money

NYC couple consider starting family, hesitate because their combined income is only $920k a year: 'Imagine being this mentally trapped'

Ally Perry

Mom takes 60% of the money her 13-year-old daughter earned from tutoring, insists she's entitled to $25 of every $40 her daughter earns for household expenses: 'She kept the money in her bag and wouldn’t let me see it.'

Emmy Pratt

Uncle lets 7-year-old nephew play with his Nintendo Switch, only to be met with mom's demands to give him the console for good, uncle refuses: ‘It's my hard-earned property’

Bar Mor Hazut

Boss asks employee making $62K to front $2300 for a business trip, calls him broke because he can't afford it: 'You need to plan better and have an emergency fund.'

Emmy Pratt

Entrepreneur loses $60k over a handshake deal with his best friend and business partner: 'Lost the money. Lost the friend.'

Ben Weiss

29-year-old scratches her friend's car while borrowing it, refuses to pay to get the scratches fixed by a mechanic: 'If you cared this much, you shouldn’t have let me borrow it.'

Emmy Pratt

Dude asks friend for $1000, gets angry when he offers him $50: 'He called me to tell me how offensive this was to his situation.'

Emmy Pratt

Daughter demands dad move out of her grandmother's house after four years of living in her garage without paying for anything, dad refuses: ‘I can’t live on the street’

Bar Mor Hazut

Grandma leaves $70k to one great-grandchild and $20k to others, dad worries about uneven split: 'This seems to be a recipe for resentment'

Ally Perry

Friend accuses couple of stealing from the homeless because they went to a food bank after making $1900 a month and spending $1400 on rent: 'That’s not including car insurance, gas, utilities, or anything else.'

Emmy Pratt

Mother-in-law insists her daughter-in-law use the gift cards she gave to her grandchildren to buy her dinner: 'She insists that whenever we use the gift cards, we take her with us.'

Emmy Pratt

Company demands former employee pay back $5000 for training program after he resigns, docks salary if he refuses : 'This demand was never agreed upon'

Ally Perry

Boyfriend tells 22-year-old girlfriend he won't consider marrying her until she makes $100K annually: 'I make around $45K as a teacher, and I have a second full-time job.'

Emmy Pratt

22-year-old refuses to surrender her first $2.5k paycheck to her family, against cultural tradition: ‘[I need] to protect my own survival’

Lana DeGaetano

35-year-old's helicopter parents refuse to let him accept an offer that pays $23,000 more than his last job: 'They want me to turn this opportunity down [...] and keep looking for local jobs in Kansas'

Ben Weiss

35-year-old has partner move into his fixer-upper, demands she pay for renovations when she already contributes mortgage and bills: 'He feels like I'm not helping out'

Ally Perry