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Paying your keep at home
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for those who live at home.. do you have to pay keep? if so how much?
i've finished uni and started working a few weeks ago so now I have to start paying keep. my parents wanted £30 a week but i brought them down to £25.
i've finished uni and started working a few weeks ago so now I have to start paying keep. my parents wanted £30 a week but i brought them down to £25.
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£150 a month including bills and food is fucking cheap.
I was looking into buying a house when I got made redundant and my mum died.
Should be getting my own kenna next year now but until then I put £250 a month into the houshold.
I have to do chores around here (well not have to, but I do nontheless.).
I see you all paying a shitton for your parents :crazyeyes , why is that?
Around here you pay around 400€-1200€ rent/month for a big one-family flat.
If I paid them that much, I'd pay a big chunk of the flat. Especially since they get the ~350€ child support every month (*3 for 3 children).
My aunt lives in a 33 m² flat, with kitchen/bath-combination, toilet, one big room, for around 90€ a month, 1A condition.
As soon as I have a job (in about 4-5 years earliest [technical chemistry master :crazyeyes ]), I will move out tho.
I honestly don't believe that it's that people can't afford to buy or rent their own place- its that they won't. They'd rather spend the dough on clothes and booze than on rent. It's a shame, because I think it makes people immature.
I never went back to live with my folks but I reckon you have a fairly good deal there. You are hardly paying anything - i'd be rubbing your hands in glee.
Yes because £30 a week was just naked profiteering on their part :razz:
I'm not so sure. I can well believe people can't afford to buy.
Renting is a bit different because you don't need such a huge deposit and other initial outlays (even with as much as letting agents charge!), so it's a bit more doable (sharing's easier, too, because you're not as tied to the place).
Living at home would drive me mental, though, so my £300 quid a month for rent isn't so bad.
may I ask how/where you live?
urban, or rather rural. big flat? house? housesharing? condition of the house? public transport nearby?
just getting a grasp. It seems like living in london is very steep.
But rather than spend their wage on their house and their food, they'd rather pay a pittance at mummy's and then go out and get rat-arsed.
A big flat (shared with two others) in a nice suburb of a large city. It's only a couple of years old or so, and in good condition. Public transport to the city centre is pretty good, too.
Leeds isn't particularly cheap, but I'd pay a lot more for a flat like this in a comparable area of London!
This was back in 1997-99. £25 per week nearly a decade on is nothing like paying your way. Be grateful for the favour they have done you, but don't feel smug or attempt to brag about it - it gives the impression of a spoilt little child.
Not saying that you are, just saying how your post read to me.
i buy my own toilettries, clothes, anything else i need apart from food tho
I know what you mean, and in the definition, well you could almost say spoilt I reckon. I dunno how it works with child support in london, but my rents get a 350€ for me a month. They pay for my study (~380€ per semester), gas, wasser, electricity (we own our flat), food and a lot of credit payback.
Have to say tho, that 350€ (~240 quid) is FAR more worth in austria as in london.
From what I gather, living in london (with exactly the same condition of flat, location etc.) is about 3 times as expensive as here (and that's a lot of dough, if you think of a 4 bedroom flat, just talked with my dad about it, and he lived in london for years).
So it's not really comparable.
Everything I own, or do (going out etc.), and buy for myself is paid by me. Since I am sitting 7~10 hours each day in university and I got 3 intermediate testings already after 2 weeks of uni, it's pretty much impossible for me to work besides, let alone afford to live on my own, without studying a decade.
because everybody in here talks about london, mostly.
Well, I suck
Aber natürlich, lass uns über Manchester reden, jedoch erst nachdem ich morgen auferstanden bin, weil ich bin müde wie ein Esel.
Easy mr judgemental, we all know what you're like, but has it occured to you that they're living at home to save up for their own place and get it a bit faster?