On 2021-02-27 9:10 a.m., Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:32:21 GMT, Pamela >
> wrote:
>
>> On 13:27 23 Feb 2021, Gary said:
>>
>>> On 2/22/2021 2:23 PM, wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> Yep, but I don't come back a day or so later with the lame "I was
>>>> joking" or make a nasty post and end it with a smiley. If I make
>>>> a dig, I stand by my dig and no backpedaling.
>>>
>>> (sigh) I've explained many times that I joke or tease often. It's
>>> often based on fact though. Something that someone says or does.
>>> I eventually started ending with a smirky face 
to indicate
>>> that I'm only teasing for people like you that doesn't get the
>>> joke.
>>>
>>> Days later, I'm often forced to say (Just kidding) for people like
>>> you that didn't get it. Not backpedaling. Just explaining that it
>>> was a joke for the humor challenged.
>>>
>>>
>>> ? Gary is ****ed off because Jill inherited a house
>>>> and she won't divulge the amount of any money she might have
>>>> received.
>>>
>>> Over a series of posts, Jill told enough about her inheritance to
>>> run the numbers. I don't care that she got the house and enough to
>>> maintain it but she shouldn't have asked her brothers for money
>>> back to pay the inheritance tax.
>>>
>>> They didn't rip her off by not paying. She was trying to rip them
>>> off by asking them to pay.
>>
>> In America, surely the payments for inheritance tax come out of the
>> estate which includes (and may primarily consist of) the house?
>>
>> It seems a bit strange to ask a nonbeneficiary to provide funds to
>> pay taxes on the estate.
>
> To me it seems if Jill got the house outright, that is way more than
> her brothers received of a 1/4 of the estate money - so she had to pay
> the taxes - she is still way ahead of them. Yes she moved to look
> after her parents, how many daughters wouldn't? Sons likely not so
> much.
It doesn't really matter if she was way ahead of them. The house had
been left to her. That may or may not be fair compensation for her
having moved back in with her parents and being their care giver. The
money was a separate issue. It was supposed to be shared equally. It
wasn't. The brothers each got a third. Jill got a third minus the tax
paid on the entire amount.
Yesterday I mentioned about my SiL whining that I had more than my share
of my mother's stuff. I admit that I did get a lot of stuff of
considerable value, like a very expensive set of dishes, a lot of very
expensive crystal and beautiful scarves. Nobody else wanted it and my
brother was going to through it out. How ridiculous is it to whine about
someone possibly getting more than you when you didn't want the stuff.
Then there were things like an expensive pan, an ice cream maker and a
VCR, all of which I had bought for her. To be perfectly honest, I
didn't even want those dishes. I just couldn't bear to see them get
thrown out.
>
>t means children do have the multi-generation living.
>
> Back on topic, food, I remember coming home from one trip over to
> Spain and the kids saying to me 'Thank god you're back!! We are sick
> of toad-in-hole, bangers and mash, bacon and egg and all those things'
> :-)
It was the opposite in my house. My son once asked me what shift I was
working the next. He was happy that I was on day shift because that
meant I would be cooking.