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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom is like this too op. On his deathbed, my father was crying to me (only second time I’d ever seen him cry, first was when my sibling was killed) that he was so sorry that he wanted to leave us remaining siblings each $1m. That was his life’s goal, but cancer took him unexpectedly. Most of my parents money was from my dad’s mother and grandmother, they didn’t save a lot. My mom has about $2m now and has repeatedly told me and my sibling that she plans to spend it all. I don’t really need the money, but it still really hurts. I have kids and I don’t understand this attitude at all. 
Each time she brings this up to me, which is a few times a year, I tell her to please enjoy her money but make sure she has enough to take care of herself should she need care. It runs about $200,000 a year as she wants to stay at home. I told her that since I need to save for my children’s college and my own retirement that I will be unable to pitch in with any monetary help. 
I find it extremely ironic that her college was paid for by a wealthy aunt, my college and  my sibling’s college was paid for by our father’s mother and she wants to leave nothing for her grandkids. It’s sad and if I’m being honest, it has definitely changed the way I think about her and how much I’m willing to sacrifice to see her. Not much. [/quote]

So how did you snoop around and find out that she has $2 million?  Not that you care about the money, of course . . . [/quote]

She tells me all of the time...[/quote]

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