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Paying board to parents
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Let's say that there are 3 adults living in the house (Parents and Child) and a fair split would be 1/3rd of household bills each. So £100 per week per adult is £1300 per calendar month!
So you saying your bills are £1300 a month? That is ridiculous and way over the top.
£100 a month probably doesn't even cover what the OP eats, though. Have they never lived away from home - as a student maybe? Where else do they think they could live for that amount?
OP just seemed completely out of touch with the cost of living, and the high handed way they said they'd 'never questioned what my parents do with that money' just got me mad, I'm afraid. They are putting it towards household bills, duh. But the OP seems to think they could be getting rich and making lucrative off-shore investments all on their son/daughter's £100 a month. As if! In fact, they are being very generous to him/her, but it seems that he/she can't see that.0 -
If my son had started making the same noises as the OP he'd find himself having to look for alternative accommodation pdq.0
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I thought I was getting a good deal paying £300 a month to the other half who also pays for all the bills (though she does earn probably 4x what I do...)
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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lookstraightahead wrote: »
I'm all for children making their own way to be honest I can't get my head around having my children in my care well into adulthood. I would support in any way I can but they have to fly the nest.
I guess some adult children residing at home get treated like children but I would hazard that most ( my own included) its like being in a houseshare and they pull their own weight. I did my job as a parent they've been taught life skills to be fully functioning adults, I may cook a meal if everyones home, no different then my own mother cooking me a meal occasionally when I visit. I work full time have done my dues of picking up after my kids they are kids no more,
If only my husband was as well trained as this generation downside of growing up in the 60 & 70's.0
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