Halloween may have already come and gone, but there’s never a bad time of year to talk about it! After all, there’s so much fun to be had in wearing a costume with all your friends. Even just planning a group costume is a lot of fun.
A Reddit user named weenohallow recently took to the AITA community to discuss how she’d made her teenage daughter return her Halloween costume because it was too expensive. A little over a month later and the daughter is still mad at her mom, ignoring her and being standoffish. The mom asked the community if she was wrong for what she did to her daughter.
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The User’s Story Is Pretty Short, But Tells It All.
Though It Happened In October, The Daughter Is Still Upset.
The mom talks about how her 16-year-old daughter works after school five days a week, and wanted to participate in a group costume with her friends. They’d gone shopping for the costume together, and the mom later picked them up.
When OP learned that her daughter spent $80 on the costume, OP lectured her in the car. She dropped off the friends, and then brought the daughter back to the store to return the costume. As a result, the daughter didn’t get to participate in the costume with her friends, who found someone else to fill her spot. They ended up winning a $100 gift card to share. The mom argues that the costume cost more than the prize, and believes she’d taught her daughter a lesson about spending money wisely.
Meanwhile, the daughter is still cold and upset. OP’s ex-husband says that she ruined the experience for her daughter.
The Comment Section Was Also On The Daughter’s Side.
According to OP, the daughter works after school. Which means she likely spent her own money on the costume. In other words, OP tried to control how the daughter spent her own money.
Others Discuss How OP Kind Of Blew It Out Of Proportion.
The only problem OP seemed to have with her daughter’s costume was the price. But as more commenters agreed, it wasn’t OP’s place to tell her daughter how to spend her money, so long as she continues to save and pay for anything else she may need to pay for.
For The Daughter, The Price Of The Costume And The Prize Money Weren’t The Point.
In making her return the costume, OP made the daughter feel excluded from her friends. OP made the daughter feel like the memories she may have made with her friends weren’t worth the price of the costume. For most commenters, it seemed that OP was both out of touch and in the wrong.
