Daughter leaves collector dolls in childhood bedroom at mom's house, until mom's entitled guest demands she give the dolls to her 5-year-old kid, daughter refuses: ‘Leave my room’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 11, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Anyone with a beloved childhood toy can understand the sentiment one might hold for a precious item dear to their heart. It might not be an expensive item, or even something that was well-preserved, as long as it was important to them when they were a kid.

Sometimes the sentiment is so strong that they would do anything to keep that toy as safe as possible, so that it would stay with them well into their adult life.

Having such strong feelings towards items like these often means that you will refuse to let anyone else near them, even (especially) children. That tends to happen a lot if you leave your beloved childhood toys back in your childhood bedroom, and your parents start having younger children, like their grandchildren, roam through the halls.

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  • The only way to ensure that no kid gets their sticky hands on something that you care about is by putting it far from their reach. Put it in the top shelf of your closet, lock your bedroom door, or put it all in the box and move it to the attic. Anything goes if you want to keep it safe.

    The story below is the perfect cautionary tale to teach people to keep their childhood belongings safe, so keep scrolling to read it all.

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    Entitled guest wants to open my collector doll for her kid.

    I moved out of my parents house last year. My parents have kept my childhood bedroom as it is, with all of my old toys, belongings, my clothes, etc because I go home to visit most weekends and help around the house.
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    "I put a lock on my door"
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    This includes some collector edition barbies and dolls that my dad bought for me when I was younger. I keep them in their boxes, stored on a high shelf.
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    There's about 10 dolls, some of which are collectors items now because of their age and condition. I haven't thought about selling them because I just like keeping things my dad bought for me.
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    I guess I have attachment to them because he worked in the US while we lived in Canada without him, and toys were given when he visited us.
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    This past weekend, I was visiting my mom and she brought some of her friends over. One particularly entitled friend (Jane) brought her granddaughter, a 5 year old.
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    I told my mom not to let the child up in my room after a bad experience with kids taking my belongings and breaking them. I stayed downstairs and worked in a room.
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    Eventually I heard Jane taking the granddaughter upstairs. I then heard them opening doors and talking. I didn't go upstairs until I heard her say something about dolls.
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    I went upstairs and asked them both to leave my room. But Jane was already in my closet at this point and pointing at the dolls.
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    Of course, they pointed at the boxes of barbies. She pulled one off, showed it to her granddaughter, and told me she wanted to play with it.
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    When I told her, no it's in the box for a reason, she seemed irritated at me and handed the box back to me.
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    She left my room, and the child started crying and saying she wanted to play with dolls.
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    I went through my things, found some of the dolls that I'd opened as a kid and played with, and offered them to her downstairs, but she kept insisting on the princess doll.
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    They didn't go back upstairs but it left me a little anxious now about my room.
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    My mom is telling me to put a lock on my door because Jane visits often and tends to wander around, but I'm baffled that she would go into someone's house and think it's okay to touch their stuff.
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    I'm from a south asian background btw and this tends to be the attitude of some older women.
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    They don't understand collectible culture or sentimentality to gifts. They think they're able to do whatever they want, open whatever they want.
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    Edit for extra info: we installed a lock this morning on my bedroom door and my mom warned her friend not to go in my room in the future.
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    I live in a very small condo. It isn't big enough for me to bring all of my belongings there.
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    I've left a lot of clothing and personal items with my parents.
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    Straight_Coconut 317 Get a lock on your door and start locking it every time you leave the house
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    Mamamagpie Not just into rooms, but snooping in closets. Get a lock for the room. Don't leave copy of key at the house. Jane will go hunting for the key when she finds a lock.
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    Odd-Divide3651 You might want to bring those items to your own house?
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    Dog_Concierge I collect vintage tableware. If anyone visiting my house touched any of the items in my China cabinet and anything got broken, we would be talking lawsuits. Children, and apparently adults, too, need to learn that mine is mine, not yours
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