Here's the story: my brother got a rebate check from the government for $400. He took off for the day yesterday, came back with $280. He said he paid $100 at the storage facility where he has been keeping some of his furniture (he had until yesterday to pay his bill or it would be auctioned off because he hasn't paid his bill in over 6 months). Long story short, I phoned and checked, he didn't pay his bill. After about 5 different lies, he finally confessed he went and did crack (he'd been clean for 10 days).  Up until that point he had been staying at our mom's, but she had to kick him out because he obviously broke the rules. Lucky for him, his ex-girlfriend agreed to let him stay at her place for the weekend, so at least he's not out on the street or at one of the crack houses. Once again, he cried, swore up and down he'd go to rehab, etc., etc. So as a sign of good faith he gave the money he had left over to my mom to keep. So today we took it and put it on his storage bill without telling him. So my question is, are we enabling by actually taking the initiative to pay his bill so he won't lose his furniture even though it was his money that we used? I guess our feeling is that if he does eventually get it together and get his own place at least he'll have his furniture. Or should we have just left it as it was so he lost his furniture? He just had his truck repossessed, and as far as he knows the furniture is gone now too. I just don't know if we did the right thing or not.