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    - "Stepdad stole $60 worth of change from me"
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  • This step-dad should have been trying hard to gain the trust of his then 13-year-old step-son, but instead, he did the exact opposite. It was as if he were following a rule book of what not to do because taking money from your step-kid's small piggy bank is not exactly family-friendly behavior.

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    This happened a couple of years ago when I was about 13 or 14 (I'm 16 now) but I just thought about it. I used to have a piggybank that counted the change as I put the coins in there. And
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    dollars worth of change in the bank and I had left it on my dresser once because my mom was gonna take me to Walmart to trade it for cash after school. When I came back from school
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    the bank was gone and I asked my mom about it and she tells me my stepdad cashed it out himself and that he would give me the cash back and I'm like okay.
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  • Thankfully, this kid was not going to let his step-father get away with this, even if his mother proved to be utterly unhelpful in the fallout. He decided to take out over three times the equivalent in cash out of the step-dad's wallet, and honestly, power to him for doing so! This is a fully grown individual who stole $60 from the kid he should have been trying to impress! For that kind of bizarre behavior, he deserves to lose way more than $200.

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    About 2 weeks go by and I never got the cash back so I start asking about it and my mom says he kept the cash because it makes up for all the haircuts and gifts he has got me. So one day
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    when he came home from work we were gonna have a BBQ anyways so he was outside and he had his wallet and phone on the table outside. He carries a lot of cash so I waited for him to go back inside and I took 200 dollars from his wallet and went back inside to my room and I hid it in my sock drawer.
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    I remember him asking me and my mom what happened to the money and my mom didn't believe that I would steal from him so she just said that the wind probably blew it away because his wallet was outside. My middle
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    school was right beside a shopping center that had Starbucks, Chick-fil-A and Wendy's so everyday when the bus would drop me off I would go to any of those places for breakfast until my 200 dollars ran out.
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    RonOhh ⚫ When you have your own place, invite them over for dinner. At the end remind him of this incident and let him know that it will be $60 for his dinner.
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    ichosethis. My mom used to make me give up nearly all of my free time to babysit my youngest sister with the promise that she'd pay me, I just had to keep track of the hours. I kept a little notebook with the hours and went to her one day
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    and she immediately tells me that because of buying something or other for my dog (that I paid for, paid to get fixed, paid for most supplies for) she wasn't going to pay me. I told dad and got the money next day. He told her that wasn't the agreement and she knew it.
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    behaigo ⚫ When I was about 11 or 12 I had a paper route that had about 80 people on it. My parents had convinced me to save my money, so we went down and opened a checking account. I was stoked because now I could finally save up to buy myself a Nintendo 64,
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    which was coming out the upcoming holidays. One day I got home from school and was getting ready for my route when my mom pulled me aside to tell me that they had taken the money, but they would pay me back soon.
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    They never did. Guess who has two thumbs and issues saving money and instead spends it all as fast as he can before it disappears forever? This guy!
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    [deleted] this is gold. I like how you didn't blow the money on something stupid. Instead, you enjoyed every morning with a warm breakfast or lunch and big smile while doing it.
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    jiggityjammin What a loser to steal money from a kid! Sweet petty revenge at its finest. I like the amount you took. (It accrued intrest)
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    noextrasensory40 Who does that to a teen. Big lesson do not bring thy child to wrath. Literally
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    SamuelVimesTrained. So mom and stepdad did NOT provide for you, and gifts came with strings attached - so they were not gifts.. Seriously bad parenting.
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    rhapsody 98. When I realized my dad was stealing from me (luckily I was 20) and I knew he'd never pay me back, I went to Walmart and got a small fireproof safe for $20 or so. Stopped that problem cold until I graduated college and could move out.
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    MH-Counselor what kind of STEP-DAD needs a middle school aged child to PAY HIM BACK for haircuts and GIFTS?!?! i'm sorry, did we forget what gifts are???
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    and your mom just thought it was fine for a grown a man to keep $60 worth of change a kid spent ages saving up. what the h l!
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