Anyone else have stories of cheap relatives?

You had to put a ring on them, didn’t you?

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Mind you, the in laws receive SS (x2), pension from the State of Mississippi (x2), pension from military (x1), mandatory IRA distributions (no idea how much), and until very recently a regular income from a job.

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Whoa, hold up there Hoss. How are they able to receive SS and a state pension from the state of Mississippi? Did I miss something somewhere?

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Whoa, hold up there Hoss. How are they able to receive SS and a state pension from the state of Mississippi? Did I miss something somewhere?

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The SS is reduced because of the state pension but not completely gone. Provided they have 40 quarters of private sector work.

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I have to sneak my card to the waitress to pay when my father-in-law is out to eat with us and he gets pissed when I do it, always insists on paying. Crazy they won’t pick up a check after eating out several times in a week.

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this is how my dad is. My wifes mom is anything but cheap.....now her real dad....its a wow when he comes lol.

As a woman, I would never do that to my daughter and her husband. That’s rude and inconsiderate that they expect you to feed them.

My father-in-law is incredibly cheap. When they come to visit, it's like they're on a an all-expense paid vacation. He doesn't open his wallet once. My wife is fine with it so I don't say anything.

Not cheap relatives but there is a very trivial event that has stuck with me until this day that I think is bizarre.

In college (around 1997), a friend called me up one weekend morning and said they had a fantasy baseball draft for a league and one guy dropped out that morning and needed another to fill it. So, I said sure. My roommate and I agreed to do it. We went out for lunch then over to a guy's dad's house who was also in the league. About 10 guys there.

When we arrived they asked if we wanted a sandwich or something to drink. Like a ham and cheese on bread. We said no thank you, we just stopped on the way. No big deal.

After the draft, as everyone was leaving, the dad (who also was in the league) who hosted the draft starts talking about what a great spread they had for us food and drink wise (soda, chips, and lunchmeat) and asks everyone to throw in $5 for the food AND convenience of it all.

Everyone looked at him like he was joking and it was really awkward for about 20 seconds when guys were like "This guy is serious." So we all (mostly college kids) threw him a couple of bucks and I said I would never go to that guys house again.

It was just strange. But, I guess some folks are brought up differently.

My father’s side of the family are pure trash. My parents were killed in a car accident when I was still an infant. My maternal grandmother took my brother and I in and adopted us. She kept us away from our father’s family because, well they were pure trash. I only saw them maybe once or twice growing up and that was just from running into them by accident in public. When I was 14 my grandmother died though we were sent to live with them. An uncle and his wife took us in. Being orphaned my brother and I both drew a monthly social security check which was meant to be used for our upkeep. That’s why they wanted us. Of course most of our checks went to drugs and booze for them. They lived in what I can only describe as squalor. The uncle would work sometimes doing construction. But most of the time he sat on his arse smoking pot and drinking cheap beer. They rarely had food in the house and the place was crawling with roaches.

That first Christmas after my grandmother’s death I remember all of them brought their kids to the grandparents house on that side of the family. They had brought all the kids Christmas presents there for the kids to open, including my brother and I. They handed out the presents and when they were done all the kids started opening things like Nintendos, stereos, all sorts of toys, etc. so what did my brother and I have? Well, we each had one pack of cheap Walmart tube socks. I know they’d used the checks meant for my bother and I to buy most of those presents. And all they got for us was a pack of fricking tube socks. frick everyone of them.

I respect cheap people

I hate people that live beyond their means

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Mind you, the in laws receive SS (x2), pension from the State of Mississippi (x2), pension from military (x1), mandatory IRA distributions (no idea how much), and until very recently a regular income from a job.

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They sound like liberal democrats. Mooching off others is in their DNA. You chose your in-laws poorly.