Why should I pay for it??

So I'm going go rant real fast and maybe I'm wrong I dont know 🤷🏻‍♀️

My baby shower is this coming Saturday 10/20 it's a holloween theme because I love holloween, and when do adult ever get to dress up any more🎃 My mom is hosting it and I just wanted to call her to make sure she was ready for it and what the exact plan is, and that's where I fucked up. She starts screaming about how she cant afford anything for the baby shower and she is financially struggling because my sister and her boyfriend arent paying rent, and my grandma is trying to take the adoption subsidy for the kid she is raising and how she never has a day off. She goes on for a good half an hour about how she has no money for anything, and shes going to take my adopted sister and move out of the house and leave my sister to fend for herself. So after her ranting and raving I suggest she ask my older sister to donate some of the Victoria secret and Bath and Body works that her MIL gets for free all the time from work for prizes. I also suggest she ask my other sister to help with decorating since she doesn't need much, and she can ask my grandmother to print off baby bingo and the guessing game off the internet. I also ask her what shes providing besides the house and she says shes providing food but shes using the food stamps that my sister gives her every month, two hundred dollars worth to be exact, and a friend at work is doing a cake for her for free. Then she tells me my brothers dad is sending me money to get something for the baby since he cant come down and without skipping a beat she goes on to tell me that if its $30 or less she will just give us the cash but if it's more then $40 shes just going to take it and go buy the baby something since she cant afford to get us anything, but I know her all to well. what she'd do is buy something cheap and pocket what's left. So I just called him and told him to send it to my grandmother and I'd pick it up the weekend of the baby shower.

Well, my mom then goes on to tell me about the THREE new tattoos she just got, and the one shes getting in a few days and How her and her SO went on a trip and stayed at a hotel and about all the money shes spending. She then goes on to tell me how much my older sister is paying in rent and how big her pay check was and about all this money she has and what her plans are for them in the coming days! That includes getting her hair and her nails done, and I know for a fact her hair alone cost her $120 and he nails have to be very bit of $80. So tell me why she cant afford a few things for a baby shower? After she goes on for twenty minutes about all this money she stops and gets real quiet for a few minutes and goes "can you buy stuff for games since I cant afford it."

So I'm over here like did this bitch really just ask me to pay for things for my own baby shower? Especially after she just went on about how much money she had! Like seriously 🙄 she had no problem hosting my sisters baby shower in March, so why Is mine such an issue.

I dont feel like I should have to buy anything for the baby shower since my mom insisted she host it and take care of everything. I'm definitely not letting her host anything for the next baby, she makes everything way to stressful I'm going to do it myself, like I obviously should have done this time around. I'm just fed up with her selfish ways.

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