How much rent should my daughter pay

AnnieO1234

I didn't move out of my parents till into my twenties. Despite earning good money for the time for my age and job, they never charged me anything. I did my own shopping 75% of my own washing and 100% of my own cooking.

Since moving out and having kids my parents have, without being asked, paid for things like car insurance, breakdown cover even passing one of their cars when they got a new one. Not every year please understand but just as nice gestures as and when iyswim.

I just wanted to share this as my experience (I'm now early thirties) xxx

missmoose

When I was still in education at 18 I paid nothing.

When I left (still 18) I got a job with a 0 hours contract so I paid 10% of what ever I made that month
My second job I was earning £1000+ a month and my parents kept it to £80 pm I was still 18, they didn't need the money they just wanted to teach me that things cost money (my phone bill had not yet ended so they still paid it and my car and insurance was a gift)

When I started my third job I took a HUGE pay cut because I hated my previous job and my board went down to £40 pm . Now I have more hours and it's gone back up I told my mum I wanted to pay more I suggested £100 but my mum said no and it's back to £80pm (I now pay for my car and phone)
My partner pays £50 a week to live at home and my older brother is paying £100 pm.

You have to judge what is reasonable for your income/their income and what they do around the house etc.
I do all my own washing and wouldn't dream of putting my wash basket by the washing machine on my mums day off, my brother on the other hand does this. I'm more likely to clean the kitchen just because it needs doing (hence why my board is lower than my brothers)

I know this is really low (for both of us) but my parents don't need the money and know that we're both saving for deposits on our own houses, so taking such little from us will cut their costs sooner in the long run.

chiefie

I have taken 15% of their net take home pay off my kids and saved it so that when they were ready to move out it was there as a helping hand. I don't know what I would do in your position, it's so hard when they are your children. But sooner or later as adults they have to take responsibility and get over the feeling of entitlement. I gave my mum 30% of my money who really did need it and I never begrudged it or moaned about what my mates paid.

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I paid my parents £30 a week 15 years ago for the short time I lived at home after finishing school. My mum always said she planned to save part of it to give back to me, but as I moved out within a matter of weeks, there wasn't a whole lot saved. However, they helped set me up with the basics in my first rental, so really the money I had paid went towards that.

I asked my other half what his arrangement was, and he said his parents didn't want anything but did insist he saved £50 a month.