To wonder why there is a difference

[ShinyMoonInAPurpleSky]

between the feeling you get when something you own gets broken or lost by you or the people who were supposed to use it (household members) and when the same thing happens when it was being used or cared for by someone else?

The first feeling is always a sort of "Never mind, we'll know better next time" feeling, whereas the second is more of a "And this is why I don't lend things because no-one else looks after my things properly, which is why they have nothing of their own and always want to borrow mine and I'll be lucky if I even get a sorry, never mind a replacement/reimbursement".

By the way, for "other people" read "brothers/sisters"

Oo what have they broken this time?

dh's sisters have broken one of my ds's "bigger" (as in, more expensive) toys which he has only had for a month. They are 6 and 7 years old but imo should know better than to go so rough on a babies toy (they weren't even playing with it properly, they were literally hitting it). When I saw what they were doing to it I told them to stop but it was too late.

I feel like it's petty for me to be annoyed but it's going to cost time and money to replace and it's just another thing destroyed by one of mine or dh's siblings in the history of both of our lives (we are both eldest children).