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Recycles dryer sheets
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- Jan 9, 2012
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Hi Folks,
As I've mentioned before, I come from a family of spenders with no sense of fiscal discipline...especially my mother.
After decades of spending money like it grows on trees (including a $73k inheritance in'93), never saving a dime for retirement (even when she could), ignoring my pleas to "save for your inevitable old age," and begging me for money ($25-700) every few months, she claims to have hit rock bottom due to years of under-employment and no budgeting.
Sorry, my point is how do I deal with helping someone who will never learn but keeps begging me bail her out? I'm so frustrated! I've worked sooo hard to save my nest egg and I never mooched off of my parents and now my mom expects me to bail her out throughout her old age. I'm single, an only child, no kids and supporting myself in an expensive area. I'm not cold, I swear... I'm just at my wits end...helped her so often only to have her revert back to her old ways.
Anyone else in this position?
As I've mentioned before, I come from a family of spenders with no sense of fiscal discipline...especially my mother.
After decades of spending money like it grows on trees (including a $73k inheritance in'93), never saving a dime for retirement (even when she could), ignoring my pleas to "save for your inevitable old age," and begging me for money ($25-700) every few months, she claims to have hit rock bottom due to years of under-employment and no budgeting.
Sorry, my point is how do I deal with helping someone who will never learn but keeps begging me bail her out? I'm so frustrated! I've worked sooo hard to save my nest egg and I never mooched off of my parents and now my mom expects me to bail her out throughout her old age. I'm single, an only child, no kids and supporting myself in an expensive area. I'm not cold, I swear... I'm just at my wits end...helped her so often only to have her revert back to her old ways.
Anyone else in this position?