18-year-old pushed to move out by her 13-year-old sister, who steals everything from expensive makeup to clothes on a daily basis: ‘I spent over $200 on her birthday gifts buying her all of the things she takes from me, but she’s still doing it’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jul 23, 2025 8:00 PM EDT

In many households, one person treats the refrigerator like their personal buffet while the other pays for groceries. But in some families, personal property becomes public domain faster than free samples at Costco. Younger siblings master the fine art of creative acquisition while older ones learn that working for nice things is like feeding pigeons: the more you bring, the more aggressive the flock becomes.

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  • i (18f) live with my parents and my 13yo sister. i wasn't planning on moving out for a little bit when i had some more money saved up bc living at home. hasn't been bad at all.
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  • i’m moving out bc of my 13yo sister

    "my sister has pushed me to the point where I am now moving out"
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  • This particular thirteen-year-old operates like a human vacuum cleaner with selective hearing, sucking up expensive makeup and body products while simultaneously claiming innocence louder than a car alarm at 3am. She follows the time-honored tradition of teenage logic: what's yours is mine, what's mine is also mine, and any objection makes you the villain in a soap opera nobody asked to star in. Her specialty involves timing raids for maximum drama, emptying perfume bottles while screaming about unfairness from her throne of unfolded laundry and empty chip bags.

  • but my sister has pushed me to the point where i am now moving out. this has been going on for a long time but recently it's gotten much worse.
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  • she constantly steals from me. like on a daily basis. i can't even keep my things in the bathroom bc she takes them.
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  • a brand new container of very expensive body butter that i had only used a couple times was quite literally wiped clean and put back in my drawer.
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  • when i confronted her she screamed at me saying i was the one who used it and i was "accusing her".
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  • other things that i bought and used a couple times were half gone two days later. expensive things that i bought with my money that i work for.
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  • The economics of this living arrangement mirror a casino where the house always wins and the house happens to be a middle schooler with sticky fingers and zero shame. Every paycheck becomes involuntary charity for someone who treats borrowed clothes like disposable napkins, returning senior picture jeans decorated with Jackson Pollock-style impressions and trading shoes to strangers like she's running a sidewalk pawnshop. Meanwhile, she guards her own bedroom like Fort Knox while treating the rest of the house like her personal shopping mall.

  • i wouldn't mind her using them here and there or just a little bit but she is literally using them up in 2-3 days and i don't even get to use the things i bought.
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  • i came home from work one day and she was screaming at my mom about how it's not fair she has to do the dishes and why can't i do them.
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  • my mom told her i just worked for 12 hours and she's been home watching tv all day. so my sister sits there screaming about how im lazy and i do nothing and we all hate her.
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  • then i go upstairs and my whole room smells like my very expensive perfume that i haven't used in weeks. my makeup bag is on my bed open with all of my makeup all over my bed.
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  • my brand new lip oil that i went to two stores to find and got the only one left is gone. i go downstairs and she's wearing my brand new shorts that i just bought three days before.
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  • the shorts wouldn't have been a huge deal except every time i let her borrow clothes i either never get them back or they come back ruined.
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  • after she screamed at me and called me a horrible sister for not letting her wear my $60 pair of pants to school she brought them back covered in paint.
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  • i let her wear a pair of jeans and specifically said i HAD to have them back the next day for my senior pictures and she TRADED them with someone at school.
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  • and did the same thing with a pair of my shoes. but if i step in her room to wake her up for school im screamed at bc i didn't have permission to go in her room.
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  • i understand she is young but she knows better than to steal and act like this.
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  • she has no friends and if she gets one it never lasts. so i'm made to feel guilty for going out on my very few days off with my friends bc i didn't bring her with.
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  • well what does a 13yo have in common with 18-20yo? she says it's not fair i go out and do things and she has no friends.
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  • yet she has no friends bc of how she acts. my mom has talked to her multiple times and yet nothing ever changes and she still does it.
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  • i never say anything bc i don't want problems but i can't keep doing this it is getting on my last nerve.
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  • mind you i spent over $200 on her birthday gifts buying her all of the things she takes from me thinking maybe she just wanted her own things but she is still doing it.
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  • update- she just stole from me AGAIN and lied to my face. she was wearing me adidas shoes that i keep in my closet on the top shelf and i said "those are my shoes" and she said "mom gave them to me today and said she didn't want them".
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  • i did let my mom borrow them one night and thought maybe she still had them and forgot. told my mom when she got home "those white shoes you gave her were mine" and she had no clue what i was talking about.
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  • she said she never gave her any shoes. and my sister stormed upstairs talking under her breathe "thanks a lot i hate you".
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