Katelyn Lunt's Barbie spending spree took the internet by storm this week after the 6-year-old Utah girl snuck a $350 Amazon order on her mother’s account.
The situation might have any parent seething in anger but rather than punish their daughter, Lunt’s parents used it as a lesson in paying it forward to a children’s hospital, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
It all began earlier this month, when Catherine Lunt logged on to Amazon to order a purple Barbie Dreamtopia Rainbow Cove Fairy Doll for her daughter.
She didn’t realize at the time, but it was a bad idea to give Katelyn permission to check the order’s status. When she logged on again, Catherine Lunt saw that her six-year-old had ordered $350 worth of Barbie dolls and accessories.
“When I left the room, she went crazy,” the mom told HuffPost. “I saw a few items that I didn’t recognize and I was able to cancel them. But then as I kept looking there were two or three pages of items that had already shipped.”
The next day the delivery van arrived with a stack of boxes that stood as tall as Katelyn Lunt when offloaded.
Her mother saw the funny side and snapped a photo to send to her family members.
Katelyn’s older cousin, Ria Diyaolu, shared it to Twitter and the photo soon drew thousands of likes and retweets.
“She knew exactly what she was doing when she did it,” Diyaolu told Buzzfeed. “I was so surprised that a 6-year-old knew how to do one-click, next-day shipping.”
At first Katelyn Lunt’s parents were going to send the packages back to Amazon but they had a change of heart and instead decided to donate them to a children’s hospital.
“We decided to donate them to Primary Children’s Hospital where Katelyn spent a week when she was first born,” Katherine Lunt said, according to HuffPost. “Katelyn helped us deliver the packages, so I guess it was more of a teaching moment than a punishment.”
Diyaolu posted heartwarming photos to Twitter showing Katelyn Lunt giving the toys to the hospital.
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