The joy of family drama

Started by Popeye the Sailor, March 28, 2010, 12:03:36 PM

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Quote from: lethe on March 28, 2010, 01:09:07 PM
The bigger question...what's with the British accent?

Side effect of the liquor. ;)
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Duck-Stew

Wow.  Despite my monday-morning funk brought on by personal shit this weekend...

You-all have managed to put a smile on my face!  Thanks!  My family has all passed on leaving me and my siblings alone without all this drama and petty BS.  :)
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duccarlos

I have no issues with my siblings. My 2 brothers and I moved from the island and are not dependent on hand-outs. My 2 sisters are still there but have decent to highly paying jobs, so they are not sucking my mom and grandparents dry. The worst is that they ask my 89 year old grandma to baby-sit my 4 year old niece, but they both seem to enjoy this arrangement.
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SacDuc


Sorry, Mr. I. Sounds like a load of crap. Any chance of moving mom out to CA?

I'm pretty lucky I guess. My Pops is cool. Bro is cool. Mom was nutty as fruit cake since I was a wee one and i haven't spoken to her for years. Plus none of us has any wealth to speak of so it won't turn into a pregnant dog fest when one of us dies.

My wife's family on the other hand  [roll]  But they stopped talking to me about 8 months ago so . . .  [thumbsup]

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Popeye the Sailor

Quote from: SacDuc on March 29, 2010, 06:36:32 AM
Sorry, Mr. I. Sounds like a load of crap. Any chance of moving mom out to CA?


It's in process. Been working like a dog to get it done.
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The Architect

I strongly recommended to both my parents and in-laws to use all their money.  Just leave us enough to bury them. 

mstevens

This sort of thing isn't fair at all, but the fact is that the responsible people get more responsibility heaped upon them.

Yes, it'll probably be very unpleasant when the brother learns his inheritance is in trust and you're the trustee. Just think of it as one more very important thing you need to do for your mom.

My brother and I get along pretty well, but I've still told my parents that my hope is that they'll spend their last dollar before they die. Neither one of us has a great need for inheritance and I'd prefer that my parents enjoy the fruits of their labors.

The fight, and there will certainly be one, will be over who has to clear out my dad's lifetime accumulation of junk and treasures. There is more than enough of each, and they're very hard to tell apart. My brother has rejected my suggestion of "you do it and keep everything you want."
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Quote from: mstevens on March 29, 2010, 07:35:13 AM


The fight, and there will certainly be one, will be over who has to clear out my dad's lifetime accumulation of junk and treasures. There is more than enough of each, and they're very hard to tell apart. My brother has rejected my suggestion of "you do it and keep everything you want."

i had to do thisfor my parents.
allt he crap they moved into storage befor ethey got divorced was sorted out by me. if it had no apparent value ro the sentimental value wasn't high enough it got pitched or donated. the stuff that couldn't be donated was either used for firewood or was trashed. somehow i still wound up with a unch of their crap in my apt.  :-\

one sister still claims i threw her stuff away just to be a dick. she's only partially correct.
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Bun-bun

Funny, I have the opposite problem.
My sister(Only other surviving sibling) moved out to Vermont, then San Diego, and won't lift a finger to help my parents, leaving it all for me to take care of. I drive up an average of once a month and spend a weekend doing their "chores".
My Dad was just hospitalized with pneumonia 3 weeks ago, and spent 4 days in ICU. I went up and stayed with Mom, and visited him daily. My mom called my sister, and told her he was in bad shape. I think she called once, a few days later, to see if he was released yet, and ask for "some help with the mortgage".  Since she bought her house for $750k just as the economy tanked, and her asshole husband lost his maintenance job the calls seem to arrive once a month.
OTOH, I do love my sister, and she is generally good people, just with less than stellar taste in husbands, and I wish she lived closer so she could share some of the joy.
My parents are both enjoying their retirement(Except for the pneumonia,) and I'll be not at all upset if they don't die until the money runs out.
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