How much board do kids pay nowadays ?

[ITS A SCAM !]

As the title suggests i am after some feedback on how much board kids are paying. My stepdaughter is 23, she has 2 jobs, working in subway & a local boozer. I can imagine she is not exacly loaded, but somehow she has enough cash to have a i phone on contract, and be able to go out and get so drunk she cannot remember anything. She also occasionally mentions going to the Casino until 5am in the morning. Right now she pays ?30 a week board to her mum, which is all spent towards the food bill. On the basis thats she does ~~~~ all around the house, apart from make it a mess ( last week she was so pissed she threw up in the empty bath !! ) I think she has it way to cushy, and she will never leave home unless she meets a loaded fella who can put up with her loudmouth, and drunken ways. So can anyone tell me how much their kids are paying ?? Its about time she started paying towards the council tax and energy bills etc. If she wants to treat my house like a Hotel she can pay Hotel prices, especially if she continues having a shower for over half a hour !!

[Snowy79]

It's a tricky one especially as she's not your Daughter. I'd look at the local prices in letting agents for rent a room. Leave a few of the flyers lying around and discuss it with your partner. Trade off money for helping around the house. If this fails you'll soon find out who your partner loves the most. Personally ?50 per week would get my vote.

[nathan2007]

5 years ago when i left home i was paying ?50 a week.......

[DOUGALMCD]

I think it's not just about the dig money with your stepdaughter it's more to do with lack of respect and responsibility towards her parents and this is what you'll have to change as even if you get more money the respect will not be there.

[ChelseaBun]

i pay 30-40 a week where i can afford it as i have the baby half the week and need to make sure he has what he needs. though i also help out with housework and cooking dinners etc.

id deffo say do a rotation with dishes etc so she is helping out more and has a responsibility around the house. a little help goes a long way and she will quickly realise what hard work it takes to run a house and she will start respecting you more (after a few arguments, slagging matches and her digging her heels first though that is lol)


god i feel really old and cynical towards the young, and im two years younger than her! :roflmao:

[lagerland]

I dont charge me offspring me girls not working so not much point and boys on an apprenticeship. I dont mind as long as they help there mum out a bit there time will come..............

Gone are the days when you gave mum ?15 quid and got the lot done for ya.................

[stew86]

i am 25 and still live at home i pay my parents 50pound i also treat my parents to a take away on weekend and get the beers in for the footy

[ITS A SCAM !]

i am 25 and still live at home i pay my parents 50pound i also treat my parents to a take away on weekend and get the beers in for the footy

Do you want to live here ?? We can swap.

[daithi]

i used to pay 50 euro a week and do jobs around the house

also got a phone call most evening for the carton of milk and loaf a bread from the shop..didn bother me as i walking in the door to a cooked meal and me washing done and sink empty
once ya move out ya realise how much work there is in maintaining a home

[ITS A SCAM !]

I get the general impression that we are being taken for a mug by my stepdaughter, judging by whats been said so far ? Is it that only those people who actually help to make a difference at their house are bothering to post ? Are all those who are just like my stepdaughter too ashamed to say how little they pay and how little they do around the house ? To be 100% honest with you, its not the amount of money she pays that is getting at me, its the fact that she just has no respect for other people and their belongings. The only job she used to do was drying and putting the dishes away after they have been washed, she used to crack and chip so many of them in the process. My wife was always finding damaged crockery ! This job was taken away from her when we had the new kitchen fitted with a intergrated dishwasher.

[ChelseaBun]

do you have younger kids in the house?

[paul hick]

i left home 15 years ago and i was paying ?50 a week then,also paying for full sky package (well i wanted it so i paid for it),taking parents out when i felt like it.thought that was what you were supposed to do.
i was never told how much to pay i just decided that the more i earned the more i should contribute (roughly worked out a fifth of what i would take home)

[edds]

I was paying ?25 a week 28 years ago, take home was ?50 a week, I reckoned that was steep and yet my stepdad wanted to up it to ?35 a week. My daughter has just turned 18, finishes college soon. Never had EMA and the family allowance we give directly to her; that runs out end of August. We were going to charge her maybe ?15-?20 a week when she eventually gets a job, but that looks too low for nowadays and given the replies on here.

Maybe as Paul says 20% of take home pay?

[RedSpider]

pimp her out and keep a percentage for yourself

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

as with the culture of mine, i dont think il ever have to pay:D that doesnt mean i want to live here forever!

[waqasahmed]

I've never paid rent to my parents, though I pay ?70.30/week somewhere else - soon to be ?68/week + bills

My Mum gives me money sometimes. I reluctantly accept when she says jokingly "Dont worry. Ill take it off you when you're earning"

[ITS A SCAM !]

do you have younger kids in the house?

Yes... There is my 14 year old stepson, and my 9 nine year old son at the weekends...

[ITS A SCAM !]

pimp her out and keep a percentage for yourself

We tried that for a few weeks ... the most she ever earned was ?24.20p ... I asked who gave her the 20p, she said ALL of them !! ;)

[badapple]

If its any consolation, our kids pay us ~~~~ all for living with us.
When we asked them for contributions towards the house keeping,food, bills & council tax, they said its "your duty" as parents to look after us.:laugh:

[nicole123]

?30 , i would bite her hand off,i get ~~~~ all and the hand out at weekends till they get paid at the end of the month never seems to happen!!but am glad they still wana be at home because i would miss them if they went!!:hello:

[mickydibble]

My lads on an apprenticeship he likes it, yet they pay him best part of ?700 a month !! Good money for an 18yrs but he is paying for a ?60 bus pass plus block driving lessons.... He gets us the occasional takeaway but not much more...but then again I want him to appreciate the job then he does well in that he progresses etc and not make him feel it's not worth doing because there is nothing else out there! M

[cgscott]

If they were working and educating themselves for a career i wouldnt accept anyhting from them. If they were just working and using the house as a bed and breakfast and getting pished up all the time i would suggest to them that they pay me for the room or i will gladly rent it out to a student and they can go find somewhere else.

Just my 2 cents :)

[opsmonkey]

Deffo put it up to ?50 mate, if she boots off tell her to get a flat, which is a damn site more than that

[jordigirl]

maybe you should ask your wife/partner and her mother what she thinks 1st.

maybe she is happy with the way she treats the house, and how much she pays her, if she in agreement with you, then tell the lass, if not ya fighting a losing battle :)

[ITS A SCAM !]

maybe you should ask your wife/partner and her mother what she thinks 1st.

maybe she is happy with the way she treats the house, and how much she pays her, if she in agreement with you, then tell the lass, if not ya fighting a losing battle :)

We both think she is bone idle, and lives like a slob.

[cgscott]

We both think she is bone idle, and lives like a slob.

Check your local gumtree for rooms to rent wanted and show her what people are willing to pay for just board alone.

Heres an example for a room in london.

Cosy double room to rent in Hendon, London | Double Room - Flatshare & Rooms to Rent | Gumtree.com (http://www.gumtree.com/p/flats-houses/cosy-double-room-to-rent/101919909)

[mark8393]

was always 1/3 of income which was fair enough. used to help out, wash up, mow lawn etc. for that i had bed food, washing done, i did my ironing. so tbh it was cheap, btw that was ?30 in 1984 when i left school.

[happy_highlander]

My stepson works part time (while waiting for his navy start date) and pays ?30 a week and his own vermin tv bundle. Stepdaughter is back living with us 17 years old and 20 weeks pregnant isn't working and pays ?20 per week and helps her mum out alot (or so I'm told) but she also shares a room so doesn't get charged as much. I will add stepdaughter is only back after helping gary1312 with his recent problem reminded me just how much support family members who have went of the rails abit need...It's funny how quickly you forget

[toolmansteve]

When I started work in 1970, I was earning the princely sum of 50 bob a week and my mum would take 30 bob of that for my board (for the younger ones that is ?2-50 and ?1-50 ) and for as long as your step daughter is living the life of Riley there, she will be with you a long time. You will need a strong combined effort with your other half to either put up or put out this wayward child. Suggest to step daughter that unless she contributes more, then you will downsize the house and then there will be no room for her. At 23 it is time really for her to leave the nest.( in a clean and tidy state).

[lagerland]

I've never paid rent to my parents, though I pay ?70.30/week somewhere else - soon to be ?68/week + bills

My Mum gives me money sometimes. I reluctantly accept when she says jokingly "Dont worry. Ill take it off you when you're earning"


I dont know how you sleep with yourself accepting money from your mother its a disgrace...............:rolleyes:

[gmb45]

remember paying my first board :embarassed: was ?5 week, but then again was only on ?25 a week lol remeber me dad giving me the option of "tipping up" or ?5 a week jumped at the ?5 week, even in them days a was a pt lol

[waqasahmed]

I dont know how you sleep with yourself accepting money from your mother its a disgrace...............:rolleyes:

Hey, I don't want to but she does it for like 10 or 20 minutes or so. I am going to "pay her back" so to speak but I won't call it "paying her back" if you get my gist

ie: what one of my friend has done, is that his parents gave him some money and he bought them a coffee table as a gift later on.

Besides, I'm a student. It's not like I'm married with kids etc...

[lagerland]

Hey, I don't want to but she does it for like 10 or 20 minutes or so. I am going to "pay her back" so to speak but I won't call it "paying her back" if you get my gist

ie: what one of my friend has done, is that his parents gave him some money and he bought them a coffee table as a gift later on.

Besides, I'm a student. It's not like I'm married with kids etc...

Thats ok then you keep telling youself that if helps you sleep ................:laugh:

[billy2]

i have my one paying here mother 60 a week and when the gas and electric bill come in she pays 40 of each of them as she could been in a shower for over 20 mins at a time and drying here things on the heaters all the time , she has moved out 2 times now first time it was costing her 550 a mth + food bill and split the cost of the gas and electric bill and and the moved back (~~~~ing muppet for letting her back)lol then she moved in with her boy friand that was costing her 750 a mth all in but had to pay food bill think that lasted 7 mths ans she moved back again ( yes bigger ~~~~ing muppet i know ) i know the next time she goes she wont be ~~~~ing back she will do ~~~~ all around the house has her mother running around doing everything her her wont get out of bed till 1-2 in the day and then comes the weekend she will get so hammered that it makes my sick looking at her

[ITS A SCAM !]

i have my one paying here mother 60 a week and when the gas and electric bill come in she pays 40 of each of them as she could been in a shower for over 20 mins at a time and drying here things on the heaters all the time , she has moved out 2 times now first time it was costing her 550 a mth + food bill and split the cost of the gas and electric bill and and the moved back (~~~~ing muppet for letting her back)lol then she moved in with her boy friand that was costing her 750 a mth all in but had to pay food bill think that lasted 7 mths ans she moved back again ( yes bigger ~~~~ing muppet i know ) i know the next time she goes she wont be ~~~~ing back she will do ~~~~ all around the house has her mother running around doing everything her her wont get out of bed till 1-2 in the day and then comes the weekend she will get so hammered that it makes my sick looking at her

I feel for you mate ... My stepdaughter has gone the Doctors today with pains in her stomach ... The Doctor has told her she has a swollen stomach being a direct cause of excessive drinking ! He has given her some pills to take in water, and she has said that no drinking for her until we go Ibiza for a family holiday... Stupid, stupid girl !!

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

ahh just worked it out! my boarding fees equate exactly to that of maintaining the tv and net in the house:D

[waqasahmed]

Just makes me realise how incredibly lucky I am, where my parents don't charge me rent, though tbf I don't get "hammered" mainly because I don't drink

[flyingpig]

40 to 50 quid a week... Also, its not just about the money towards the bills and that, it teaches kids about the life in the real world. i.e the value of money, that you have to do some management of your money. You have to pay the rent, food, electric, gas, water etc.

I bet the 30 quid would not even cover the water, leccy, or gas nevemind the food and rent as well.

FP

[waqasahmed]

40 to 50 quid a week... Also, its not just about the money towards the bills and that, it teaches kids about the life in the real world. i.e the value of money, that you have to do some management of your money. You have to pay the rent, food, electric, gas, water etc.

I bet the 30 quid would not even cover the water, leccy, or gas nevemind the food and rent as well.

FP

?25-?30 for me covers my food. Rent is at ?70.28 all inclusive atm, though will be ?68 + bills, so around ?5-?10 extra, so around ?78 all inclusive - that should include internet bills as well

That's around ?312/month or ?3432 for the length of the contract (roughly), but should be no more than ?3600. Around ?1100-?1320 for food, so around 4.5-4.7K for living costs + rent for me, over the length of the contract

EDIT: That's the cost of rent in living in one good sized room, in a detached house, in the midlands, if you want to weigh how up how much it costs

[waqasahmed]

Thats ok then you keep telling youself that if helps you sleep ................:laugh:

Um, my "income" comes from SFE, and lots of students are supported by their parents...

[lagerland]

Um, my "income" comes from SFE, and lots of students are supported by their parents...

Get a job and stop moaning i no students and most have jobs aswell as study excuses excuses excuses...............

And why dont you drink whats wrong with you apart from being on the best forum in the world when you should be studying ..............

[Shady]

going by his user name, its prob against his culture to drink... shame its not against his culture to scrounge off mommy and daddy.

[waqasahmed]

Get a job and stop moaning i no students and most have jobs aswell as study excuses excuses excuses...............
I am wishing to get a job, but hopefully after May. I've noticed that the students that have jobs whilst at uni tend to suffer with their uni work, though some make it work

I was looking for work between September and December, but come January the work load became a lot more, and the work load is meant to get worse the next year and the year after that

Most students I know don't have jobs, unless if they might want to look for work in the holidays and that's about it. It's not like I don't want a job. It's just atm, it's work on top of work. I mean I was actively looking between September and December and I'll now actively look again

Besides, it's possible that I might only be able to get a volunteer job over the summer due to the nature of IT jobs ie: you get the contacts by going to the correct organisations, correct uni's (differs depending on what you want to go in to), meet the correct people, get the correct qualifications etc...

And even with students that do have a job, they still tend to get support from parents. Also, how are you to know what course I'm doing? On some courses, working is actively discouraged because it can really, really mess with your education


And why dont you drink
Religion


whats wrong with you apart from being on the best forum in the world when you should be studying ..............

Um, I just have to revise atm, and I take breaks every now and again. Otherwise I just get headaches. So around 4 hours revising, with perhaps 30 minutes light comedy to get my brain working, or answering questions on a forum

[waqasahmed]

going by his user name, its prob against his culture to drink... shame its not against his culture to scrounge off mommy and daddy.

Y'know when my Mum gave me this money, I didn't want to accept it but then she said "Give it to your sister when she goes to uni" which seems very fair

So in a sense, I have the money in my bank, which I do not touch, which will then be passed down on to my sister. What exactly is wrong with that?

Besides, I'll also be giving a percentage of my wage to my parents once I'm out of uni, provided of course I have a job. What's wrong with that?

[lagerland]

Religion what are you a mormon ...................

[waqasahmed]

Religion what are you a mormon ...................

Nope, I'm a Muslim

[lagerland]

R say no more that explains everything.............

[Snowy79]

With some of the degrees out there students are preparing themselves by not working. As thats all their degrees are going to qualify them to do.:rolleyes: