Is it ok I asked my sister for me money she owes me, even though she just lost her job?
Some months ago, my (f25) sister’s (f21) phone was stolen. She didn’t have any money to buy a new one so I let her use my credit card to buy one in partial payments, and obviously, I told her she needed to pay me every month.
Now, this new phone, which isn’t even 4 months old, got stolen too and she still hasn’t finished paying for it. I don’t know if she’s careless or she just has bad luck, and I really feel sorry for her, because her last 5/6 phones were stolen the same way.
Now, this is the first phone she pays with her own money and not my parent’s. She got her first job – however, she was fired two weeks ago. She doesn’t seem too worried, because they gave her the salary for the next 3/4 months before firing her, mostly because they were firing her for no reason and didn’t want any trouble.
Now, however, she doesn’t have a job and she doesn’t seem to be looking for a new one yet. She’s focused in college. But she always payed me the first day of the month, and now it’s been a few days and she hasn’t said a thing. She also owes me some money from the last time I went to the supermarket to buy things for the apartment we share. She has a history of forgetting to pay me for groceries.
What do you think, do I ask her for the money? I don’t want to be a “bad sister”, but I also don’t want to be taken advantage of.