Long story so will keep it short!
Last year my mum left her partner and moved in with me on a temporary basis although she stayed for 14 months. She left most of her furniture in my sisters garage for storage until she found a place of her own.
During the time she was living with me mum suggested I get rid of my bulky pine table and have her small oak one, stored at my sisters. We did this and left the pine one in her garage for storage. When we went to pick up the table my sister was using the matching four chairs as she had broken hers. She had taken them without asking but mum was fine with that. The chairs I already had did not match at all but I just figured I'd get new ones to match.
Over the last year I have been trying to find matching chairs but they are very expensive. I bought cheap Ikea ones but they were all too large to fit in the gap between the table legs, so we ended up with 2 pairs of different looking chairs, none of them matching the table!
Just before christmas my sister helped herself to my original pine table as she had broken hers (she has a lot of drunken parties). I did not mind at all, just asked her to look after it. I was a bit miffed that she did not ask first though as we are very close.
Yesterday me and my mum went to a junk shop that was filled to the rafters with chairs and tables, so I thought I'd sort my chair problem out once and for all! I chose a set of 6 chairs at a good price and brought them home. However they did not fit between the table legs. I was ready to scream when I thought I'd phone my sister and ask her if she would do a swap so I could have the chairs that originally came with the table and she have the 6 I had just bought. She said that was fine and came later that day with her husband to do the swap. I had told her that I would do all the moving in mums huge car as they had just bought a sleek new one, but when they arrived they had brought the oak ones.
My sister took one look at the 6 chairs I had bought and said she did not like them. I said fine, it's ok we won't swap but she said she didn't mind me having the oak ones and she will store the 6 in her garage and buy some pine ones to match my table that she is using.
I could tell they were huffy and I kept saying that I felt awful and she should just take the oak ones back and I'd make do with the 6 I'd bought but they kept saying it was ok, they would just get new ones.
I was very pleased I finally had the matching chairs that actually fit but felt really guilty about the whole situation. I went to mums to swap cars back and she told me my sister had been on the phone absuloutely furious with me for 'conning' her into having 6 'shit' chairs. My mum told her she should have spoken to me about it at the time but she said it was too late by then as they had already brought the oak chairs to me!
Sisters husband took her to ikea last night so she could buy matching chairs but she is not speaking to me!
The way I look at it is this, she should never have helped herself to the oak chairs in the first place, and should be grateful I have all but given her my pine table that she took.
I'm going to have it out with her but I want to see what people think of the situation first.
AIBU? If I am I really can't see how!
Sorry it's long and if you've got down the page this far then bless you and please give me some advice!