Mace66 11:31 Wed Aug 1
Taking off the kids
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Kids living at home and working full time
How much of their earnings do you take off them ?
Hit me ....
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Hammer and Pickle
11:37 Wed Aug 1
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Suggest 50% market rent and their share of daily shopping and bills.
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lowermarshhammer
11:45 Wed Aug 1
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depends on how much you want them OUT
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mallard
11:50 Wed Aug 1
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10% of their net wages
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Northern Sold
12:10 Wed Aug 1
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Nothing as I'm a great and nice Dad
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Mace66
12:13 Wed Aug 1
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NS
See that's the problem i have. I can afford to take nothing but it doesn't give the right message ....
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Lee Trundle
12:14 Wed Aug 1
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I don't think I'd charge mine anything, unless I really needed the money (or as lowermarshhammer has suggested I wanted them out).
They're young, let them enjoy their life as much as they can before they have to worry about bills etc.
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bobbymoore
12:16 Wed Aug 1
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I would take 10% off them a month, but store it away for them in a bank account. Then when they look to move out, you give them the money back to use as deposit / rent etc
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Nurse Ratched
12:17 Wed Aug 1
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Lee Trundle
I disagree. You need to teach them to be adults.
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Propodkin
12:17 Wed Aug 1
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you've got to get them used to paying their own way... I had a massive shock when I left home
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Lee Trundle
12:19 Wed Aug 1
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Going on holidays or travelling as much as they can at that age will teach them much more about life than paying rent would.
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El Scorchio
12:21 Wed Aug 1
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It's probably worth taking something just out of principle.
My aunt is way too soft on my cousins and despite being late 20s/early 30s and both working- one has bought himself a BMW- they both utterly leech off her, live in her house for free and don't contribute. One has moved his girlfriend and her kid in too. She doesn't have a lot in the way of money either, but she's way too generous.
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WSM Hammer
12:32 Wed Aug 1
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Like already said on here - you have to teach them the value of money and exactly how much certain things really cost for the day they do leave - if you really don't need the money stick it into an account (without them knowing) so when they do leave it will help them out big time for either deposit or stuff they will need.
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Lee Trundle
12:43 Wed Aug 1
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I don't see how getting them to pay as little as 10% of their earnings to line your own pocket would teach them anything.
They'd already be paying bills like their phone bill.
Teaching them to actually save their money for holidays/clothes/new laptops or TV's would teach them a whole lot more I would have thought?
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joe royal
12:46 Wed Aug 1
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Back in the old days it was a third for keep , third in the bank and a third to piss up the wall.
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lab
12:53 Wed Aug 1
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How about using the child maintenance calculator, call it housekeep maintainence.
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,
1:03 Wed Aug 1
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The question should be “how much should they contribute towards the cost of living under your roof”.
I think that it is essential that they are aware of the cost and as such hand a regular sum over. What you do with it, such as saving it up for them etc, is down to you.
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JAC
1:09 Wed Aug 1
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I take £250 a month off my son each month but put it into a separate bank account that hes not aware of and will give it all back to him when he wants to buy his own place to use as a deposit.
As someone said ealier,a lot depends on how much they actually earn.
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Alwaysaniron
1:14 Wed Aug 1
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I have a flat that I let the eldest two share. Charge them just enough to cover the mortgage. They've got it good!
If they were living at home I'd charge circa £200-300 depending on what they were earning.
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busheyhammer85
1:58 Wed Aug 1
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Always take money off them, even if you set it aside.
My Mum and Dad never charged, and it was a massive shock when i had to start paying bills.
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Eggbert Nobacon
2:07 Wed Aug 1
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Hammer and Pickle 11:37 Wed Aug 1
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Suggest 50% market rent and their share of daily shopping and bills.
thereby leavig them no room to save up to move out themselves
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