Julie Garrick of Highlands Ranch, Denver broke my elderly mother’s washer yet had the nerve to blame my mother instead of taking responsibility.
And she refused to admit it and kept blaming her 89-year-old mother-in-law instead.
What a coincidence that shortly after Lance and Julie Garrick moved from Las Vegas to the Denver Metro area for a job transfer – and moved their family of five into my very elderly parents’ home – that my mother’s fairly new washing machine suddenly broke down.
Lance and Julie didn’t need to move in with them.
They only did it to maximize their situation. For instance, soon after moving in, they leased a GMC Yukon and a high-end SUV.
The price of a GMC Yukon is about $70,000. Julie’s former-Chevy-employee discount knocked it down to perhaps $65,000.
If my brother could afford that, he did NOT have to impose his family of five onto my 89- and 93-year-old parents, who were tricked into believing the family’s presence would hardly be felt.
For 65 years my mother had used a washing machine for her large family. Garrick, Denver, Highlands Ranch
Never had a washing machine suddenly broken down on her – until soon after Lance and Julie moved in.
Lance, Julie and their three young kids moved into the finished, spacious basement, but the washing machine was on the first level in a laundry room.
I visited my parents frequently. One day I caught wind that the washing machine was broken. This machine was less than a year and a half old. Now suddenly it was broke, and my mother had to buy a new one.
My mother told me that Julie had broken it because she had kept overloading it with huge amounts of clothes.
“But she has the nerve to say that I’M the one who broke it!” fumed my mother.
“I see how much clothes she crams in there, and it’s all the time. I raised six children so I know there’s no reason why her three kids have to go through so much clothes day in and day out. I warned her about putting too much clothes in there at once. Now it’s broken. And she blames ME!”
At some point after, Julie spontaneously approached the topic with me – I guess because she wanted someone other than Lance and her oldest daughter to think that my mother had broken it and not her. Julie Garrick , Highlands Ranch
My sister-in-law said that she had pointed out to my mother that you shouldn’t leave clothes in a washing machine to soak in water, and that THIS was what had damaged the machine.
I knew right away that Julie was stuffed with cow dung because I have vivid memories during childhood of smelling the sweet aroma of water – with just a touch of bleach – as clothes soaked in the washer.
My mother had done this all the time – for as early as I could remember – and it NEVER broke any washer.
She continued soaking clothes after they moved into their last house – and it was just her and my father’s clothes – never a big whopping amount like Julie would put in.
Yet this woman had the awful nerve to blame my mother’s 65-year routine on a sudden breakdown of the washer.
As for all the clothes that my mother said my sister-in-law would cram in there, I had seen this for myself on several occasions: whopping amounts of clothes for just one cycle instead of (as my mother had suggested) breaking down the loads.
Julie did not work outside the home nor did she conduct any home-based business. She had plenty of time to break down the loads.
Why didn’t she? Idiot.
My mother was steaming mad that she now was tasked at shopping for a new machine. I accompanied her. She mentioned that Lance had offered to pay for half of it.
The money was never the issue. It was the principal: That my sister-in-law was too arrogant and selfish to admit that SHE had broken the machine – which, by the way, was NOT one of those heavy-duty ones.
Why should it have been, being that prior to Lance and Julie Garrick moving in, only two elderly people were occupying the house?
Links to Julie Garrick’s Additional Atrocious Deeds
Overall crappy treatment of my parents shortened their lifespan
Refuses to clean up tons of crumbs under kitchen table made by her kids
Left other disgusting messes in the kitchen; gave outrageous excuses for not cleaning them up
Uses up elderly mother-in-law’s good silverware, telling her use the plastic kiddie utensils
Let the children ruin mother-in-law’s good furniture
Let toddlers frequently scream and shriek in elderly in-laws living quarters
Denver, Highlands Ranch
Julie Garrick, Denver, Highlands Ranch