‘[She] tried to offer me $5 “as a kindness”…': Karen neighbor throws toddler-level tantrum after guy moving out won't give her his couch for free, stands guard

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Apr 28, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

Moving is already one of the most stressful times of your life—the longer you have lived somewhere and have accumulated more stuff, the harder it is to move. You never realize how much useless inanimate objects you have until it's time to move. So when you're moving, you get your closest friends to come help you out. They might begrudgingly do it, but nonetheless, they're your buds and understand the stress you're going through, so they help out. When they come, however, you think you'll just need them to help pack, move stuff around, clean up, drive the truck, etc. 

 

Unfortunately, when you live near a Karen, it turns out you will also need them to play security guard—because Karens think that the laws of "finders keepers" is an actual federal law passed by the senate AND congress and it only is legally allowed to work in their favor… So, yeah, you'll have to give them all of your stuff if you leave it on the curb as your friends bring the moving van around…  

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  • This is literally what happened here. The entitlement is insane. How do people like this actually exist in real life? She even tried to guilt trip him into giving her his couch for free and then eventually offered him $5… $5?! For an entire friggin' couch?! Wow. Just, wow. How is this the society we currently live in? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! 

  • "But I deserve your couch"

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  • My neighbor legit tried to claim my furniture after I moved it outside for like 10 minutes. So I'm moving apartments, and as part of the shuffle, I dragged my old couch outside while waiting for my buddy to come help load it into the truck. It's a
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  • decent couch-nothing fancy, but comfy and clean. It's sitting literally ten feet from my front door. Enter my neighbor (who I've maybe spoken to twice, and not pleasantly).
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  • She waddles over, eyes the couch, and goes: "Oh wow! You're putting this out? I'll take it!" I told her, "Actually no, it's coming with me. Just waiting for help."
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  • She looks me de d in the face and says, "Well, it's on the curb, so it's public now." I'm like... what?? It's not even near the curb. It's on my side of the property. I say that, and she snaps
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  • back: "That's not how it works. Once it's outside, it's up for grabs. That's the rule!" I didn't realize this lady was the HOA president of the sidewalk.
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  • legit had to stand next to it to stop her from trying to sit on it while I was tying it down. She sulked like a toddler and muttered something about how I should "share with people who have less"... like she was some kind of couch Robin Hood.
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  • Anyway, she glared at me the whole time we loaded it up and then tried to offer me $5 "as a kindness" in case I changed my mind. Spoiler: I did not.
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  • Dubiousgoober She sounds entitled and insane. What a perfect concoction of stupidity. Icy-War2470 OP Right?? It was like watching a real-life crossover episode of Entitled People and Delusional HOA Moms. I half expected her to start measuring the couch with a tape measure and declare squatters' rights.
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  • Speshal_ "Well, it's on the curb, so it's public now." Can I have your car then?
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  • RJKimbell00 We did a garage purge once, pulled everything out onto the driveway, cleaned what needed cleaning, and rearranged everything that was put back in. Several people came up thinking we were having a garage sale.
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  • Scoobadelik By her logic, literally ANYTHING she is bringing to her apartment is up for grabs before she gets it into the apartment. coatingtonburlfactry Yeah, any grocery deliveries or Amazon packages on her stoop are fair game!
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  • IDGAF53 I was moving in to an apt years ago, put furniture on sidewalk, my bro standing next it. Some dude tried to grab it, says same thing. He got nasty until me and 3 buds walk out. Little pip squeak then walks away. Ugh.
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  • Nikita Nee That is wild. The entitlement is real. And $5 for a couch? She needs to leave! StructureKey2739 I'd take the fiver for mental distress.
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  • Rachel_Silver Those would probably sound farfetched if I hadn't had to help defend a neighbor's entire living room and dining room sets while they were stripping and waxing their hardwood floors.
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  • KateA535 At least it's the old neighbour imagined this being the introduction to your new neighbour...
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  • Schmoe20 Civilized society holding on by threads here.
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  • My neighbor legit tried to claim my furniture after I moved it outside for like 10 minutes. So I'm moving apartments, and as part of the shuffle, I dragged my old couch outside while waiting for my buddy to come help load it into the truck. It's a
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