How to get personal belongings back from someone refusing to return them
When someone refuses to return personal items or wedding belongings, it leaves owners stressed and desperate to get their property back. People end up dealing with uncooperative holders who either lie about what happened or ignore requests, stopping owners from recovering their valuables.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Asking the person to ship the items via the post office
- 2Writing off lent money or trying to avoid pushing them during a difficult time
- 3Asking the child directly if he has seen it
- 4Asking the child's mother to keep an eye out for it without directly accusing her son
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“This stolen rock is literally keeping me up at night. I want it back!”source ↗
“Do any parents with more experience have any advice on how to get this kid to give our rock back.”source ↗
“He’s a just kid so I don’t want to make him upset too but he’s lying that he doesn’t know what happened to it.”source ↗
“will you please ship all my stuff to Michigan - tracked - in time for the wedding?”source ↗
Where this came up
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