I took my mom to get her MOB dress to get fitted, today. She calls me up and asks me to meet her at a department store, before we head o the tailor. She tried to buy makeup, at the department store) and she had insufficient funds in her account. Her bank account was wiped out. She usually gives my "recovering addict" of a little sister money, but because of my wedding, her budget is stretched tight. My FI and I are paying for her dress alterations, and her dress (because of her disability it was very expensive to alter and find the right dress for her shape). She is paying for her undergarments, and a dress to wear to the rehearsal dinner. My aunt is paying for her hair and makeup for the wedding day.
My mother is serious about not giving my little sister any money and wanted to check the bank to see if she was right and my sister stole it or if it was a bank error. Yep. My mother's account was wiped clean minus $5.46.
My little sister is "disabled"... I guess that's we call junkies, these days. So she gets government assistance too. She told my mother they were taking away her food stamps and asked her for money. My mother said she could not swing it, this month. So my sister went into her purse, took her bank card, and bought pizza with it a few times, and took out $700 in a week (the same week she gets her check... but apparently it is never enough.)
My mother said she did not want to press charges when asked. I said, "This is why she does not learn her lesson. There are NO consequences. If you put her in jail, when she asks you why you pressed charges, all you say is, 'That is how I would react if ANYONE stole my wallet.'" This girl has no remorse and no soul. My mother gives her everything, and it is never enough. I know my mother does not have money for a new rehearsal dinner dress (which she wanted to buy, but she could wear jeans or a sundress. This restaurant is very casual). I did not offer any extra financial help to her. This is the third time my sister has wiped out her bank account. If she allows her to keep doing this, why should my FI and I pay more than what we all ready offered her? It seems like a very cold thing to do to your mother, but I can't keep enabling my mother to enable my sister. Am I wrong? I am so disgusted with my sister. How can she do that to her own mother? It sickens me that I am related to her.
*edited for clarity. I bought her MOB dress all ready. I am, still, paying for the alterations. But I do not want to buy the extra stuff she intended to buy with her own money (a new dress for the rehearsal dinner, chicken cutlets, and her day to day makeup)