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Guaranteed Human. Mom invoices me for the cost of raising me as a child. Fine. I have a plan. I mean, listen, we've heard some Karen's and parents doing some crazy things. This one we haven't heard before. And honestly, that's crazy. Probably pretty expensive because, like, the average cost of raising a kid is like $500,000 a lifetime.

Insane. It's just hilarious. I'm just imagining his mom opening up quickbooks and be like, do, do, do, all right, invoice number 47.

Swimming lessons. Two million dollars for raising my child. All right. Well, let's see. Our household always revolved around money. Even though my mom made more than enough money and we were not struggling by any means, she complained about every single thing she had to buy for us. Everything. Food, clothes, medical expenses, toys, laptops, and phones, school cars, everything. We always knew exactly how much we were costing her. We didn't dare ask for the unnecessary things like leisure activities or expensive toys or hobby supplies. God. We started working very young and she manipulated and guilted us into giving all of our money that we earned to pay off what we owed. Dude, what would you do if your mom did this deal? Like maybe like food and like clothes like basic basic, basic, like basic food, basic clothes, basic shelter. It's like, I didn't choose to be barred I didn't do that you should have wrapped it if you didn't want all these

expenses mama when I turned 18 she completely cut me off financially but kindly offered to let

me rent my bedroom but kindly offered to let me rent my bedroom out for her. Wow. And sent me an invoice of

every cent I've ever cost her totaling over $700,000. She billed me for Christmas and birthday

present. She even billed me for her medical expenses for the pregnancy and delivery and wanted me to

back pay rent to live in the house from

birth. She did the same to my sister two years later when she turned 18. We were supposed to pay her

back over time starting the day we each turn 18. The lady's crazy. An actual maniac. I mean,

this concept already is just off the charts. But the fact that she kept track is even crazier. And she charged for the pregnancy and the backdated rent. It's like, birthday presents. Oh my God. Mom doesn't know how to get birthday presents. Does she do that with all her friends too? She's like, Hey, I gave you this birthday present. You can have it for five years and

then I expect something of equal or more values. Here's my invoice. What if she was sort of like,

I hope you enjoy that place that little kiddo because it's going to cost you. Oh, yeah. I hope

you like them. Legos. Both of us were still dealing with a lot of internalized guilt from her

constant manipulation. So we actually did pay for a while.

No.

Aside from necessary expenses, our entire paychecks were going to her. We rented our bedrooms

in her house and she separated her food, cleaning supplies, cookware, and tableware, etc.

From ours and charged us to use them.

She generously included the use of the household appliances in our rent. And it wasn't

until I was 21 and my sister was 19 that enough people told us that this whole arrangement was

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