I got caught shoplifting

[RoseBiscuitll]

I really didn't know what topic to choose for this

I'm mortified, I got caught shoplifting in boots today, I was stealing baby milk and a facial moisturiser. I'm so ashamed of myself. It was in the city center aswell. They didn't call police but they took my details, took a picture and told me I can't return to the store again

Will this picture and my details go around to the other shops near by or will it just go to the other boots shops.

I can't believe I was stupid enough to do this! I'm so embarrassed and also feel really guiltily!

murasaki · Yesterday 23:08
Well we've established that the OP is a thief with an atrocious taste in men. Both of which can be nipped in the bud and she can pivot away from that.

Also, contraception is free, I hope she's on it.
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That was unnecessarily harsh and judgemental. The op is beating herself up enough already without anyone on here piling it on.

Have you never done something wrong on impulse which you later regretted? Most of us have.

Rose needs encouragement, not vilification. She's had that from the store and is doing it to herself.

Thankfully most people have been kind and helpful.

Chuck your moisturiser in the bin then, if it's a luxury item. Come back to us in a month and let us know how you get on.

People need toiletries.

I'm telling you. I live on UC. It isn't enough to cover the basics.

And I get a lot more UC than the OP does.

@RoseBiscuitll have you approached the food bank? You need food too.

Come on, I don’t agree with everything others are saying but moisturiser isn’t an essential item in the way that baby milk is and I’m sure you can see that.

Everybody has different levels of income and just because someone can afford moisturiser, or to run a car, or to buy make up, doesn’t make any of those things essential items. Some people can afford those things and so have them, if you can afford a “luxury” item whether that’s moisturiser or a range rover that doesn’t mean you should not bother with it because someone else can’t afford it.

Bloody hell, this is how entitled society is that people regard moisturiser as an essential?

Soap or a cheap shampoo, I'd understand...but moisturiser?

Come on now.

Oh gosh, it sounds terrible! So sorry you've been through all that. It's terrible what's happened to the NHS.

According to you.

I said so, she has a job, looking after her baby. It's an exhausting job. I am against putting babies and small children into nurseries but giving no help to mothers who want to stay at home and raise their children. A childcare allowance that is given to the parent(s) to use as they wish would be far preferable, allowing for nurseries, grandparent care, stay at home mum/dad, rather than just putting money into nursery owners' pockets whilst they pay the nursery workers a pittance.

Enough money to live on is subjective. Plenty of people live on the amount they get in benefits.

No, agreed it's certainly not in the same category.

It doesn't mean I don't spend my money on it though and consider it essential. I'd have awful dry flaky skin without it.

Everyone should be able to buy moisturiser.

I think the OP was quite brave to mention it. She could have just mentioned the milk but she was honest. I give her credit for that.

Hard left??? 😂😂😂😂OMG you just made my evening. Thanks for that, I needed a laugh.

Do you consider having enough money to eat three meals a day to be appropriate?

Because I don't have enough money for three meals a day. I have one and I have to make do with that.

If you don't believe me, I can stand on the scales for you and send you a picture.

What's my crime? Losing my career to an incurable disease.

Where does that end then?

Everyone could class different things as “essential”. Someone could argue that their bottle of wine on a Friday is essential because without it they’d be miserable, it feels essential to them, but does that make it an essential?

Someone else could class their own car as an essential, without it they’d have to get the bus, does that make it at essential?

Someone else could class their monthly massage as an essential, without it they’d have back ache/stress, does that make it an essential?

Thank you.

Yes, it is. A population of people in ill health isn't good for the economy either.

And for plenty it's impossible. 'Enough' isn't subjective when it comes down to whether there's any food in the house or the utilities are being cut off.

What do you think people on UC should be allowed to afford?

Bearing in mind that includes people who can't work.

How much money do you have available to spend on food each week @PaillettenBedeckt?

Unfortunately being a stay at home mum is only a luxury people who can support themselves have. Healthy capable people can't expect others to pay for them to stay home. Just because you're personally against putting babies and small children into childcare it's the reality of life you can't just have everything handed to you on a plate. When a person makes the decision to have a child (which thankfully in this country it is still a decision) these are the things you have to think about. Financially providing for a child to be able to meet their basic needs is a big part of that

Can't work - people should be able to live fairly comfortable lives and afford moisturiser if thus is now tbe barometer.

Not working but perfectly capable - enough to live on but not enough to dissuade them from working.

They're two entirely separate things.

Can't work - people should be able to live fairly comfortable lives and afford moisturiser if thus is now tbe barometer.

Not working but perfectly capable - enough to live on but not enough to dissuade them from working.

They're two entirely separate things.

So you love the reply that vindicates your actions.
You are basically a thief, and are no different to any other thief. If someone breaks into your house tonight and steals from you are you saying it’s okay.
If your child grows up to be a thief you’ll be happy with that will you.
Heaven help this country ‘hun’!

Well said

Yeah that’s what I was wondering. Get the strong feeling OP is mainly bothered about the photo doing the rounds rather than proper guilt, and probably wouldn’t have started a thread if it weren’t for the photo. I imagine there’ll be lots of mitigation about how desperate she was, but it’s not mentioned in the OP, just concern about the photo.

So funny that some on here have decided to use moisturiser as a barometer of entitledness when a tube of Nivea Soft costs literally two quid. Should people on benefits not even be allowed to spend that much on themselves, then? How very dare they get ideas above their station, such as basic personal care?!

Honestly, some people on this thread.