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My sister is a spendthrift, what should I do?

A half-sister, actually, we didn’t know about each other until
recently. I came to stay with her and her husband. She is irresponsible and is constantly in debt! She just buys things! She and her husband are on a budget, yet she has strawberry jam with champagne and luxury coffee for breakfast. She has a spending problem. I went grocery shopping with her, to be useful and give her budget tips, and she didn’t even listen. She bought three boxes of jasmine tea which she can’t stand because they were giving a free tea infuser if you buy three; two glossy magazines which could be had in a library for free; a bag of packed apples when she could buy them loose and save twenty pence; orange juice in a pack – you can get the same benefit from a glass of tap water and a bottle of vitamin C; and two expensive waffle-makers! She is unemployed. I tried to stop her, and to help her. I even talked to her husband Luke – he agreed that it was not easy to live with her. What should I do?

So she’s a spendthrift – so she’s a shopoholic – be grateful you don’t have to pay her bills. Poor Luke has to pay them, not you.

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