Paying rent at home

Tomtata

It amazes me how parents can charge their own children rent, including my own - I now have two kids and will NEVER EVER charge them rent, no matter what they earn - It’s makes me sick thinking about it.

Charging your own children to live in the Family home. Unless your parents are unable to support themselves then it’s just greed & exploit.

OPENROAD

I Was VB wrote: »

Moved out the start of the summer, was living with the Mammy before that. I was paying her €100pw, i'd have no problem paying more at the time. Now and again i drop her a few quid to make sure she's ok.

At the end of the day your parents brought you into the world and you owe them regardless if you think it or not.

Honestly i'd be embarrassed if they asked me, i'd be fukkin morto if i posted on boards.ie!!

Very true, but surely you don't mean just financially ?

Those people who have moved out, how often do you see/speak to your parents?

starbelgrade

Oranage2 wrote: »

God I'd hate to be your child - This isn't the sixties anymore, twenty somethings like to go to college and travel these days, I know it must have been hard for working in a mine since you were nine but as Bob Dylan said "times they are a changin"

I've heard of this Bob Dylan guy.

Apparently he's the next big thing.

I Was VB

OPENROAD wrote: »

Very true, but surely you don't mean just financially ?

Those people who have moved out, how often do you see/speak to your parents?

Of course i dont mean financially.

stateofflux

you're working so €50 is a bit low imo....rule no.1 : keep the mammy happy

upandcumming

starbelgrade wrote: »

So this is where my tax dollars go... to fund layabouts living with mammy & getting their dinners cooked for them?

And I used to think that social welfare was for the purposes of helping the needy.

Oh give it up will you...

starbelgrade

upandcumming wrote: »

Oh give it up will you...

I give it up regularly.

To the tax man.

chakotha

I moved out in college time so didn't live at home afterwards for long enough for it to come up, but if it did, and they were later suggesting an increase, then by now I would be moving out ffs - even if a difficult to afford apartment. Or use daft.ie and do a houseshare while marshalling a proper setup. Move out imo.

Alfreado

My parents never would and never did take rent off me. Once, I paid for a full tank of heating oil when my rents were out, and wouldn't let them pay me back, I told them it was only fair I paid SOMETHING towards me living here. My mother didn't talk to me for 2 days. A few months later I was wonder why my car insurance renewal was late being sent out... turns out my mother had seen it coming it, guessed what it was, took my policy number, paid for it and threw out the letter. It was only when I asked her had the renewal letter come she told me what happened... which I could only laugh at.

So since then I don't bother paying anything, cos I only get my mail stolen and ignored for days at a time when I do. Not a bad complaint as I lost my job and was forced to go back to college.

Oranage2

stateofflux wrote: »

you're working so €50 is a bit low imo....rule no.1 : keep the mammy happy

Rule no.1 fook the mammy, she help made me the mess I am now so now she has to live with the consequences

starbelgrade

Oranage2 wrote: »

Rule no.1 fook the mammy, she help made me the mess I am now so now she has to live with the consequences

God I'd hate to be your child - This isn't the seventies anymore, twenty somethings like to take responsibility for themselves these days.

I know it must have been hard for working in a mince factory since you were nine but as Freddie Mercury said

"Dee do de de dee do de de
I don’t have no time for no monkey business
Dee do de de dee do de de
I get so lonely lonely lonely lonely yeah
Got to be some good times ahead "


:D

RoundyMooney

partyatmygaff wrote: »

I'll never understand paying rent to your own parents. I don't know about anyone else's parents but mine would never accept let alone ask for rent. It's just unimaginable.

You jest shirley.

The least you can do is cover your keep. If my babbies were still in Walton's Mountain at an age where they could be elsewhere, they would have to help out as appropriate to their needs and means. If your folks don't take it, at least stick it into an account for them or something along those lines, to be used in some way at a future stage, whether they take it or not.

Have they ever asked, have you ever offered? No offence meant by asking, but this approach from mature offspring in the family abode is somewhat unusual...

RoundyMooney

Oranage2 wrote: »

Rule no.1 fook the mammy, she help made me the mess I am now so now she has to live with the consequences

Cool trollin' bro.

I hope mammy forgets to pay for the broadband.

Oranage2

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Cool trollin' bro.

I hope mammy forgets to pay for the broadband.

She'd never do that, Mammy covers all bills like tv, internet, esb and gas. I can eat whenever I like but my mam usually makes dinner, I sometimes buy my own cereal.

RoundyMooney

Then your mammy is indeed a tolerant and generous lady.

grungepants

I didnt qualify for the dole
I cant get a job
My parents pay for me to go out on the weekends
My mummy makes my dinner
Im slowly becoming a man child

I want indepenence
I want to be too busy to winge on forums about trivial things
I want money
I want to bring that fly indie chick back to my shoebox bedsit and fcuk her till my banjo chord splits

I IMPLORE YOU...MOOOOOOVE OOOOUT

greener pastuires await

and its true-twenty something and living at home is a loss
i'll be fupping bald and uncool and sculking around whelans by the time i move out....

*brave smile*

yours truely,

grungepants.:o:o:(:(:(:(

Balfie

I'm on the dole and I pay €50 into the house.. I live with My sister and thats all she asks for.. She puts up with alot of crap from me, and I'd be lost without her.. If she asked for more, I would happily give it. From time to time she asks for extra for the house. If we need something we buy it between us. Its the best way.

Twee.

I'm in college full time and had a job until recently. I never paid rent, thankfully. Do my own washing/ironing, as well as the odd bit for others, and cook dinner usually three times a week. I don't feel bad, I'm only 21 and still in full time education. My brother pays rent but he's 27 and a lazy arsehole.
Most of my mates who aren't in college but live at home pay rent.

Star Bingo

grungepants wrote: »

I want to bring that fly indie chick back to my shoebox bedsit and fcuk her till my banjo chord splits

OutlawPete

Voodoomelon wrote: »

What do you guys pay at home, if anything? Am I being unfair?!

They are just trying to prepare you for the cold hard world that awaits you, should they not be around some time soon and you find yourself all alone, living in rented accommodation, to a landlord who couldn't care less if you lived or died as you are just part of the conveyor belt of tennants, as you sit alone rocking back and forth drinking cheap wine and corned beef from a tin on New Year's Eve surrounded by unpaid bills.

Or maybe they are just trying to force you out so they can throw swinger parties, who can tell.

irelandspurs

Just do em in and stick them under the patio,you won't have to worry about rent then.

syklops

OP is that a picture of your car in your signature?

If it is, and you can afford that, then I think you can afford to pay your Ma a little but extra.

pow wow

I don't pay anything. I've offered more than once but they always refuse, the joy of having me home is obviously compensation enough :pac: My mum's view is that they don't need the money so there's no point - can't say fairer than that really.

Nodferatu

i pay €80 a week. my wages aren't big so i think its about right

stovelid

If you're working, you should be paying around what you would pay to rent a room in a shared house, plus a little toward groceries and utilities.

If your folks are well-off and really don't want you to contribute then fair enough, but I'd still feel a bit bad living for nothing and would try and treat them or help out in some other way.

Irishcrx

partyatmygaff wrote: »

I'll never understand paying rent to your own parents. I don't know about anyone else's parents but mine would never accept let alone ask for rent. It's just unimaginable.

???... Don't really understand this attitude. Regardless of weather or not your parents are rolling in it or scraping the barel if your working full time and not in collage it's a bit scabby for anybody to be complaining about handing up a few quid a week towards bills and food. Most people I know who live at home have it handy dinners handed to them, food always in the fridge , washing up done for them , clothes washed and these aee lads in their 20's! If they turned around and complained about handing up money to help out i'd slap them...but they don't they are more than happy to give it up knowing they have it great.

So I find the thought of being not respecting my parents enough to give them a little to help after all they have done for me...unimaginable.

kelle

A few years ago, my dear mother (now sadly departed) complained to me that her food bill was very high and she was finding it hard to make ends meet, she was overdrawn at the bank. Also the phone bill was increased as was the electricity.

Considering she had 2 grown-up sons who were working and living with her and were the cause of her high food bill, I demanded she ask her sons to increase what they pay her in rent without delay - especially as they were on astronomical wages. I asked how much they pay, she said she didn't charge them any :O. I asked why, she said it wasn't fair to ask them - they were her boys (aged 26 and 24 at the time)! When I lived at home I had always paid her rent.

I got talking to them, but months later they still weren't paying as they complained she never bought them the food they liked!

Anyway, they now have their own houses and are paying mortgages. I can't imagine what a shock that must have been to their systems!

FreudianSlippers

kelle wrote: »

A few years ago, my dear mother (now sadly departed) complained to me that her food bill was very high and she was finding it hard to make ends meet, she was overdrawn at the bank. Also the phone bill was increased as was the electricity.

Considering she had 2 grown-up sons who were working and living with her and were the cause of her high food bill, I demanded she ask her sons to increase what they pay her in rent without delay - especially as they were on astronomical wages. I asked how much they pay, she said she didn't charge them any :O. I asked why, she said it wasn't fair to ask them - they were her boys (aged 26 and 24 at the time)! When I lived at home I had always paid her rent.

I got talking to them, but months later they still weren't paying as they complained she never bought them the food they liked!

Anyway, they now have their own houses and are paying mortgages. I can't imagine what a shock that must have been to their systems!

No offence, but your brothers (?) sound like dickheads! If they knew their mother was in trouble and still refused to help... that's fúcked up!

Dravokivich

When I was living with the folks, I paid between 250 / 400 euro a month, along with the broadband bill as well.

Only exception to that was a couple of months before I moved out so I could get a bit of money together for a deposit on renting a place.

AntiMatter

RichieC wrote: »

50 seems low, and if they're asking you for more they likely need it.

It seems a bit low, alright.

I'd give them at least a euro.