My family is low key wealthy, but my parents have made sure that we are never flashy about it. We live in the same place we’ve lived for about 15 years, don’t have flashy clothes and cars, and generally make sure we’re spending money on experiences rather than objects.
Cue my younger sister, who is totally spoilt and for some reason feels extremely entitled to “her share” of the wealth. She just turned 21 and I think part of it is her finally getting information about her trust and in general how we stand. I’m 25, and the older one, so I sorta known about all this for a while now.
Anyway, long story short, my sister ended up going car shopping with my GF for expensive new cars (Porsches!). My dad had not approved anything so I don’t know what she’s going to do but apparently, she flashed my dad’s credit card and talked up to the salesmen about how much money she had to spend. My GF was shocked that me driving a simple unassuming 10-year-old Toyota will have a sister throwing 150k at a 2nd hand car!
We had a huge discussion and ended up fighting about it – she was shocked at roughly how much money we had and told me I was a tad selfish for not mentioning it when she had uni debt. Honestly, we’ve only been dating for 2 years and I was thinking after about a year I would propose if things are going well and start this discussion. It’s all happened a little too soon.
I’m really mad at my sister and kinda laid it out on her. Told her how immature and selfish she was and how she is undoing everything our parents worked hard for to instil values in us.
She told me I had to grow up and I’m a wet blanket.