My sister has stopped paying 'keep', should I?

pollyanna24

I can relate to this and it's hard when people say don't stoop down to your sister's level. I am 27 and my brother is 30, but we still act like children when we get together and I don't think we will ever change.

When me and my bf also lived with my parents, we paid £100 each a month to live there (pittance I know, but we were saving up for a house).

My brother still pays £100 a month to my mum and dad to live there which is completely pathetic (he is on £40K a year which is more than my parents earn put together). Me and bf try and tell my parents that's it not fair and keep saying that we will move back in if we get rent that cheap!

It's hard, but we just stay out of it. The worst part is that I give my dad £55 a month as we share a travel ticket (long story - but brother couldn't decide who to give it to and he works for London Underground), so I'm paying my dad more than half what my brother does and I don't even live there. Stinks, don't it?

greenishfingers

chalky_75 wrote: »

... If I was your parents I would be selling up and moving to a 1 bedroom flat so that I could not have the mick taken out of me. I hate confrontations and ill feeling so my life would be miserable in their situation

My parents moved 300 miles and lost my 30 year old sister as a non-paying lodger - now she's threatening to follow them. Moving may not be a permanent answer (there's still a sofa in a one bed flat!)

floss2

greenishfingers wrote: »

My parents moved 300 miles and lost my 30 year old sister as a non-paying lodger - now she's threatening to follow them. Moving may not be a permanent answer (there's still a sofa in a one bed flat!)

Maybe one of those over-55 complexes is the answer? I think they have rules about lodgers & guests...:p