My Mom Expects Me To Pay $25k For Her Funeral
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by CHO, a budget-friendly faith-based alternative to health insurance. |
| 0:07.6 | CHMinistries.org slash budget. |
| 0:10.1 | So this call is mainly about my mother. |
| 0:13.7 | She is on limited income. |
| 0:16.3 | She makes about $1,600 a month from Social Security. |
| 0:19.5 | And she hasn't made any after-life plans. And we went to the |
| 0:24.2 | funeral home recently, and they quoted us about $25,000 to $26,000. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:33.4 | It gets better. So, you know, we don't have that kind of money. So they said, well, we could do this on a payment plan. Yeah, I bet you can. $600 for the next five years of your life. And I don't even know, yeah, I don't even know if my mom has that amount of time. So I'm torn because these are I'm not. Well, that's why I called it. |
| 0:54.6 | I wanted to hear your opinion. |
| 0:55.8 | No, I mean, I listen. |
| 0:56.9 | I love people in my life, but the deal is it's not her, she doesn't have any money, right? She does not have any money. Okay. So she's not talking about paying for this. She's asking you to pay for this. well she |
| 1:09.0 | didn't she doesn't put it that way |
| 1:10.9 | she hasn't explicitly asked for it but in a way yet |
| 1:12.9 | but i mean that's that's the expectation like she's for this. Well, she didn't, she doesn't put it that way. She hasn't explicitly asked for it, |
| 1:12.3 | but in a way, yeah. But I mean, that's, that's the expectation. Like, she's not got a house that's going to be sold that pays for it. She does own her house. It's, it's in pretty bad shape, though. And honestly, I don't know what kind of money we're going to be able to get out of it. Well, you're going to get $25,000 out of it? |
| 1:28.0 | I hope so. |
| 1:29.1 | I hope at least that, yeah. |
| 1:30.1 | If she wants to spend her money... of money. We're going to be able to get out of it. Well, you're going to get $25,000 out of it? |
| 1:33.1 | I hope so. I hope at least that, yeah. If she wants to spend her money on her funeral, I don't mind that. Okay. I wouldn't do that, but I'm not going to pay for it out of my pocket if I'm you. |
| 1:41.3 | Okay. And I think that's absurd. I think she got sold by a salesman. Yeah, they wanted, they wanted |
| 1:48.2 | $400 for a video that they were going to make with some of her pictures. Like there's a bunch of |
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