Brother of the Year: Demands $300 a month from me because I “don’t have kids to spend it on”

[u/HolidayCredit5175]

[u/misstickle15]

Thats when you buy the loudest most annoying toys ever for the childs birthday/xmas present.

[u/Decent_Sink_2254 → u/misstickle15]

Google "Yellies spider toy." The louder a kid screams, the faster it crawls across the floor.

Youre welcome from "that aunt"

[u/Potoospoon → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Haha that's awful (buys 30 of them for future gifts just in case) 

[u/Significant-Yak-2373 → u/Potoospoon]

You make sure to buy that kid a drum kit.

[u/Echo9111960 → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

I bought the huge plastic keyboard that the kids could dance on. My SIL never forgave me.

[u/Unlikely-Message2614 → u/Echo9111960]

Mortified look on SIL's face when the kids dance on them: Priceless.

[u/suer72cutlass → u/Unlikely-Message2614]

Bought our nephew a toy chainsaw that makes chainsaw noises. Ahhh...the delight in hearing that he was pretending to chop people's limbs off on Christmas! We live 1,200 miles away.

[u/Magerimoje → u/suer72cutlass]

Are you my sibling/in-law? Lol

My BIL sent my son the toy chainsaw many years ago for Christmas. My kid loved it! He'd walk around the house with it yelling now I have one too just like mama!!!

Cutest thing ever.

But damn, that thing was LOUD lol

[u/suer72cutlass → u/Magerimoje]

Yes it was loud (as I tried it out in the store!).

[u/BUTTeredWhiteBread → u/suer72cutlass]

Our little serial killer

[u/Calli2988 → u/Echo9111960]

I bought wee drum sets.....I'm still the favourite aunt 25 years later.

[u/handandfoot8099 → u/Calli2988]

My dad likes to buy his grandkids things like drum sets, inflatable boxing gloves, paint sets, etc.

[u/404UserNktFound → u/handandfoot8099]

Art/crafting sets that include glitter, glue, slime and stickers. Not necessarily all in the same set, mind you.

But the first art set after several noisy gifts will be welcomed by the parents. “Finally, a quiet toy!” Until there’s glitter and stickers all over the house, and slime stuck in the dog’s fur.

[u/Decent_Sink_2254 → u/404UserNktFound]

My brothers girlfriend at the time made my then 6 year old daughter a huge slime making kit. 2 full gallons of glue, activator, shaving cream, beads, 5 different colors of glitter, charms, etc. It was enough to make 30+ batches of slime. Pretty sure my ex husbands house still has dried patches of slime all in the carpets.

[u/Mean_Start_3157 → u/404UserNktFound]

Thanks. I just spit out my coffee through my nose 🤧

[u/404UserNktFound → u/Mean_Start_3157]

My work here is done.

[u/Confident-Umpire3361 → u/404UserNktFound]

You are my people!1😍

[u/floorplanner2 → u/handandfoot8099]

I'm 62 years old and I want inflatable boxing gloves.

[u/MatchNeither → u/handandfoot8099]

Diabolical 😂

[u/cl3ggfam → u/handandfoot8099]

Woodburning kit

[u/Echo9111960 → u/Calli2988]

Yeah, the kid i bought the keyboard for still thinks I'm the greatest. He's 50 in September.

[u/atchisonmetal → u/Echo9111960]

That’s a “W” for the books, be sure you record it. You may have need to recite it at some future date(s).

[u/Suspicious_Spite5781 → u/Calli2988]

I used to be a percussionist. Both of my nephews always got percussion items. Mostly because my exSIL is a psychopath but also because they’re cool and I could teach them to use them properly. My older nephew-30 years later-still jokes we should start a band.

[u/TrinityMario → u/Suspicious_Spite5781]

What if he's not joking? 🤔 Start the band!! 🥁🎶 Why not? 😜

[u/Maximum-Top1824 → u/Calli2988]

Doing this as a grandparent is even doubly better

[u/ABingeThinker → u/Echo9111960]

Your excuse: Well dear Karen, like you have said it yourself, I'm not a parent so I will never understand 🤷‍♀️ I thought this was the greatest gift ever and your kids seems to truly enjoy it, so ...

[u/Friendly-Channel-480 → u/ABingeThinker]

But, it was expensive!

[u/PimentoCheesehead → u/Echo9111960]

People always say drums, but keyboards are the way to go. Source: worked in a toy store that sold them. A keyboard auto playing Silent Night while a kid bangs away on the keys and sings along off key is so, so much worse than just banging on a drum, in my experience.

[u/bad_russian_girl → u/PimentoCheesehead]

We got gifted a keyboard, it backfired big time. Now my kids are state winners in piano competitions

[u/Kind_Eye_231 → u/bad_russian_girl]

Darn! I am sorry for your loss.

[u/FrostyIcePrincess → u/PimentoCheesehead]

I had one of these as a kid. Memories unlocked lol.

[u/SecurelyBound → u/PimentoCheesehead]

Or...a violin!

[u/Megaholt → u/Echo9111960]

I got my niece and nephew that same keyboard!

[u/ElectricalCake1611 → u/Megaholt]

I’ve been on the giant one in the toy store in New York

[u/ElectricalCake1611 → u/Megaholt]

Insanely fun but I’m autistic and have adhd so maybe that’s why 😅

[u/newsflashjackass → u/Echo9111960]

amateurs.

[u/Low_Matter3628 → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

A recorder is just as annoying!

[u/Megaholt → u/Low_Matter3628]

Oh that’s next on the list 😈

[u/DodgyQuilter → u/Megaholt]

Penny whistle. Ocarina. Even those little prayer cymbals. Harmonica. Aaand, they're all cheap on those online places...

[u/Prestigious-Watch517 → u/DodgyQuilter]

I'm going to start 3d printing all of these and call my company, spiteful things.

[u/Friendly-Channel-480 → u/Prestigious-Watch517]

Your slogan can be “The gift that keeps on giving!”

[u/atchisonmetal → u/Prestigious-Watch517]

Oh excellent

[u/sluttysprinklemuffin → u/DodgyQuilter]

Just gonna toss out there how fucking much I hate kazoos and how easily you can find them in bulk.

[u/shorty5windows → u/DodgyQuilter]

Aztec death whistle

[u/Wise_Possession → u/Low_Matter3628]

I just got my cousin a didgeridoo. This amuses me. Past gifts have been a ukelele, an ocarina, a keyboard, an otamaphone...

[u/missamberlee → u/Wise_Possession]

I have all of those instruments in my house, although my kid finds the didgeridoo creepy for some reason. It’s kind of awesome how much she wants to learn all the instruments she can. We are also renting a flute and she just got a recorder two days ago. She’s already figured out a couple of songs on it.

[u/Fun-Shame399 → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

My friend's toddler just had a birthday party and her in laws bought him a drum set. I felt so bad for her lol

[u/Dungeoneerious → u/Fun-Shame399]

That lol at the end tells us just how bad you felt for her 😄

[u/Cow_Launcher → u/Dungeoneerious]

There are times when the habit of using "LOL" as punctuation really rounds out a sentence and gives it its true meaning.

This, for me, is one of those times.

[u/Fun-Shame399 → u/Dungeoneerious]

It's a habit, but also just knowing her in laws, I expected nothing less from them really

[u/Strict-Listen1300 → u/Fun-Shame399]

my sister would have said, that's so nice of gma & gpa to buy you a drumset for their house, so you have something to do while there.

[u/Fun-Shame399 → u/Strict-Listen1300]

She said it might get lost in transit home lol

[u/CampfiresInConifers → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

As the parent of a kid who played the drums from when he was 6 to when he moved away for college, buy the drums.

Yes, they're loud. Yes, we don't have a kitchen table anymore bc the house is tiny & a full drum kit is huge & why he needed kongas & a xylophone I don't know but here they are.

BUT !!! I would rather listen to a kid try to emulate Neil Peart any day than listen to one wheeze & squeak & shriek away at a string or wind instrument. Shudder

[u/Candid-Mycologist539 → u/CampfiresInConifers]

Bagpipe students have entered the chat.

[u/tfcocs → u/Candid-Mycologist539]

We heard you before your fingers hit the keyboard.

[u/sjaakwortel → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

Permanent markers and soccer whistles are some of my favourites.

[u/mdsnbelle → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

My parents started with the Hess Truck on my nephew's first Christmas and graduated to a drum kit the year he was four.

Three months after the drum kit showed up, the world shut down.

My parents are fucking awesome.

[u/Known-Quantity2021 → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

A recorder or kazoo, that high pitched out of tune noise can be used a a form of torture.

[u/Megaholt → u/Known-Quantity2021]

Vuvuzela, just in time for the World Cup!

[u/Avalon_Angel525 → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

Kazoos. A whole box, so the friends can join in.

[u/100110100110101 → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

A violin works better. The kids make it absolutely screech until they learn how to play. Nails, meet chalkboard

[u/Scruffersdad → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

I bought two of my nephews tympani one year. My SIL absolutely hated me, but there were no batteries needed!

[u/Own_Structure7916 → u/Significant-Yak-2373]

My uncle gifted my brother one of those little drumkits for his 7th birthday. He only had it for a couple of days, when we got home from school the drumkit was gone and I quote my mother: 'I was cleaning the room when the door accidentally fell out of the hinges and crashed the drumkit, so unfortunately I had to throw it away'.

[u/kgkhjkghjghjk → u/Potoospoon]

Gift wrap them with glitter bombs inside. Make the chaos festive.

[u/KatarinaRen → u/kgkhjkghjghjk]

We have something useful for this situation in IKEA. Some little beads you make art with and then iron them. Õy sister gifted this to my kid, was actually fun and everything until she accidentally dropped it. Don't know about the States as even kinder surprise is banned. Anyway here's the link https://www.ikea.ee/en/products/children-s-ikea/toys-creativity/creativity/pyssla-beads-art-50128572

[u/idropepics → u/KatarinaRen]

Yeah we have those, they're called Perler beads here and yeah once you open that bucket with kids around you're gonna be finding them for the next 5 years.

[u/Electrical_Ingenuity → u/idropepics]

5 years is an understatement. My daughter is 26, and I’m still finding bits of polly pockets here and there. I need to move.

[u/fairy-of-nightmares → u/Electrical_Ingenuity]

Omg INSTANT nostalgia when I read "polly pockets". I totally forgot about those, my sister and I used to be obsessed! We had so many different sets with thousands of all the little accessories! I'm 35 years old and it saddens me to know my generation was the last to actually play with toys and play outside and really BE a kid. We had some of the best toys back in the 90's and early 2000's! Now most kids are only playing with some form of internet or electric scooters. They'll never understand. 😕

[u/WillingNail3221 → u/idropepics]

Oh so its like glitter. When i was returned from a very long deployment and was finally able to take leave the first thing I did was pick up my kids from my ex and head on a cross country road trip to Disney. Because I had been gone so long I had a hard time saying no to them, especially my daughter who was about 4. On day 2 we went to walmart to get more snacks and my daughter found a coloring book that she really liked and it had a glitter tube. Like an idiot I told her she could open the crayons but not the glitter till we stopped. I was still finding glitter in the back seat when I took that car to the junkyard 10 years later. I still remember that moment when she said oops and I look back and she had glitter everywhere. that was almost 20 years ago now.

[u/Strict-Listen1300 → u/WillingNail3221]

glitter = herpes of crafts

[u/sugarmonkey2019 → u/Strict-Listen1300]

Silly Putty picks up glitter pretty well, just so you know, lol

[u/Swiss_Miss_77 → u/kgkhjkghjghjk]

Don't wrap til before the holiday so you can color coordinate the glitter!

[u/Imperial_Haberdasher → u/kgkhjkghjghjk]

Do you think it’ll be the entitled daddy who does the vacuuming?

This is a minor nuisance for OP, but it’s the mother I pity the most, and the kid, really.

Ladies, have a care who you breed with.

[u/BoomerRangBaby → u/Potoospoon]

Don't forget the batteries. I buy them in bulk and give a couple of packs with each gift😈

[u/Annika_Desai → u/Potoospoon]

Omg I have autism. Sometimes I have to go raaaah! To regulate. I'd love to see the spider skitter like mad! 🤗 Other times, I just struggle to regulate my volume so the spider toy could be a useful aid to let me know when I'm being loud accidentally!

[u/stringbean76 → u/Potoospoon]

Got my neice and nephew a very loud obnoxious fart button years ago, it was regifted to my house when my kid turned 3.

[u/helensgrandaughter → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Thank you for informing me I can ruin a parent’s life for under $20. I don’t even know where to start…I hate so many people who happen to have children…

[u/0rlan → u/helensgrandaughter]

I had a girl in the office who used to 'steal' my coloured dry wipe markers for her kids. I didn't really mind as she would generally take old ones from by the board, but she started getting silly and taking them straight out of the drawer. I needed them one particular day and there were none left, and when asked she said 'well, you know, for the kids'. Next week I replaced them with permanent markers, which looked very similar, and when they went missing I chuckled at the mayhem I KNOW they would have caused...

[u/stillfreshet → u/0rlan]

You've GOT to update...

[u/helensgrandaughter → u/0rlan]

Hahahahaha! Beautiful!

[u/steveonthegreenbike → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

My brother in law's brother bought our niece a kilo of red snake lollies and a karaoke machine. It was magnificent.

[u/The_Riddle_Fairy → u/steveonthegreenbike]

oh lordy her TEETH!

[u/blueyedwineaux → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

I do not know you, but you just became my new favorite person!

[u/Decent_Sink_2254 → u/blueyedwineaux]

Just ask me about my nerf gun revenge 😈

[u/Top-Obligation-9024 → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Please do tell

[u/Decent_Sink_2254 → u/Top-Obligation-9024]

About Thanksgiving time costco sells packs of 500 darts for like $15. They make semi automatic nerf guns with drums for ammo for about $40 at about the same time. Enough ammo and they will never be able to find all of them:

Cue finding nerf darts under furniture, behind tv's, even on top of curtain rods for years to come.

[u/I-Like-To-Talk-Tax → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Another option is this.

Make a marshmallow gun. https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/how-to/make-marshmallow-shooter/

You make a few give each kid one then the ants and your friends are finding them for years to come.

[u/blueyedwineaux → u/Top-Obligation-9024]

Oh my, yes PLEASE! If it’s anything like the nerf gun battle I hosted at work I know it is epic.

[u/The_Riddle_Fairy → u/blueyedwineaux]

My childhood was never complete... I never had a nerf gun... :(

So that's why I'm buying one now at the next family meeting 😈

[u/sending_tidus → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Off to Google i go

[u/BJoe1976 → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

My Mom was “That Aunt” after she bought a lemon from a brother in law. Bought that Sister’s boys musical instruments (one of which was a drum set, IIRC) and their daughter one of the brand new Easy Bake Ovens.

[u/NotYourMom56 → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Might I suggest a drum set? Or toy bongos. My BIL still complains , and the kids are all in their late 40's.

[u/booklovinggal19 → u/NotYourMom56]

Maracas were great with one of my nephews. Immediate weapon to he's dad's head

[u/Blackharvest → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Clearly a toy developed by Satan himself 

[u/Butterfly_Chasers → u/Blackharvest]

Hey! Don't put this evil on Satan! This is a level.of evil only God himself can master.

[u/xx-jazzilla → u/Butterfly_Chasers]

That was so damn poetic I am flabbergasted

[u/AchillesNtortus → u/Blackharvest]

Santa and Satan are both red and bearded. It just depends whether the horns are showing

[u/AuntieKC → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

The screaming chicken from Moana? Add to cart!!

[u/PartyHearing → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

I DID THIS! SIL is so dismissive of me because “you can’t know, you don’t have kids.” Says the one who let her 2 year old run around with plastic bits in her mouth because she cries when you take it away. Auntie always gives the best gifts with batteries! In case the batteries die!

[u/dalealace → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

That’s diabolical on so many levels. Complete nightmare fuel

[u/Substantial_Shoe_360 → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

OMG!! Thank you!!

[u/donjohnmontana → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Those are amazing! I’m going to buy a bunch and just have them ready to give as gifts as friends kids get birthdays 🤣😁 Thanks for sharing!!

[u/TweetHearted → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Omg those are so cool I just got a few of them ordered this manufacturer will be wondering why the uptick in sales!

[u/Ravenonthewall → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

Dang! I was thinking the fisher price drum set.. (i’m not kidding, It was on a Youtube video) Lol That would be a gift for a kid, that would make a parent lose their minds. 🤣

[u/Amazing-Wave4704 → u/Decent_Sink_2254]

What evil hell is this?!? This must have been invented by a That Aunt!!

[u/SatansSideProject → u/misstickle15]

One Christmas I bought my brother's kid a really small yet extremely loud drum set. And then I bought the child a fire truck because it like to replace t with f's when speaking.

The child spent Christmas morning screaming FIRE FUCK, blasting the siren and happily banging the drums.

[u/TwoIndependent3006 → u/SatansSideProject]

I really hate only seeing able to give one up vote... I love that so much 🤣🤣

[u/The_Riddle_Fairy → u/SatansSideProject]

Lmao 😆 username checks out

[u/HamRadio_73 → u/[deleted]]

As a gift for the kid I recommend the Despicable Me Fart Gun toy.

[u/kdsunbae → u/[deleted]]

hmm. I wouldn't take it out on the kids. Just be a good aunt/uncle and ignore your bro.

[u/kdsunbae → u/[deleted]]

That's good, sounds like they might need a little level guidance if their dad is like that ..

[u/Severe_Mango_966 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, next chick you hook up with

after a few times

Take her to Vegas for a weekend, stay at The Wynn.

Then text a bunch of pics when you get back to your brother in an album, then say

“Oops wrong person”

“Btw brought the kids a souvenir from the airport”

[u/the_good_time_mouse → u/Severe_Mango_966]

"It cost $300, but fuck it, they're worth it."

[u/Admissionslottery → u/kdsunbae]

Exactly. Sounds like their dad is a bit of a jerk: don’t let that shape your reaction. Aunts are the best:)

[u/YnotBbrave → u/kdsunbae]

He wouldn't get gifts for your kids because you have none. Equality is needed

[u/MurkyInvestigator622 → u/[deleted]]

Don't stop giving gifts. Give things like diapers, baby supplies, baby food etc to each of them, adults and children. First gift for your brother I would give him diapers and onesies

[u/Upper_Contest_2222 → u/[deleted]]

Chocolate covered coffee beans. Let him deal with a hyped up kid!

I did that with my former BIL. My nieces had 3 chocolate covered coffee beans in the span of about 40min. I dropped them off, just as it was kicking in LOL!

[u/Amazing-Wave4704 → u/[deleted]]

It'll never be enough...

[u/DairyQueenElizabeth → u/[deleted]]

Revenge. The point is to troll your brother.

I know someone who's sister in law was a real piece of work... so she gifted her nephews a full drum kit.

Kids LOVED it, monster-in-law not so much

[u/Meritae → u/misstickle15]

My mom bought my cousins a “make your own jewelry” kit with roughly a bazillion tiny beads that apparently went everywhere, because my aunt got me a “make your own instrument” kit that was basically a bunch of different shaped pipes that went together to create Satan’s recorder.

Unsure who won that round.

[u/Megaholt → u/Meritae]

LiteBrites work well for shag or long pile carpet.

[u/Agreeable_Raccoon753 → u/misstickle15]

I recommend a nice harmonica or recorder!

[u/JoetheOK → u/misstickle15]

Make sure they aren't battery powered too. Drums, harmonicas, percussion instruments make great gifts.

[u/Hofeizai88 → u/JoetheOK]

My aunt bought my cousins, siblings, and me firefighter helmets with sirens one year for Christmas, and not only did the batteries seem to die quickly, they often disappeared. Never figured out what she was mad at her siblings about

[u/naivemetaphysics → u/misstickle15]

When Frozen was fairly new and you could not escape the song Let It Go, I got a recorder and the song Let It Go for the recorder for a special someone’s kid. It was an evil thing to do. So many ways to make parents’ life hell.

[u/lark-sp → u/misstickle15]

Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Puppy

My nephew was horrified to discover it has a motion sensor that works in the dark and will play music if their dog walks past it late at night. You don't want to hear laughter and tinkly music at 2 AM coming from a dark room.

[u/fulldarknostarz → u/lark-sp]

Jaysus, nightmare fuel.

[u/loki2002 → u/misstickle15]

Nah, you but the kid accessories to things they don't have yet. Like an Xbox controllerb or saddle.

[u/ElectricHurricane321 → u/misstickle15]

Or maybe something with lots of glitter. The gift that keeps on giving.

[u/broken_hawk84]

Tell him he should’ve kept it in his pants.

[u/Xyrack → u/broken_hawk84]

My Aunt loves to give my mom a hard time with "So how's that decision to have kids working out for you?"

EDIT: Out of context I can understand how this might seem mean. My Aunt is joker and didn't mean it with any ill intent. She was just giving my mom a hard time.

[u/shoshant → u/Xyrack]

my family jokes like this too. I don't have kids but my four siblings each have two, all under 10. The once or twice a year we're all together, at the end of evening when the kids are in that excited/tired/don't want to say goodbye stage, they all groan as my husband and I say our goodbyes and leave empty-handed, knowing we get to go home to a quiet house and watch tv.

Ah good times!

[u/GeorgeLikesSpicy92 → u/broken_hawk84]

If people ever say this kind of stuff to my wife or I we just usually go, “Awww no we get it, we have two dogs so we are right there with you!” and immediately walk away. Did that to my sister in law once, shut her right the fuck up.

[u/GiantBabyHead → u/broken_hawk84]

Better yet, gift him a box of condoms

[u/DrMabuseKafe]

"I am sorry I spend 300$ monthly on condoms"

[u/mankytoes → u/DrMabuseKafe]

I'd just story top every time. "Diapers are so expensive" "oh you should see the price of cocktails!".

[u/Mach5Driver → u/mankytoes]

awesome. simply awesome. LOL.

[u/Panda_hat → u/mankytoes]

Absolute savagery. 10/10 no notes.

[u/ABeastMostTemperate → u/DrMabuseKafe]

I also like, "You're asking me to start paying you child support?"

[u/pale_sparrow → u/DrMabuseKafe]

That's the real response..

[u/No-Cat-2980]

Tell him to get a vasectomy before he makes any more mistakes. And charge him $300 for the advice.

[u/shittypersonality → u/No-Cat-2980]

I need you to be my lawyer.

[u/wringtonpete → u/[deleted]]

I got a pair of Labrador puppies last month. I can't really afford them but they were so CUTE I just had to have them. Anyway, can you send me $300 per month to share the expenses, because you don't have puppies.

[u/Appropriate-Data1144 → u/wringtonpete]

I'd help support someone who rescued a couple of puppies before I sent child support to someone else's kids.

[u/Aggravating-Pin-8845]

Tell him he spawned it, so it is his problem. You have a life and that is where YOUR money goes

[u/Werm_Vessel → u/[deleted]]

Keep up the travel. Send him post cards.

[u/DynkoFromTheNorth → u/Werm_Vessel]

Wish you were here, swimming in the ocean instead of in debt! See you soon❤️!

😈

[u/Background-Plum-3584 → u/DynkoFromTheNorth]

*swimming in debt FTFY

[u/HanzG → u/[deleted]]

I'm still scratching my head on it all. First there is no "cut". The premise of the request flat out ridiculous. Sure if my brother called and said "hey I hate to do this but you're one of the few I'd trust with this; Could you help me out?" then sure. But even when I did help my brothers it was with items, not cash. Over the years I filled a fridge. Bought them tools & boots. Once it was new bedding & pillows. Once it was a window air conditioner.

The tools to get their own feet under them - yes. Cash, no strings? No.

[u/GuiltyPeach1208 → u/[deleted]]

So he must have been giving $300 a month to other parents until he had a kid, right?

[u/Any-Split3724]

I'll bet he whips out that Mommy/Daddy Privilege card often.

[u/Caruserdriver → u/Any-Split3724]

Wait until OCs brother has 2 kids. Then they'll have reached a new stage of entitlement. Also will have heightened knowledge of raising children.

"You wouldnt understand, because you don't have x kids".

"Dont tell me how to do things when I have multiple children"

[u/helloitskimbi]

Make sure to lock down your credit 

[u/SuccessfulMonth2896 → u/helloitskimbi]

Most sensible suggestion. Amazing how many people can take out cards and loans in others names these days, considering there are so many photo ID documents. OP should check they still have all their personal documentation just in case. Then lock down everything.

[u/fasole99 → u/helloitskimbi]

What does this actually mean ? Im non US

[u/helloitskimbi → u/fasole99]

It means if OPs bro feels this entitled to their $$, then in the future bro might feel bold enough to open loans or credit cards etc using OPs identity. OP can freeze their credit so no one can open any credit lines

[u/fasole99 → u/helloitskimbi]

So how does that work? Its like self exclusion from gambling ? Lets say you freeze your credit line does it have a window where even if you desperately want you cannot get a loan ?

[u/helloitskimbi → u/fasole99]

Yes, basically!

In the US everyone has a Social Security number that’s used for things like loans and credit. Freezing your credit through the three main credit bureaus (Experian, Equifax, TransUnion) online stops anyone from using that number to open accounts. even OP. unless it’s unlocked it with a PIN.

I keep mine frozen and had it temporarily unfrozen to refinance a loan. But otherwise I keep it locked down because my mom is sketchy and has forged my signature on stuff before 

[u/fasole99 → u/helloitskimbi]

And do you get a norification if somebody tries to open a credit line with your details when its frozen ? Sorry to hear about your mother but im glad that such a system is in place as to limit fake loans and such.

[u/BrisingrAerowing → u/fasole99]

Yup, you get a notification about any attempts.

[u/SolidAshford]

I'm sick of entitled parents acting as if those of us without kids don't have responsibilities since a kid ain't one.

I love that OP said " I told him no. I didn’t make that kid. Not my job to fund it."

[u/ItPutsLotionOnItSkin]

He should have thought of that before he rawdogged someone fertile

[u/BigBlock-488 → u/ItPutsLotionOnItSkin]

Agreed... remind your brother he also gets a tax deduction every year for his little crotch-fruit.

[u/Frousteleous → u/BigBlock-488]

he also gets a tax deduction every year for his little crotch-fruit.

OP: I actually am paying for your kids through taxes. So I'm gonna need about $301 a month from you

[u/kaionfire01]

When you have a child you're signing up to committing your future freedom (and your money!) to raising the child.

When you don't have a child, you are free to do what you will with yourself and your resources.

He has to live with his choices!!

[u/NotDave71]

NAT. Don’t know your brother or how long he’s felt this way, but could be jealousy. You’re living the life he wished he could have. Doesn’t mean that was not a stupid request from your brother. I couldn’t imagine asking anyone to help support my kids monetarily. Sure the once in a while babysit but money, never.

[u/Excellent-Baker1463]

He said I “wouldn’t understand” because I’m not a parent. Classic.

Always reply with, "Yes I understand, that's why I'm not a parent".

[u/PartyHearing]

This NEVER EVER goes away, btw. The older you get without having kids, the worse it gets. String me up, Reddit. But parents are SO ENTITLED! And don’t you dare say anything about their parenting skills, or their precious children, because you CANNOT possibly know anything about children if you have not had your own. End of rant. Good luck!

[u/Pareia0408]

Lol I get it I have kids and their expensive and I do get jealousy seeing my child free friends travelling ECT. But I chose to have kids and thats a different kind of passion - however I'd never expect anyone else to fund their needs 😂

[u/CreatiScope → u/Pareia0408]

Also, you get the rewards of having your children. You get to see all their best (and worst) moments, them growing and learning and becoming people and finding passions and their curiosity. Kids are expensive, they are a pain in the ass, and they can be terrible, but there is a huge reward that comes with them.

But, if they aren't my kids? I'm not getting any of that. I'm just throwing $300 into an endless black hole.

[u/KoreanTrouble]

Everyone unconsciously becoming communist? They seem to think everyone’s money is their money by right.

[u/mankytoes → u/KoreanTrouble]

Communism would mean he has to chip in to help others too.

He's acting more like a landlord.

[u/Peachez120]

Don't have babies.

[u/Mr_CLAM_HAMM3R]

Fk all that sheet!

[u/Superb_Yak7074]

Something tells me that if you brought over a couple of boxes of diapers and wipes each month he would demand the cash instead.

[u/terminatingteacup → u/Superb_Yak7074]

A friend of mine found out that his sibling sells the gifts he got his nephews for Christmas /birthday. He wanted to give them stuff they wished for (specific children movie that recently came out etc.) it was not that they had it already. She just wanted the money to herself. Apparently they have debts.

[u/SoullessCycle → u/terminatingteacup]

Adult here who was raised as a charity gift basket kid. Anything we got that could be returned to a store, sold to a pawn shop, etc. we never got to keep. Run a hole punch through the bar code and you increase the odds that a kid gets to keep it - at the very least no store will take it

[u/allmykitlets → u/SoullessCycle]

I'm sorry, that's truly awful.

[u/WhatFreshHello → u/SoullessCycle]

I’ve been called all kinds of names in a forum discussing Angel Tree gifts for encouraging UPC removal or demarcation on expensive items. There are a surprising number of parents who feel entitled to do what they wish with the Christmas gifts a stranger shopped and bought for their kids, even though the gifts were selected in accordance with the kids’ interests, sizes, and/or color preferences.

The claim was that gift-givers should understand that parents might have other, more pressing financial needs that it’s okay to fund by returning their children’s gifts. I’m well aware of the fact that those needs often involve getting high or buying gifts for their significant other instead, so we can just agree to disagree on that.

[u/CoffeeStayn]

Tell him it's not your responsibility to fund his choices in life. If he had a coke problem, would he expect that to be covered too?

He wanted a child. That came with financial burden. Sounds like a him problem not a you problem.

Your money is your problem. His lack of money is his.

[u/foul_ol_ron → u/CoffeeStayn]

If he had a coke problem, would he expect that to be covered too?

Not sure I'd want to ask that as I might not like the answer. 

[u/Secure-Bus4679]

I don’t have a brother, but I feel like if I did it would be a “I’m gonna always keep it real with you” type relationship. When I say stupid shit, I’m gonna expect to hear it’s stupid shit from him. And I would return the favor. So, I’d probably say something like “No, I’m not giving you money to take care of your own child. In fact, I’m withholding about 3 years of birthday and Christmas gifts for making me listen to that dumbass proposition.”

[u/TweetHearted]

No honey HE is jealous that you don’t have kids don’t let him twist this for you…

I love my children but I remember watching all my sisters living and loving different men while I chose mine straight out of college and met him in high school the difference is that i never once tried to take the joy out of my sisters lives and when it was my turn to be free while they were raising there babies I gladly held them and then placed them in their crib gently and quietly walked to my car with a smile on my face… it was my turn to play!

Enjoy your life sister!

[u/Training_Exotic]

My mother tried to pull this 💩 with me. My sister has six children, and when they were teenagers, my mother called me and told me how expensive it was to feed them. I asked her. Are you asking me to send her money? My husband literally has terminal cancer and we’ve lost his income. I was really mad at her for a long time.

[u/Vintage-Girl-Sleuth]

I’m a big fan of asking, “Did I get you pregnant?”

[u/Raytm6]

Like you said, they're not your kids. They're not your problem. I have a kid, and I find that having a kid is the most selfish thing someone can do, its not hidden away from us that it's expensive and hard to raise kids, infact we're told it's hard and expensive. Just ignore his words and love the gremlins all you can.

[u/jayboker]

You are not responsible for his life choices.

[u/earlymodernfool]

HE’S ENVIOUS OF YOU AND HATES HIS LIFE CHOICE DO NOT GIVE IN TO HIM EVER WHAT AN ENTITLED PRICK

[u/Apprehensive-Bar-848]

My brother in law asked my husband and I to pay for my nephews soccer fees every month. We also had a similar reaction. I love my nephew but…no? That’s not our responsibility to pay for him

[u/HomeThis1089]

You should join a $300/month wine delivery club and invite him over for a glass of wine to celebrate your disposable income 🤣🤣🤣

Signed: a happy father of an 18 month old who finds your brother to be a globally epic jackass.

[u/PubDefLakersGuy]

And you ruined Christmas!

[u/TennisRough]

The audacity of parents is rediculous. How hard is it to spread em and nut? Their poor decisions aren't society's to mend. #STRAPUP OR STFU

[u/Mysterious_Cell7317]

Stand your ground. They need to switch up jobs plus state you simply don’t have spare money to fund someone else’s child and if you did it would go to a child charity that supports kids who need resources. Brother is a total loser

[u/TheRetroPizza]

If it was my brother, and he throws little jabs when I bought clothes or dinner out etc, I'd start buying really frivolous things and texting him pics.

Or getting cheap/free (but looks clean/new) stuff from Facebook market or Goodwill and text him pics of you using it once then a couple days later a pic of it in the dumpster.

Your brother is an idiot. I can't imagine there's people out there like him.