As of 2 days before Christmas, Leann was still planning to move the first week in January. We tried to explain to her that she would be paying the same amount whether or not she moved out, as she doesn’t have to buy groceries here, and buying her own groceries at her new place would bring her bills up to $350 a month (same as she agreed to pay here). That was when she came up with the lie that her new landlord had lowered her rent to $250 a month for rent, all utilities and cable/internet. There is no way that anyone would be stupid enough to charge that little for a 1-bedroom apartment with everything included. She must think we are complete morons if she thought we were goingt to buy that.
She left for her dad’s house the afternoon of December 23, telling us that she would be home sometime Sunday night because she was housesitting for her dad until Sunday morning then they were celebrating Christmas that day instead of the 25th. She did come home Sunday evening, though it was just to pick up a few things. Her grandfather died Christmas night, and she was staying with her aunt to be closer to her family when they made the funeral arrangements, and to give her aunt some comfort as she is the one who found him. I know she isn’t lying about this, but she is now using her grandfayjer’s death as a way to screw us even more.
She has told us all along that since she is not moving that far away she will be able to continue to help us with rides to the the grocery store when we need to go. Now we are supposed to believe that she needs to move to Water Valley to live with her aunt because she is the only one who can help save her grandparent’s land. After living with her for 6 months, I can tell you that if her family is depending on her to help make payments to keep the land, they are not going to save that land. They will lose it. She makes just under $400 a week at her job and still could not manage to pay her half of the bills for our house, which (with rent and utilities) came to $403.50. She constantly excused her lack of money for her portion of the bils by telling us that she only made a little over $1100 a month and she had other expenses. I happened to see her student loan bills when she let them laying out and I was cleaning up after her one night. Together they came to about $125 a month. Her car payment and insurance were about $300 a month from what she told us. So, at just under $400 a week she makes around $1200 after taxes, and her rent and other expenses came to approximately $828.50 per month. That should have left her plenty for gas and other odds and ends she needed and/or wanted. Yet we had to pay a 2 month pastdue electric bill plus reconnect fee because our half was the only half that was being paid.
We have figured it out, and not including the times we put extra toward the bills before paying off her electric bill, she owes us at least $700. She has decided that leaving us a bunch of her used furniture and such covers what she owes us. We can’t seem to get her to realize that something that has been used constantly for the past year is not going to be worth the same as when it was purchased. Therefore, she cannot say she is leaving me her desk then tell me that it cost her $20 so that is $20 off what she owes us. The desk is chipped and has spots where the wood warped due to her leaving take-out soda cups sitting there half-full until the soda leaks through the cup. She’s lucky if this desk is worth $10 right now. She gave me her webcam, told me she lost the install disks for it and I would have to go online and look up the download for them, then she said she paid $20 for the cam and that took care of another $20 she owes us. She is completely clueless!!
Lunatic is so mad that he could easily hit her, if he had not been taught not to hit women. So, instead he went outside and punched the brick wall a couple of times, breaking his hand yet again. This time Lunatic has had it. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Every time we have been completely screwed by someone we were helping or that was supposedly helping us, he has always had to tell me to stay calm. This time I am telling him to stay calm. I don’t know how much longer I am going to be able to keep him calm as I am getting damn near the end of my rope in that respect.
Yes we got her to pay the electric bill so that it would not be cut off, but now she complains about it every time she stops by to pack more of her stuff. We even got her to pay the phone/cable/internet bill, but she waited until everything was disconnected before paying it then complained that she had to pay the reconnect fee as well as the bill. Plus, in order for her to pay that bill, we had to go off on her about the fact with no phone or internet we have no way to keep in contact with anyone, and Mom and Chauceriangirl were both going in for surgery. We were not being kept from keeping up on how the surgeries and recovery afterward went just because she is an irresponsible child.
So we are set on the bills for at least one more month. But with Leann moving so far away and there being no public transportation in Grenada, Mississippi; I can’t look for work. There just isn’t anything close enough to us that is hiring. So even though our bills and rent are paid, we have no clue how we are going to buy things like toilet paper, dish soap, laundry soap, sanitary pads, toothpaste, etc. All things that Leann agreed to pay for since we were paying for groceries, and all things that she is no longer going to be here to pay for. So, we are completely screwed over in so many ways; including the fact that we just found out that Lunatic’s hearing may not be until June.
I hope things get better, but I doubt that will happen.
Happy New Year everyone.
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