To sell DSs XBox to pay for the orthodontic brace he has lost?

[SoupDragon]

Given that he's only had it 4 weeks as it was a replacement for the previous one he lost?
£165.
Twice.
In one fecking month.

I am actually planning to box it up and hide it in the loft rather than sell it BTW but it is the only thing that seems to have made any kind of impression wrt the cost.

He's 13.

I wish I could come and look, I'm great at finding stuff no one else can find :)

soup he sounds identical to my ds! Right down to the pro fled and phone handset

Have you looked in the washing basket?
Siblings room?

Could you claim on household insurance?

*pringles!!!!!

Logically speaking, it can only be "dropped" somewhere. He can't have shoved it in a drawer accidentally because he doesn't put anything in the fecking drawers in the first place

He wears it at night, he takes it out in the morning... how bloody hard can it be? Bedroom or bathroom. That's it. Plus the random element of the dog which I am ignoring for now. Apparently there is an outside chance that it is in the playroom so, as I tidied that before he admits to having lost the brace I'm going to look in there before going back to The Pit of Doom.

Even if I find it he is in shit loads of trouble when he gets back from school!

As an aside, DS2's brace is sitting on the bathroom windowsill after I told him to "put it somewhere sensible" this morning. I meant in a box in his bedroom...

I think the household excess plus any premium increase makes it pointless claiming TBH.

Stuffed in a random pocket ?
Between mattress and bedframe ?

Have frisked trousers and stripped and turned the mattress. [sigh]

I'm going back in...

Hmmm... now here is an interesting turn up for the books: I've found the brace he lost "at scout camp" which meant I had to fork out £165 for the replacement last month

At least I won't have to pay for a whole new one, they can probably adjust the old one.

Where was it?

please can you video his face/response when he gets in from school and realises you have been through his room?

Honestly Soup? You threatened removing the Xbox so now you have to follow through. If not, then don't make threats you aren't willing to see through to the end in future. I suspect that's why he clearly couldn't give a rats ass.

Good job on finding the old one though.

The "lost at Scout Camp" brace was in it's box (bright red) in a Superdry paper bag hanging from a hook in his room.

This makes no sense for at least 2 reasons:

1. How did he not find it when "thoroughly searching" for the replacement. 2a) It didn't go to Scout Camp at all or 2b) Why didn't he look in the bloody box

So have you finished the room or is there more to go?

Good news you at least found one of the braces.

£165 spent for nothing? Now for that I would be selling the xbox.

The thing is though 13 year old boys do lose stuff. They just do.

Stuntgirl, he was actually sobbing when I told him the XBox was going. Real proper tears. From a teenager.

He will get the XBox back but I will be making a "For Sale" poster this afternoon and printing it off before placing it over the old brace somewhere conspicuous. And he will be working off the £165 I paid out unnecessarily before the XBox reappears from the loft.

This does hinge on DS2 not spilling the beans as I did reassure him that it wouldn't actually be sold. He loves it almost as much as DS1. As it stands, DS2 is currently serving a week long ban from electronic games so he has nothing to gain by letting on!

How old is your DS2 Soup? this all sounds so familiar in our house.

Sparkling, we went to the "new boys" morning at DS1's school at the weekend (DS2 starts in Sept). Part of the head of lower school's speech included the observation that they can walk behind boys in the corridor and virtually see them moulting personal possessions as they go.

Currently I am thinking £10 per week to mow the lawn twice will make him pay back the original £165 and get me out of a chore I hate. Win win.

DS2 is 11.

Aaah, you are a bit ahead of me. DS2 is 10 1/2. Electronic bans ahoy most weeks here.

Sorry, but I would sell it!

We often have bans running one after the other. He tried to argue that the current one was spent as he'd not played any when on his week long school residential trip last week.

I don't think he's 'lost' either of them, rather hidden them and forgotten about them because he doesn't enjoy wearing the brace. The fact he's got you to pay out £165 (twice nearly) for that though isn't on. It sounds as if the boy knows there is no consequence to his actions or he would have stopped losing so many expensive items.