5-year-old goes on $3K online shopping spree while parents are asleep: ‘Currently on the phone crying to Amazon'
Parents of a little 5-year-old boy learned the hard way to never leave their child unattended with their phone after waking up to an over $3,000 Amazon order — that they didn't make.
In a viral TikTok video posted by the mom of the little online shopper, her husband is obviously shocked, questioning his sneaky son — who sat on the couch between his brother and sister quite unbothered — how he managed to rack up such a wildly high bill.
'You bought seven cars on Amazon. You spent over $3,000 on Amazon today. How did you do that? You are in so much trouble.'
The clip cuts to the Amazon order that consisted of what looks like a little kid's Christmas list to Santa, and then a hilarious shot of the happy kid happily online shopping with overlay text that reads: 'Living life – happily scrolling and checking out while the rest of the house is sleeping.'
The little shopper's mom captioned her video, 'and casually had another $700 of items in the cart ready to check out with before we caught him. i'm currently on the phone crying to amazon – my husband is on the phone crying with our bank…'
The comments on the TikTok video are just as hilarious as one would imagine.
'I'm just jealous you had enough in your account for all that. My card would've been declined so quickly.'
'Can we get a haul?'
'God forbid a girl have a little retail therapy.'
'He took Christmas in July to a whole new level.'
While the parents of this young boy can chalk up his sneaky spending to him not knowing exactly what he was doing — other parents are not taking it so lightly on their child's spending habits.
One frustrated New Jersey mom is putting her foot down when it comes to her teen daughters' frivolous spending.
Instead of being the 'Bank of Mom' for her girls, she is teaching them the value of a dollar by forcing them to use their own money to pay for things like food deliveries, manicures or 'another crop top that looks exactly like every other crop top' they already have in their closets.
'They'll DoorDash Starbucks every day if I let them.'
Similar to the parents of the 5-year-old Amazon shopper, kids are racking up bills by making in-app purchases on things like Meta VR headsets or Fortnite 'digital currency.'
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