Sister Builds Home

Does anyone have any snooty relatives? If so, I’d love to hear all about them. What’s their relation to you, when did they become snobby, and what exactly is it that makes them snobby. I need to know because over the last three years my sister has turned into a huge snob. She’s just so pretentious and annoying. It all happened when she started going out with her boyfriend who, as of a year ago, became her husband. He works in high finance and absolutely loves labels. Suddenly she is walking around parading Louis Vuitton and Gucci handbags while acting like she knows all about the residential property development process. She loves bragging to anyone who is willing and unwilling to listen. Six months ago she also blessed me with my beautiful nephew. He is the cutest thing. The only thing I don’t like about him is that his arrival has turned my sister into more of a snob. She pops a kid out and suddenly she thinks she’s some sort of deity.

Last week I went to visit her in the Mornington Peninsula. Luxury home builders did her house and she made a point of telling me this not once, not twice, not three times but every single time we walked into a room. It drove me insane. Previously I cracked a joke about it but I just got more angry when she snapped back and called me jealous. I am the least jealous person. Why on earth would I want her plastic surgery face, a screaming child, a boring husband, and a house that’s too big to clean? Then again, it’s not like she’s the one doing the cleaning. She hires a maid service as she doesn’t want her nails to get wrecked.

I think if she was a born snob I wouldn’t mind. The fact that she’s become one is what frustrates me. I feel like I’ve lost my sister and she’s been replaced by some vain and pompous witch. She’s lucky that I’m not uploading photos from her party days on Facebook, they’re oh so ‘refined’.