Single mom gives her cousin $2000 of baby supplies, then the entitled pregnant woman sells it online before demanding another gift at her baby shower: 'She clearly just wanted to flip my stuff for cash'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 11, 2025 7:00 PM EST

Babies are expensive.

 Like big-name bands headlining a festival, babies require a whole slew of gear, equipment, and workhorse roadies (their parents) to manage their lives. Behind their adorableness and bald heads, babies are extremely needy, and soon-to-be parents are faced with a mountain of purchases to prepare their home for its latest addition. 

That's why we invented baby showers.

To lighten the load of early motherhood, baby showers allow friends and family to crowdsource the initial baby expenses. To help out a new mom and dad, these gifts can range from a $10 baby shirt to a $2000 crib, and it's the family members who usually sacrifice the most. A single mom wanted to help her pregnant cousin by gifting her all of her old baby equipment. With $2000 worth of baby stuff packed up in bags, she reluctantly handed over the sentimental items, hoping she would be helpful to her family member. Except, 3 hours later, all of it was posted on Marketplace for sale, and the cousin's betrayal snowballed from there. 

After selling off her cousin's baby gear for scraps, this entitled pregnant mom had the audacity to demand a baby shower gift. Sorry, sweetie, you already squandered a priceless present. 

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  • Women giving each other gifts at a baby shower
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  • "AITJ for refusing to buy my cousin a baby shower gift after she immediately sold everything I gave her"

    I'm a single mom making about $45k a year. Live paycheck to paycheck. My cousin is pregnant with twins. She makes over $70k plus military benefits. Her husband works full time.
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  • They own a home and just bought a new car. They're financially comfortable. Last weekend I gave her over $2,000 worth of baby stuff from my 17-month-old
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  • daughter. Baby Brezza, car seat with base, clothes, bottles, toys, bath seats, everything. Ten huge bags and boxes.
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  • Pregnant woman opening gifts from her family members at the baby shower.
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  • When she picked it up she made negative comments about most of it but took everything anyway. Made a rude comment about the Brezza and formula feeding parents specifically.
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  • Five hours later almost everything was posted for sale on our local Facebook marketplace. She sold it all within hours. Got at least $300 based on her listing prices.
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  • I'm devastated. I was planning to put together a $300 postpartum care package for her baby shower. But she clearly just wanted to flip my stuff for cash.
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  • These items had memories attached. It was hard for me to give them away. I thought she'd actually use them for her twins.
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  • Now her shower is next month and I don't want to buy her anything. If she's just going to sell whatever I give her what's the point.
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  • Her mom texted saying I'm being petty and she's pregnant with twins and needs all the help she can get. That I'm making this about me when it should be about supporting her.
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  • But I feel used. She makes way more than me and sold my stuff for profit. AITJ for not wanting to buy her a shower gift?
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  • Woman touching a pregnant lady's belly at a baby shower.
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  • youknowimright25 Why do you need to buy get another gift of you have her $2000 worth of gifts already? Tell her that was what she got.
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  • Ancient-Studio6819 NTJ. She didn't need those items. She wanted to profit off you. You're barely scraping by and gave her thousands of dollars worth of baby gear from your own child. She immediately sold it all for cash despite making twice what you earn. That's not being family. That's taking advantage. You don't owe her anything especially not another $300 when she clearly doesn't value your generosity.
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  • Flat Criticism6440 Being family makes what she did worse. I would not go to the baby shower, let alone get her anything else. They obviously look at it as a money grab, because it's expected for people to get them something. Careful of the pressure they put on you and avoid the topic when possible. At the most, just get them a small package of diapers, just so they can't say you didn't get anything (though they probably will anyway). Good luck dealing with them.
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  • qwrsr NTJ. She clearly does not deserve any other gift you give her when she made rude comments about the last one and then sold it all.
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  • Tess47 Personally, I would go to the shower without a new gift. If anyone asks tell them you gave a very generous gift already. Then eat and drink a lot. Make sure to leave before clean up.
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