A few weeks ago my husband (whose day job is a college lecturer - it's relevent - he can only take holidays during college holidays)did almost a week's worth of work at his brother's house saving him almost 2000 pounds he'd been quoted by another contractor. He did this during half term. BIL cried poverty and complained the damp they were fixing was causing a terrible smell in the house etc... My husband did this work for free (which I don't agree with, family or not it's still that person's living and if you want a week of their time there should at least be a token payment, for instance I wouldn't expect a free lift from a taxi driver member of the family because it's their job, their livelihood, they've often refused payment but I'd certainly not expect it for free).
It annoyed me a bit because if he wasn't even earning for working during that week it's a week where we could have spent time together as a family. At a time we could really use it with general marital issues (but that's another story)
Anyway, one of those things. I let it go and didn't say anything.
Until last weekend I logged into Facebook to see photos of them out on a family shopping trip, proudly showing off their bags of shopping - it wasn't exactly Primarni if you know what I mean. I humphed a bit about this and muttered to myself about "so much for the terrible poverty you where whining about" but pretty much let that go too.
Today I just saw photos of a family weekend in some posh bloody hotel that according to status comments was a "last minute thing, we decided to get away for a few days".
Wish we could afford designer shopping trips and nice holidays...!