Oh boy my mom is really getting annoyed with my brother about certain things. The thing is that since he's living at home and is not looking for an apartment until March all he does is sit in bed and play video games. Because of that he's been neglecting his job of taking out the kitchen trash and it's been piling up because we honestly generate a large amount of trash due to our use of disposable since my dad and brother never wash dishes, so that's irritating her understably. However at the same time since my brother comes home late he can't take care of the trash until the next morning and he does, so I understand that too.
Another thing is that she's concerned about is him not being responsible enough with money, saving and paying back a debt. Around last October he didn't have enough money to pay for his tuition despite having a job so my mom had to pay with my savings bonds. So now he owes me $800 and my mom keeps telling him to start putting $20 per paycheck in an envelope to pay me back. The thing is.....he hasn't been doing that at all and it's the end of January. He's also been asking to get a credit card but because he hasn't even tried to pay me back she doesn't think he's ready for a credit card. So now he has a due date to pay me back by August or else I have to start charging him 4% interest for every month he hasn't paid me in full for the remaining amount.
This one is very understable since he's not the best at saving money and he usually buys things on impulse, especially since he started to collect Super Nintendo and N64 games.
However he also has a plan for that since he wants to use the Income Tax money he gets back to get a jumpstart on that. But at the same time I don't know how well that's going to pan out since he doesn't know how much money he's going to get back and if an emergency happens he wouldn't be prepared for it and most likely will ask my mom to help him again. Not to mention he has a habit of making empty promises and honestly he can make a better plan than that. He doesn't know how to set a budget.
Honestly I think the real problem is that my Mom never confronts my brother directly and always uses me as a mouth piece to tell him why she's annoyed with him even though he has a better chance of listening to her than me. He never listens to me. Plus my brother doesn't have good common sense, I can vouch for that and can give so many examples of this. He's not stupid, but he makes many dumb mistakes.
It's honestly a mess that I think can be easily solved if my mom just starts actively talking about her needs and my brother starts wising up so he can prevent the obvious mistakes he makes by not thinking about the future or possible consequences if life decides to be a dick, or my dad starts being a dick, which happens often because my brother provides the opportunity to do so way too many times.