my mother

I get so angry with my mother sometimes. She always gets herself in these horrible situations. She is almost 50 years old and though she is wise in many things, she always ALWAYS tries to go the cheapest way with everything. My mother bought a house last fall for a mere $14k in a small town. Yes it sounds like too good to be true...it is! I saw the house this past spring, it wasn't really bad but it still needed a lot of work.

My mother is the typical lower-middle class woman. She wants the American dream. My mom has been married and divorced a handful of times, so she has decided to live her life alone for the rest of her life. She wants a two bedroom home, with a cute back yard to grow her garden, in a small town with a charming church. However the problem is...my mother is also a truck driver. She never has enough money or enough time.

Here recently my mother had a roof leak in her house. She found out she needed a part of her roof completely replaced. Well instead of hiring a professional, she hired two young guys who supposedly had roofing experience; supplies and labor she payed them almost $3500. Well the boys weren't the smartest guys and after 2 weeks "fixing" the roof the guys said the roof was done. It rained about a week later and she found out that her roof was still leaking. Needless to say she was out of money and her "help" was out of town.

Before she hired these guys I advised her to just go to a professional, but she wouldn't listen. Now she is out $3500 and she didn't have any money to fix her roof leak. Well the midwest has been hit with a lot of rain and that rain is leaking into my mothers house, her ceiling collapsed. This cycle continues so I will spare you the agony of reading the rest.

My mother has always wanted to find the cheapest way out of things, but she gets what she pays for. However she never listens to me and it always costs her in the end. Why won't parents take advice from their children?