[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Good King Glennceslas

It will help you in the long run. When you have your own kids one day they will leech everything off of you.

It's a good point actually, like with your neighbour, your mum just probably thinks she's doing a nice thing (even though I think it's a bit much personally) but with you, she's probably just trying to teach you the value of things, and paying your way etc. She has that responsibility towards you, but not your neighbour. So her intentions probably aren't bad, because in her mind she might think she's helping you, even though it doesn't seem like it