OK this is an extension upon a jimmy rustling story I think I already discussed in here, but the new chapter is really kicking it up a notch.
Previously on "Haus' jimmies are rustled as fuck"....
My sister and brother in law move back to Dallas from Tennessee with the reason being to help care for my mom who lives in her house and doesn't want to move, but can't live alone anymore. (This is circa Feb of this year) Sounds like a win, right? When they move back I find out... My sister has been living off a long term "disability" claim from a previous employer that the insurance company has stopped paying out on, and my brother in law is several months into trying to get on social security disability benefits because he has COPD because "Smoking is as addictive as cancer, I can't help it!" But either way, take the bad with the good. They're there and my mom is taken care of.....
They then sell the gas range/oven my mom had at her house to a junker (It had been in the house chugging along since my grandparents bought in circa 1982 or so...) , and RENT a stove from Aaron's rents because the old stove worked, buy my sister apparently didn't like having an old but working appliance from the 80's in there (?!?)... Then a couple months later realize they have NO FUCKING INCOME so the stove, quite literally.. get repossessed. So no stove/oven in the house now. What do they do? They, I shit you not, put a Foreman grill they had where the stove was in the kitchen..
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Now, on a very special after school episode of "Damn my jimmies are rustled"....
Fast forward 8 months...
My sister has gotten in the habit of sending me the grocery list each week, since I take care of all my mom's money/bills/etc (because the fuck am I giving my sister access, as you can imagine). Over the last 8 months needing to also feed them my mom has just about tripled her grocery bill, which of course pretty much busts her fixed income monthly social security check, and I have been covering the overage, which isn't a ton, and it keeps them alive.. whatever... My sister is still appealing trying to get back on the insurance company settlement payouts (and thinks that when they inevitably give in and start paying her again they're going to pay her all the all the checks she's "missed"), and her husband is on something like round 4 of appeals trying to get on SSI Disability... (also convinced that once they accept it and start paying him they're also going to backpay a huge check to him). So no income for better part of a year.
Yesterday she tells me that with the groceries this week they need to be careful about what all needs to be cooked.. why? Because the FUCKING GEORGE FOREMAN GRILL BROKE. They now essentially have a hot plate, a toaster (NOT a toaster over, as in 4 slices of bread) , an little bar-b-q outside, and a microwave.
I'm about to hollow out the money of my mothers I have set aside (taking a little each month) to cover the taxes on the house each year (the house is fully paid off). And buy them a refurbished stove and put in there... Which will then of course mean I'll have to cover the taxed in January.
And before you ask, Mrs. Haus and I have openly talked to her about her moving in with us before my sister moved back, (we have a game room with restroom that could easily fully convert into a "mother in law suite" for her) but she is insistent that she wants to live in HER house.... (It was my grandparents house they bought in 56, she was raised there, and moved back in when my grandparents were in their late 70's to help take care of my grandfather and has essentially spent most of her life there, it's also the house where I was raised (grandparents adopted me)).
Between helping out my grandmother after my mom and uncles financially drained her post my grandfather dying, helping out my mom because she did nothing in her life to prepare for "retirement", and now my sister and the lump on a log in law, I have become somehow the financial backstop for THREE generations of my family.
