Just hoping someone will agree with my view on CF'ery.
Bro has consistently taken the piss all through Xmas. Turned up Xmas day with his kids and new girlfriend, didn't bring so much as a bottle of pop but sank a bottle of proscecco on the sofa whilst being waited on hand and foot. Took part in the late Xmas day cheeseboard, watched kids go for broke grabbing food. (For clarification, we'd all been somewhere else on Xmas day, this was post dinner). He asked if he could come round Xmas day evening, it wasn't a planned event.
Boxing Day bro arrives at 11am "arms a swinging"'so OH sends him back home for a bottle. Bro returns with a bottle of something that I wouldn't wash my car with let alone drink. Bro's kids tuck into our Boxing Day lunch that I'd prepared for the other 8 guests that I was expecting.
After I'd said "it's open house at mine for leftovers and board games" I hoped my bro wouldn't turn up all day, feed himself and his two kids without a single offering.
My nephew has sunk about 8 cans of the pop I bought for our kids to last until new year, his dog has shat in our garden and I've just lost my sh*t a bit at how knackered I am yet going back to work on Wednesday.
To add to all this we now have "vodka-gate" with our adult stepdaughter who seems to think that we're furnishing her alcohol needs like the queen vic. We politely asked her to go and buy some after the bottle we bought to replace the one she drank was consumed as well. Both litre bottles at £20 a pop. Hysterics ensued so I've just hidden a load of booze in the shed.
Do we need to continue hiding stuff in our own home or rattling a tin for entry over the threshold next year? Do other people have family members who are tighter than a gnats wotsit or am I a pushover?