Expected.
“By the way, Margarita Stepanovna,” Lena remarked, as if in passing, “tomorrow is Saturday.”
– We are going to the bank.
“What is it for?” the mother-in-law narrowed her eyes suspiciously.
“What is it for?”
— You said it yourself: the budget is now joint.
– In his retirement account, he has the money from the sale of his grandfather’s dacha and the money he has saved over the past ten years.
– I calculated: if we added them to the common “community”, we would close the mortgage five years earlier.
“It’s common money, right?”
“If my salary is yours, then your savings are ours.”
The kitchen became so quiet that you could hear the tap dripping in the bathroom.
Margarita Stepanovna opened her mouth, closed it, and her face slowly turned the color of a ripe beetroot.
“This… this is different!” he finally managed.
“Mine! Until old age!”
“What kind of old age, Mom?” Lena interrupted kindly.
“We are a family, after all.”
“We will take care of them, we will feed them.”
“And money has to work.”
– You said, “all in one pool.”
— Or do you mean that your salary… that is, your pension is yours, and mine is shared?
“This is not really related in any way.”
“Sasha, tell me!”
Sasha, shocked by the situation, coughed.
– Mom, well… Lena is right to a certain extent.
“The truth belongs to everyone or to no one.”
Margarita Stepanovna understood that she had made a tactical mistake.
He wanted to exercise power over other people’s money, but he had no intention of sharing his own.
“I’m not going anywhere!” he said sharply.
“Well,” Lena shrugged.
– So tomorrow I’ll open my own savings account and transfer my salary there.
— If there is no complete transparency, we will return to the old system: everyone gets their own.
– Oh, and I’d like to ask for a portion of the internet fee – you watched the series all night last night.
He tortured Margarita Stepanovna all night.
The fear of losing control of the weasel fought with greed.
But in the morning, Lena dealt him a crushing blow.
A printed sheet of paper lay on the kitchen table.
Beautiful infographics, tables, calculations.
“Look, Margarita Stepanovna,” Lena said, tracing the lines with her finger.
— If we combine your savings and our income, we will not only buy a bigger apartment, but a house.
– With reason.
— With your own veranda where you can have tea and grow your favorite hydrangeas.
— But the house will be registered in equal shares.
— In our three names.
Hydrangeas were my mother-in-law’s weak spot.
He had been dreaming about them ever since he sold that particular dacha.
“In equal proportions?” he asked back.
“And I want to be a housewife?”
— Co-owner.
“And in the family council, your words will be worth just as much as ours.”
— But the expense accounts will also be shared.
— No more secretly expensive porcelain that has been lying in the display case for years.
— Every kopeck for the house.
A month later, the cloth-bound notebook was replaced by a mobile app.
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