My friend called me last week in apparent distress about his retired mom and dad. He said his family had a little meeting over the weekend and they found out that their parents have four credit cards with overdue payments amounting to P450,000. With his permission, let me share his story with you.

They owned an old house in the province and another one that was being constructed courtesy of my friend and his two siblings. Two of them work here in the country while one is working as an expat Filipino. The one working overseas left his child in the care of the parents. Together, all three siblings send home P30,000 monthly for the retired parents’ living expenses.

An allowance of P30,000 monthly for two adults and one child in the province living in their own home is not something to sneeze at. So how could they have charged so much money to their credit cards?
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