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Woman buys an entire table of estate sale junk out of spite and donates it after another shopper keeps grabbing items out of her hands

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  • a cluttered table filled with colorful storage bins and household items, overlaid with a large quote reading “Something in me snapped. I looked at the table and decided you know what. Fine.” In the background, two women stand outdoors near a table, holding boxes in a bright, leafy residential setting.
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  • AITJ for buying an entire table of stuff at an estate sale just to spite the woman who kept grabbing things out of my hands

    I go to estate sales pretty regularly. I like finding old kitchen stuff, vintage frames, random things I didnt know I needed.
  • Usually people are polite and you just kind of move around each other. This one woman was not polite.
  • I was looking through a table of old dishware and knickknacks and she kept getting right up in my space.
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  • Like shoulder to shoulder when there was plenty of room. Every time I picked something up to look at it she would literally hover over my hands waiting for me to put it down.
  • Close-up of a table at an outdoor yard sale displaying assorted household items, including glass dessert cups, bowls, a small speaker, and kitchen containers, with clothing racks and greenery blurred in the background.
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  • Fine whatever. Then I moved to another table that had some old books and frames and random home stuff.
  • She followed me. Same thing. Breathing down my neck. At one point I picked up a little jewelry box to check the price and she reached over and tried to take it out of my hands while I was still holding it.
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  • I said excuse me Im still looking at this and she just stared at me. I put it down and she grabbed it immediately.
  • Cool. I kept looking and picked up a small picture frame. Same thing. She waited maybe three seconds and then just took it from me.
  • Not even subtle about it. I looked at her and said this is really weird behavior and she just shrugged.
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  • Something in me snapped. I looked at the table and decided you know what. Fine. I grabbed one of those cardboard boxes they had for carrying stuff and started loading everything from that table into it.
  • All of it. Frames, books, candle holders, random ceramic animals, all of it. She just stood there watching.
  • I took the whole box to checkout and paid like $40 for everything. When I got home I sorted through it.
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  • Kept maybe 5 things I actually wanted. Donated the rest to a local thrift store the next day.
  • AITJ?
  • Conversation No2621 NTJ sometimes you have to pay the petty tax and $40 to teach someone their behavior has consequences is honestly a bargain
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  • Fickle-Frosting-6680 Not the jerk she crossed basic estate sale etiquette by grabbing things out of your hands, and you beat her at her own game without breaking any rules. Sometimes the most effective boundary is letting someone watch you calmly buy the entire table they were trying to bully you out of.
  • Puzzleheaded_Mix9303 Rather than buying a load of stuff I didn't need I would have seen how many things I could have touched and made her buy, see how far she'd go.
  • T9Para I would have called her out. "Excuse me ! Are you stupid, and dont know about personal space? It's just wrong to grab something out of someones hands. Ive asked you to give me some space repeatedly. Now GET AWAY FROM ME."
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  • Tootsie-Chateau59 Start coughing. If she tries it again, cough louder. "I'm sorry my doctor wanted me to quarantine, but I'm so bored at home." "Is hepatitis contagious?" "I don't think this is from allergies." "Please don't stand so close. My herpes isn't in remission."
  • Lost_Canary6795 Ntj but you are hilarious my wish my could have seen the look on her face
  • angepet_53 I attend estate sales semi regularly, I'm into vintage Christmas ornaments. One sale I was at they provided small baskets to carry small items so you weren't juggling things as you shopped. I had a woman, who had already been around the room once, follow me around and say "oh, I was going to buy that" and "are you really going to buy that" everytime I put something in my basket. Followed me to watch me pay. As I was stowing my purchases in the the car she came out empty handed and lef
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  • Life-Education-8030 Yesterday, my spouse went to check if a particular brand of lox was back in stock and this guy pushed him and tried to reach around him to grab it so my spouse calmly blocked him with his shoulder and took all the packages. Lox wars!
  • Live_Spinach_3484 That happened to me in a thrift store. I was looking at dresser scarves, I love the embroidery. This older woman with a cart came the other way up the aisle - the aisles are about 30 feet long - and got right up to me and bumped me with her cart. Ok. I move down further and look at another one, about 3 feet. She did it again. I looked at her and moved again - same thing. I finally asked her why she kept doing that and she said "oh I'm sorry" I said no you aren't or you wouldn't

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