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Original poster

Actually, is my aunt being unreasonable?

66 replies

PomBearArmy · 30/07/2013 18:16

When my aunt moved to Germany she offered me her G-Plan wall unit as she couldn't take it. It fits in my living room perfectly, it looks like two open shelf bookcases of different heights sitting on a base unit - I just took the base unit's sliding doors off as they kept sticking.

She came back after six months and called in to see me, and I noticed she was in a bit of a mood when she left. Later my other aunt called and said that I'd vandalised the unit and disrespected her property! I really hadn't, and it looks fine to me, I prefer it all open.

Am I in the wrong?

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Original poster
PomBearArmy · 30/07/2013 18:16

And though this probably sounds like no big deal, I've been told she is no longer speaking to me...

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Justforlaughs · 30/07/2013 18:17

YANBU, she is being a bit daft tbh. She either gave it to you or she didn't.

VodkaJelly · 30/07/2013 18:22

I have never heard of G Plan so just googled it. Its very... ummm.. uh, retro. Yes, very, ummmm, retro. yes.

Your Aunt is bonkers,

StrangeGlue · 30/07/2013 18:23

Yanbu.

Does she think she lent it rather than gave it? But even then you'd only bu if you couldn't reattach the doors.

In any case 'vandalised' is v over dramatic.

ajandjjmum · 30/07/2013 18:23

She is being very silly, as she presumably gave it to you without condition.

SarahAndFuck · 30/07/2013 18:24

She gave it away so it's not her property anymore.

And it's a ridiculous thing to stop speaking to someone about.

Also this is the second mention of G-Plan furniture I've seen on MN in two days and I've never heard of it before. Genuine question, because when I googled it just looked like normal furniture to me but it seems to be something of a big deal. Why is G-Plan so special?

Nobody would stop speaking to you over a Billy bookcase OP.

pictish · 30/07/2013 18:24

Sibu. Not her house? Not her call.

AnnabelleLee · 30/07/2013 18:26

If its the original utility stuff its worth a good bit. Its sort of iconic.

dadinthehat · 30/07/2013 18:26

Rub a candle along the runners when you put the doors back in. Should help with the sticking. Or a good polish.

Salmotrutta · 30/07/2013 18:27

G-plan was big in the 1970s Sarah.

It must be making a retro comeback or something it was hideous enough back then so god knows why

dadinthehat · 30/07/2013 18:27

Oh, YANBU. Aunt is.

Yonionekanobe · 30/07/2013 18:29

Also had to google it Sarah

She is being very unreasonable and quite precious.

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PomBearArmy · 30/07/2013 18:38

She definitely gave it to me. I broke the doors up and threw them out... I told her that. I didn't know it was a big deal. Maybe I should have kept them, but they looked so 70s!

I like it now because it reminds me of the one my Mum and Dad used to have when I was little, but it does look very of its time!

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SquinkiesRule · 30/07/2013 18:42

Well if she gave it to you she's being a nut. She can't control what happens to things she's given away, ignore her and her dramatics. If she's no longer speaking to you, she's saved you the trouble.

Hegsy · 30/07/2013 18:47

If she actually gave it to you then SIBU unless she thinks she'll get it back at some point? Very strange

minibmw2010 · 30/07/2013 18:50

Why did you not keep the doors? That makes more sense, no wonder she's offended.

pictish · 30/07/2013 18:54

I think it was wasteful to chuck the doors tbh. Could they not have sat in the shed or something? I think that's what she's annoyed at - not that you took the doors off, but that you broke the doors up and chucked them out!

I do agree that she gave it to you, and that's that - but I must confess your destruction of the item makes me a little bit cross.

Pancakeflipper · 30/07/2013 18:54

But why keep the doors for something she was given and has no plans to return? Why does that make sense?

GetStuffezd · 30/07/2013 18:58

How would the Aunt know the OP had chucked the doors? Why would the OP keep the doors?
Adults who "stop speaking to" other adults for such trivial matters generally need a boot up the arse anyway.

pictish · 30/07/2013 18:59

G plan furniture is worth some money these days.
I wouldn't mind if someone took the doors off because it suited their needs better, but I'd be pissed off that the recipient smashed them up and made the furniture worthless.

Sorry but I bloody would. Sacrilege!!

Pancakeflipper · 30/07/2013 19:01

Then Aunt shouldn't have given it away. She should have sold it to a G-Plan door loving person. Not a pull it off and smash doors up type.

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PomBearArmy · 30/07/2013 19:02

Ah, ok. I have a small house and after breaking my hoarding habits maybe I go too far the other way now Blush

I'll email and apologise for destroying the doors.

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firesidechat · 30/07/2013 19:04

Apparently G plan is going to be the next big thing or so those in the know are predicting. I quite like retro/vintage, but honestly never saw that one coming.

Perhaps the aunt now realises that she has given away an antique of the future and wants it back.

Do you still have the doors?

claudedebussy · 30/07/2013 19:07

ouch!

she's bu as she gave it away.

but to destroy part of it - ouch ouch ouch! yes, i think you should email and apologise and don't ever do that again!

firesidechat · 30/07/2013 19:07

YOU BROKE THE DOORS UP!!!!

No wonder she's annoyed. That's potentially quite a bit of money down the drain.

Personally I wouldn't give it house room, but some retro collector would have loved it.

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