Do you guys ever have to deal with other family members asking for money for your SK's? We're in a different state than SS, BM & MIL...they live within 15 miles of eachother. MIL emails me & asks if we could help her pay for professional basketball tickets to take SS11 to. WTF? She lives on disability, doesn't work. She's always asking for help paying for things. We used to always buy her plane tickets to come visit but we stopped this year when I got laid off, told her we couldn't afford to anymore. Now I'm not getting child support from my older son's dad either. I explained to her last month when she asked us to help her pay the photographer she had booked for our visit ($250, she could put in $75...so basically she booked him & expected us to pay for most of it) We didn't pay any, told her we couldn't afford to, so then she asked DH's brother (who is a pychatrist with no family to support) Why she didn't ask him in the first place is beyond me. So just 3 weeks ago we told her that with xmas, paying for our trip to visit & me not getting cs right now, we can't afford any extras for awhile. Then she turns around and emails me this. I don't understand why she just doesn't get it? I feel like telling her to go ask BM since all the money we have for SS we send to her! Plus the game is on a Tuesday night 45 min from their house starting at 7pm...he'll have school the next day. To this info she responds, oh BM will let me take him to school late. Ugh...this woman drives me nuts. Oh, and this is one day after she finds cigarettes in his pocket! What should I say to her?