When I turned 21, my parents asked what I wanted for my gift. I wanted a nice set of crystal glasses, just like my Mum had. I didn't realise they only cost $20. When my sister turned 21, she wanted a double wooden bookcase, that cost round $1000. After my parents brought her the bookcase, they gave me $980 cash.

well, we know who the favorite kid is.

Oh, sheet.... someone has favorites

And THIS is HOW to nurture sibling resentment.

Bar any financial situation, I wonder if they have a favorite?

I'm in the middle of six. My five brothers all got cars for their 18th birthdays. I got a second hand signet ring with somebody else's initials on. And that kind of sums up my life.

I think Daddy may have had some secrets that he didn't want getting out....

That's horrible!!!

In my home country, turning 21 is a huge deal. My older sister was given a HUGE catered party, 200+ people PLUS my parents bought her MY dream car for some obscure reason. A few years later when my 21st was approaching I asked my parents what their plans were, knowing full well that, as the clichéd ignored middle child I was getting a big ole heap of nothin'. I took the high road though and told them a family dinner at a five star restaurant would be fine for me. One condition: I was the only one who was allowed to order the lobster and was not required to share :)....ok *maybe* I took the slightly less-high road hehe

My sister gets amazing gifts at Christmas - designer clothes, silk scarves from Paris, etc, and I get tins of cat food and cat toys bc I have a cat

My sister was given a friend's DS (white) while I had to pay the same friend's sister for her DS (pink). I payed for for mine before she was given hers, but I still thought it totally unfair. Also I didn't like pink with a passion back then and she wouldn't trade with me. Sisters man.

I wasn’t allowed to have a nintendo switch until I was 9. My little brothers got one when they were 5 and 4.

and she wanted your 20 for gas.

Is she the good sister and you the brat perhaps?

My heart bleeds reading this... it's so unfair! And how could you justify that as a parent, I just can't imagine. My parents hadn't much money, but they always made sure my sister and I were treated equally.

Friend had a father didn't like him much, and the poor guy didn't find that out until after his mother died and the father completely cut him off. Dad was apparently only faking it for years when the mother was alive, showed his real colors after she was gone. Broke the guy's heart, he had no idea, had even remodeled his home so dad could come live with them.

thats what my parents treat me like (I would be the $20 kid)

Yeah, I relate to this one. I'm the oldest FYI, and I wasn't allowed to drive the 10 year old Toyota, but my brother got a 68 Mustang for his 16th. (I'd moved out by then). He was the only boy & pretty much could do no wrong in my Fathers eyes. I couldn't get a $10 advance on my allowance, but he talked my Dad out of $120 for ski boot bindings. In San Diego. In JULY. Did I mention that I was an honor student and he'd been expelled from 2 different schools? I don't hold it against my brother, though. He was always really cool about sharing the spoils. Dad's gone now, but I still get a little sting whenever I think of how blatant the favoritism was.

For a gift I was given a record player which I was told I had to share with the whole family, (so I didn't feel it was 'mine' at all ), and then for HER birthday, my sister got her own record player... still hurts so many years later. I have tried to be fair with my own children.

When I got married my mum made sandwiches and my Dad gave me £5 ( it was in 1959) my sister got married 3 years later and had a big church wedding, Top hat and Tails and a big reception. we both re married some years later, this time I was given a frying pan and my sister got a big Kenwood super mixer.

My older sister got an apartment in the center of the city after graduating highschool. I got a PC. Same parents..

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i can relate so much to this one. my parents tolds us when we wouldnt smoke until 18 and after when you would smoke later on you ave to pay back ,they would pay for our drivers license including lessons (its quite expensive in the nteherlands) . so when my brother turned 18 he smoked in secret but moma knew it but still he got his drivers license i didnt smoke at all but i had to pay it for my self afterward they said i choose the wrong driving school so it was my own fault they wouldnt pay me back. (and side note they also bought my brothers licnese to drive a truck i did pay my own beauty school (although i dropped out later)

If the pictured one is the car she got, Id be pissed too

My older sister always got the best of everything. She was my dad's favorite. I got only what was adequate and if I complained was told by my dad 'I never had anything like the things you get, when I was your age." When I would point out that my sister always got exactly what she wants I was told to be more like my sister. There was no way I could win. But it did make me stronger in life and made me persevere for the life I wanted. Now my sister hates her life because she never learned to grab life by the reins.

Was it her golden birthday

Give back the $20 and tell them to have a good time.

Yup, I'd be bitter about that too

Please tell me the art work is not associated with the story. buying a 16 year old a porsche is a great way to kill the 16 yo without looking guilty.

Yep my parents did this at Christmas it was heart breaking for me. When my husband first stepped into my life he saw it first hand and was hodrified

That sucks, Ferris.

For high school graduation my younger brother got a car, wrecked it the first week and got another. I got a clock radio.

There must be so much more to this story.

The hell does she need a brand new car for?

I had a "learning" trip to Australia for my graduation and my brother got a bike (a nice one) for his, but when i had my gift my father gave the same amount of money to my brother to avoid such things. But still my brother is an Ahole so it didn't worked well.

Are siblings who are getting the good stuff, younger and/or of the opposite sex? Most replies of similar experiences aren't mentioning their sex or age. Out of all I've read only one specifically mentions an older sibling. This is pertinent info. In my experience/observations of such situations, it is typically younger, female siblings who are beneficiaries of unequal parental largess.