Frugality

I'm sure it's not a surprise to you but my BF is sleeping. I've been just kinda hanging out by myself most of this weekend that I've been suppose to be hanging out with him. I understand he's been tired from all the hectic holiday meet and greets and traveling, so I'm trying not to give him a hard time, but it's turning into a 90% sleeping weekend for him. Anyways..we'll see how today goes. I'll update blog later.

I just thought of something I really wanted to blog about, so here goes.

I'm sure you are more than familiar with my frugal Aunt. The horror stories of what she did to my HK Aunt when she visited and stayed with her. I don't think I told you what happened when my mom's close friend visited. Well, my mom's close friend is from San Leandro. And she comes all the way down to visit my mom and her sisters. She stayed with us (good call this time, not staying with frugal Aunt). So my frugal Aunt calls us up one day that she's down here and tells us to drive her over there because she wants to see her. I'm not exactly sure why she just didn't come to our house, but she always has weird requests like that.

So my brother, mom, visiting friend, and I drove over there to visit my frugal Aunt. Her house was practically empty because she's moving, so once we got there, there was no furniture, so nothing to sit on, we just stood around an empty room chatting. AGAIN, WHY DID YOU MAKE US COME HERE WHEN YOU COULD HAVE CAME TO OUR HOUSE WHERE WE HAVE FURNITURE?? But that question was quickly answered.

She had some "things" to give to the visiting friend. At first glance, it would seem she had some nice stuff to give, "hand me down" clothes and a nice comforter. Not too bad. Then she asks my brother to move a HUGE TV into the car that we came in so my brother can drive her to downtown and sell off the TV. Right...it just clicked why she wanted US to come over. So she wants us to stand around in this empty house and just entertain ourselves while she asks my brother to run an errand for her. So typical of her. She's always checking when my brother is home so she can use the RAV4 to move stuff and use my brother's help. All I can do at this moment is shake my head. So my mom wasn't any help in saying no, she just turns to my brother and asks him if he wants to do it. And of course, my brother is such a softie and he ALWAYS says yes. But of course, I spoke up and said NO, then my mom chimes in (thank god!) and always says NO. Then she requests that my brother move the big TV into her small corolla (which barely fit) and asks him to drive that car to downtown so he can move the TV into someone else's house. Ridiculous.

So we just move the TV into the car for her and then we leave, because she's crazy. And when we get home, the visit friend thumbs through all the clothes and the comforter, to find that half the clothes are SUPER old and ugly and the comforter is all frayed on the edges and has a GIANT HOLE in the middle.

IS MY FRUGAL AUNT CRAZY????

So the visiting friend leaves all that ugly stuff with us and we had to dispose of it. This always happens to us. We always end up with all the junk from my frugal Aunt. She goes around to all my other aunts and passes out expired foods or stuff that no one wants because it's JUNK and then those aunts are smart and pass the stuff along to us, and my mom, being the youngest, has no spine and takes it all in and we end up trucking it over to Salvation Army. But lately, even some of the stuff that's been passed along to us has been so poor in quality that I don't even think the Salvation Army would take them.

So another incident, my frugal Aunt gets these old caps from somewhere. These are probably OLD caps that OLD people have worn and are probably dead now. So she gives them to my eldest Aunt, who when I visited a few weekends ago tried to pawn them off to me. "Oh, you run and exercise outside, I have something for you!" I'm thinking...wow, how thoughtful, my eldest Aunt go me something. "Your second Aunt gave me these baseball caps but I don't wear them, you can probably make some use out of them" And I looked at those baseball caps and I backed away "NO Thank you. I do NOT wear baseball caps" And that was that. I'm not my spineless mother.

Then most recently, Christmas presents. She gives my brother a waffle iron. Which SOUNDS great, but when we opened it, it was CLEARLY USED. There were batter stains all over it. Then my brother says "I think I've seen this at her house, I'm pretty sure they've had it for a while and used it to even make waffles for me!" OMG, can you believe her. At least CLEAN it off first before you GIFT IT!

That's all the ranting for now. Thanks for reading.

I'm glad you like all the gifts :)

I do like the wallet, it's nice, but kinda bulky I guess, I'm sure I'll get used to it though. :)