Baking and cooking utensils can be expensive, and there’s a big difference between good and mediocre.
In today’s story, one niece is nice enough to let her aunt borrow her new baking utensils.
The problem is that when she asks for them back, she finds out that her aunt threw them away.
Let’s see how the story unfolds…
WIBTA if I tell my aunt that she needs to replace my baking tools she threw away.
Ok so some context for this, I love to bake, and last year I spent a pretty penny buying a set of baking utensils that I love.
My aunt asked me if she could borrow them last week, and I said ok but that I would need them back by today because I planned on baking my friend a baby shower cake.
Her aunt threw away some of her new baking utensils.
I went to her house this morning to get them only to find out that she threw several of my utensils away because they “broken.”
To be clear the heads on some of my utensils pop off to be washed in a dishwasher since the handles were wooden.
She thought they broke because of this and instead of calling to tell me she just threw them away.
She thinks her aunt should pay to replace the baking utensils.
I’m going to go buy new ones today so I can bake the cake, but I want her to buy me the same brand of the ones that she threw away.
Not the whole set, just the brushes and spatulas.
It will only cost her like $20-$30 at most.
So WIBTA if I tell her that she needs to buy me new ones?
I’d be upset too if someone threw away something of mine without telling me first.
Let’s see how Reddit responded…
This reader thinks the aunt has bad manners.
Another reader agrees that the aunt should replace the utensils.
This reader thinks that she might have to chalk this up to a lesson not to loan anything to her aunt.
Another reader is surprised the aunt thought the utensils were broken.
It seems that everyone thinks the aunt should have to pay for replacements.
It seems reasonable to ask the aunt to replace what she threw away.
In fact, she should have offered.
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