{"id":28774,"date":"2025-09-13T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28774"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:21:52","slug":"help-i-seriously-think-i-live-with-scrooge-mcduck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/09\/13\/help-i-seriously-think-i-live-with-scrooge-mcduck\/","title":{"rendered":"Help I seriously think I live with Scrooge McDuck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW091325-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW091325-1.jpg\" alt=\"Help I seriously think I live with Scrooge McDuck. Quite wealthy, and yet if we want any furnishings for the place, I have to buy them because they refuse to. Their argument is &quot;you can just keep it after we move out.&quot; How do I respectfully say &quot;Your house is 2x the size of mine, you can spare $20 for a toaster&quot;?\" class=\"wp-image-28772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW091325-1.jpg 310w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW091325-1-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Help I seriously think I live with Scrooge McDuck. Quite wealthy, and yet if we want any furnishings for the place, I have to buy them because they refuse to. Their argument is &#8220;you can just keep it after we move out.&#8221; How do I respectfully say &#8220;Your house is 2x the size of mine, you can spare $20 for a toaster&#8221;?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking about money can be really challenging, but it sounds like it might be time to sit down and have a heart-to-heart with your roommate. Being transparent about your economic situation, about how their choices to not contribute to furnishings are impacting you financially and emotionally, and setting a limit to what you&#8217;re willing to buy could be helpful starting points for that conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about money can be really challenging, but it sounds like it might be time to sit down and have a heart-to-heart with your roommate. Being transparent about your economic situation, about how their choices to not contribute to furnishings are impacting you financially and emotionally, and setting a limit to what you&#8217;re willing to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/09\/13\/help-i-seriously-think-i-live-with-scrooge-mcduck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Help I seriously think I live with Scrooge McDuck&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28790,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28774\/revisions\/28790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}