Entitled dad eats through $250 worth of groceries in a week while staying at adult daughter's house, refuses to chip in despite earning triple her salary: 'Family doesn't charge family'

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Ely Bulnes • Writer and Editor
Aug 10, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

When my boyfriend's mother comes to visit, she she always ends up buying us an insane amount of groceries. She genuinely thinks we are starving; I don't blame her, though. Our fridge usually is empty. We generally prefer to buy ingredients for meals each day because we live right next to a market; that, and we also order take out too much of the time. We welcome the gesture anyway, and it is a fun change to not have to walk down the street before every meal and instead have everything we need at home already. It's also just how she shows her love!

Every parent is different, though. In our story today, we meet a dad who does not have the instinct to make sure his children are fed. When he visits his daughter for 2 weeks while his kitchen is getting renovated, he treats the experience like a free stay at a 5-star resort. When she asks him to start pulling his weight, he gets offended and storms off, but you're going to have to head on down below to find out how it all ends. 

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    AITA for making my dad buy his own food when he stayed at my apartment for two weeks?

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    My dad came to stay with me while his kitchen was being renovated. I figured it would be a few days, but it dragged on for two full weeks. The
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    man can eat like a teenager after football practice like full breakfast, constant snacks, big lunch, big dinner, every single day.
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    I'm on a pretty tight budget, and after the first week I realized I'd spent over 250 dollars just keeping the fridge
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    stocked. I told him I couldn't keep covering all the groceries and asked if he could pitch in a little. He acted like I'd just slapped him and said family
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    doesn't charge family. I reminded him he makes about three times what I do and that this was putting a real dent in my finances.
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  • If this man can afford to renovate his kitchen, he can absolutely be chipping in on some groceries. 

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    The next day he packed up and left. Later I found out he told my aunt I treated him like a stranger, and now a bunch of my family thinks I'm cold- hearted.
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    Pedal2Medal2 NTA. My Dad would've brought a fortune in groceries, yours should've
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    Both Reading1229 Exactly, OP shouldn't even have had to ask. Dad should have ARRIVED with a full grocery shop!
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    benjaminonfir59 Yeahh, it blows my mind he didn't even think to chip in from the start. If I was staying with someone that long, I'd be showing up with groceries and cooking a few meals at least.
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    redralphie He's treating his daughter like a full service bed and breakfast.
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  • At least he's off, presumably mooching off of some other relative's generosity. Maybe they will lay off of our protagonist when they realize that he doesn't carry his own weight at all. 

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    Salty-Potato-843 NTA he owes you money
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    MossAndMauve man prob been tellin the whole family a different story too lol classic deflection
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    christopherxallra 45 Exactly. Two weeks of non-stop eating isn't cheap, he should've at least offered to help out. Acting hurt over that is kinda wild.
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    Accomplished-Bed-599 He is def TA. He is getting his kitchen renovated. Makes more money than you. He should have paid for groceries or taken you out to eat several times or ordered food. Weird.
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    TwirlGlimmerr Yeah exactly. If he's in the middle of a kitchen reno, he clearly has the funds to contribute. It's not like you were asking for anything
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    unreasonable, just some help with the cost he was adding to your household. Weird move on his part to act offended instead of just pitching in
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    Professional_Ear6020 My family shows up with food. It's the polite thing to do. Even if you made a lot more money. Do your friends show up empty handed? Of course not. They at least bring beer and munchies.
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    Caterpillar JungleGym If I was a guest I would go shopping and make dinner a few times a week.
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    bbyb treat This situation sounds like a classic case of generational differences and some serious lack of self-awareness
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    on your dad's part. It's wild that he would expect you, on a tight budget, to cover his massive food bill for two weeks without even offering to help.
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    My parents would never in a million years expect me to do that. They'd probably show up with a whole haul of groceries themselves.
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    MajLeague Nah. This is just straight up cheap and disrespectful. Nothing generational about it. He saved hotel money and decided to mooch for more. Terrible dad.
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    Ice Cream_Snickers09 NTA, my fridge is never fuller than when my mom comes to visit, she shows up with coolers of frozen meats, bags of groceries ECT.
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