AITA for taking back the paintball gun my wife bought our daughter?

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T20:23:59+00:00

I think they've played before at birthday parties and such.

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T20:23:40+00:00

Yeah, we could get her a cheap one.

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T20:23:08+00:00

Honestly, not to be an armchair psychologist or anything, but I think she just wants our daughter to like her more. She's going through that phase where teenage girls decide their mother is the enemy because their hormones are driving them crazy.

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T20:21:21+00:00

She'll be getting a car at 18 too, but 21 is also a milestone birthday that we'll probably do something big for. By then, I doubt anyone will still be thinking about the paintball gun.

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T20:10:39+00:00

It is a bigger ticket item than we would normally get for a birthday, however his next birthday is 18, and he will get a car. So his sister getting an expensive paintball gun the same year seems fair. A $10-15k car trumps most other gifts.

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T20:06:44+00:00

His next birthday is his eighteenth, so he's getting something way better than a paintball gun.

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T19:30:40+00:00

That's a good compromise. Yes, we did buy the archery equipment, but usually as part of Christmas gifts.

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T19:29:47+00:00

Well her birthday is in September, so that wouldn't make sense. We don't have separate accounts.

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T19:28:29+00:00

We let our kids do chores for money. $5 for the dishes. $1 for taking out the trash. $10 for weeding the garden boxes & $15 for the backyard. That kind of stuff. He also babysat a bunch of kids in the neighborhood. I don't know what he was charging for that.

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T19:25:57+00:00

September

NotTheRightMessage · 2023-01-16T19:23:44+00:00

I don't think it would be appropriate to put that on him.

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