 However, when the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, Rosalie is reduced to stealing from her eldest daughter, Barbara's, checking account to buy gifts for her parents, which earns Barbara's wrath and contempt as she finally realizes that her mother is out of control with stealing and spending.After Rosalie's parents leave to return to Germany, and Schnucki returns to the Army, Rosalie is left all by herself as she ponders an end to her spending lifestyle.Rosalie is even forced to abandon her daily food shopping sprees to purchase expensive food for Kindi to cook and instead is forced to bring home cheap fast food and take-out pizza for the family in place of the fancy daily dinners that Kindi prepares.