Contribution towards household costs

choi

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choi

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Following on from my other post:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=12605656#post12605656

I live in a three bed room house with my wife and two sons in their early twenties

What is a reasonable sum to expect them to pay towards household costs

I have paid off my mortgage
My wife and I pay about 120 pounds plus a week on food plus odds and ends costs
Elec and gas was about 45 pounds per week in total

Does 45 pounds a week seem ok

Regards

Choi
 
I get charged £125 per month for food, my bedroom, SKY, broadband, my slave (mum - cooks washes cleans irons all my stuff)

I WILL NEVER LEAVE..... lol I will in two years when I can swap a house for some magic beans.

All depends on what your kids are earning I suppose.
 
It was your choice to have them, now you wish to make them pay you?

Nice. Personally I'd just make sure they dont take the **** - have them cook, clean and wash for themselves.
 
choi said:
Following on from my other post:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=12605656#post12605656

I live in a three bed room house with my wife and two sons in their early twenties

What is a reasonable sum to expect them to pay towards household costs

I have paid off my mortgage
My wife and I pay about 120 pounds plus a week on food plus odds and ends costs
Elec and gas was about 45 pounds per week in total

Does 45 pounds a week seem ok

Regards

Choi
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What a lot of my friends parents did in this situation was take say £200 a month off them, stick it in a savings account(without them knowing) and then give it to them when they came to buy a house for deposit/furniture/decorating money. That is assuming you dont need the money to run the household, as my Mum did when I was still living at home.
 
[TW]Fox;12623351 said:
It was your choice to have them, now you wish to make them pay you?

Nice. Personally I'd just make sure they dont take the **** - have them cook, clean and wash for themselves.
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DO you have kids fox?
 
No of course not :p

Fair enough sticking the money in a savings account for them and then saying 'Here is your house deposit now shove off', though, or if money wise things are tight and you can't afford things without their assistance, but if money is fine then I see no reason to effectively bill your children.

I'm pretty sure they wont be invoicing you for all the expense and hassle they will be going to at the other end of the cycle once you and your wife have retired and are in your 80's :)
 
The other way to think about it FOX is that: "in there twenties is old" Admittedly renting is a waste and houses prices are nose diving, so staying at home is the only option. If there earning 20-30k like me I would consider that a kick in the balls to my parents if i paid them nothing.
 
Oxy said:
The other way to think about it FOX is that: "in there twenties is old" Admittedly renting is a waste and houses prices are nose diving, so staying at home is the only option. If there earning 20-30k like me I would consider that a kick in the balls to my parents if i paid them nothing.
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I suppose if they are on £30k you make a good point.
 
I'm now 21, I used to pay £200/m, which included Mother unit keeping the phone line she didn't need, I had to pay for my net connection, still.

I thought it was fair, and she'd let me off a week or two's rent, every so often, if I needed the money.

The place I'm in now, with two of us here, costs me around £500/m, and that's only with half the rent, I pay council tax and food, the other half pays bills (~£50/m) :(

So thinking that way, I'd love the prospect of £200. If they complain, point them to this post, and tell them to be grateful :P
 
I'm 25, and pay £200 per month into the house. I also pay for the broadband. I wouldn't expect my parents to keep me for nothing, Im earning a decent wage and would feel bad not contributing towards the house. Saying that, my girlfriend and I are getting married and moving in together next year, so Its all uphill from here!

As for the op, I'd say that around £45 per week would be fine, just add up your total costs and divide by 4, they can pay their share now!
 
my oldest daughters 20 but still at uni so we pay her!(plus got her a new laptop last week) even though shes just found a pt time job over in bangor , thing is i was 26 when i left home and never paid board so maybe its payback time.
im not on great money so she gets the full uni grant so hopefully we can help her not have a big loan when she starts out.
obviously there will come a time when we will have to start charging if she does live back at home tbh she eats like a horse and likes the central heating on all year so what we charged would be based on the extra expense :)
 
[TW]Fox;12623351 said:
It was your choice to have them, now you wish to make them pay you?

Nice. Personally I'd just make sure they dont take the **** - have them cook, clean and wash for themselves.
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Why should any child expect their parents to look after them for their whole lives

My kids are in their twenties
Im only asking for a small contribution towards our costs

All reasonable cultures work in this way
 
When I was 18 in my first extremely poor paying job I used to give my parents £150, then up until I was 22 and left home I paid £250 a month. I think £250 is MORE than reasonable now that I spend about £1k a month on my rent/bills etc.
 
Marf said:
What a lot of my friends parents did in this situation was take say £200 a month off them, stick it in a savings account(without them knowing) and then give it to them when they came to buy a house for deposit/furniture/decorating money. That is assuming you dont need the money to run the household, as my Mum did when I was still living at home.
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Spot on

Thats what we intend to do

in case they need money later on for uni etc

its a form of taxation/saving
but they get full benefit
 
I charge £25 a week as my son doesn't earn a great deal.

I think they do need to pay something in order to learn responsibility and financial planning.
 
choi said:
Spot on

Thats what we intend to do

in case they need money later on for uni etc

its a form of taxation/saving
but they get full benefit
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Exactly, they get used to money going out and have to budget around that, even if its nothing like the kind of costs they will have when they get their own place, and they get a nice surprise when they move out.
 
When I lived at home I was fed.
I obviously had the roof over my head.
I had a laundry service.
I had electricity, gas, television, etc.
Broadband (eventually) and of course my own key and I could come & go as I pleased.

So when suggestions from my parents that I might like to contribute to the running costs came up there was certainly no argument from me.
I'm sure there are plenty of people out there with loads of money etc.
However my parents were never well off - so if I'm using stuff I need to help towards the cost.

When I eventually moved out I was paying nearly £200 a month (£100 was what I first started paying).
At £200 it was a steal for what I was actually getting.
 
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