Sister is a SAHM and they don’t need to count the pennies. They have a very big house, multiple holidays, multiple trips away a year, 2 new expensive cars, pay for housekeeping and dog walking
I was shopping with her the other day and went into M&S to buy some sweets to take into work with me. All she could say was, wow this is so expensive, she’d never go anywhere but Aldi. I don’t know how true this is or not.
When we moved house, ’You’re lucky to buy a new sofa already, we had to save ages for ours’
‘You’re buying DC clothes from Next? Wow, I don’t know how you afford it. All DNs stuff is from charity shops. I’d never buy shoes new, they grow so fast’
Some of the things she’s saying I question. She makes out as though she can stretch money very far and is very savvy. It makes me feel embarrassed and shamed when she sees me to be spending because she knows we have less money. Both DH and I work decent, average-income public sector jobs so by no means rolling in it but just doing what I would call normal things.
Anyone any idea why someone might do this?