Sister shoplifted over $800 worth of merch. wanna give it back?
Kay, so just the other day while my mom and i were home and my sister was supposed to be watching a movie we got a call from Macy’s saying she’d shoplifted. We were very shocked, i mean you don’t know her she’s always been the perfect girl and straight A student who goes to church every sunday and helps everybody out. Obviously she has a problem and stole everything from true religion jeans to makeup from rite aid to a volcolm purse from various stores throughout the year and she’s only 15 years old! She apparently learned how to take those tags off and has been doing this..she’s felt horrible yet ignored it and we never noticed because she’s been buying her own clothes and earning money from babysitting since she was like 8 years old. We all cried, and she was a kleptomaniac but is extremely regretful and has come clean after attempting to steal 5 worth of merch and getting caught and penalized with a HUGE fine. She feels dirty and shameful and embarrassed. She only now realizes fully what she’s done. Before she was just living life in a daze
so the question, what to do with all the crap she’s stolen?? Half her wants all the pretty clothes and half of her wants to somehow fix the damage. She’s scared she’s done an unforgivable sin and she’s going to hell…what would be a good option? buying ridiculously overpriced stuff thats obviously not worth the money from the stores? give them to charity? they are high priced designer clothes? what. to. do.?
and if you’re religious..how can she "repent" and keep from going to hell because she’s really freaking out about that..she’s really paranoid these days and thinks that God will punish me for her actions? idk..she won’t do anything illegal now, not even set the dog free in an empty park to play fetch.
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Douglas B
06 Feb 2010
buzzmail3
06 Feb 2010
if its not worth the money than why do you value it enough to steal it? if you don’t agree with a brand/stores prices, represent that with your taste for clothing. it seems like although she doesn’t pay for the items she’s still "buying in" to the idea that clothes that cost 50 cents to make and 50 dollars at the store are prettier than regular clothes. I think the sin she is committing here is not stealing but worshiping the false god of money. money is not evil but basing your value system on it is. I think repenting should be done by wearing a plain white smock to school for two months, to realize that clothes are not what life is about. and if you are religious than why are you even asking whether or not she should return them, of course she should.
luker
06 Feb 2010
Either keep the merchandise or donate it to charity. Do not attempt to give it back to the stores, they would only try to press more charges. I can’t help you with the religious aspect, she can always talk to a priest about it.
Has she had professional help? You say she won’t steal again, but you didn’t think she would the first two times. There is something amiss with what she is doing. But there are other problems too. I think you are in denial of what she has done. You don’t think she will do it again. You think it’s alright to take something but if you don’t really want it you shouldn’t have to pay full price for it just because you feel it was overpriced. Your sister knew that when she picked that stuff up. Why shouldn’t she pay for it? That is what you call a lesson in not stealing. Why does she have an obsession of high end clothes? Someone has instilled that into her too. But without paying fully for what she has done why would she want to repent? Why does she think that repenting is going to save herself? Salvation is righting what you have wronged. You are giving her an out she shouldn’t have by not paying for what she took. And she should keep it all as a reminder of what she is working to pay for. But in the very least, she needs help. You evidently have no idea of what goes on with a person who has an addiction and what it takes to work through it because they all say the same thing when caught, who wouldn’t, but an addict has more going on that isn’t fixed with a few words.