Woman refuses to babysit her sister’s destructive 6-year-old for a whole week, so her sister can go on vacation

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AITJ for refusing to babysit my nephew for a week because my sister dicided to go on vacation?
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The broken stuff is its own separate conversation. A smashed monitor, a destroyed gamepad, and a juice-soaked work laptop are not the random chaos of childhood. They are the predictable result of raising a kid with zero boundaries and then handing him off to someone whose belongings he has no personal relationship with. The repair costs landed entirely on the person who had the least to do with creating this situation, and the family that could not chip in for a laptop somehow found enough money for a week abroad.
That last part is genuinely the funniest and most infuriating thing about this whole story. Years of financial instability, borrowed money, and being too tight for basic accountability suddenly lifts just long enough for a vacation, which also happens to require a free week of childcare from the same person they never paid back. The timing is not a coincidence. It is a system working exactly as designed.
Nobody asked if he wanted to spend his vacation this way. That detail gets buried under all the crying and the accusations of penny-counting, but it is the whole point. His time was treated as a resource available for other people's use by default, and saying no to that framing got labeled as selfishness. Wanting your vacation to be your vacation is not a controversial position. It only feels controversial when you have spent years letting other people treat your free time as their backup plan.