Paid my cousin $150 to fix my brakes and it turned into a family meeting

I gave my cousin $150 to do my brakes instead of paying the shop $600, and two weeks later the pedal went soft and he stopped answering my texts. When I brought it up at my aunt's birthday, his mom jumped in and suddenly I was the bad guy for making it weird. How do you handle it when a family deal goes sideways without turning every holiday into a courtroom?

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noahhall25d ago

Oof, lesson learned: never mix money and family, just eat the $600 next time.

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