I am going to sort things this time round

*hayley*

chevalier wrote: »

Whilst i know that it isn't the point. But I hope once you are debt free that you start paying your parents a decent amount of board. I was paying more than you do a month twenty years ago and I was unemployed at the time!

I have tried to pay them more, and offered to but they won't take it. It's been a two year argument with them as I think I should be paying similar to my friends (around £200). I constantly have to find ways to trick them into taking more, like picking up the weekly food on my way home from work, or paying for paint/decorating as a "treat" to them. It does pain me I can't get them to take more - trust me

I think I'm going to go through everything I own and make a neccessary/so not neccessary pile and have a mad Ebaying session over the Easter holidays. That's how I cleared my debt last time

tallyhoh

*hayley* wrote: »

I have tried to pay them more, and offered to but they won't take it. It's been a two year argument with them as I think I should be paying similar to my friends (around £200). I constantly have to find ways to trick them into taking more, like picking up the weekly food on my way home from work, or paying for paint/decorating as a "treat" to them. It does pain me I can't get them to take more - trust me

I think I'm going to go through everything I own and make a neccessary/so not neccessary pile and have a mad Ebaying session over the Easter holidays. That's how I cleared my debt last time

Can you ask them to take more & put it in savings for you? my mum did that when I was young.

*hayley*

tallyhoh wrote: »

Can you ask them to take more & put it in savings for you? my mum did that when I was young.

I've been doing something slightly different. My parents have zero savings and have recently divorced (but still live together till house is sold) so I know when it comes to their old age they won't have any money except basic state pension, and both now need to buy their own houses. I've been putting a little away so I can help them when they are older because I do worry about how they will cope, especially as they probably are slightly too old to find new partners (I know they might but both have expressed a stronge distaste at ever being in a relationship again.

And my theory is - to clear my debt - sort my own place out - then start putting slightly more away both for my future and for theirs