My boyfriend and I are going to disney world this september. We have wanted to go for the last 2 years and are finally able to go after six months of saving our money. We both work minimum wage jobs so it took us a long time to get there. Now we finally have all of our money saved and set aside with a month and a half before we leave for our trip. Meanwhile, we are both living at our parents houses. My dad is disabled and cannot work. My step mom has been out of a job for the last seven months. She has applied for a few places with no luck. She has been getting unemployment checks for the last six months. When she was getting unemployment checks that money would be used on mainly going out to eat 3-4 times a week, buying about 3-4 packs of cigarettes a week (both my parents smoke), and buying many useless “cool things to have” that just sit on a shelf in our basement that they clearly did not need. Now that she is no longer recieving unemployment checks and have used up all the money in their savings my parents make me give them money for food (going out to eat) and cigarettes. I barely can save money for anything now because I pay my bills and all of my leftover money from my checks ends up going to them and I have none to myself. Whatever money my parents want me to give to them after they have used up my checks ends up getting taken out from our Disney World fund. Their excuse for me having to give them money is that “if I can afford a trip to disney world I can afford to give them money too”. I can only afford to go on this trip because i busted my b*** saving for it!
I try to tell them how I feel but they just get mad at me and yell at me calling me a b****. I have bought them dinner once or twice a month and that never bothered me, but now that they expect me to buy them everything and just “use my disney world money” when i use all of my cash from my check like its no big deal. It makes me so angry. My hours being cut at work for the next few weeks doesnt help with the situation. give them money too”. I can only afford to go on this trip because i busted my b*** saving for it! I try to tell them how I feel but they just get mad at me and yell at me calling me a b****. I have bought them dinner once or twice a month and that never bothered me, but now that they expect me to buy them everything and just “use my disney world money” when i use all of my cash from my check like its no big deal. It makes me so angry. My hours being cut at work for the next few weeks doesnt help with the situation. Why do I have to give away my hard earned money on this trip i have been saving up for half a year for them and their bad spending habits? I know they’re my parents and they’re family. I try helping them as much as I can but it gets to be too much. I feel guilty for feeling this way but it isn’t fair to me that I have to suffer too because of their bad at saving money.
