📝 WIBTA if I threw out my roommate's belongings?

By NorthTeaching3182 • Score: 2 • April 15, 2025 2:46 PM


I (29M) am moving across the country in a few days. I used to have a roommate (30F) but she moved out a few years ago. When she left, she originally went into a houseshare and only had one room, so didn't have any space for a lot of her stuff, so I agreed to store it for her until she had somewhere else.

Since then, she moved about six hours away to live with her parents, but she still never collected her stuff. We don't really talk anymore, but it wasn't a big deal to hold onto her stuff since I have the space.

I am now moving and since I'm moving so far, I don't really want to drag her stuff all the way to my new place, and it would be 12 hours away from her.

I would have just thrown it out, but I thought I should at least check, so I went through it and found some things that belonged to her late grandfather, and some of her baby pictures.

I managed to contact her and she asked me for the measurements of her stuff to have it shipped to her, which I provided, but that was a week ago and I haven't heard from her since.

I'm running out of time but I feel bad about throwing away things that are sentimental.

WIBTA if I just threw it out and didn't wait any more?

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