Reply to When did the stuff hit the fan?

Forum Index » Eldercare

Reply to "When did the stuff hit the fan? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My mom was financially irresponsible her whole life, but she had a high income so she could always recover from the catastrophe du jour.

Until she couldn't.

She had a stroke and was unable to work "on site". Her idea was that she would work remotely from home. She spent three years lying to me about how much money she was making (in effect, basically nothing) and how much money she was spending, which was a huge amount and I still have no idea where it all went. (She spent what was supposed to be 20+ years of retirement money in 3 years.) Then one Christmas I was at her house and I found all these unopened letters from the IRS. I opened them, and they were threatening her with doom. Turned out she hadn't bothered to pay taxes on any of the withdrawals from her retirement fund, lol. On further investigation, she had less than $10k left in her checking account. I had to do an "intervention" consisting of moving her up to the DMV, clearing out her house full of 30 years of stuff before it got foreclosed on, putting her in assisted living, and shepherding her through bankruptcy.

If she had just [i]told me the situation in advance[/i] it would have been so much better. But she wouldn't relinquish control until things had completely gone to sh*t.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics