Spending so much

This happened a few weeks ago but it keeps coming up.

Apparently our new roommate had a talk with S to express frustration about how much it was costing her to live at our house. Let me say that again for impact.

She is frustrated about how much it is costing her to live at our house.

When pressed further it was discovered that the food, the toilet paper and the paper towels she was needing to buy was excessive. “Well, this isn’t a hotel” he said while at the very same time not saying “stop hoarding toilet paper and paper towels and food”. Also not mentioning our $200/month cable bill that we have only so she can DVR every murder mystery possible to support her habit.

She went on to mention she has spent over $200 on plants for the garden and she bought that soaker hose we aren’t using and some of those plants have died and M isn’t taking care of the garden.

Nope. I don’t garden. I didn’t want the garden. I have no desire to garden. Forcing a garden upon me will not and has not changed that.

We have emptied the spare room for you. We have created a living space in 1/2 the basement family room for you and more than 1/2 of our unfinished room. We have been forced to consolidate everything we own and everywhere we keep things so that there would be space for you. And yet you complain about how many toys T has, you complain about the couch (she keeps kicking the bottom of it and breaking her toes), you complain about the wildlife in our gorgeous wooded back yard, and you even complain about our child. Last night she made a point of admonishing for T because she discovered 2 tiny barbie hangers on the floor. I spent nearly 5 hours in the family room on Sunday sorting toys and reorganizing the space so it didn’t feel so crowded and messy and the only thing she had to say was a complaint about two tiny things in the carpet.