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Living at home contribution

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  • 28-03-2013 9:12pm
    #1
    getoffthepot
    Registered Users Posts: 744 ✭✭✭


    Anyone in their 20's living at home with their parents and working full time.
    Do you contribute & how much ?


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    #2
    [Deleted User]
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    I live at home. Funnily enough.


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    #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,024 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I live at home. Funnily enough.

    I think the OP means living at home with your parents

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #4
    The Dagda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭The Dagda


    However much you contribute make sure you get a VAT receipt.


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    #5
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I live at home. Funnily enough.
    Me too AND I have to pay for everything. It's not fair :(!


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    #6
    fupduck
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭fupduck


    I always handed up a third of what I earned, and my kids do the same


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    #7
    Henlars67
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    When I lived at home and worked full-time I gave €70 a week.

    Lost my job and still gave €70 a week out of my dole.


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    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,653 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Lived at home til I was 22, working from 15, gave up 30% each week, great life lesson from the mother tbh


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    #9
    [Deleted User]
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    I have to show my little madam this thread!


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    #10
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    mango salsa wrote: »
    I think the OP means living at home with your parents

    How many people on here live with whoopsies parents?

    And how much do you contribute?


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    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Roughly about a third of your income, Although each home/situation can be some what different.


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    [Deleted User]
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    stimpson wrote: »
    How many people on here live with whoopsies parents?

    And how much do you contribute?

    Man I laughed waaay too hard at this :pac:


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Lived with my folks til I was 26 (yeah I know....)

    Anyway, I paid them fifty quid sterling a week then, which was I suppose 20% of what I earned back then.

    Looking back, they always gave me my privacy with the wimmins..... clothes washed, dinners made, always food in the cupboards/freezers, no heating/electric bills/phone bills......

    To be fair to them, I think I did alright.

    Still kinda miss home now if I'm to be honest, no place like it!


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    #14
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    When I lived at home I paid €70 a week (more rent than any "outsider" would pay for the standard of accommodation) and my share of the bills.


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    TheUsual
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    Move out and spend it on rent with oddballs and charcters like I did.

    Then your parents can have a life again. Best present ever.


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    Culleeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Culleeo


    I lived at home until I was 26 and I paid €70 a week, some weeks I would pay €100 if I had an extra bit in my wages. When I ended up on social welfare, I used to give €50 a week.


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    #17
    The Backwards Man
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    Since I lost my job making cheese sandwiches I've rigged up sausages on a pulley system so I can eat while I animate without getting off the chair. I offered my Dad a sausage but he didn't want it, he thinks I'm crazy.


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    #18
    herisson
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    It depends on my wages i get that month. Im trying to save for my masters too. So at the moment, i pay the phone/internet bill, chip in buying groceries, on top of doing some of the housework too. My parents appreciate it even though its not a set contribution.


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    #19
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    TheUsual wrote: »
    Move out and spend it on rent with oddballs and charcters like I did.

    Then your parents can have a life again. Best present ever.

    Or they could struggle to pay their bills.

    That's the trouble with moralising about other people's situations - often you just don't have a clue.


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    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Don't give anything; they are dead.


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    #21
    Real Life
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Real Life


    I just give 20 every week, if my mother needs money for something else i give it to her too. I buy most of my own food too.


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    #22
    Ziegfeldgirl27
    Registered Users Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Ziegfeldgirl27


    I am 24 and still live at home, just me and dad at home now. I don't contribute anything. I cook every day, and do his washing and clean the house. I buy the groceries sometimes. It just depends on everybody's circumstances. Yes if I still had my mum and she was doing the cooking and cleaning, and doing all my washing and ironing I definitely would give something. But I do all that myself.


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    #23
    MadsL
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    About time you got on the property ladder, leave it too late and you'll never get a house, go get one of those 100% mortgages ;)


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    #24
    castletownman
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    I live at home and contribute to the Sky Planner schedule and the general entertainment in the house.

    But seriously, I've offered to pay my way but the parents wouldn't have any of it.


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    #25
    Stained Class
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    fupduck wrote: »
    I always handed up a third of what I earned, and my kids do the same

    One Third?. That's nuts.

    I was paying 50 Euro a week plus doing a few odd jobs around the place aswell.

    That was over 10 years ago BTW.


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    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Miss Lockhart wrote: »
    Or they could struggle to pay their bills.
    That's the trouble with moralising about other people's situations - often you just don't have a clue.


    This is After Hours, not Joe Duffy.

    Well actually, it is Joe Duffy.


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    #27
    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    I've never given anything and I couldn't imagine ever even considering charging my kids anything.


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    #28
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    My family home was a big, old, impossible to heat kind of house, it's way cheaper not living there. Not to mention all the associated benefits of not living with parent(s)


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    #29
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    stimpson wrote: »
    How many people on here live with whoopsies parents?

    And how much do you contribute?

    Me but don't tell them yet!


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    #30
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    i give €80 a week, but after receiving a letter from the revenue yesterday stating that i am the property owner ill be taking rent in future ;)


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    #31
    MadsL
    Registered Users Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Stained Class wrote: »
    One Third?. That's nuts.

    I was paying 50 Euro a week plus doing a few odd jobs around the place aswell.

    That was over 10 years ago BTW.

    Why? Rent/Mortgage is typically a third of income. Good life lesson.


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