My dad has given my telly away!!

[chicaguapa]

When we bought our new tv a year ago we put our old telly in my dad's garage for storage. He has a lot of storage space so space is not an issue.

Fast forward to now. My sister needs a new telly so I said they could have the one in my dad's garage. BIL asked my dad's partner where it was so he could take it home and she sheepishly said she'd given it to her son as he needed one.

This conversation took place yesterday and I'd have thought at the very least we'd have had an apology by now saying 'sorry we gave your telly away' but nothing. BTW I see my dad and partner every day as I work for my dad, so there has been plenty of opportunity to ask if we want it anymore. WWYD?

No great advice I'm afraid but I had a similar thing happen to me.

I was having a new carpet being laid in my living room. I had decided to keep the existing underlay to save money. My Dad ripped it up whilst I was at work and took it to the tip! It cost me an extra 90 quid, my Dad offered to pay but never did!

I think it's a Dad/Man thing

I think you need to be cheeky and ask your dad's partner either for the tv back or to cough up for it.

It wasn't hers or your fathers to give away.

I have spoken to my dad's partner and she thinks I'm making a drama out of it! No remorse or recognition that any wrong has been done. She's said she'll get it back. Not much else I can do really.

That's interesting! Apparently our telly is coming back in the morning and will be left on our lawn. They didn't know whose it was and we are bang out of order for making a fuss about it. Families eh?

My father did this with my dolls house when I was a child. I still played with it at the time and he didn't ask me I feel your annoyance.

My parents recently tried to give me back my veg steamer and a coffee maker that definitely wasn't mine. Back story, I bought a slow cooker that cooks rice, steams veg and obviously slow cooks. I told DM, she begged me to give her my veg steamer. She then takes it, stores it without using it, DF decides it's taking up space and clearly she's forgotten/denies knowledge of it and blames me. Cue shock expression from me 5 years later when they bring it and random coffee maker, theirs not mine, round. I would have sold both on ebay given the chance! [bugrin]

To be honest, if I'd given it to my parents to store a year ago as I had no longer any use for it, I would have gone back to my sister and said sorry the TV had already found a new home.

They have several bits of ours that we can't fit in our rented house such as a wardrobe and dining chairs. I wouldn't expect any of it to be given away tbh, and definitely not without asking, even if it was only a loan.

Its a bit rude of them to give your stuff away, but they are doing you a favour by storing it all (presumably for free?). you would have spent more than £90 on storage surely?

Might be worth clarifying the situation - maybe they resent the arrangement? or maybe they're a bit ditsy and forgot it was yours? TBH it is better someone got use out of it rather than it being there doing nothing, and it must be awkward for your dad's partner to ask for it back.

oops sorry, £90 quid was someone else's carpet, not the TV value....