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[quote=Anonymous]My brother used to steal like this. Watches and cash. He was never blamed. It was always doddering grandparents or sloppy teachers or me (the sibling) being messy and disorganized. No one wanted to believe that he was stealing from people he knew and right under their noses.

Well, gradually he started to get caught, but my mom always had an excuse for him. The teacher’s watch on her desk looked like it was close to the dress-up area and he didn’t realize, my cash in my Hello Kitty Velcro wallet looked just like his cash, etc.

Growing up my parents made fun of me for being a spendthrift, being messy, etc. I wasn’t. When was 25 or so my brother confessed that every time I got birthday money he took it. It became hundreds if not thousands of dollars and he used his “savings” for taking girlfriends out, buying his first used car, etc. I wonder who I would have been if I’d had that $1000 or $1200 along the way during my tween and adolescent years. Instead I felt poor and dumb and flakey.

The cash is in the kid’s room, OP. Count out the equivalent amount from the rest of this kid’s stash, return it to the grandparents, and lock everything else down.[/quote]

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