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How much board should I be paying?
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Really? When my eldest left home I didn't notice a reduction of anything like that and he was permanently plugged in to something!!;)
Two showers a day, having the heating on after we went to bed, running the washing machine and tumble dryer for a couple of things that happen to be needed urgently doesn't come free!
Mumps - a household of two adults and one teenager is going to notice the change more than a household of six.0 -
Two showers a day, having the heating on after we went to bed, running the washing machine and tumble dryer for a couple of things that happen to be needed urgently doesn't come free!
Mumps - a household of two adults and one teenager is going to notice the change more than a household of six.
If the drop was as much as you said any household would notice the difference. You said it was £160pcm which is a huge amount.0 -
Totally accept your points, though I would add that I would have thought that generally, by the age that people have graduate children, they would be managing their budgets and would be used to budgeting to include the fact that they may have their children living at home.
Why would anyone budget to support adult children who happen to return after university? Even if they're on JSA, they have money to contribute to the household and much more so if they're earning.
If I'd returned after university and hadn't contributed anything I would've had over £1K pcm disposable income to play with and my parents would have had about £20 a week each - how would that have been a reasonable situation?0 -
If the drop was as much as you said any household would notice the difference. You said it was £160pcm which is a huge amount.
If you have 4 teenagers, all running the heating for a few hours after the parents go to bed and during school/college holidays, things won't change when one of them leaves but there'll be a big change if there's only one. A reduction in the cost of water and electricity bills for showers will be far more noticeable when they go down by over a third compared with if they go down by, say, a fifth.
As Thorsoak has said, this was including landline costs.0 -
If you have 4 teenagers, all running the heating for a few hours after the parents go to bed and during school/college holidays, things won't change when one of them leaves but there'll be a big change if there's only one. A reduction in the cost of water and electricity bills for showers will be far more noticeable when they go down by over a third compared with if they go down by, say, a fifth.
As Thorsoak has said, this was including landline costs.
Landline costs are not applicable today though.
In our house we all go to bed at roughly the same time as we are all up at 6.30am, so no heating beyond our bedtime. We pay a fixed cost for water, we are not metered, and the cost of a couple of showers per day is negligible, or at least doesn't equate to £40 per week.0 -
Landline costs are not applicable today though.
In our house we all go to bed at roughly the same time as we are all up at 6.30am, so no heating beyond our bedtime. We pay a fixed cost for water, we are not metered, and the cost of a couple of showers per day is negligible, or at least doesn't equate to £40 per week.
Well bully for you!0 -
Landline costs are not applicable today though.
In our house we all go to bed at roughly the same time as we are all up at 6.30am, so no heating beyond our bedtime. We pay a fixed cost for water, we are not metered, and the cost of a couple of showers per day is negligible, or at least doesn't equate to £40 per week.
Fair enough but, in many households, teenagers do stay up much later than their parents and many of us are on metered water. Electric showers average, i believe about 20p, which works out at nearly £3 per week - I suppose that's negligible for some people, but not everybody. You also haven't allowed for extra washing and drying costs.
I think that your teenagers may have been better trained than many of them but, in our situation costs dropped dramatically. If you add in food, when we were paying for this, costs dropped another £30/40 pw.0 -
Some people here are COMPLETELY missing the point! Regardless of the fact that your young adult child 'may' or may not cost an extra £40 a week, the fact is that a LOT of people lose a minimum of £200 to £300 a month in tax credits and child benefit, when a child comes out of full time education, and simply HAVE to and NEED to ask their adult child for a contribution. (Not necessarily that much, but at least a BIT of a contribution.) It's all right for people who can afford to take nothing to stand in judgement,
If we are talking about a perfectly healthy young adult who is NOT IN ANY KIND OF EDUCATION, and they are working, then there is no reason why they should not be asked to contribute. . If only a fifth of their income.
As I said, many many people lose a lot of income when their child leaves full time education, and have no CHOICE but to ask for help from their offspring.
If they leave to go to uni or just leave home, then they would not contribute of course, but in the case of many I know, the general outgoings would be less, as there would be less electric used, less gas, less water (many have water meters,) less food, less petrol for school run, less pocket money or allowance, no having to buy them clothes anymore. So if they DO leave, of course your outgoings will drop.
I find it absurd that some people are saying there is virtually no difference to the family outgoings when a young adult leaves. If they STAY, why on earth should they not be asked to contribute to the household?0
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