rSlash - r/AITA "GIVE ME $300,000 NOW!"

Episode Date: September 6, 2026

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a home instead of just giving them the money? My husband and I live in the Great Lakes region. We're both professionals and we have children in high school and college. We've done reasonably well and have built up significant savings. But we're definitely not wealthy enough that $300,000 is money we can just give away. My parents are in a bad financial situation. They own a house, but they're heavily in debt on it, so they live in the basement and rent out the main floor. They believe they have about $400k in equity. We think they're being wildly optimistic. They have a large mortgage with significant penalties, a he-lock and property values have fallen. We think they'd be lucky to walk away with $200k.

possibly much less. Earlier this year, they found an apartment they liked for around $300,000 and asked us to co-sign a loan to buy it. We refused because of their financial history. Instead, we offered to buy the apartment ourselves and let them live there for a fraction of market rent. They loved the idea. We just needed several months to arrange our finances. This is still a major commitment for us. We have children and our own retirement to fund. The reason, The reason we can justify spending 300K is that we would own the property. We'd essentially be moving part of our retirement savings into real estate while giving my parents secure affordable housing.

Eventually, we could sell it to fund our retirements. We finally got everything arranged and told them we were ready. Now, they've decided the apartment they wanted six months ago is too small, and they couldn't possibly live there. Instead, they found a much more expensive condo they like. The condo fees alone are over $1,100 a month. What? They insist they can afford it because they're counting on getting $400K from their house. The problem is that now they seem to think the money we were prepared to spend buying an apartment is essentially their $300K. Their position is that if we're willing to spend that much helping them, why not just give them the money so they can combine it with their equity and buy what they actually want? I can see how their position might seem controlling. We'll spend 300K helping you, but only if we own the property. But to us, there's an enormous difference between investing 300K in an asset we own

and simply giving away 300K of our family savings. Our offer still stands. We'll buy a reasonable apartment around the original price, own it, and let them live there very cheaply. If they want the expensive condo instead, that's their choice, but we're not giving them the 300K. O.P., you don't need to go to Reddit to ask for permission to keep strings attached to $300,000. If you're willing to give someone $300,000, you can't have them be like, yo, you're putting expectations on us? How rude.

Yeah, for that much money, we are putting expectations on it. Especially with people this bad with money, I can see what you mean, Opie. Their retirement plan is, oh, just give us $300K, that'll fix everything. Yeah, I bet. Having someone fork over that much money, would fix a lot of financial problems. O.P., you get zero out of five buttholes. I'm giving your dumb parents two out of five buttholes. Will I be the butthole for putting dirty diapers in my husband's gaming chair?

My husband and I, ages 32 and 29, have two kids still in diapers, and I'm a stay-at-home mom. We're in a very small apartment, two-bedroom, two bathroom, while we get on our feet after a cross-country move so the kiddos share a room. Because it's a small apartment, it gets stinky really fast if trash or diapers or cat litter pile up. So it needs to be taken out daily or every other day. I got dog poop bags to put the diapers in so we can throw them in the trash can in the kitchen and not have to take them out to the dumpster immediately. This is actually a system we started years ago because we used to have an attached walk-in closet in the nursery and had a trash can in there and didn't want the room to

stink. So my husband is constantly forgetting to put the diapers in the poop bags. He more often forgets to even throw them away and opts to let them sit on the kids. his dresser until I noticed that he has a stockpile of them and make him throw them out. Then he grabs a grocery bag and throws them all away at once, which isn't airtight and makes the trash can in the center of the home reek. I wasn't feeling well today, and he told me to lay down, so I did and let him take care of the kids. Issue is, I walked into the room after their nap, and there was another pile of five dirty diapers sitting on the dresser. Will I be the butthole if I put them on his gaming chair until he remembers to dispose of them properly? Or am I letting

the irritation get to me and going too far? Should I just get the diaper genie and deal with the fallout? Then OP posted an update. Okay, so he just got home from work and saw the diapers in his chair. He came to me, apologized, and promised to do better, in which I promised to keep putting the diapers in more and more inconvenient spots for him until he remembered to toss them properly himself. He wasn't at all angry, and we had a good laugh at the end. We discussed the diaper genie again and whether it would be easier for him to remember, and he insisted that, no, he doesn't want it and he wants to be better. Down in the comments, we had this story from puppies and pixies.

I had a roommate once who never cleaned his dirty dishes. They would sit out for days or weeks rotting and gathering flies. I ended up cleaning it because I couldn't stand it. I told him many times to wash his dishes, and he never did. One day, I told him I had enough of this, and I told him this was his last warning. After another two weeks of his rotting, dirty dishes piled up, I took all his dishes and put them in his bed sheets and in his clothes drawers in his bureau. He was pissed, but I told him I was going to be doing this moving forward if his dishes

weren't done after 48 hours. It took one more time, but he started doing his dishes after that. Like I've said, the best way to solve a problem, is to make your problem someone else's problem. Will I be the butthole if I ransack my parents' cars just like they did to my car? I'm a 19-year-old guy, and I'm home from college for the summer living with my parents. I'm spending the summer working, saving money, and hanging out with friends who are still in town. Yesterday, I was at a friend's house playing video games. When I walked outside to leave, I walked up to my truck and saw that it had been completely ransacked.

All four doors were wide open. The hood was popped halfway open, the tailgate was down, and the bid cover was flipped up. I live in a really nice safe neighborhood, so I never expected anything like that to happen. I immediately checked my dash cam while pulling out my phone to call the police. That's when I realized that about 30 minutes earlier, my parents had come by and done it themselves. I told the dispatcher it was a false alarm, since nothing had actually been stolen. Then today, I went to the grocery store to buy food for the week. coincidentally, my parents were there too. After they left, they sent me a picture of my truck with all the doors open, the hood popped,

and everything ransacked again. They then came back into the store and started arguing with me in the middle of the aisle, saying I spent too much money on groceries, less than $100 for the entire week, and that I shouldn't leave my truck unlocked. At that point, I just walked away. They got mad at me for leaving them there, even though we'd driven separately. So here's my question. Will I be the butthole if I started leaving their car doors open in the driveway or in parking

lots? Part of me feels like if they can dish it out, they should be able to take it. On the other hand, I know it would probably just escalate things, so I'm not sure. A general rule of advice is that if you treat someone else the same way they treat you, does that make you the butthole? No, that's just matching energy. So if they want to teach you a lesson about car safety, then they should be grateful about you teaching them a lesson about car safety as well. Also, down in the comments, someone asks why his parents are doing it, and yeah, it's to check to make sure O.P.'s truck is locked. Which is BS, we all know it's not about that at all.

It's about them exercising power over O.P. And trying to make him feel bad about his choices. O.P., you get zero out of five buttholes. Your dumb parents get one out of five buttholes. Am I the butthole for using a discount when replacing my girlfriend's hair tool? I accidentally broke one of my girlfriend's curling irons yesterday after knocking it onto the floor. I apologized and immediately went online to replace it. I googled the Tymo Brand's official site, ordered her a new one,

and also threw in a nicer gold plus model. Then I showed her the order and she saw that I'd used a discount code. She told me that using a discount code made it seem like I wasn't genuinely sorry and asked me to cancel the order and buy everything again at full price? What? Apparently, paying the sale price was cheap and showed a lack of sincerity. This honestly confused the hell out of me. She's getting the exact same products.

I'm replacing what I broke and buying her an extra upgraded one. Why would deliberately paying more for the same thing make me more sincere? We argued about it for a while and eventually I just canceled everything and re-werectually. I just canceled everything and reordered at full price. Now I'm sitting here wondering if I'm actually missing something. Would you guys consider using a discount in this situation cheap or insincere? Hey, O.P., I'm going to teach you, in my opinion, what is one of the most important lessons to learn in the world of relationships.

There's two fighting styles when you're dating someone or married or whatever. One fighting style is fighting to hurt the other person. The second fighting style is fighting to solve the problem. Your girlfriend definitely has the, I want you to suffer, fighting style. So this fight isn't about you accidentally breaking her curling iron, and it's not about getting a new one. It's about making you suffer, because she erroneously thinks that's the way you're supposed to fight. If she were the other type, fighting to fix the problem, she would immediately be delighted at getting an upgrade and a discount. So I don't know if I want to be too harsh necessarily because that's a lesson some people take time,

to learn in a relationship, but I will say it's a red flag. O.P., I'm giving you zero out of five buttholes. You should consider reevaluating if you really want to be in a relationship with her. I'm giving her 1.5 out of five buttholes. That was R-slash-M-I-the-butthole, and if you like this content, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcast episodes every single day. Two and five Canadians will hear the words, you have cancer.

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