Clothes
Heyyyy ladies, I just want to start by saying I’m new here to this Reddit page so I may be a little lost with the terms. I’ve been a stepmom for the last 6 years to my stepdaughter. We have 50/50 custody, and our arrangement is rather weird because SD bounces back and forth each week. Not your typical 7 days on/off. I am starting to get really frustrated because I’ve noticed that I am buying new clothes for her almost every other week. Everytime she goes to Mom’s house we have her go in presentable clothes. School/summer camp(at her school) is our drop off/pick up point. So we never have to have contact with other parent. But when she comes back to us she comes dress in clothes that look worn out, stained, dingy, or not fitting. I don’t have the face to send her on our days back in those clothes. So I will usually pack it in her bag to take back. How do you guys handle this? We have asked multiple times if our clothes can get sent back and we usually get the response “oh I don’t know where that is or I don’t know what’s yours and mine”. I start to write on the tag “dad” then I notice tags go missing on clothes. I’ve taken pictures of the clothes and then I get the response of “I don’t have it” but then SD will send her dad little cute videos on mom’s days wearing our clothes. How can I stop this nasty behavior?