Hey I can TOP this story. We know a family....have known them for years. Our oldest son plays varsity soccer with this boy now. Last year after Thanksgiving.... they had a fire in the basement of their home. It was caused by their sump pump. Sadly they lost their home due to mostly SMOKE damage (at least that is what we were told) with the basement having sustained more than smoke damage. Anyway.....it was declared a loss. An email from the school (they have 3 kids) my high school son goes to and the schools the younger kids go to...was SENT out to parents..asking for donation of clothing and house hold items. Also, my son and their son happen to also play on the same club soccer team...so that coach sent out a MASS email asking for donations too with a bank acct. that had been set up in their name. They even did a CHICFILA FUNDRAISER for this family.
Okay this all sounds normal..a community coming together to help a family with a tragedy. Well the problem is THIS FAMILY IS FILTHY RICH....I mean they own 4 other homes besides the one that was damaged. They have two beach places, one on the west coast and one nearby that they did MOVE INTO after the fire. The wife drives a HUMMER and the husband a PORSCHE. So people NOT knowing the family background ....gave clothing items and household items. THEN the guidance counselor sent out another email asking for the donations to be STOPPED because they had gotten enough clothes. HOWEVER...she said that the family needed GIFT CARDS from places like grocery stores, Home Depot, Lowes, Target,
Walmart, and even
BEST BUY. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm BEST BUY????!!!!! My husband read that email and said "sounds like we are paying for their kids Christmas". My son said that Brandon came to school right after the fire and he was wearing BRAND NEW CLOTHES from high end stores..American Eagle and such.... expensive shoes and such. They were not clothes donated. He gets soccer shoes that cost 300 and 400 bucks a pop. He is always well dressed despite the fact that they got all sorts of donations.
Just at Thanksgiving they had taken a cruise and taken a friend along for each of their kids and FOOTED THE BILL FOR THE 3 FRIENDS.
Fast forward to the spring....this boy turns 16 and he gets a BRAND NEW SPORTS CAR FOR HIS 16TH B'DAY. YES brand new. His family and another family held a double birthday party for these boys in downtown Annapolis on the water. My son went to this.
I see his mom all the time at games....she doesn't work, she always has her nails done, she is always talking about the NEW HOUSE being built and the upgrades they are doing to the kitchen and bathrooms and blah blah blah. They went to CA this summer and somewhere out of the country. I forget where ....my son told me but I have forgotten. Maybe Europe.
HOW DOES THIS FAMILY LIVE WITH THEMSELVES?????????????????? I mean REALLY???!!!!!! Needless to say....this burnt me up. BIG TIME. There are so many people out there that need help when a tragedy like this happens and actually NEED the help to function in life.
For some families that is a week worth of groceries.
that's a little over 2 weeks of groceries for us! That's shocking. I don't know what I would have done, probably given the side eye but I don't know if I would have had the kahunas to say something to her. It is sick though.
