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My parents still insist on paying everything, and they earned relatively little in their lives.

They get pleasure out of treating you <3 I hope you can find ways to return the favor and spoil them without embarrassing them.

Before my father passed he still grumbled about me buying a meal and he was retired!

My parents will still try to pay for me sometimes, but my mom has venmo now so I can at least fire her whatever my costs were.

For all the weird shit I put up with in my family, at least money doesn't really come up as an issue in that sense.

Which, admittedly, is a real loss.