6-Year-Old Girl Buys $350 Worth of Toys and Games in Secret Amazon Shopping Spree

Photo credit: ABC News/ Good Morning America
Photo credit: ABC News/ Good Morning America

From Cosmopolitan

When Kaitlin, 6, finished all of her chores, her parents thought a single Barbie would make for a good reward. But Kaitlin had other plans.

According to Buzzfeed News, the mischievous little girl from Utah ordered nearly $350 worth of toys and games from Amazon.com without her parents' permission when her mom stepped away from her phone.

"Her mom went on her Amazon account and saw three pages of things she had ordered," Kaitlin's cousin, Ria Diyaolu, told Buzzfeed. "I was so surprised that a 6-year-old knew how to do one-click, next-day shipping."

In an interview with Good Morning America, Kaitlin's mom, Catherine Lunt, shared how she found out about her daughter's giant order.

"All our family came home and the truck pulls up, and all of these boxes are getting pulled out of the truck," Lunt said. "I looove Amazon!" Kaitlin added with a laugh.

But instead of getting grounded, Kaitlin's parents used the mishap as a teachable moment instead. Kaitlin was forced to donate all of her toys (except the Barbie she was supposed to get in the first place) to a local children's hospital in Salt Lake City.


"Kaitlin chose to donate all of the toys to the Children’s Hospital where she stayed for a week when she was a baby! She wanted to give a little joy to those who aren’t well," Diyaolu wrote on Twitter.

And although there was a silver lining to the "little scammer in the making"'s spending, Diyaolu told Buzzfeed that her cousin did receive some sort of punishment. "She does not have access to the internet for a month," Diyaolu said.

Hope Kaitlin really likes that Barbie.

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