i can't believe they would do this to me!
By aretha
@aretha (2538)
United States
March 8, 2008 8:13pm CST
i need to know what some of you would do. it all started about 3 years ago. i was here in pa and my hubby was in oklahoma for training well in the middle of his training i decided to move to oklahoma so we could see him on weekends for a couple hours. anyway i had a week to pack everything and put it in storage,i took what i could on the plane and the rest was going to storage. my cousin said not to worry about putting it in storage that they would do it i had paid my rent for a few months so the house was paid for. she said the would have it out by the end of the month and put it in storage for me. i was fine with that and trusted her. everything went as plained or so i thought.
i came home for a couple weeks after my hubby got done with training and went to my storage to find somethings. i had saved everything from my first son and new there was some stuff in there that would then fit my second son. i couldn't find them and a few other things. so i spent a week trying to figure out where my stuff was. finally i asked my aunt if she new and she told me.
some clothes(1 box) they gave to a girl that needed them and my microwave was at another cousins plus my sons $40 remote controled truck and a lot of other stuff. a few things i got back and some of what i got back was no good anymore. i was so upset that they did this to me i have always been very close to my cousin and after my mom passed i became close to my aunt,she had helped me so much and was always there for me. i never thought they would do this to me.
i decided it wasn't worth being mad forever and then when my hubby was in iraq i moved home and i am telling you if it wasn't for them i really don't think i could of made it through his deployment. my cousin and aunt where there for me so much no matter what it was and they tried so hard to keep me and the kids busy for the year. i really don't know what i would of done with out them.
when i moved home i took some stuff from storage but left a lot there. all my baby stuff i left there cuz my boys were 5 and 1 and i didn't need it. now that my hubby is out of the army and we have moved back home we took all our stuff from storage. it did seem like much was left in there but i figured it was cuz i took it out when i moved home and then we had it moved back to oklahoma with us. anyway i have noticed that i am missing a lot of stuff now. i just started really going through things tonight and i am missing most of my baby stuff. 2 crib sets,swing,portable bassanet,clothes(a lot),car seat,shoes,toys. i had alot of baby stuff and now all i have is my changing table,jumper and one box of clothes. oh and a chair/rocker that my cousin got me for my shower.
the thing is i lost my key when i moved home for the year but you had to have a code to get in and only my cousin,sister-in-law and me knew the code.
so did she give all my stuff away when i moved the first time and i just didn't relize till now or did she maybe take my key and get in or did maybe someone from the storage place take it or being that my sister in law lived with me and had a friend that really needed baby stuff did she take my key and get in. i have no idea really and i could never prove anything but i am really wondering if they didn't give my stuff away in the beginning. i have said a couple things about it like i haven't seen my baby swing and what not but all i get is i don't know. so what do i do? do i come right out and ask or do i just suck it up and try to forget? i am really upset thinking about it and hate the thought that 2 of the people i trusted so much could of done this to me. what would you do? how would you handle it all?
sorry for going on and on and make this so long.
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3 responses
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
9 Mar 08
whether you continue to talk to them or not is your decision, they did bad but they do do good for you and your kids too.
I would defining tell them that they had no right to give away your things, no matter why they did it. They were your things and you had them in storage for one reason and one reason only, you wanted to keep them. If you didn't you could have gotten rid of them yourself.
Tell now you are stuck you don't have the baby things anymore, and are they going to help you get back your things, or get you replacements now that you need them?
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@aretha (2538)
• United States
10 Mar 08
i did say something to my cousin yesterday about it not saying she took it but just that i found a lot more stuff missing and that i was very upset about it. i told her that there where only us that could get in there other then the people that own the storage place and that if i ever found out what happened to it all they would be very sorry.
i really don't need the stuff now it would be nice to have the clothes but my kids are 7,3,1 now but i did want to keep it because i may in a few years have another. if i could prove it i knowe there would be problems and i will never feel the same about them.
@Liasonfan (1702)
• Canada
9 Mar 08
Wow! I am so sorry this has happened to you. Basically that is theft and whether they did it the first time or the second time, doesn't really matter in the scheme of things. Theft is theft and they should be ashamed of themselves. I guess more than anything you have now found out that you can never trust them again. I do not have any clue what else to say to you, I would really be upset as well to find out that alot of my stuff was missing and because of 2 people that were family and I trusted. Are you sure if was them and not the storage company you used? Wow, id you can suck it up--good for you and more power to you, but you shouldn't have to and I don't think I could either, I feel they owe you some huge explanations. Good luck. I hope you can recover some of your stuff.
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@aretha (2538)
• United States
9 Mar 08
thats the problem i am not sure if it was them or if it was my sis-in-law or the storage company. i think if i knew for sure it was them then that would be it i probly wouldn't ever talk to them again. at first i thought it was just a box of baby clothes and i git everything else back. they did tell me the reason for it not being in storage in the first place was because it would not fit. so i thought ok cuz it was full but now i see a lot gone and it really has me wondering. i will probly never find out but you can bet i will never trust them like that again.
@LauraElrod (418)
• United States
9 Mar 08
looks like they took things from u without u knowing, i would ask them. that is allot of stuff, trust is very big.but it is gone and u cant get it back now, i would go to the storage place and tell them many things are missing also and cover all sides




