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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m financially successful and I hate hate HATE my family counting my money. I would dig my heels in too if I felt you were pressuring me to chip in on your gestures. [/quote]

I'd love to hear the brother's side of this story.  I agree with PP who suggested that he might not like you.

He also might not have the amount of money you think he has.  I have relatives who think we are absolutely LOADED.  We're not.  This pile of money that everyone thinks we have is an urban legend.  We have good jobs, but they're not factoring things like major COL differences into account when they imagine what our disposable income might be, other medical expenses that we've kept private, the fact that childcare for many years was nearly $4,000/month, and a whole other host of factors.

[b]I get shower invitations all the time from relatives who live in rural areas 1,000 miles from here.  It is obvious they're sending them as a gift grab.[/quote][/b]

I don't doubt that your relatives don't understand that DC incomes don't go as far in this high COL area. But I'm so sorry to hear that you think shower invitations from your own family are an opportunity to gift grab. Every invite I've ever received, gift implied or not, I see as a great honor.[/quote]

I never said that I think that every invitation is a gift grab, but I know one when I see one.[/quote]

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