How much board should I be paying?

Dunroamin

poet123 wrote: »

How childish. :rotfl:

Can you honestly say it would cost £40 per week?

Well, as the one that said it, I can say that it was an honest assessment. (Don't forget that I was including basic foodstaffs and toiletries as mentioned before.)

supersaver2

thorsoak wrote: »

Well bully for you!

That reply doesn't even make sense to the post you quoted.

thorsoak

I'm just wondering what will happen in all these households, where everyone is so thrifty, so considerate, when one of the youngsters suddenly rebels ...and it does happen, even in the best homes! Or they invite back a friend, who questions the routine.... Or even worse - one of them falls in love and brings home a partner who will not conform.

Unless you put locks on all your cupboards, keep the controls for central heating/water in your possession at all time, it will happen that someone will stay up after 10.30 pm .........

Believe me - I speak from experience :eek:

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Dunroamin wrote: »

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.

Well I think everyone is going to be in a different situation as I've said previously and to me it seems your teenager used the utilities and what not quite heftily. I know I don't use the utilities as much as you have described but thank you for your input.

Soleil_lune

Just wanted to say to AMBERSTAR: none of my posts are aimed at you ... I think what you're paying is fine. I have said this before, but you may not have noticed it.

Soleil_lune

thorsoak wrote: »

I'm just wondering what will happen in all these households, where everyone is so thrifty, so considerate, when one of the youngsters suddenly rebels ...and it does happen, even in the best homes! Or they invite back a friend, who questions the routine.... Or even worse - one of them falls in love and brings home a partner who will not conform.

Unless you put locks on all your cupboards, keep the controls for central heating/water in your possession at all time, it will happen that someone will stay up after 10.30 pm .........

Believe me - I speak from experience :eek:

LOL :rotfl:

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Soleil_lune wrote: »

Just wanted to say to AMBERSTAR: none of my posts are aimed at you ... I think what you're paying is fine. I have said this before, but you may not have noticed it.

No sorry I'm struggling to keep up with all these posts if I'm honest but thank you!

Dunroamin

amberstar wrote: »

Well I think everyone is going to be in a different situation as I've said previously and to me it seems your teenager used the utilities and what not quite heftily. I know I don't use the utilities as much as you have described but thank you for your input.

I agree that our teenager was somewhat profligate with the utilities which isn't the case for everybody but, having worked with this age group for many years, I know that showering twice a day, staying up late and washing clothes unnecessarily are not uncommon.

supersaver2

thorsoak wrote: »

I'm just wondering what will happen in all these households, where everyone is so thrifty, so considerate, when one of the youngsters suddenly rebels ...and it does happen, even in the best homes! Or they invite back a friend, who questions the routine.... Or even worse - one of them falls in love and brings home a partner who will not conform.

Unless you put locks on all your cupboards, keep the controls for central heating/water in your possession at all time, it will happen that someone will stay up after 10.30 pm .........

Believe me - I speak from experience :eek:

Somebody will probably be along and suggest you charge an entrance fee too your home, can't have adult visitors having a free cup of tea or flushing the loo and using your water! They might suddenly turn irresponsible if they get something for nothing!

Soleil_lune

amberstar wrote: »

No sorry I'm struggling to keep up with all these posts if I'm honest but thank you!

That's OK... Hope you manage to sort things with your mum.

Well done for doing a degree,...... and for giving a frankly quite generous amount to your mum.