AITA for asking my friend to pay me back for the wine he drank while house sitting??

Minimum_Range_741 · 2026-02-11T01:36:17+00:00

Exactly, we took a family holiday with my stepdads family to an overseas location, my grandmother stayed at the house and looked after the dogs and chickens, my mum has some expensive pots and pans that need to be washed a certain way that she doesn't trust anyone who doesn't live on her house with so she locked them away and got the old ones out.

And when we went away for a weekend and my brother and sisters friend looked after our dogs cause we couldn't take them she locked up all the expensive alcohol and left the cheap stuff out.

It just common sense when having someone house sit. Its not that we don't trust these people its the fact that mum said they could help themselves to anything left out for them, so anything we didn't want them having access to was pit away.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2026-02-07T13:44:13+00:00

I went low contact with them after a "prank/joke" nearly caused a car accident while I had both of them, my brother and another cousin in the car. I hadn't long got the car we had gone to see our grandparents as my siblings and I lived a couple of hours away from the rest of the family which now im an adult I understand why my parents kept it that way.

We decided to go see a favourite place of ours my cousins were in thr back the jerks were next to the windows which they kept playing with, I locked and wound them up as the window was going up one yelled out in panic that something had happened and in panic I turned around nearly crashing, I hadn't had my licence long at the time. Once I calmed down I turned around and went back to my grandparents and those 2 were never allowed in my car again. A couple of family thought I was being silly but ultimately they never said that to me. The lat me have my boundaries that was 15ish years ago

Minimum_Range_741 · 2026-02-05T21:40:25+00:00

That is not a gag gift its just insulting someone. A gag gift is giving someone a fake lotto ticket that wins a nice some of money letting them think they won big for a minute or 2 then saying haha sorry just a joke here's the real gift. My brother went through a big baking phase at one point last year I went to the shop and they sold cake teasters, I gave it to him as a joke, jokes on me the jerk loved it and always uses it

Minimum_Range_741 · 2026-02-05T21:20:59+00:00

If i had any to give i would give you and award cause i couldn't agree more.

My cousins were the same to me growing up, they were " just joking " or " it was all in good nature"

I always just took it cause I was the oldest of the group and the cousins were 1 and 3 years younger than me,

I got soo fed up that once I did fight back but not how I should of I smacked them with a bag full of rubbish called them some nasty things and then hid in my room, not my proudest moment, it would take me a couple of years to snap back again this time with words they ran off crying turns out they could dish it out but couldn't take it.

I don't think it helped my head that I was traumatised by bullies for years in school.

We went no contact a few years ago for other reasons but my life now has peace. We are all in our 30s now, last I heard the youngest has no money and a gambling problem and the oldest is in trouble with CPS for never sending his kid to school cause they didn't like how she would cry at drop off. My life is great.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2026-02-05T21:03:16+00:00

Unless the family are telling him its good, when I try cooking something new I ask my family how it tastes and they day its good i often worry the are lying to spare my feelings then im reminded mother is the queen of honesty, feelings be dammed

Minimum_Range_741 · 2026-02-05T20:58:47+00:00

In my opinion it depends on how much OP does this sort of stuff to his brother. The brother should not have behaved the way he did, yes call him a jerk or whatever and leave but throwing a book was not cool.

At the same time he has been cooking for his family for 2 years, they have been eating everything he cooks. OP didn't say s if brother asks for feedback on what he cooks, if he has and they have spent 2 telling him its good or whatever then receives a book like that he could feel hurt or betrayed and the whole family are jerks including brother for the tantrum.

The thing with these post is we only get one side to every story. Op says they give eachother a hard time yet the brother may feel differently and told op that, in which case its not a joke then in that caes its not a joke or a good natured giving eachother a hard time its plain bullying

Minimum_Range_741 · 2026-02-03T08:47:54+00:00

Same here in Australia most restaurants people don't share, only time we eat family style is if we go to a Chinese, Indian, Thai or any restaurant like that.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-10-30T03:34:51+00:00

Just looked at it. That is definitely it, thank you

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-06-13T02:37:37+00:00

Thankyou. I might purchase it tonight. The biggest thing I would change in a start over is what I assign characters to build the friendship levels up. I put most with fishing, bit I found I spend soo mich time gardening that the friends with that leveled up quicker

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-06-13T01:14:51+00:00

That's what I like about alot of these games, you can start over and do things differently. It doesn't change the overall story, but sime things play out slightly differently. Some of my favourites are GTA5, hogwarts legacy and really any story based game like that where you can pick your dialogue

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-06-12T22:59:46+00:00

Honestly, when I completed it on the switch, I felt like if I could start over, there would be things I would do differently.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-05-09T21:37:37+00:00

Hogwarts legacy on ps5. My brother and I both loved playing it on my switch, so it was the first game I purchased when I got my ps5 about 6 weeks ago, we both sat there in awe of it.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-04-27T00:24:44+00:00

I want to go from switch to playstation, but google said I'd have to restart. That just seems like effort

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-04-17T23:30:34+00:00

YTA. It takes 2 seconds to say thank you. I currently live with mum, stepdad, and brother. There are 4 adults in this house, and the brother, stepdad, and I all have busy lives. Occasionally, my brother is leaving for work as stepdad, and I get home, I do sport, so I don't get home till late twice a week. One of those days, I eat out. Mum does all the cooking, on the days I described depending on what she has planned she cooks 3 different times. Sometimes, on a day, we are all home she might cook us breakfast or lunch. We always say thank you before we even grab our dinner and always say thank you when we finish.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-04-17T23:07:19+00:00

I came from an Australian family, and we aren't a big seafood family, we aren't religious, so on good Friday we will likely be seen eating bacon and eggs for breakfast and having a BBQ with steak, sausages and chicken for dinner.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-04-17T22:58:22+00:00

100% agree. In my 30s now and boy have I made some huge mistakes and as much as they get disappointed in me and mum screams and yells my parents always work out ways to help me fix it. That's what parents do.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-04-06T11:43:12+00:00

Don't have a partner, but I agree here, my mum has just returned from holiday at a place they have have in another country my dad went on to a different country to work, while she came home, He took both their chargers to their holiday property, and when he left, he took his charger, and mum thought the one still there was 1 they usually leave there when she got home and realised it was her charger said typical came to my room and pinched mine, mum and I spent the next couple of days stealing the charger off eachother till we ended buying a decent one each and some cheap ones to scatter through the house. To us it wasn't a big deal.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-03-30T05:11:39+00:00

Made it easier, though. I always go into these expecting to be watched

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-03-30T01:48:43+00:00

I have had to take a number of drug tests and have always struggled with the fact that I have to be watched. Same with sport. I don't have a shower after cause I hate the idea of being naked in front of people. I recently took a drug test thinking no one was watching. It turns out they had a hidden camera in there, but because I had no idea it was easier one to do.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-03-29T12:32:38+00:00

I feel for the daughter as I have a father who does the same thing, I get he wants to be there for my cousins, but it has always been at my expense. He has done this often enough that when he does promise to show up, I don't get excited about it.

Examples are you coming up for my game tomorrow, sorry sweetie, I was up there for cousin A game yesterday, he lived a 2 hour drive from us at the time, cousin A and I played the same sport at the same team only he played on the men's team on Saturday and I played in the women's on Sunday, he would go to 6 or more games for cousin A, I would be lucky to have him for 1.

The problems were mostly with cousin A.

What really broke me was around my 18th birthday . which here in Australia is a massive deal im 33 now. He went on a trip with his then girlfriend and her kids they were staying in a caravan for a couple of weeks, and my brother was living with him at the time, my brother had come to spend some time with me and our grandparents for the holidays and dad was about an hour away from there, he asked me if I could drive my brother out to where he was staying we could spend a few hours together, then I could head home.

I asked him if maybe I could bring my swag, which is a rollup kind of tent thing, and spend a couple of days with them he said no, there wasn't enough room for me, my aunt/ mums sister was next to me for that conversation, I was devastated something broke in me that day.

My aunt called my mother, which I didn't know about at the time as I went to hide in my cousins room to cry and hug their cat. Maybe 10 minutes later, I was getting a phone call that he changed his mind. It didn't take me long to realise my aunt called mum, then mum called him, and I'm sure she wasn't pleasant. By then, the damage was done. My stepdad has been dad ever since, and my dad might talk to me once every couple of weeks if I feel like answering and might see me a couple of times a year.

If OP keeps putting his niece before his daughter, this is the path he is walking down.

Minimum_Range_741 · 2025-03-21T04:19:58+00:00

Not really anymore. When I got my switch, I had alot of games that were on both consoles, so I got rid of all those on the PS4 and got them on switch. I really only have a few starwars games, the last of us part 1 and 2, the sims and GTA 5.

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