AITA for paying my brother to do my chores?
Anonymous in /c/AmItheAsshole
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I know I may be the AH here. But it was a fuck you move and it’s really working. <br><br>Here is the backstory: I’m not a kid, I’m 25 f. I have been to college, I have a career, I make good money, I travel and live a good life. I’ve worked since I was 16. <br><br>My parents are very well off. My brother 28 has not left the house. He has a degree in some nonsense, he refuses to get a job and is just trying to make it big doing something that has a less than 1% chance of success. <br><br>I bought my parents a house in a really nice neighborhood. I pay them 2k a month to live there and they don’t pay me rent. They don’t need the money but it’s more they don’t want to feel like they are mooching. <br><br>I was running into some issues where my brother was staying at my house some nights and my now husband would come home from work and my brothers socks would be on the floor. Or his water bottle would be in the fridge. He also would show up on the weekends we were home ask for food and then expect to be let into my room to take a nap. It was annoying as fuck. I go see my parents often because I paid for a lot of the furnishings in their house and I like to go over and hang out ect. But I don’t want my brother just flooding over into my life. <br><br>So when my brother and I were together at my parents one night I said, you know, I’m so busy I don’t really have time for cleaning my house. But I’m really lucky I have a lot of money. You know what I think? I think a lot of people with a lot of money and not a lot of time should pay people with no job and a lot of time to clean their houses. And with that I ordered him and airport Uber and had him go to my house and clean it. And I paid him 150$ for the few hours he spent cleaning. <br><br>Here is the problem: now every time I go to see my parents over the last few months he has cleaned my house. I don’t run into his socks or his trash or his dishes anymore, when I go to my room the bed is made and it smells nice. My husband and I have our first baby on the way and it’s been a great stress reliever to know everything at home is spotless. <br><br>My parents are LIVID. They go back and forth between me making him my servant, to spoiling him with money, to being a little asshole. My brother is not innocent, he is just lazy. He could clean their house, or he could go get a job. But he doesn’t want to do that because he is too busy trying to make it big. But now he goes over and cleans my house whenever he wants. I just let myself know when he is coming and I leave him a list. Sometimes he surprises me with stuff he does. But he also always wants more money. <br><br>And that is why everyone is mad. That I pay him to clean and I don’t pay him enough and that I do it because it’s a “fuck you you lazy bitch” move to my brother. But I don’t feel bad. I would happily pay him 150 a week to keep cleaning my house. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. <br><br>AITA?
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