Real-life MMD: If I'm paying rent, why should I tidy my room?

Blackpool_Saver

Think you are an adult, stop being idle and clean your room, just the fact you started a thread about it tells me you are immature

Blackpool_Saver

scrabbly wrote: »

For goodness sake - GROW UP ! If you are childish enough to be upset when all you are asked to do is keep your room tidy perhaps you had better not move out - doesn't sound like you are old enough!

Exactly...

daisyroots_2

I'm nearly 70, so you might expect me to side with your Dad, but I don't. You have a fair point: you're paying for the room so it's up to you what state it's in. However, if you were living in my house, I would be unhappy if one room was a tip, and if it was really bad I would ask the lodger to leave, whoever it was.

Seems both you and your Dad need to shift positions a bit. He needs to accept that you are an adult, paying for your room, and that means keeping it the way you want it. You need to accept that if it makes him unhappy, he is entitled to ask you to leave.
Daisy

crogers

kouloura wrote: »

You say that the rent you are paying your parents would get you a room somewhere else - although I suspect not as I assume that you get your meals provided or cooked for you and your laundry included if you rented elsewhere these would be on top - think yourself lucky - I too left home and went back aged 24 and from experience I know that it isn't an easy thing to do however if it were your house would you honestly want to see a room in your house being destroyed I wouldn't - have a bit of respect and tidy up your mess!!:j

Absolutely spot on! If you were my son you would have been given the boot a long time ago. Grow up and move out! How dare you disrespect your parents in this way. They are having to put up with you living in their house when they should be having time to themselves and not having to run round after you providing meals, doing your washing and ironing. You pay rent, but I've a sneaky feeling you are living at home because you cannot afford to rent elsewhere despite what you say, nor would you have slaves to clear up after you and lead the cushy life you have now.
Get a life and move out, Then, and only then, can you dictate the amount of mess in your room.

Augustus_the_Strong

Why not pay your dad a bit extra and get him to keep your room tidy for you?

tallgirld

Either tidy up or move out if you can not achieve your dad's standards.

What a strange dilemma!

flimflam_machine

crogers wrote: »

How dare you disrespect your parents in this way.

I guess in the same way that his dad dares to treat him like 12 year old.

They are having to put up with you living in their house when they should be having time to themselves and not having to run round after you providing meals, doing your washing and ironing.

Why is everyone so happy to leap to the conclusion that the parents are having to "put up" with his presence? It's entirely possible that they actually enjoy the company of their son and, perhaps, the extra bit of cash that his rent provides. He's working full time so it's not as if he's loafing around the house all day.

You pay rent, but I've a sneaky feeling you are living at home because you cannot afford to rent elsewhere despite what you say...

So your contribution to the thread is based on your (horrifically biased) suspicions, rather than what the OP actually said. Useful.

Billy_Bonkers

Interesting that the OP hardly ever returns to comment on the replies and/or answer questions raised in these MMD's.

Mojisola

Billy_Bonkers wrote: »

Interesting that the OP hardly ever returns to comment on the replies and/or answer questions raised in these MMD's.

That's because these scenarios are taken from the "real theads".

The original poster of the original thread might not even know that this thread is running.

In the original, the OP complied with all his parents' requests about the rest of the house, contributed financially to the house and helped his father in his business for free with computer stuff. His only "crime" was having a few untidy spots in his own bedroom - a newspaper left out, some shoes on the floor instead of in a cupboard, some clothes left on a chair, etc.

slimbo

Courtney29 wrote: »

If you are renting a room in a house share, then your landlord or fellow house mates have no say over the tidiness of your bedroom.

Therefore the logic runs that if your parents want to have a say over the tidiness of your room then they must forgo the rent you are paying them so that they can tell you how to keep your room.
Children do not pay rent, so if they want to treat you as such then they cannot expect you to pay for that!

I think most of the people commenting on this forum are parents themselves and are out of touch with how house shares work.

The question is if your father had a stranger renting your room, would they tell that person how to keep their room? I bet they would not as no renter would tolerate that.

What planet do you live on? Kids don't pay rent to parents? Of course they do once they are earning - it's really a contribution to the running of the household.