{"id":131927,"date":"2025-10-19T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131927\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:44:09","slug":"dear-mary-our-niece-boards-with-us-for-college-and-has-acquired-a-fancy-new-wardrobe-we-fear-she-is-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131927\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mary: Our niece boards with us for college and has acquired a fancy new wardrobe \u2013 we fear she is stealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;So why are we jumping ahead to stealing and not assuming that she is using one of her parents' credit cards?&quot; Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Mgmary (46).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;So why are we jumping ahead to stealing and not assuming that she is using one of her parents&#8217; credit cards?&#8221; Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Question: My niece has moved in with us for the duration of the academic year as we live quite close to the university she is attending. She grew up on a farm and the commute is too long for her to do on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019m happy to help my sibling out, though I would say I wasn\u2019t given much choice. They inherited the family farm and can be quite overbearing to us siblings, something which my wife, who grew up on a housing estate, finds baffling. They take being head of our family very seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;So why are we jumping ahead to stealing and not assuming that she is using one of her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4746,59820],"class_list":{"0":"post-131927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-life-magazine","13":"tag-mary-oconor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}