A woman has let her brother’s family use her Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ accounts for about three years without asking them to pay anything. When the streaming services cracked down on password sharing, she had to pay for extra member slots to keep them on. That added about $25 a month to her bills. After…
A woman drives a coworker to work every day, and he sends her $20 a week for gas. After he spilled a protein shake all over her passenger seat, she paid $350 to have the car professionally cleaned. He sent her $100 and said the gas money he’s paid over time should cover the rest,…
A woman lives in a small eight-unit apartment building where her landlord recently posted something new in the lobby. It’s a laminated sheet listing how much he’s spent on maintenance for each apartment this year. Her unit is at the top at $2,340, for a broken furnace part and a leak under her kitchen sink….
A 22-year-old man lives with his parents, who are in their mid-50s, in an apartment in an expensive part of the country. He’s about to finish a degree in computer science while working part time. His parents want to buy their first home, a house worth nearly $800,000 a couple of hours away, but his…
A woman has been watching her sister-in-law’s dog for free since February, about once a month, whenever her sister-in-law travels for work or goes on a getaway. Each time she asked about getting help with even the dog food, she was told family doesn’t charge family. So when she asked her sister-in-law to watch her…
A woman and her friend split a booth at a local craft market, each paying $75 for half the table. About two hours in, her friend got a call that her child was sick and had to leave. The woman spread her prints across the empty side of the table and had a good afternoon…
