My mom has been getting into perfumes lately and she’s been telling me about cheap perfumes she’s purchased that were supposed to smell exactly like higher-end brands (they didn’t). I so happened to have gotten my hands on a $60 perfume lately at a discount. I mentioned it to my mom and she was excited to hear that the perfume had the same notes as her favorite perfumes so I offered to give it to her when I visit for Christmas (but not as a Christmas gift, just an extra gift).
My SO and I will be visiting my parents and staying there for about a week. Recently my mom asked me if she really had to wash the sheets on the beds me and my SO will be sleeping in (we’ll be sleeping on separate beds), because water was expensive and we weren’t going to be there for long anyways. For the past few years, I believed my parents were struggling financially because they were paying for my sibling’s college tuition but last year they bought a new car and next year my mom has plans to vacation overseas.
I got mad at my mom and I’m planning on no longer giving her the perfume. She has always been a penny pincher but I think it’s extreme to ask me and my SO to sleep on old sheets to save about $5 on water and I’m out here giving her a $60 perfume. WIBTA?