My In-Laws Are Broke and Asking for Money!

They are not retired. They are unemployed.

If they don't have money for cable, they shouldn't have cable

They had money. They spent it all. They aren't retired any more. The English came up with a word for this sort of situation: "No".

I would RATHER work 60 hrs a week than ask someone for money.

There's only one way to respond when people ask to borrow money. You say, "I was going to ask you the same thing".

Yikes. I’m 59. High school drop out. My biggest fear is being a burden on my daughter. Actually tomorrow I’m buying a House cash. Life Rule #1. You don’t borrow money from your children.

Cable is NOT a necessity! If they can't pay for cable, then they don't have cable.

Funny that you with the three small kids and new house didnt get any of the 'hundreds of thousands' that your mom in law inherited...so I would DEFINITELY keep the same energy

Happened to me. My mother in law is a spender and was never involved in her marriage's finances. Father in law was a successful engineer, but never put money aside, really, then passed after 4 years of cancer (in France, health care is free, so it was no expense). Then she asked my husband to help keep her lifestyle the same after losing her husband's income. We had a baby and were living pretty tight. I stepped in and told her off. I told him he could decide to maintain her mother's delusion or keep his family. He chose his family. She learned over the next 15 years to manage her money. She resents me for it, but stepping in and telling her off saved my marriage.

“I have a list of priorities, and my father in law is not high on that list”

He blew his wife’s money. He needs to get a job.

"Can you go back to work?" "Look, do you have the money or don't you?" That right there tells you these people shouldn't get a dime.

"Either you have the money or you don't"............ I do have the money and you don't

I helped my in-laws out with money…ONCE. When I saw their lack of gratitude and sheer entitlement I said F-THEM. Will not happen again.

If you’re broke you don’t need cable, if anything cable makes you more broke, mentally and the cost of it.

The inlaws will always use your wife against you. Indirect control is choice of weapon. This could cause a divorce.

Can’t even imagine a situation where a grown adult’s parents are actually asking their kids for money, especially knowing they have young children and just bought a house. Shame on them.

Your in-laws are more like out-laws

First your responsibility is your children, wife and home.

Give them NO money unless they are in a critical situation. They will learn they need to get jobs