Do you parents financially support you?

MagicMarker · 21-11-2007 04:50PM

Jesus some people here have the life of riley. I support myself and that's that. If for whatever reason i took a fiver off my ma then she'd be hounding me to pay her back.

I openly hate people who have **** handed to them on a plate. I once worked with a girl who had everything paid for her, her dad bought her a brand new car, paid for insurance and last i heard was planning on building her a house.

- bo - · 21-11-2007 04:54PM

I took all last year out, and saved up money to go back to college (Im 19). I got a couple of grand together from working Mondays-Saturdays for the past year and some extra jobs on the side. I live at home so I dont expect them to give me money, and if they did Id probably feel a bit guilty about it, its enough that Ive a bed and meals here. The when Im finished my first year in college next summer I'll go back and work for the summer and just save up hard again for next year...

Maple · 21-11-2007 05:16PM

any summer jobs i had as a kid I had to hand 50% over for my keep. Had to buy own uniforms, school books and pay for school trips out of the rest. When I got to college at 18 I lived away from home and worked 2 jobs and paid my own way throughout, rent, books and living expenses. I didn't get a grant. Despite my father earning a very good salary as a company director, my mother had some warped ideas about teaching us financial independence.

I will get my own back tho, two words get me through..."nursing home".

Nightwish · 21-11-2007 06:37PM

Parents paid my rent during college and paid off some of my loan. When I finished college I lived at home and they heavily subsidised my living expenses by only charging me €40 a week rent.

Toto Wolfcastle · 21-11-2007 09:12PM

My parents paid for everything college-related. I lived at home rent-free, etc. For my Post grad I have had to move away from home so my parents pay for rent/fees/food, etc. The only thing I have to pay for is my social life. (Oh, and the bus home!) I've bought most of my clothes since I was 16, although my mum still buys the odd thing.

My parents paid for my 1st year of insurance, after that I had to pay for it myself, but my mum worked it out so I pay her 5 euro a week for it. (My insurance is dirt cheap!)

My mum is the mother of all savers! (You should see her budget! It's amazing!) The woman knows exactly how much money she has for everything, right down to St. Patrick's Day (meal out).

We're by no means well off, but because my mother keeps track of the money we all have a good life.

I haven't really thought about what will happen when I finish my post grad. I know I'll go home for the summer, and try to get a teaching job for September, but I don't know if my parents will expect rent, etc.

God, reading that I now realise that I have a cushy life! I feel bad now for all the times I've given my parents grief!

InFront · 21-11-2007 09:15PM

Yeah my parents pay my college fees, living costs, car insurance and rent. I work for the first half of the Summer to pay for things like interrailing or travelling in the second half. I owe my parents a lot, and like someone else has mentioned, being the youngest son probably adds to their generosity.
Obviously I do regular chores and things, and study hard for college, so am not taking them for a ride or anything like that.

EdgarAllenPoo · 21-11-2007 10:15PM

I still live at home and get €50 a week for bus fares and food while I'm in college. I try to save about €20 of that a week because I'm not working at the moment.

Whatever money I have of my own is going towards christmas presents at the moment.

Misticles · 21-11-2007 11:40PM

ever since i got my first job, ive been on my own! that was when i was 15! i pay for everything i want. they help me out if im stuck. grant pays fees etc. id ont pay rent as im rarely there and i get my own food.

imarugbyball · 22-11-2007 01:32AM

My parents bought me a car, i don't pay rent they buy me food and clothes and give me 100bills a week to get locked with.

Im in college but i don't go too often. I LOVE the celtic tiger.

Lands Leaving · 22-11-2007 01:35AM

I live at home but I work and pay for my food and such and will be booted out once I'm finished college. which is soon. Crap.

I did get a grant to go to college mind, although don't think I would have gone without the grant, but I don't really know

22-11-2007 01:38AM

Shortly after turning 18 I was out on my own, working gigs, part-time teaching TKD, and now with a university scholarship.

Lil' Smiler · 22-11-2007 02:11AM

Paretns have always paid for my borther & I's college fees, they've set money aside as they decided to have children and brought us into the world, they feel it is their job to support us and would never see us stuck for money.

my brother now lives abroad and gets help if he needs it, they've payed for his masters. i bought my own books for my last course but they have said they will buy the books for my new course as they cost a bomb!!

I had my car bought for me (for my 21st), phone bill paid for, first year of tax & insurance paid for but everything else is up to me. when i work during the summer, i pay for my own things, my new glasses, contacts, dr's appointments, dentist, opticians etc, gym fees, petrol, social life. I've not been working since August and haven't once asked my parents for money, i somehow tend to make my money last for months even though i have a fairly good social life.

In return for them paying my fees etc, I help alot around the house and do what they ask of me which is to try my best in college and to enjoy my younger years to the max.

I hate seeming that I rely on my parents for money but appreciate so much all they do for me as I see some of my friends having to pay their own college fees etc.And i always make damn sure that they know how much i appreciate it.

22-11-2007 03:07AM

It's mad seeing some of the shambos in their mid to late 20s I grew up and palled with that are still the lad's man yet go home to mammy's every night, have their clothes washed, dinner made.....

sad really. so lazy and childish.

I moved out at 18, moved back at one point for a month while waiting on final agreement on snag etc on house but that was it. Certainly like my own space.

kelle · 22-11-2007 08:42AM

Working since I was 22. They supported me through college and allowed me to live with them at cheaper rent until I got married. Then they gave me a site.

MagicMarker · 22-11-2007 03:53PM

Until you got married? why until you got married?

22-11-2007 04:04PM

Sometimes.

I've been living out of home since I turned 19, and I've been working since I was 13, so I've hardly been stuck for money. But whenever I do get stuck, they do help me out. Though I really do hate asking for money, as I really feel bad for it. One of these days, when I earn enough, I'll buy them a holidays abroad or something.

I'm in college at the moment and still work to keep my rent paid.

Sam Vimes · 22-11-2007 04:06PM

Davidius wrote: »

I'm 16 and I get €100 a month from my parents so that I don't get a job during the school year. Ironically it's supposed to be an exercise in financial independence.

I don't even need anywhere near that much.

that doesn't make any sense. there's nothing wrong with your parents giving you money but its not a lesson in financial indenpence by any stretch of the imagination

22-11-2007 04:18PM

My parents supported me through college, something which I am very grateful to them for. I didn't receive the grant or any other financial assistance. Since I finished college I received nothing, although they had put money towards an SSIA for myself and my brother, which is obviously for a longterm item (i.e. a house!). I don't expect anything from them right now, and have offered to pay them rent, although they have refused. I owe them around €600 at the moment which I'll be paying them back this month and next.

Two of my siblings have bought houses, and they contributed towards the initial amount of it.

XchampagneX · 22-11-2007 04:43PM

My dad pays my college fees but that's about it. I've bought all my own books (law books are a killer!) and I buy my own food and the like even though I live at home. It's not that I have to, i just can. I work during the weekend. Except I was giving out last night though that I even buy my own toothpaste,I am only 19 after all

Rhiannon14 · 22-11-2007 04:47PM

There should really be another option in that poll for kids supporting parents on occasion, as in my case

Toto Wolfcastle · 22-11-2007 09:06PM

I just remembered what my dad says sometimes: Out the door at 24!

He tried changing it to 18 but I pointed out that it doesn't rhyme.

Poor man, I torture him by telling him I'm going to go back and live with him forever!

Stench Blossoms · 22-11-2007 09:14PM

I paid for my own college fee's when it was the normal €850 but my dad paid for me when I had to repeat. I bought my own car but he paid for my insurance.

I work part-time for my dad and don't receive an actual set wage so I just get money if i'm ever stuck.

He also likes to invite me to the pub and fill me with booze for free. I don't like complaining so I just go along with it.

kelle · 22-11-2007 09:28PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

Until you got married? why until you got married?

I just gave a summary of the things my parents did for me financially, when they could have forced me to leave home and fend for myself! I was basically being scabby and lived with them while saving for my wedding and building my house, then we moved into the house when we got married. Have I made myself a little better understood?

l3LoWnA · 23-11-2007 01:23AM

Lil' Smiler wrote: »

Paretns have always paid for my borther & I's college fees, they've set money aside as they decided to have children and brought us into the world, they feel it is their job to support us and would never see us stuck for money.

Yeah, they decided to have "children" :rolleyes: At what stage do you stop being a child though?

Terry · 23-11-2007 01:40AM

My parents are dead.
The OP is an insensitive person and should refrain from asking people questions about their parents, lest he upset someone.

I, for one, am sick and tired of people who don't think about us minorities when they start threads like this. It has to be stopped.

cee_jay · 23-11-2007 11:26AM

I worked part time since I was 16, so when I went to Uni, I lived at home rent free, but paid for everything else myself.
And since then I have supported myself, and once I finished Uni started having to pay rent at home when I lived there - €50 a week when I last lived there in 2005.
I have a friend who is 26, has always lived at home, working full time since she was 18.
She doesn't have an ATM card, her pay gets paid directly into her bank account and has never been touched.
Anytime she wants to go shopping/out for a night, her mother gives her money.
She wants to go on holiday? Her parents pay for it - probably how she has manged to go to New York twice this year, Florida and Spain - all since last February.
Although she did buy a brand new car - cash.

briantwin · 23-11-2007 02:27PM

My dad paid my college registration fee's. But everything else is down to me, food, drink, clothes and all that other necessary stuff to mould yourself into the well rounded individual. Oh and crack!! Lots of crack and light bulbs! Oh and you'll need the empty cylinder off a biro too.

togster · 23-11-2007 03:10PM

briantwin wrote: »

My dad paid my college registration fee's. But everything else is down to me, food, drink, clothes and all that other necessary stuff to mould yourself into the well rounded individual. Oh and crack!! Lots of crack and light bulbs! Oh and you'll need the empty cylinder off a biro too.

Yeah well rounded individual:rolleyes:

rubadub · 23-11-2007 03:20PM

Jay D wrote: »

It's mad seeing some of the shambos in their mid to late 20s I grew up and palled with that are still the lad's man yet go home to mammy's every night, have their clothes washed, dinner made.....

sad really. so lazy and childish.

Yes disturbing. I was in a mates house once, he was around 25 at the time, took a pizza out of the oven still half frozen,- had never heard the term "preheat" before.

Another guy was totally convinced tumble driers ironed your clothes! moaning that the drier we go in a shared house didnt do it. Said "my mother put the clothes in mine and when I got them all she had to do is fold them"

I was washing my own clothes at 12, had no problems with it. Then me & the brother used to miss dinner on fridays & saturdays, and my mother just said "thats it, I am refusing to cook dinner for you on weekends", I think she thought we were going to go "oh no, please, we will be on time in future". We both said grand, and got pretty good at cooking.

The way house prices are it makes sense for people to stay home & save for a downpayment on a house. If they were out renting, their parents might get a lodger in for extra cash, and then be giving it to the kids since the rent is so high where they are. A lot of these parents are living in houses worth a fortune and renting second houses out to other peoples kids for a fortune.

If the houses were not so expensive and things like food were, you would have kids with cheap rent and high wages supporting the parents. Just basic sharing of wealth.

InFront · 23-11-2007 03:36PM

rubadub wrote: »

Another guy was totally convinced tumble driers ironed your clothes! moaning that the drier we go in a shared house didnt do it. Said "my mother put the clothes in mine and when I got them all she had to do is fold them"

I think that's actually true though... I'm no expert, but the heat does gets rid of any creases, and you just fold.

For a few weeks, I had no Iron, and used to iron my shirts with a hair-dryer and my free hand. It works.

Do you parents financially support you?

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