Sparked by a conversation with DH’s brother and his wife.
They still have the same contents insurance as when they bought their house 20 odd years ago, costing £800 a year, they won’t change it because it’s too much faff to go and see a broker. Ditto car insurance. I dread to think about their mortgage, I haven’t asked. I suggested changing it online and was met with a laundry list of excuses (what about the piano (?), I don’t trust online, our computer isn’t working etc etc).
Their house is either roasting or freezing because apparently their thermostat needs a specialist to adjust it, they can’t do it themselves.
They only use BIL’s work email address so often miss updates or invitations from school or friends.
Bizarrely, BIL has a Fitbit but no way of syncing it other than his pc that currently doesn’t work, so the clock on it is wrong and I’m not really sure what else he gets out of it other than it being an expensive pedometer.
They won’t shop online (in case of fraud) so ask us to order stuff for them (it obviously doesn’t matter if OUR card details get nicked...) and they won’t use credit cards, only debit cards or cash, again because apparently credit cards get cloned all the time.
I wouldn’t mind but they moan about things all the time. Their house is falling apart but they ‘can’t afford’ to fix it, SIL has to get her parents to take her food shopping as they only have one car and she won’t shop online, they complain about how high their bills are but won’t do anything about it because of ‘reasons’.
It drives me absolutely crackers. BIL earns £££ and SIL is a SAHM (same situation as us), so she actually has all the time in the world to sort all this stuff out and just won’t because, I don’t know really, some anxiety about using the internet and just sorting shit out. They are the same age as us btw, and have a child in yr 6, and I think they are really going to struggle with secondary school if they don’t get aboard the online train.
AIBU to find the whole thing really odd?