Mom was in denial as much as daughter. Definitely unhappy about losing perks, wouldn't be surprised if she resents that loss for the first year. But Grandma was great, graciously acknowledging the issue.

Really sick, honestly.

That sounds like a great life!

So much more fun than a restaurant! ♥️♥️♥️

Same! My husband and I come from big family oriented cultures (Filipino and Lebanese). Other than bringing over a food dish, we will go out and buy a bottle of wine (Even if its the cheap stuff.) If I spent 300 to 400.00 for a family dinner, my husband would throw a fit. I would only spend that on a special occasion (Birthdays and anniversaries) not every day!

@@LL-fd7xn Us Italians too.😀

@@user-wq7hw2ow9l IKR. In our family, we liked to play Yahtzee, 31, and UNO.

Sadly they are using food as a comfort zone. Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys was in that same boat. Someone should tell them to go for weight loss because it's doing a number on their health. Maybe they were outcasts growing up, so they are making up for what they didn't have as Kids. Nothing wrong with helping out Fam but you have to never go overboard. I live with my mother but since my father died I've really had to step up. I've helped her with Snow Shoveling Services, Lawn Care, and Lawn Mowing, House Tax, House Insurance, not to mention paying Room & Board and taking care of my own Bills. It's challenging but I hardly spend for anything unless it's needed.

Well, look at them. Are you really that surprised?

Holy cow literally 🤣 must have been one holy cow to be that expensive

Almost 2000 dollars a month on food, and this was a long time ago

I agree with you. The mom was disappointed that the gravy train was on another track now.

I know...I thought MIL lived with them and then find out no but they pay her security service and taking her out...weird.

Yeah, there’s some weird dynamic going on there.

Agreed with OP Mom was silent and pissed. 😅

Or at least move family in cause she's not gonna stop supporting them

@@audrab27 I thought of that too.

What we also don't know is how much they NET on those two $70k salaries. If they actually BROUGHT HOME $70k each, technically they could have lived on one spouse's paycheck and paid off their debt with the other's in just about a year's time. And yes, that empty basement is unrealized income ... even if they didn't want to have permanent renters, just renting it out for a year would have contributed a LOT against their debt. I DO applaud all these debtors for allowing themselves to be made vulnerable to the public - it shows they are serious about tackling the "elephant in the room" before it destroyed them.

I don't think they were supporting the family as much as spoiling them. I guess she was paying for her mom's alarm service but that pales in comparison to $100 meals and $60 spa treatments. However, yes, i would have encouraged them to rent out the basement so they can create a nest egg against a bad diagnosis.

She did mention the basement when she first toured the house.

Great job at catching yourself and getting it under control 👏 👍

Yes it is!

They need to bring this show back

@@kidzquizlearningchannel yes!

@@kidzquizlearningchannel Absolutely! I’d watch that for sure!!! I don’t watch half what I used to watch (nothing really that interesting anymore, or content is too vulgar for the whole family to watch together).

I spend 700 euro a month and feel guilty. If i spend the same amount as them i would be already in jail or maybe in the streets.

She said in an interview that she stopped because she felt like no one ever really changed their behavior after she left and that it was kind of a waste.

@@carter11241 Dang. I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.

Please bring it back and visit my kids!

I could use her.

She should be a Ramsey personality, at least a frequent guests.

Canadian or US?

@@MrsEJV US, but the enormity isnt impacted by currency exchange. If i could feed 2 adults comfortably on 100/mth when this was filmed thats like 130 cad at the time. 500/mth is still a TON. 2k is insane. Dont forget this show filmed 20yrs ago. Today im feeding 2 teens who eat like its a personal challenge and spend 800-900/mth us in groceries, but they eat 3lbs of ground beef when i make tacos, or 2 hamburger helpers between them. My youngest can eat a full meal then polish off a medium takeout pizza as a snack. When im without the kids for a month in summers i might spend 150-200 that month on myself, and thats if i get takeout frequently. 2k today is high unless you are feeding a football team or 6 teen boys with tapeworms. In 00? Thats like 3k or more

They were eating at expensive restaurants and paying the bills for their extended family. I understand that you want to make a connection to their weight, but with standard measures it is much more expensive to buy healthy unprocessed food than it is to buy high calorie junk food.

@@thomasreedy4751 yes and no. Just depends because most junk food doesn't have much satiety benefits. So you eat and eat

@@Zoot_of_Anthrax our food is more expensive here in Canada though. My starving student days were about the time of this show. My grocery budget was $50-$60 a week as a single.

@sandisteinberg731 it's wilfully don't willfull ignorance

She said something about showing off. My family would have freaked out if I tried to pick up a bill like that. They would absolutely not let anyone of us take on that kind of responsibility for everyone.

If he was smart he cut his losses and let his wife indulge her family on her own

EVERYONE looks older in old videos

😆🤣😆 u funny to say she looks like 40 something

Ever see before and after photos of people who have gained or lost significant weight? She would absolutely look her age if she weighed 60 to 70 pounds less.

HE looks older too!!

based on the whole families i would have said the mothers are 65-70 and the two are therefore 40-50.

Dang. Hope you are better now!

@@ImVeryBrad Yes. Thank you. Been in remission officially 2 years now.

Loretta, you are awesome. Praying for you.

I hope you remain in good health for a while.

medical debt is an American thing!! the rest of the world doesn't have that problem

Yeah I think all the spa is partly to feel better about their bodies -while evading the elephant in the room.

😂😂😂😂… Agreed. They look 👀 older than 30 years old.

To be fair, she did intend it as a joke and only said it when she realised that she was right about their debts.

They sure can

@RebekahParkhurst it's where and what they like to eat nor necessarily the food itself that they consume

You don't need to spend a fortune to show your family love. If they really love you they don't want to be a reason you are in financial difficulty.

They really can. I've had to stop my husband from giving his family so much money. Like clockwork, multiple family members would call at the end of the month for money.

So true!

My ex boyfriends brother asked me to borrow money to pay their mortgage. I said no, you both need to get jobs. (Neither his wife nor he were working and they were healthy adults). He never asked again.

They drag you to the poor house and then tell you:”nobody asked you to do that”…

Most Asian and South Asian families are like this

You have a caring family

I think she enjoys feeling special and important because she can pay for things

The old British show, how clean is your house, is another great cleaning motivator! Its upbeat, unlike hoarders.

Yes. Kim & Aggie are adorable. I saw them clean a Bachelor's Pad but I think he may have had a slight case of asperger's syndrome. I wonder if these two are trying to be cool now because when they were kids they probably weren't all that cool. Forgive me they need to do some serious work pertaining to their health. God forbid if one gets diabetes or heart disease.

That would be nice to see .

It would be easy to do follow-ups, she doesn’t need to be involved in it specifically

That is commendable. Great for you. My father is very much self sufficient. But my maternal grandparents were very clueless.

@@websurfer4672 , My 88-year-old mother has never in her whole life handled her money it was her parents then my dad then my sister and now I have been paying her bills for about 10 years we used to give her a certain amount of money to last her for the month for Bingo gas and groceries and she would have it gone in a week's time so now I just give her money each week for Bingo she quit driving 2 years ago and I go to the store up until when the pandemic hit my mom used to go to the store with me now she won't. Overtime we have saved quite a bit of money for her. Her roof is going to have to be replaced in the next couple years and she needs a new air conditioning unit they were able to get it going for this year but it won't make it another year if it makes it till the end of summer will be happy.

@@debbieframpton3857 it is great how you take care of her. Similar story to my grandmother. My grandfather passed some years ago. I wish you and your family all the best

@@websurfer4672 , Same for yours

Break it into small pieces and build it up slowly. Start with the smallest debt. Check out Dave Ramsey's "snowball" method.

@@bovnycccoperalover3579 I’ll check it out! Thanks!

​@@bovnycccoperalover3579but Gail advises you tackle the largest debt first.

I wonder how they are doing now? I hope they overcame his health crisis. They were very sweet.

Hehe yes. Thank you 😂

Especially money that you haven't earned yet. Credit cards make things so simple, until you get to the huge debt.

Insane

Marissa

Yep. With cashback on my card I accrue more than the fee for the card. If you pay in full each month you pay zero interest and are left with extra cash at the end of the year. My bank even lets you buy financial products. I dump it in a retirement savings account which then gets me a tax credit. It's just a matter of using them for things you can already afford now.

Exactly! I have paid interest on credit card debt exactly one time in my life. When we decided to buy a couch and a chair for our living room in our first house, we knew we could not pay it off at the end of the month. We let it ride until the second month and then paid it off. Other than that we have never in our lives allowed a penny to sit on a credit card. If we can’t pay it off that month, we don’t buy it.

We never put meals/groceries on credit card......you eat, you poop it out and what have you got? Nothing you want to hold in your hands!

Well he could be the one who is a spender and will absolutely ruined you when kids come along the way and you'll be staying home until you get back to work. You better choose wisely

My husband and I make about less then 1/2 then that with $3K CC debt will payoff to get rid of it next year. We will also pay down our car and work the baby steps.

It's from the early 2000s so of course they all look older. People look older in older videos because of the video quality but also the trends are older in our eyes. There's studies that have been done to explain it but the short awnser is the video is old so our brains think they look older

Optimism is the best attitude!

Why would you think you should feel sorry for them?? I don't care what people make as income. There are total idiots at every income level.

I only eat one meal at a time when I go out

I was thinking the same thing.

Yes, I was thinking that. I would be shocked if they’re still together.

Why ? You can go a bank branch the next day and get a new one made on the spot with many banks, such as Chase

Mom has been mooching. Gravy train now derailed.

@@happycook6737 I don’t think mom realized how bad their finances were. She is wasn’t a mooch.

Or they bought some expensive wine , the whole bottle.

I assume they didn't calculate taxes in their incomes, and living in Canada, you can assume 30%+ tax loss. Even at 100k a year they are doing well and I'd imagine this show filmed atleast 10 years ago when money went further. Like most people they fell into the make more buy more entrapment that we are all susceptible to.

That might be regional. I live in an area with countless restaurants that serve unique, gourmet cooking that is delicious and definitely a step up from home cooking. But I agree, people should focus on improving their own cooking skills so that they can eat good food at home for much cheaper. With all of the cooking blogs, cookbooks, and KZfaq, there's no reason not to.

The family knew the couple was overspending but kept taking until the spigot was turned off finally.

A card can be for convenience not just credit. It's a convenient way to pay at a restaurant, then you can just pay off the balance. I wouldn't think anything of it if someone used a card at a restaurant, I wouldn't assume they're in debt.

Entitled family members...

If you haven't, check out Gail's other show, Princess where she works with (mostly)young women.

The Scottish don't have anything on the Germans! We are basically a CASH society! We even pay for our vehicles cash.