The tale of how one grandmother invoiced her daughter with a bill after her grandchild came to stay has shocked the internet today.
Yes, one woman took to asking ‘Amy’, the agony aunt at The Washington Post for advice after she received the ‘itemised bill’ from her mother.
As you’ll see from the content of the letter ‘Burned by Grandma’, the writer was surprised and dismayed by her mother’s decision to actually send an invoice.
You can see the letter and the agony’s aunt response here. Below is an excerpt which will give you some idea of why this woman felt the need to seek advice.
“I sent a check for $300 to my mother to cover my daughter’s expenses during her visit. Upon my daughter’s return, my mother sent me an invoice for $475.50 for additional expenses, including the cost of gas to and from the airport to transport her (45 minutes away), train tickets to go to the city to a museum and the cost of the museum admission. It was an itemized bill.
“This is hurtful, as this past winter my mother came to live with us for four months and we paid for everything, including a nice vacation to an island over Christmas. (Neither of my siblings has a relationship with my mother because she is petty and doesn’t respect boundaries, like a $300 budget)”.
The woman goes into detail about how she has never asked her mother to pay for anything and writes her a cheque for food shopping anytime she hosts Thanksgiving dinner. She also says, and this really sums it up, how she doesn’t trust her mother to hang out with her daughter after this incident and that it’s now too costly for her, both “financially and emotionally”.
Amy then suggests that it’s time she addressed this issue with her mother and raised the question that this could be her way of telling her daughter that she doesn’t want to look after her granddaughter.
Understandably, the letter has received a huge reaction by internet users. What do you think mamas?
