Grandma leaves petty note in will to her mooching granddaughter: 'You still owe me $14'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
May 16, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

Grandma really took the final opportunity she had to be petty. You have to hand it to this lady because she really stuck to her convictions until after the bitter end.

Unfortunately, this Redditor's grandmother dealt with a ton of generational family issues and estranged relationships, but even with this drama, she took care of her troubled family members through it all. One of these family members, whom the Original Poster refers to as J, ran away from home yet kept asking granny for money every month. Of course, granny obliged, but she kept track of her money vigilantly as well as all of J's unkept promises to pay her back. 

Well, when the entire family gathered to read their matriarch's will, let's just say that there was a special note left specifically for J. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. When you're done, feel free to take a look at this story about a bride who was kicked out of her own wedding.

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  • 01
    "My grandma DEBTED money in her will"
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  • 02
    So, I don't know the full story, but I do know the just of it. My grandma raised her kids with love. She practically spoiled them, and she raised her grandkids too (Me and my two sisters). Two of them, my uncle and my dad, became addo,
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  • 03
    and the last, my aunt, became estranged. I've got tons of relatives, so I don't know if I've ever met her, if I have I don't remember her face or name, so let's call her little miss J.
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  • 04
    J left without looking back, and constantly asked my grandmother for money. She hardly repaid Grandma, which was a big mistake, because, surprise surprise, my grandma was on top of every penny that she had. She was the best I've ever seen when it came to handling funds.
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  • 05
    But, two years ago, my grandma was diagnosed with cr. She worked her off her whole life, was the strongest woman on the planet, and nobody got by without paying her their dues. Eventually, my grandma d
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  • 06
    In her will, she gives money to my grandpa, my dad, my uncle, me, and my sisters. Everyone in her family. But... when it comes to J, she says, "You still owe me 14 dollars."
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  • 07
    I do not know if she actually somehow debted J 14 dollars in a will, or just put it in there as a little slap in the face. All I was worried about when grandma d☐ was the money, and she got NONE OF IT. I can't be prouder to have a grandma that wouldn't leave this world without the last laugh.
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  • 08
    EDIT: I guess I forgot to include it. J that's why she is also a d add needed my grandmother's money constantly. My grandmother was a great woman, and a great mother to me. She raised me well.
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  • 09
    AND ANOTHER EDIT: (because people want to blame my grandmother) She raised 3 kids that were hers, and 3 kids that weren't. The kids that were hers turned into d add the 3 kids that weren't turned into people who could handle their emotions and found therapy for themselves.
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  • 10
    I think it was a generational problem rather than the "bad parenting" she's being accused of. She was the kindest woman I'd ever met, but also the strongest. All 3 of us are getting therapy for things that aren't related to my grandmother. My uncle, my dad, and my aunt, are not. Do we not think that maybe the generational differences of people who were often not given needed resources, and people with the technology to find needed resources, might be a factor in how they handled their m ]?
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    LAST EDIT I'LL MAKE AND IM NOT REPLYING TO ANYONE: I should've expected the reddit community, notorious for being snobby and pompous, would react like this, but I still feel the need to clarify. NONE of you know my life simply from the paragraphs written here. I have a long history, and the memories of my grandmother are the only good ones I have. None of the d add in my family, not my mom, not my dad, not my other grandma, not the aunt I do know, not my uncle, not ONE MEMBER OF MY FAMILY has sp
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  • 12
    fact, they've spoken highly of her parenting. It will be a cold day in when I let chronically online know-it-alls attempt to change my memory of my grandmother into something she was not. She was an honorable woman, and she is not responsible for the mistakes her children made when faced with crisis. I know that my an dad was long out of the house before he got hooked on dr§³,
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  • 13
    and he is now diagnosed with anxiety. If you'd like to continue blaming my grandma, I'd love to see how you believe she affected the other half of my family who was the same way. A leading cause of add is genetics, and mental and emotional disorders. Anxiety can be an inherited condition, that probably went untreated, as my grandmother was also a very anxious person.
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  • 14
    What I know is, my grandmother | did not work her off to be a good person, just for a bunch of self-important ▷ to insult her. Bottom line, you don't know my life, I do. This was a funny story because everyone in the family knows J is an
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  • 15
    baka-tari Grandma took petty to the grave with her - baller move! There's nothing I can do about it, ever, and she'll be talked about forever too.
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  • 16
    Behind_da_Rabbit ⚫ My wife's grandmother was like that. She lived through the and would rinse out the aluminum pie plates to reuse them. She liked me cuz I saved her $8 week mowing her grass.
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    Reasonable_Read8792. It's not enforceable to make J pay the estate the $14 as you can't use a will to create indebtedness but it's a beautifully crafted slap in the face and guarantees no one will ever let J forget it. Score one for Grandma for getting in the last word. Hope she's sitting up in heaven on a cloud smiling that she could give everyone that little laugh.
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    CoderJoe1. It could only be better if she left her a mystery box that J could only take possession of after paying the estate $14.
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