By mckenna9797 - 07/09/2016 11:16 - United States

Today, it's my birthday and I'd planned to take my family and friends to dinner with my own money. My mom just informed me that she'd messaged everyone that I'd canceled the dinner. She instead wants to use my money to buy my older brother a gun for his birthday, which is in two days. FML
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Hey everyone, OP here. Thank you everyone for your birthday wishes. I called my friends and got it rescheduled for Saturday luckily, although one or two might not be able to. As for my mom, she had a joint account with me due to when I was 17, and I just haven't gotten to it to change it to just me when I turned 18 last year, because she usually never does this. My mom does seem to like my brother more than me which is a little messed up but she usually respects me and treats me very well. She's a nice person and decent parent, but a little weird sometimes. She didn't have any money to spend on his birthday due to just paying rent for the month with her paycheck. She did however have no right to use my money or cancel my plans. That was uncalled for and definitely not right. As for the gun itself as a present to my brother, he's turning 23 and just got back from a year deployment to Germany. She wanted to do something special for him and he really wanted a mosin nagant rifle for a couple years now. I would have bought it for him honestly if. she asked because I get paid tomorrow. I hope that answers all your questions!

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Excuse me but WHAT? That is insane and hide your money. Some mothers are just crazy and very bad at that parenting thing.

Do what you want with your own money. Even though your mom cancelled your big dinner, you can still reschedule. And as for her, tell her she can buy the gun with her own money!

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It's your money she doesn't get to decide what to do with it

No **** that! Hide your money/ put it in a bank account!

Tragically funny, that gun claimed it's first victim without firing a shot. FYL.

Pfff. **** no. Tell that bitch she can buy your brother a gun with her own god damned money. Jesus, what a ****. She sounds like my aunt! FYL, OP. :^(

No. Use your money how you want to use it. If your mother wants to buy your brother a gun she can do it with her own money. She does not get to take money that one child earned and was going to use to buy themselves (and others) dinner to celebrate their own birthday and use it to buy a present for the other child's birthday. It doesn't work like that. Tell your friends that the dinner is still on, tell your mom she's welcome to stay home.

2 words are needed in this situation. "**** Off."

My advice, hide your money. Further More should you ever own a car, hide the keys and papers at all time. I would even advice against getting one until you leave the house. These are the kind of parents that either force you to loan the car to your brother always (but still expect you to pay gor everything including gas he uses) or even just sell it and keep the money. Hang in there, before you know it you can live on your own.