--- title: Girl Goes on $300 Online Toy Shopping Spree Without Parents description: A precocious little girl treated herself to a capricious toy shopping spree on Amazon without her parents' knowledge. canonical: https://time.com/5367988/girl-amazon-spree/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-15T15:27:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:20.705Z og:title: Girl Goes on $300 Online Toy Shopping Spree Without Permission og:description: Treat yourself to retail therapy og:url: https://time.com/5367988/girl-amazon-spree/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e8979c765b52061/698937c7457a526877d5f1b6/little-girl-online-shopping-spree-without-parents-knowing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Close up of credit card on keyboard og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Girl Goes on $300 Online Toy Shopping Spree Without Permission twitter:description: Treat yourself to retail therapy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e8979c765b52061/698937c7457a526877d5f1b6/little-girl-online-shopping-spree-without-parents-knowing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Little Girl Goes on an Epic $300 Online Shopping Spree Without Her Parents Knowing > Sponsored content. 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According to Ria Diyaolu, the girl’s cousin who relayed the story on Twitter, this young icon indulged in a session of [online retail therapy](http://time.com/money/3108995/online-shopping-history-anniversary/) unbeknownst to her parents after her mother allowed her to track a toy that she had ordered previously. While this feat alone is impressive, this little girl was no amateur — she also sprung for overnight shipping on her purchases like a pint-sized boss. > [](https://twitter.com/R%5Ftatas/status/1028344576405204993) Diyaolu took to her Twitter again later to share that the toys were later donated to Children’s hospital where her cousin had stayed for a week while she was a baby. According to [_Fox 13_](https://fox13now.com/2018/08/14/ogden-girl-orders-300-worth-of-toys-on-amazon-without-her-parents-knowing/)in Salt Lake City, the young shopper’s Internet privileges were also taken away for a month. > [](https://twitter.com/R%5Ftatas/status/1029609113343295489) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5367988/girl-amazon-spree/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5367988/girl-amazon-spree/"},"headline":"Little Girl Goes on an Epic $300 Online Shopping Spree Without Her Parents Knowing","datePublished":"2018-08-15T15:27:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:20.705Z","description":"Treat yourself","url":"https://time.com/5367988/girl-amazon-spree/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e8979c765b52061/698937c7457a526877d5f1b6/little-girl-online-shopping-spree-without-parents-knowing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e8979c765b52061/698937c7457a526877d5f1b6/little-girl-online-shopping-spree-without-parents-knowing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Close up of credit card on keyboard","caption":"Close up of credit card on keyboard","creditText":"Martin Barraud—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5367988/girl-amazon-spree/","name":"Little Girl Goes on an Epic $300 Online Shopping Spree Without Her Parents Knowing"}}]}] ```