working children paying keep - how much?

pboae

katfishh wrote: »

Dont see how you lot can criticise me how would you feel about paying towards council tax/phone/etc if you were on holiday!!! Its so unfair.

OK, I've changed my mind, this has GOT to be a wind up. :rotfl:

Or maybe not, I will get on to the council and BT to see about getting the rebates I must be entitled to!

katiesmummy

katfishh wrote: »

Well I think shes stingey. she even says I have to pay a reduced amount when I go on holiday as she says that the bills still go on even if I'm not there. But I wont be using the gas or watching the TV so why should I pay. You can all critisise but you dont know the situation. I wouldn't live here if I could leave as shes so unreasonable.

've seen suggestions that I should do house work to get money off but dont have time to help around the house as I work. I do the washing up on a Saturday morning but she does nothing and my washing has been in the laundry basket for weeks. She makes herself look busy but doesn't do anything.

Dont see how you lot can criticise me how would you feel about paying towards council tax/phone/etc if you were on holiday!!! Its so unfair. cant wait to leave and when I do she will never see any of her grandchildren when i'm married.

NO more comments thanks! I just wanted a bit of support as I am being treated so unfairly. :mad:

do you know something? if you were my daughter i would pack your bags myself and chuck them outside you selfish little madam. as for refusing to let your mum see her grandkids, i pity the man who marries you if you are still the same when that happens

do you think that bills just stop when you go on holiday? you are living in a dreamworld and until you wake up you wont get very far in the real world

skintchick

Gotta be a wind-up!

Doom_and_Gloom

Council tax and rent/mortgages continue if you are not there and that is simple as and so does the TV licence. Gas, eclectic and water on the other hand do not as you have to consume/use them to get charged (from what I know at any rate). Charging you for the house and CT if that is what she is on about it fine as if you had your own place you would have to pay it still. The other bills I said about need thinking about however as you are not there so there should at least be a reduction in keep (which you said there was so I see no problem). £400 does seem a lot if you only get £600 (saying that I receive just over £200 and pay £110 although I am getting a reduction this month as they are going on holiday and instead of them putting the dog into holiday kennels my fiancé and I will be looking after him). I used to share a flat with 4 other people and it cost me around £200/month on everything; rent, CT, electricity, food, phone etc and I only just managed to be honest. A studio flat would probably cost you around £300/month and then with council tax (with only a 25% reduction for only 1 person living there), food, phone etc it most likely would come over £400 as it is. I would say your not to bad off but ask if there is a way of making the proportion of pay to your wages easier on you. I know my dad used to pay half of his wages to his ma and dad when he still lived at home (this is years ago) and he was fine with that as it was way more than that to rent a place in the area. I think the proportion of wage to keep is essential in your case as an argument but as I said you are not doing that bad.
I'm 19 by the way so I am younger than you just so you know.

Ems!

I was starting to think that this might be real and that OP just needed a big reality check, until I read this bit:-

katfishh wrote: »

Dont see how you lot can criticise me how would you feel about paying towards council tax/phone/etc if you were on holiday!!! Its so unfair.

NO WAY can this be real.. can it?!?!

liney

I'm calling my utilities today, and the council. How dare they make me pay when i am on holiday! I'm not using their services or the street lights when i'm not here. The bloody cheek. As for the mortgage, i'm sure they will accept only 11 months payments this year, as all these weekends and fortnight away must add up to about a month so i'm not paying. I refuse!

Whoo hoo it's great to be 13 again. I'm off to slam a door.

Someone has a great quote in their signiture here. It's something like (papraphrase) 'Children. Fed up of your parents ruling your life? Quick, move out while you still know everything' How appropriate.

brownbabygirl

liney wrote: »

Someone has a great quote in their signiture here. It's something like (papraphrase) 'Children. Fed up of your parents ruling your life? Quick, move out while you still know everything' How appropriate.

Oh yes I love that siggy, it was like 'teenagers: fed up of stupid parents.'.....?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Charlie1986

katfishh wrote: »

I do the washing up on a Saturday morning but she does nothing and my washing has been in the laundry basket for weeks. She makes herself look busy but doesn't do anything

:eek: :eek: :eek: You'd let you mother do your washing!!! Mine goes no where near mine!

Can i swap you, i'll do your washing up and you can come and do what i've done already this morning :rolleyes: (Been to work, hoovered, put the washing out, emptied the dishwasher, changed the beds, fed the pets) and I still pay board, I feel hard done to now

elona

I must get on to the council too!

I pay for services but have never had a fire or reported a crime - how much do you think should be deducted?

Mark Twain said that when he as 18 he could not stand to be around his father, but when he was 28 he could not believe how much the old man had learnt and improved in ten years.

The point, of course was that it ws not his father who had changed! Mark Twain had finally had the maturity to understand and appreciate him.

The OP is lucky she doe not find all her possessions in binbags one day as her mother has had enough of the stress and arguing for what should be common decency.

If grandkids grow up as selfish and spoiled as their mother then not to see them would not be a hardship.

If her clothes are still in the laundry basket then load up the washing machine yourself and turn it on!!!

It's not rocket science!

floss2

TBH, if I was her mother, I think I would leave her laundy in the basket.... and all the other benefits of living at home would suddenly stop too.... no food in the cupboard, no teabags, no washing up liquid (wonder if Mum has thought about saving all the dishes until daughter's Saturday wash-up?), no toilet roll, no tv/sky, no phone, no iron, no clean bedding, no clean bathroom & toilet ....

And does she think the pixies come in & do the housework? Just because she doesn't see mum doing anything doesn't mean it isn't being done!

Oh I hope neither of my sons ever takes up with this one....