Paying parents rent.
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It's true, these people did raise you. Suck it up sunshine and pay your parents. 'OH BUT SHE OWES ME 700 DOLLARS!' If you were born and then your Mum and Dad didn't do anything to look after you, chances are you wouldn't have been alive to go to uni, let alone jump online and have a bit of a cry.
So suck it up while you live there, and pay your parents.
So suck it up while you live there, and pay your parents.
I work with a guy that's 22, and moved out. However his parents rented out his room (happened to be the basement has it's own bathroom and such, this is important) when he moved out. After a bunch of medical stuff like a heart attack, he figured it'd be financially sane to move back in with the parents. They decided okay, $500 a month for rent.
Nothing bad about that, actually cheaper than most rent around here.
But they have the audacity to try to tell him that he can no longer come and go as he pleases and regularly try to impose a curfew and a no-drinking rule upon him.
Nothing bad about that, actually cheaper than most rent around here.
But they have the audacity to try to tell him that he can no longer come and go as he pleases and regularly try to impose a curfew and a no-drinking rule upon him.
Koroviev said:
I feel like I should clarify a little more, not because I felt like you guys were calling me out on anything.Erana said:
I realize that it isn't exclusive to the Chinese culture, but it baffles me that North Americans believe that it's ok. In my culture, not supporting your kids is like abandoning your duty as a parent. Yeah, sure, you have to teach your kid to be self sufficient, but is forcing them to pay to live really going to do that? What if they get put into financial crisis? What if they're also the kind of parents that believe that the child should pay for their education? Sure, they're learning to be self sufficient, but that could back fire big time on them and the kind could end up homeless. I guess it depends on the parents, but it still bothers me and feels like you're trying to set them up for failure.
This kind of thing doesn't fly with me.ScreamingNinja said:
No-one asks to be born. No-one asks to be a financial burden on their parents. Adults know what they're getting into when they decide to have a child, and to say that a child owes them for all the money spent on them, which is the parents responsibility, is just stupid.
Your parents took care of you because it was their moral and legal responsibility to do so, not because you asked them to.
And now it is no longer their moral or legal responsibility, hence the 100. Frankly grown (well is 18 truly grown?) up people should stop being burdens to their parents and start to live their own life. I can't imagine finding a place that would let me live there for just 100 a month.-Samurai- said:
So your parents bum off welfare and had too many children. At least they had the decency to give you an option (to move out or to pay 1/5th of what your rent would probably actually be).
PS: Your existence has cost them far more than 100 a month so maybe cut them some slack. It's not like you are any better than the people on welfare. You simply take money from a different government fund. Some of us actually paid off college through working or student loans.
Preaching to the choir. It took a two day argument for me to convince my mother to charge me rent while I'm unemployed.thefreeman0001 said:
Anyway. You seriously need to suck it up. If she's struggling to make ends meet and you have a job, why shouldn't you contribute £100 of that to help the family? You're 18. You're legally an adult. And it's cheaper than student accomodation. Don't take it as you being unwelcome in the house. She just requires some help.
It's a whopping 25 a week. Christ I spend more than that on parking most weeks. If you can't afford that or don't want to pay it you can always see what kind of deal the real world will give you and move the hell out. Hell you might find someone willing to feed you and put a roof over your head and pay you for the pleasure of doing so.
Now as for the 700 you say you are owed by your mom, well you just sound like a spoiled little twat for even bring that up. Your ma isn't looking for work? So the fuck what! The bills are getting paid somehow are they not? And reading your whiny post they sure the hell aren't getting paid by your entitled ass.
Bottom line you need to worry about yourself and stop being a leech. Going to school isn't a permit to be a burden on your family and that's all you appear to be whining on some online forum about pitching in such a small amount. You should be fucking embarrassed. You really ought get down on your knees and thank God, Allah, and the neighbor's dog that you are even allowed to live at home still and haven't been thrown out into the real world like you probably deserve.
Now as for the 700 you say you are owed by your mom, well you just sound like a spoiled little twat for even bring that up. Your ma isn't looking for work? So the fuck what! The bills are getting paid somehow are they not? And reading your whiny post they sure the hell aren't getting paid by your entitled ass.
Bottom line you need to worry about yourself and stop being a leech. Going to school isn't a permit to be a burden on your family and that's all you appear to be whining on some online forum about pitching in such a small amount. You should be fucking embarrassed. You really ought get down on your knees and thank God, Allah, and the neighbor's dog that you are even allowed to live at home still and haven't been thrown out into the real world like you probably deserve.
If you think your parents spent less than 700 pounds raising you, go for it and raise the issue of money you think they owe you. If you're not that stupendously arrogant then I recommend you accept that as a developing adult it would be good and healthy for you to experience contributing to your living expenses if not completely covering them on your own. If the amount stings, try to make a case for why.
I pay $500 AUD(Australian) a month, funnily enough your paren't don't have to take care of you.
See the downside is that it only costs like another $100 a month to live out of home, but that $100 has to go a long way. Also... women aren't too impressed when you say you are taking them back to your mothers house :/
The upside is that living at home, my mother is a clean freak so she constantly cleans everything. Trust me having a clean living space and the occasional home cooked meal without lifting a finger is worth it.
See the downside is that it only costs like another $100 a month to live out of home, but that $100 has to go a long way. Also... women aren't too impressed when you say you are taking them back to your mothers house :/
The upside is that living at home, my mother is a clean freak so she constantly cleans everything. Trust me having a clean living space and the occasional home cooked meal without lifting a finger is worth it.
When I turned 16, left school and got my first job, my parents handed me a rent agreement for my continued living in the house, and said:
"From here on out, everything you get, you will work for - because in the real world, nobody will give you anything."
tl;dr -
Life isn't fair.
But, if you can provide proof that your mother owes you the 700, you can either agree to live rent-free for seven months, or you can be a man and put the debt on a hiatus while you support your family.
Whatever works for you, really.
"From here on out, everything you get, you will work for - because in the real world, nobody will give you anything."
tl;dr -
Life isn't fair.
But, if you can provide proof that your mother owes you the 700, you can either agree to live rent-free for seven months, or you can be a man and put the debt on a hiatus while you support your family.
Whatever works for you, really.
