Friend travels to babysit for mom, faces criticism after 8 hours of cleaning and childcare: 'I used up one too many yogurts'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Jul 12, 2026 1:15 PM EDT

Some favors are simply not worth doing.

We all know that part of being a good friend is helping people out when we're able to do so. If we want the community from that village that everybody keeps talking about, we have to make sure that we show up for them appropriately instead of expecting things to happen with no personal input. Not only does this contribute to being a decent person, but it can also be something that gets repaid over time.

That being said, offering support to friends can sometimes come with risk. It may be that the gesture didn't turn out to be what you thought it would be, or maybe they just didn't appreciate it like you thought they would. One thing is for sure: sometimes doing a favor for a friend can reveal their true nature in the most unpleasant of ways. Not all relationships are worth investing in, and that includes the platonic ones. Not everybody holds another person's friendship in high esteem, and they will show that in the ways that they accept what their friends have to give them. It isn't a fun lesson to learn when you are trying to do something positive.

 

 

 

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  • A woman lies on the floor and lifts a toddler up with her legs while holding her hands
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    A woman lies on the floor and lifts a toddler up with her legs while holding her hands

  • One woman was shocked by the way that a friend had treated her when she had gone out of her way to help her out. She had offered to babysit for a day, which required her to wake up very early and travel for nearly an hour. On top of looking after her friend's toddler daughter, she also felt the need to do some cleaning in the house.

    Once her babysitting shift was over, her friend did not show gratitude for what she had done. Instead, she claimed that she had taken too much from the refrigerator and had moved things around in a way that she didn't like. The woman was upset at her reaction.

  • Free babysitting ends in micromanagement

    Today, I woke up at 5:45 in the morning, did a 45 minute trip to and from my friends house to babysit her toddler for eight hours for free after she asked me yesterday to do it for her as a favor. She offered to pay me fifty bucks, I didn't say anything about the money, since I didn't mind if I wasn't compensated.
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  • While I was there, I took the time to vacuum and clean the floors because the apartment was really dirty and the floors looked like they hadn't been cleaned in months. Later that day, the first thing she sends me is an audio complaining that some minor things had been misplaced. Mind you, no items were organized or
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  • tidy in the first place. She also implied I used up one two many yogurts to feed her kid since some seemed to be missing from the fridge. I gave the child two throughout the day which I thought was reasonable along with the other food I gave her. She also complained that with how many items were displaced the house was worse
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  • than before which I don't understand how that's even possible since I'm a very tidy and neat person and another person came in to babysit the child right after me. I got upset and pointed out that instead of being grateful that I took time off from my vacation to care for her kid, the first thing she texted when I
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  • left was how she couldn't pay me after all and sent me an audio full of minor complaints. I texted our mutual friend that was supposed to go care for the child tomorrow about what she sent me and she won't be helping her out anymore since she had also been bothered about details and spammed with audios after free babysitting at an earlier date.
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  • A toddler smiles as a woman lifts her up in her room
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    A toddler smiles as a woman lifts her up in her room

  • Tall-Ad-1955 "Alright then, I shan't bother you with my presence anymore. Take care."
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  • Sufficient_Curve_646 When people show you who they are believe them. So sorry this happened. This says everything about her and nothing about you.
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  • okmustardman Your "friend" has an odd way of pronouncing thank you.
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  • CEO_of_my_life Sounds like she working her way through her friend group.
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  • IcyCantaloupe 7004 She's not your friend. Block her.
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  • Neither Animator_404 It sounds like she was looking for things to complain about so she could justify not paying you (even though I know you didn't care about being paid anyway). I would no longer be friends with this person.
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  • elguapo 1996 "My deepest apologies for the various inconveniences. I won't bother you with my free babysitting anymore."
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  • Jabbles22 I have to ask. Are you surprised by this behaviour? Whenever I read stories like this it's rarely clear is the behaviour was completely out of character or kind of expected.
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  • night_noche She's a moocher. Her poor kid.
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  • RevolutionaryRip3881 You call them "friend," and I bet they call you, "the help.”
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  • Purple_Marsupial_668 ex friend, I would hope. She may or may not be a user (I'm guessing yes), but she is definitely an ungrateful one. People who lack gratitude tend to be selfish and miserable to be around, in my experience.
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