‘You’re seriously going to make people sit outside like they’re in a field? That’s so low-class’: Entitled mom demands daughter cancel her wedding because she wants to have it outside

Everyone is allowed to have the wedding they want to have, within reason. As long as you can afford it, or have help to afford it, what you say goes. You don’t have to bend to convention if you don’t want to. You don’t have to wear a big white dress and invite everyone you’ve …
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28-year-old receives inheritance from late father, stepmom insists she share it with her younger stepsiblings: ‘Dad put both of them through college while I paid for mine myself’

Aside from the headache that comes from all the paperwork, one of the most difficult things about receiving an inheritance can be all the other people who feel entitled to it aside from you. While this doesn’t always happen, there are an unfortunate number of bereaved individuals who face the trauma of losing a loved …
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Mom of an incoming University of Arkansas freshman asks fellow parents how to help her daughter remember her key to her dorm: ‘Remembering to take a key everywhere she goes is going to be a lot.’

When my sister and I were in college, my mom participated in her fair share of «Parents of the Class of 20XX» Facebook groups. While I went to a regular, degular state school, my kid sister’s school was much more full of rich kids and their parents who thought they could throw money at all …
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30 Memes That Are Not Like Other Girls

These days, there is a certain strain of meme culture that makes a big deal out of girl’s girls, and everything that is deemed to be girly. Once upon a time, though, the most fashionable way to be female on the internet was to be ‘not like other girls’. This basically meant rejecting stereotypical femininity …
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Cousin Emma steals tuition money, steals her cousin Brandy’s boyfriends, and blocks family after getting cut off, but still begs dad for cash: ‘She is spoiled and absolutely convinced the world is out to get her’

Cousin Emma represents that special breed of family vampire who treats relatives like a combination ATM and emotional dumping ground, then acts shocked when the withdrawal limits finally kick in. Every extended family harbors one of these professional victims who weaponize tears, guilt, and selective memory to transform their personal disasters into everyone else’s moral …
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Accountant advises his parents to exclude his financially incompetent sibling from their will after sibling leaves them stuck with a $100k student loan: ‘My dad started getting harassed by the loan servicer’

Student loans: Most of us have them, and a lot of them, too. They dictate the financial decisions we make in our daily lives, and continue to do so until we pay them off. The student loaning system sets up many people to fail, especially in a job market that chews you up and spits …
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22 Cookout Memes for Grill Masters Who Must Click the Tongs First

It’s grilling szn, and every Midwest dad is firing up the Weber like he’s been training for this moment all year. Apron on, tongs in hand, beer within reach… this is his Super Bowl. And we should all honestly be more grateful. Is there anything better than a hot dog or a perfectly charred burger …
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