Woman's BIL and SIL keep using their Big Box membership but refusing to split the cost, she cancels the account during their next grocery run: 'We really don't use it that much'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Feb 27, 2025 4:00 PM EST

Everyone has that annoying friend or family member who wants to mooch off of the perks of one of your memberships. Sometimes, you lend them your subscription information for a one-time thing. 

Perhaps your friend wants to watch a certain show and they don't subscribe to that service, so you do the decent thing for a few weeks in order to let them finish the program. Perhaps you're at a restaurant and lend your friend a discount code so the bill is slightly cheaper for everyone. The trouble is that as soon as you introduce the perks of these memberships to a moocher in your life, you might be unintentionally giving them permission to use those perks again and again…

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    "Don't want to split the cost of a membership? That's fine."
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  • This woman's brother-in-law and sister-in-law continued to borrow their Big Box memberships for weeks on end while claiming that they did not use it enough to justify splitting the cost with them. Upon further research, the woman discovered that they were using their membership card just as much as she was, despite their claims. That's when she decided to enact a little petty revenge of her own…

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    My SIL and BIL are notoriously cheap, stingy and manipulative. Otherwise, nice as could be.
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    We have a Big Box membership and both I and my husband (BIL's brother) have a card. One of them (SIL probably) asked to borrow his card to use at said store and then never returned it.
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    Normally, who cares. I'm happy to share but they are just so cheap and stingy that it started to bug me so I asked for the card back saying that we needed it. "Sure!" and she gives it to me.
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    4-5 months later husband asks for my card and I ask where his is. "Oh, I leant it to SIL". Uh huh. Okay. Plan B.
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    Next time I was at their house I offered to split the cost of the membership. At the time, that was $50/year. Response? "Oh, we really don't use it that much but I'll talk to BIL."
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    Uh huh. Plan C and petty revenge. I logged in online and saw that they were using it 1-2 times a month. Penny wise, pound foolish, FAFO.
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    I went to the store and asked for my membership to be cancelled effectively immediately. Told no one.
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    BIL and SIL went shopping, loaded it all on the belt, scanned the card and they were presented with a renewal fee. Rather than pay it, they walked out.
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    We never spoke about it but BIL told my other BIL who told me and just laughed. He and I are on the same page. Brings me such satisfaction to play out that scene in my head.
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    KSknitter • 1h ago So I had a relative that had the same issue, and they instead paid more for the "cash back" option, where you get a % back for every dollar you spend.
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    Several members of the online community shared similar stories about the moochers in their lives. Here's what they had to say about it all!

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    The cousin they had lent the card to spend 1000s every month there, and they got a ton of money back. It was kinda funny because cousin didn't know.
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    Degofreak 58m ago My sister uses my card because I use the app. But, one day she had the audacity to ask if she was due some of the reward dollars because she shopped there too. Uh, no. I pay for the membership.
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    Which_Stress_... 49m ago When my daughter went away to University, I bought a big box store membership for her and the secondary card went to her (then) best friend. The following year
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    they each paid half for renewal. For the next three four years my daughter paid the renewal and didn't receive payment from her friend. This year, my daughter cancelled the membership and got a new
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    one with her partner. She didn't bother telling her friend. Her so called friend (there were a lot of issues. come up in the last year) found out when she went shopping and got to the checkout only to find out her
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    membership had been cancelled. It would be an understatement to say she was not impressed. She called my daughter telling her it was a rotten thing to do and how embarrassed
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    she was, My daughter simply told her she could have used the money she saved by not paying anything for a member ship for the last few years to buy
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    her own. My daughter hung up right afterwards because she refused to listen to someone yelling at her over the phone.
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