To think DH's aunt is being odd and/or trying it on?

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DH and I moved into this house 4 years ago. The previous owners had downsized to a caravan by the sea so they left us alot of stuff in the house, furniture/crockery etc.

So since then we have always had one odd white plate - its a bit smaller than a dinnerplate. I assumed it was one of the things the owners left behind.

Last monday DH's aunt came round and stayed for tea. While I was doing tea I broke this white plate (a jat fell out of the cupboard and broke it) DH's aunt said nothing. She came round on saturday and said nothing, but was her normal self.

Today she has rung up and said that the plate is hers, that she brought it round when we moved in and she wants us to replace the plate. However she doesnt have the white Dinner service sanymore, so she would like us to replace it with an expensive Emma Bridgewater one.

Now bearing in mind we have had it 4 years without her saying anything, I thing she is chancing it. DH thinks I should replace it to avoid upsetting her.

She isnt old and doddery BTW, she is in her late 50's.

AIBU?

She's bonkers. If it was her plate, why has it been at your house for 4 years?

yeah, she's trying it on/

weird woman.

I would buy it then keep it at your house as per the previous plate

Mad as a box of frogs. IMO.

If you ever go round to hers, can you pinch a matching plate out of a cupboard, wrap it and give it back to her?!

So she wants you to pay for a new plate which is part of a dinner set that the broken plate didn't belong to!?!

YANBU. Tell her to stuff off. If it indedd was hers, she's had 4 years to retrieve it.

Or agree to pay for one new white plate less rental for the 4 years she's been using your house to store her stuff.

indeed

lol she is mad

Lol...very weird! Why don't' you be weird back and buy a plate from a second hand shop...say "Here is the plate you wanted"

If she says "But that's not an Emma Bridgewater one" you say "NO...neither was the other one!"

Get her a new plate from Poundland.

She sounds most odd.

I agree. Be weird back. Send her a tea cup.

Oh that is weird!

I might just get her something from a charity shop-it wouldn´t matter what pattern if she doesn´t have the dinner service any more, would it?

Jesus, what a cheeky moo!

She's chancing it, certainly. I'd agree with the others - buy a new, cheap, white plate to replace it. If she's still after it when you say that you've bought a 'matching' replacement for her, she's possibly telling the truth. If not, then there's your answer.

Buy her this hideous thing!

Dear god I just cannot get over the cheek of some people.

Hell would freeze over before I replaced it.

clearly she's one plate short of a service

That is actually so weird that I would be a bit worried about her.

Has she ever done anything like this before?

PMSL at "one plate short of a service".

So, what is her explanation for it being at your house for 4 years? You say she said on the 'phone that she brought it round when you moved in. Presumably with some not-very-memorable house warming gift of home baked goodies perched on it? I don't understand how she can be so sure that the broken plate was that plate, nor why she never mentioned it before. What did you say to her in reply when she related this strange claim?

zookeeper is spot on, I bet she has just broken one of her own 'new' set

Are you sure she's actually your aunt? Or does she just insist she's your aunt?

I bet she's been seething every time she's thought of the injustice of you having her plate over the four years, and has obviously snapped at its demise

She must have thought a lot about whether she should say something knowing how it'd come across.

Sometimes things like that do get out of proportion.

Very odd though.

Very odd imo. I think she's definitely trying it on.

How the frig did the plate arrive in your house

at nomedoit!

She actually could be anyone's Aunt...tomorrow she might tell you she's your step cousin and wants her shed back!