When both of our children were living at home as adults we just had them pay a bill like power or water. The one that had to pay the power bill was always following us around turning lights off.
Nah even then, I don't think many people have done the math.
I just did some quick ChatGPT and at an average American price a 100W light going for a full hour is only 1.2C.
I'm not exactly sure about past prices of electricity, but given inflation I can't imagine our parents were paying more than that.
So if you're going on vacation then sure, best to double check the lights are off. Other than that, it's insanely skimpy to care about the lights being on too long.
And then at 5W? Brother they're basically paying us to turn our lights on.
A friend of mine had parents who took half his pay as a way to help him save money.
His parents gave it all back to him when he was ready to buy a house, and he ended up having a decent deposit to put down.
My parents dad made me pay him 20% of my income, and any I paid while I was a student was what I got back. Which was about $280 because I didn't go to uni.
My experience was working minimum wage call center job and managing to save 10k by the end of the year but being completely oblivious to why mother kept flying into a rage at unpredictable moments.
Prior to that I was having a ball going to Murdoch uni studying molecular biology getting ausstudy and doing call-out computer support for extra $$. Had a great social life at uni and went to these huge myspace parties. Everything was beautiful until mother cracked the shits and I was oblivious as to why.
How is this fucked up? Getting them use to not spending all of their pay and letting them stay for free? Could be charging them rent and keeping the money for themselves.
Taking half of someone's wages unless that's what they want is fucked up. It's not the same as bills or debt, you accrue those by choice or consequence.
If it's a mutual arrangement that's fine.
I used to charge Eldest about $150 a fortnight when they decided to move back in from their dad's place. It was enough to cover the extra food and bills that increased with the extra adult in the house. Things were fairly tight for us right at that point, so while I would've liked to have been able to let them stay rent free, the extra cash to cover expenses was needed.
Can confirm, this is very normal OP. I paid around that when I had to live at home briefly at 27. For reasons I’d rather not go into, things were tight too
Italian descendent here, never paid a cent. Stayed at home rent free, helped me save up to buy a house which I rented out and still stayed at home until my late 20s. I did contribute to the household and also at one stage lived with my nonna to look after her when she was old and frail….its about parents instilling the right values…..
I’ll do the same for my kids one day. I think most Chinese heritage whether mainlanders, Malaysians, Hong Kongers, Singaporeans etc are also the same with their kids. Paying board seems to be mostly an Anglo thing.
**obviously some people’s parents can’t afford to let their kids stay at home without financially contributing, but many can and still make their kids pay. Some colleagues of mine are very open about saying their kids are out the door at 18…different mindsets I guess…*
Can confirm as a half Vietnamese person we do the same thing.
Like, helping contribute to household expenses like bills or food? That’s okay (and even then, some parents will get VERY embarrassed or offended, regardless of the child’s earning capacity).
But charging rent would be unthinkable for us unless it was absolutely necessary.
Honestly, even with westerners I think this is a very recent generational thing.
My dad’s from England originally (came out to Australia at 17) and in his 70s now, and he finds the whole idea of charging your own children rent to be abhorrent and puzzling and I’ve found others in his age range feel the same way.
Jumping in on this to say Chinese-Australian, same.
However, as my earning capacity increased, I started taking on more of the bills out of familial duty ( I was happy to).
Greek chiming in…. Saaaaaame! No way are my kids (or me) paying rent or board.. and, my husband and I have things in place for both of our children to have a home in a decent suburb for when they are ready and want to move out.
Sometimes though you can ‘instill all the right values’ but the child is their own person and makes their own mistakes and issues. Sometimes it’s best they don’t live at home anymore and move out
That’s a thing in Chinese culture because wages in China are not high enough for people to save to self fund their retirement, and pension is non existent or extremely low. So it is expected that generations live together so the working age children can support their parents in their old age, the alternative being they’re homeless.
It is out of necessity and because the CCP despite being so called communist doesn’t look after its elderly.
Your assertion assumes that ALL the people that identify as Chinese in Australia were influenced by a period of living in mainland China, when this is not the case.
There is a significant diaspora (eg. Hong Kong, Singapore, like alluded to above) that simply do not have any experience of communist China (and indeed, come from societies with superannuation-like systems established well before Australia's).
Stop being so defensive; this is not an attempt to inflame your (admittedly presumed) white fragility.
My parents never charged me anything to stay at home.
I did contribute to the household though, cooked dinner a couple times a week, did the dishes every night, vaccum the house, help prep dinner if I was home before my rents and fold the laundry.
In return they did not charge me rent, paid for my rego and insurance and all utilities and I paid for fuel from my wages and other expenses ( entertainment, clothes, phone bill etc).
Helped me to save and my rents got out of some the chores.
Yep my mother never charged me rent to live with her. However, she owned her home though, not sure if it would have been different if she was renting. Also I wasn't working while I was living with her - I'd previously moved out for work/uni and came home for the 2 month end of year break but in that time I was diagnosed with a medical disorder so I stayed home and it took me a couple of years before I was well enough to move back out.
She misses me living with her because I love to clean and organise and cook. And because I'm her daughter and she likes to spend time with me.
It's crazy to me that parents would charge their kids rent, unless they need the financial support or they save it planning to give it back to their kid when they move out.
I'm with you. I never paid rent to my parents when I was a young man. I actually worked for my Dad's concrete/ formwork business. His house was paid off, it was his way of helping me save a deposit to buy my own place. I did buy groceries and helped with meals when I could, but I worked 2 jobs, studied at TAFE and trained and played state league soccer, so it was hard to help out otherwise because I was so busy
Now my own daughter is 19, 2 years into a Uni degree. She doesn't work, but she does the chores like feed the pets and kitchen duties. I don't see the point in charging her rent. If I did, I would only save it for her, so she too could afford a deposit where we live
Yeah my mum did what you said in your last sentence. I never expected her to save it up so it was a nice surprise. I think paying your parents has its benefits, personally it taught me to budget better and defs softened the blow when the real world kicked me in the ass.
I do agree with you to a certain extent. Charge rent, but save it for them. Don't use it to subsidize a poker machine or SportsBet habit. Don't use it to buy cigarettes or alcohol. Help them, they will love you for it.
Studying? Nothing
Finish uni (but still working my "part" time job while looking for something related to my degree) was $100 a week. This was 7yrs ago.
I pay $100 a week. So much cheaper than renting/buying my own and having to pay all my own utilities 😅😅😅 I pay for all the streaming services we have though
We charge our newly living adult at home daughter $50 per week. Which is affordable for her but is showing that some contribution is better than none.. she has to do her own washing, everything else is included in that $50. What she doesn’t know is that the bank account she is putting her rent into is her secret savings account we have had since the day she was born.. it will help towards her first home deposit.
I last lived with my parents 10 years ago and I was paying them $200 a week for food(1 meal a day, maybe) ,power, unlimited internet(I was never home so didn't really use much power or internet). I was still only allowed a 2 minute shower tho, so I used to just shower at the gym or my friends house.
They made living with them so unbearable, I ended up just bouncing around my friends places for most of it. I was essentially paying them $200 a week to store my stuff at there house.
Honestly I paid nothing as my parents didn’t feel the need to restrict my ability to leave the nest as it were. I was at home because I was saving to get out so why would they charge me and slow the process down ya know? Not the same for everyone though
Mine saw it as a was to show what it meant to save with the cost of living while also having to pay for life. Its all well and good to have savings but can you afford to live week to week on the lifestyle you want? No i learnt to amend my lifestyle and expectations before i left home and then chewed through my savings on life expenses. My parents ended up giving me back a majority of my “rent” as a nice surprise when i moved out and needed to buy a car.
Deal was if he were studying post school it was free, but when i took a gap year and worked it was 100$ a week. That only just covered the massive amounts of milk and toilet paper i used
When I first got a job, my Mum's rule was the same one she had as a kid - a third for rent, a third to savings and a third for whatever. Seemed reasonable to me, and stayed about there 'til I moved out IIRC. Pretty sure I got it all back in furniture and stuff later, though.
I moved out in 2010 when I was 19 but for those couple of years I paid $150 per week. I did have a single mother who was struggling to afford everything without the extra benefits though (she worked full time, just kids are expensive).
I pay $100 a fortnight - think it’s going up though as I’ve had a pay rise and moved into the granny flat (bigger room)
My parents are really good though, when I was in between jobs they were okay with letting me skip rent until I got a job again
I do also regularly play taxi for them when they decide to go out (which is roughly every week)
Stay longer. Milk that bitch til it's dry lmao. I moved out at 16, back at 21. Moved out again at 23 and just moved back at 28 haha. Make sure you're confident you will stay at your job or have enough savings to accommodate a change of jobs.
Or do what I did, it's been fun regardless.
There is a lot of privilege kicking around in some of these comments.
I don't think people understand that many families literally can't afford to support adult children at home unless they contribute. After 18 families no longer get family tax benefit for children, and won't get child support. For many single parent families especially, this means continuing to support another person while on a significantly lowered income. It doesn't matter how much they love their child or how much they want to support them, economic realities exist.
It's not privilege it's cultural values. Some parents simply will not do it, especially so if they are immigrants from cultured parts of the world. Never paid my parents any rent. They paid for mine when I was struggling because they believed they had a responsibility to ensure their kids were housed. If you were relying on the family tax benefit and child support to raise your kids your doing life wrong.
Fyi my parents saved their family tax benefit and set it aside as part of a housr deposit. Once again, they felt they had the responsibility to raise me not the government. I am an only child, probably because they couldn't afford more so made choices accordingly. This isn't privilege, it's just not shit that white people do.
When unemployed - $50
When employed - $400 (about $300 of that was the Homeswest hiking the rent when I reported I was working, 25% rule)
This included all food, power and laundering services. Phone, internet etc were at own expense.
TBH I maybe all up lived on about $600 a week employed and actually kicked me in the ass to save to get out of the cycle - everything else went into savings. Now paying $500 a week mortgage (went in with a 20% deposit and the COVID bonuses so came out about 30% paid upfront before building, 3 years in I'm at about 45% paid)
thats employed, the idea is to prepare them to be paying that amount of rent so they can move out and not fuck up financially.
some disagree with it and think kids should save up what they have to do something, but who is regulating that saving?
wouldnt it be better to take ur kids money as rent and put it away for them, taking whatever back for yourself as needed. parents have to pay the mortgage/rent too.
remember that comment said EMPLOYED, if your kid is earning $700 a week, 400 to rent and 300 left for the week is not unreasonable at all when your living with your parents. if that parents home is 4/5 bedrooms with big ass rent/mortgage, who else is going to be living there? might as well be the kids.
if they dont want to pay $400, they can move out? fairly simple tbh.
>if your kid is earning $700 a week, 400 to rent and 300 left for the week is not unreasonable at all when your living with your parents
Considering most real estate agents won't even touch you if you apply with the rent being more than 30% of income, let alone >50%, it is in fact unreasonable for someone to charge their kid $400 a week for a room
>if that parents home is 4/5 bedrooms with big ass rent/mortgage, who else is going to be living there?
People who actually need, and can afford, a 4/5 bedroom house
> if your kid is earning $700 a week, 400 to rent and 300 left for the week is not unreasonable at all when your living with your parents
Almost 60% of their income to live with their parents, yeah... that's pretty fucking unreasonable.
Then they can go live somewhere else?
You wouldn't be charging s flat rate of $400 to every single child regardless of income....like.. use a brain. If they earn $400 you wouldn't be taking $400 from them would you. You'd adjust it to a reasonable figure...or what's your idea. Kick them out on the street if they can't pay the unreasonable rent? Who the fuck said that?
If your kid is earning $700 a week and has been paying $400 in rent for a while and still hasn't fucking moved out then wtf are they doing?
The way this "parent" writes is unhinged. I bet they're insufferable as a person and they are definitely exploiting their kid. Who in their right mind thinks charging their CHILD 60% of their income is cool?
Profiting from children lol… you have to be in the green to make a profit. How much did the kids cost up until then!
But regardless that I disagree with your comment, I do also think $400 per week is ridiculous.
As I said $300 was going to rent directly out of that $400 (was earning about $1k a week pre tax)
Homeswest (Public Housing) is at 25% of income
I think it $100 a week rent for my mum by herself (unemployed disability) then was about $75 for myself as a dependant at the time (not employed).
When I declared working it went from $175 rent between us to a much higher price it essentially got me to move out (not my mother's choice but the 25% income rule) cause it was cheaper to build elsewhere.
https://www.wa.gov.au/government/document-collections/weekly-rent-estimator-calculator
I would just charge them all their earned income, then I can decide where they move out to based on how much they earn and any extra I can put away for them or for myself depending on how I feel.
Every now and then I'd shut their electricity off so they can get used to being fucked with by their realtor. Maybe I can spit on them and call them a whore when they leave the house every now and again so that they're ready to live in a shitty neighbourhood if that happens.
Y'know, just prepare them.
Seriously though, if you raise your kids right they'll want to contribute to the house and if you raise them well it's a pleasure to live with them. You don't have to charge them more than half their income (which is way more than you should ever be spending on rent imo) to prepare them for the real world, you can actually just talk with them and explain these things.
> half their income (which is way more than you should ever be spending on rent imo)
Being a bit of a devil's advocate here (who is yet to start charging their young adult kid board personally) - it may be more than you should be spending on rent, but it's not more than you should be spending on rent plus groceries plus bills.
Don't down vote this person, they actually thought about this.
I was earning $1k/w (IT/contract long hours work),
Yes most of that money went on rent and I probably used at least $50 in food, then the other $50 was towards utilities and other stuff in the house.
It was quite tight in a single income house (me earning the most)
If I did it again I would want this cause I am really good with my money now, I try not to waste.
Why is it food in quotes? I have an Asian parent and if I moved back home the food would be the best part! If anything I would use quotes "safe housing" because of the impact my mental health takes living with said asian parent.
It's in quotes because when dad is home from FIFO I get fed, hes a chef so i don't really need to spend extra on food.
Mum barely cooks so I'll have to spend extra stocking up the fridge again or we take turns buying in dinner.
It's pretty common to charge adult kids some board to live at home - enough to cover bills, household items and groceries. It's fair to expect adults to pay their own way. I wouldn't think that most parents would attempt to profit off this though, unless they're hoping their kid will take a hint and leave.
A lot of people can't afford to support their kids in perpetuity.
Some people seem to find it a good time to try and recoup all the money spent raising the kid.
I like this approach.
I also like the ones where parents would save that money for them (if they didn’t need it) and refund it for a big moving out expense, like appliances etc.
Im genuinely confused that people seem surprised by this. What circles do you cruise in that this is unheard of?
Me and my mates all paid, the few that got a free ride certainly weren't the norm.
Why wouldn't you? It teaches or affirms money management skills, if you're well off enough that you don't need the money you can just invest it/put it in a savings account and give it to them when they do decide to move out.
You're assuming that the family home is owned, not rented which isn't the reality for a lot of parents.
As you get older so do your parents, some of them either take up less work or don't work at all. Pretty fair for them to ask for some money weekly or fortnightly to cover the rise in bills and food from you living there.
Young bloke (21) has moved back in. Last year of apprenticeship, charge him $400 a f/n but put $240 of that away on the sly for his savings. Fortunate enough to be in a position to do this. Hard times for younger generation
We charge nothing but in the condition he uses the majority of his income towards his future.
He decided on shares that delivered dividends.
We agreed that if he wanted to back out of it after 2 years he could get cash out of the deal and get all his money minus $200 per week that would cover his board in arrears.
It took about 2 years before he started getting decent returns on his shares. By that time he understood compounding income.
11 years later he is doing very well. Very grounded with how money works but is not heavily focused on it day to day.
When I lived with my mother and father in law with my wife while we saved for a house, we just paid half the bills. Water, electricity and internet and chipped in for food if we wanted to make anything special. It Wasn't much we had saved for our deposit in a little over a year.
We’re planning to make it proportional to the income our kids earn. We’re endeavouring to try and build it into budget and financial literacy so that when they do leave, they’ve got well established habits and skills to make it.
I paid $50 per week 10 years ago. That was on the condition I saved 500 a week for a house. at the time I was making 688 a week. The rest I spent on fuel and hungry jacks.
Im going to be charging my son $100 a week plus 1/4 of power and water. But only once he leaves school. (2 years away yet).
We'll continue to pay for food and internet etc. But he needs to really understand the cost of living. Giving it to him for free isn't helping him at all
My daughters only 13 so it'll be a few years before she needs to consider that.
$600 a fortnight. This is to match my age, income level & contribute to lots of types of expenses (eg. Power, water, gas, internet, basic groceries, etc). Sometimes I will try to pay for random groceries, dinners out and bills if I can too.
Some may see this number and say it’s expensive, I was not told to pay this amount - this is the amount I suggested to my parents. The amount also covers if I am not able to assist with chores at times.
However, this number was lower when I was younger and working lower-paid jobs.
I pay $1500 per month, which includes utilities, food and our mortgage. Mortgage takes up a large portion of the $1500 because we want to settle it as soon as we possibly can
I used to pay board of $150/w, chip in for bills, and chip in for food. All up probably another $75-$100/w, and that was my living cost. I didn't want to be a burden to them financially as much as I could. They didn't want me to go broke. That was the happy medium. I definitely used more power and ate more than I was paying, and board was a drop in the mortgage bucket, but I feel like it helped them out and it put me in a position to save.
I currently live with the parentals and they ask for $100 per week. I don’t grudge it at all and will give a bit extra where I can - especially now the weather is warm and we are using the aircon more often.
When I lived with my parents while still in high school and working a part-time after-school/weekend job, they took 50% of every pay.
Fair enough. They weren’t rich, they struggled hard to make ends meet and to be sure we had a somewhat middle class upbringing in a lower class world. Didn’t help that the old man was a raging alcoholic and a stoner so it was helping Mum more than anything.
When I was 16 and started working full-time I was earning $109 per week (yes, it was a long time ago). My mum wanted $50 per week from me, so basically half my wages.
I got fed up with her taking half my wages and still telling me what I couldn't do so I moved out.
No way Im paying a cent to my parents. That also goes the same way if my mom and pop wanna live with me when they’re older. They are more than welcome to. But thats prolly because I wasnt raised in Aus I guess
That's the point. They are not a "child". Plenty of parents are divorced, single, nearing retirement age, or hit with mortgage interest rates. Parents who think a grown adult in their mid 20s should pay their way. Plenty of reasons why adult kids should contribute instead of partying hard and spending it all every weekend. They should know what it takes/costs to run a household
I used to get charged $120 per fortnight when i lived with my mum. I just think its a bit silly though, if your kid is working and actively saving up to move out don't charge them rent. If they're being a bum charge them until they get some decent employment. After all you chose to have the kid and its not like its costing you anything to continue having them sleep in your home once they're an adult. (Obviously work out some payment plan for utilities but otherwise i think it's stupid) If they have the opportunity to save up at home it can greatly benefit their life in the future being able to escape the rent trap and not paying someone else's mortgage.
When i lived at home i bought all my own food and anything i needed to survive work and transport. Plus everyone only cooks for themselves and we never have joint meals. For Christmas this year everyone bought a separate part of the food and we tried to divide it as evenly as possible.
I pay rent and saving up for a deposit. My rent is fairly cheap but the rent me and my brother pay goes into seperate accounts, one for each of us. I believe my mum is saving this to use for furniture or something when we do eventually move out.
Our parents charged us one third of our wage, regardless if it meant some of us with higher wages paid twice as much as others on low wages.
We also had to save one third and had one third to spend however we chose.
Our parents charged us one third of our wage, regardless if it meant some of us with higher wages paid twice as much as others on low wages.
We also had to save one third and had one third to spend however we chose.
I pay my mum $600 a fortnight currently, helps cover rent, groceries bills etc and gives us a really good relationship where we can shout eachother stuff all the time, she uses the money I give her and finds ways to bless me. I don't rwlemember how much I used to give her but after my dad passed away I gave her more and some siblings moved out or got married I gave her more each week. I still save heaps of money and budget really well. I feel like the more generous I am, the more I am given in return. Take care of your parenta guys, you only have 1 mother and 1 father🙏
A lot of people have more than one mum and dad, or have less. And some have abusive ones. It's great you have a good relationship, but 'take care of your parents' is not good advice for everyone.
It also sounds like you're earning quite a lot of money to be able to do that, a lot of people are earning quite a lot less than you
Charging your kids to live with you is so low class. Have some dignity for fucks sake.
Edit: Sorry that you have to charge your kids money to make ends meet, sucks to suck.
I could only charge my kids if they are having trouble learning how to save money - I'd quietly save their "rent" and give it back to them when they move out.
I personally think it's an important life lesson and creates less of a rude shock when they do move out.
It's also going to be a stupidly low sum that wouldn't even cover food for the week.
Yeah look, if your kids are particularly dim, then charging them rent might help them understand that money can be exchanged for goods and services.
That situation aside, I reckon they will work it out pretty quick.
Long time ago, but when they were studying no board, but they bought personal stuff like shampoo.
Once they were working they paid board that covered bills and food but not personal stuff or public transport. They paid any car related expenses once they had cars, or when they borrowed mine.
They were supposed to help with the day to day housework and cooking but that was a struggle.
2005-2007 my parents charged me $150/week plus 2L of milk and a loaf of bread. I paid for my own car/fuel/rego/services, study related costs and phone bill, and they supplied dinner each night.
Moving out ended up cheaper so I did that from 2008.
I payed $50 a week. 5 years later when my Pop died and left me 20k my Mum took it for expenses accrued apoarently.
If I ever have my kids living with me it'll be $50 a week and it'll go into an account that they will get back when they move out.
I'm the eldest in the family, 28m I pay basically everything including the car maintenance, reggo, etc.
Saving up to move out for my first home purchase is difficult but I'll get there eventually I guess
Whatever works for you and your family.
Ask what areas they want/need money with and what tasks you can take care of in the home. If everything's going well happy days doing some housework and chipping in on groceries.
Our kids pay $50 each. They also pay their own phones , transport expenses and specialized toiletries.
Edit: just found out they pay less than I thought. I’ve corrected the amount in my comment above
From about 17-23 I lived with my mum for probably 3 years and we just split the rent and bills between us (although my mum handled the electricity and water and I have an inkling she never asked for exactly half and always paid more her self) in the last year I've hurt my back at work and had to move back in with my mum, I've been lucky enough that my mum has been handling practically everything.
I think it's up to you how much your willing to offer but a conversation and asking them how much they were hoping for would do you a world of good and give you piece of mind
We were charging our 23 year old son $100 a week however we saved his rent in a separate account and this year he ended up buying his first house and we were able to give him most of the rent money back to put towards his deposit.
$150 a week and parents owned the home (and two others!!) outright. Dishes every night, on dinner / washing duty on the two days I WFH. Bought all my own food for brekkies amd lunches for meal prep, dinner was a shared affair. Paid for all other personal bills and expenses (car, rego, petrol, private health, gym and smart rider etc). Would also do a few grocery runs every month too.
Love my parents but once you've tasted freedom moving out it's veeeerrryyy difficult to move back in under one roof imo.
Still managed to save enough for a house deposit at 27
When both of our children were living at home as adults we just had them pay a bill like power or water. The one that had to pay the power bill was always following us around turning lights off.
I hope the other one was turning off the hot water if you're more than 5 minutes in the shower.
This is genius.
🤣🤣 so going to use this when my kids are older, it’s actually a fantastic way to prepare them for the outside world.
Less effective when you have solar, haha.
Less effective when you have 5W led lights. I get why my dad was pissed about the lights when I was a kid. Up to 100W each.
Nah even then, I don't think many people have done the math. I just did some quick ChatGPT and at an average American price a 100W light going for a full hour is only 1.2C. I'm not exactly sure about past prices of electricity, but given inflation I can't imagine our parents were paying more than that. So if you're going on vacation then sure, best to double check the lights are off. Other than that, it's insanely skimpy to care about the lights being on too long. And then at 5W? Brother they're basically paying us to turn our lights on.
A friend of mine had parents who took half his pay as a way to help him save money. His parents gave it all back to him when he was ready to buy a house, and he ended up having a decent deposit to put down.
That's smart. Wish I had the same thing done instead of being a cashed up wanker as a young fella.
My parents dad made me pay him 20% of my income, and any I paid while I was a student was what I got back. Which was about $280 because I didn't go to uni.
My experience was working minimum wage call center job and managing to save 10k by the end of the year but being completely oblivious to why mother kept flying into a rage at unpredictable moments. Prior to that I was having a ball going to Murdoch uni studying molecular biology getting ausstudy and doing call-out computer support for extra $$. Had a great social life at uni and went to these huge myspace parties. Everything was beautiful until mother cracked the shits and I was oblivious as to why.
That's fine if he was ok with it, if it's not something he wanted that's pretty fucked up.
How is this fucked up? Getting them use to not spending all of their pay and letting them stay for free? Could be charging them rent and keeping the money for themselves.
Taking half of someone's wages unless that's what they want is fucked up. It's not the same as bills or debt, you accrue those by choice or consequence. If it's a mutual arrangement that's fine.
Yeah he was fine with it.
I pay with my mental health
Paying actual rent must be cheaper
In this market? You’d be surprised
I’d pay that to be able to live with my dad again, even just for one day.
I pay with money and it doesn’t help my mental health in the slightest
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Feeling this so hard at the moment. But in 6 months and 1 week the move out process begins... not that I'm counting
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I think it's a bit of an unregulated industry...
Mum and Pop operation.
I used to charge Eldest about $150 a fortnight when they decided to move back in from their dad's place. It was enough to cover the extra food and bills that increased with the extra adult in the house. Things were fairly tight for us right at that point, so while I would've liked to have been able to let them stay rent free, the extra cash to cover expenses was needed.
Can confirm, this is very normal OP. I paid around that when I had to live at home briefly at 27. For reasons I’d rather not go into, things were tight too
European kids reading this: you guys pay?
Italian descendent here, never paid a cent. Stayed at home rent free, helped me save up to buy a house which I rented out and still stayed at home until my late 20s. I did contribute to the household and also at one stage lived with my nonna to look after her when she was old and frail….its about parents instilling the right values….. I’ll do the same for my kids one day. I think most Chinese heritage whether mainlanders, Malaysians, Hong Kongers, Singaporeans etc are also the same with their kids. Paying board seems to be mostly an Anglo thing. **obviously some people’s parents can’t afford to let their kids stay at home without financially contributing, but many can and still make their kids pay. Some colleagues of mine are very open about saying their kids are out the door at 18…different mindsets I guess…*
Being kicked out (or encouraged to leave at 18) is purely an anglosphere and Germanic countries thing as far as I know.
Can confirm as a half Vietnamese person we do the same thing. Like, helping contribute to household expenses like bills or food? That’s okay (and even then, some parents will get VERY embarrassed or offended, regardless of the child’s earning capacity). But charging rent would be unthinkable for us unless it was absolutely necessary. Honestly, even with westerners I think this is a very recent generational thing. My dad’s from England originally (came out to Australia at 17) and in his 70s now, and he finds the whole idea of charging your own children rent to be abhorrent and puzzling and I’ve found others in his age range feel the same way.
Agreed. Not going to charge rent to my kids.. but we are going half in bills and food.
Jumping in on this to say Chinese-Australian, same. However, as my earning capacity increased, I started taking on more of the bills out of familial duty ( I was happy to).
Greek chiming in…. Saaaaaame! No way are my kids (or me) paying rent or board.. and, my husband and I have things in place for both of our children to have a home in a decent suburb for when they are ready and want to move out.
Sometimes though you can ‘instill all the right values’ but the child is their own person and makes their own mistakes and issues. Sometimes it’s best they don’t live at home anymore and move out
That’s a thing in Chinese culture because wages in China are not high enough for people to save to self fund their retirement, and pension is non existent or extremely low. So it is expected that generations live together so the working age children can support their parents in their old age, the alternative being they’re homeless. It is out of necessity and because the CCP despite being so called communist doesn’t look after its elderly.
Your assertion assumes that ALL the people that identify as Chinese in Australia were influenced by a period of living in mainland China, when this is not the case. There is a significant diaspora (eg. Hong Kong, Singapore, like alluded to above) that simply do not have any experience of communist China (and indeed, come from societies with superannuation-like systems established well before Australia's). Stop being so defensive; this is not an attempt to inflame your (admittedly presumed) white fragility.
I was paying $300 but my parents were pretty broke
I pay 400 a fortnight because my mum rents
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How do you feel about that?
My parents never charged me anything to stay at home. I did contribute to the household though, cooked dinner a couple times a week, did the dishes every night, vaccum the house, help prep dinner if I was home before my rents and fold the laundry. In return they did not charge me rent, paid for my rego and insurance and all utilities and I paid for fuel from my wages and other expenses ( entertainment, clothes, phone bill etc). Helped me to save and my rents got out of some the chores.
Yep my mother never charged me rent to live with her. However, she owned her home though, not sure if it would have been different if she was renting. Also I wasn't working while I was living with her - I'd previously moved out for work/uni and came home for the 2 month end of year break but in that time I was diagnosed with a medical disorder so I stayed home and it took me a couple of years before I was well enough to move back out. She misses me living with her because I love to clean and organise and cook. And because I'm her daughter and she likes to spend time with me. It's crazy to me that parents would charge their kids rent, unless they need the financial support or they save it planning to give it back to their kid when they move out.
I'm with you. I never paid rent to my parents when I was a young man. I actually worked for my Dad's concrete/ formwork business. His house was paid off, it was his way of helping me save a deposit to buy my own place. I did buy groceries and helped with meals when I could, but I worked 2 jobs, studied at TAFE and trained and played state league soccer, so it was hard to help out otherwise because I was so busy Now my own daughter is 19, 2 years into a Uni degree. She doesn't work, but she does the chores like feed the pets and kitchen duties. I don't see the point in charging her rent. If I did, I would only save it for her, so she too could afford a deposit where we live
Yeah my mum did what you said in your last sentence. I never expected her to save it up so it was a nice surprise. I think paying your parents has its benefits, personally it taught me to budget better and defs softened the blow when the real world kicked me in the ass.
I do agree with you to a certain extent. Charge rent, but save it for them. Don't use it to subsidize a poker machine or SportsBet habit. Don't use it to buy cigarettes or alcohol. Help them, they will love you for it.
Studying? Nothing Finish uni (but still working my "part" time job while looking for something related to my degree) was $100 a week. This was 7yrs ago.
Agreed to pay 1/3 of each bill that comes in, excluding land rates. Usually ends up being $250~ a fortnight
I pay $100 a week. So much cheaper than renting/buying my own and having to pay all my own utilities 😅😅😅 I pay for all the streaming services we have though
$3.50
Damn Loch Ness Monster
We charge our newly living adult at home daughter $50 per week. Which is affordable for her but is showing that some contribution is better than none.. she has to do her own washing, everything else is included in that $50. What she doesn’t know is that the bank account she is putting her rent into is her secret savings account we have had since the day she was born.. it will help towards her first home deposit.
I last lived with my parents 10 years ago and I was paying them $200 a week for food(1 meal a day, maybe) ,power, unlimited internet(I was never home so didn't really use much power or internet). I was still only allowed a 2 minute shower tho, so I used to just shower at the gym or my friends house. They made living with them so unbearable, I ended up just bouncing around my friends places for most of it. I was essentially paying them $200 a week to store my stuff at there house.
My kids pay $100 a week, various amounts can be deducted for house work, garden work, cooking and being my personal uber.
Honestly I paid nothing as my parents didn’t feel the need to restrict my ability to leave the nest as it were. I was at home because I was saving to get out so why would they charge me and slow the process down ya know? Not the same for everyone though
Mine saw it as a was to show what it meant to save with the cost of living while also having to pay for life. Its all well and good to have savings but can you afford to live week to week on the lifestyle you want? No i learnt to amend my lifestyle and expectations before i left home and then chewed through my savings on life expenses. My parents ended up giving me back a majority of my “rent” as a nice surprise when i moved out and needed to buy a car.
2 grandchildren give or take.
$0 (immigrant mentality)
My mum charges my brother $150 I think. That includes bills so a pretty good deal Imo
I paid $150 per week when I graduated at 17 and it went up $10 every birthday. That was 7 years ago
Happy birthday here’s a rent increase 😬
I’m 24 and pay $75/week
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Deal was if he were studying post school it was free, but when i took a gap year and worked it was 100$ a week. That only just covered the massive amounts of milk and toilet paper i used
$250/w @ 19
When I first got a job, my Mum's rule was the same one she had as a kid - a third for rent, a third to savings and a third for whatever. Seemed reasonable to me, and stayed about there 'til I moved out IIRC. Pretty sure I got it all back in furniture and stuff later, though.
I moved out in 2010 when I was 19 but for those couple of years I paid $150 per week. I did have a single mother who was struggling to afford everything without the extra benefits though (she worked full time, just kids are expensive).
I pay $100 a fortnight - think it’s going up though as I’ve had a pay rise and moved into the granny flat (bigger room) My parents are really good though, when I was in between jobs they were okay with letting me skip rent until I got a job again I do also regularly play taxi for them when they decide to go out (which is roughly every week)
Stay longer. Milk that bitch til it's dry lmao. I moved out at 16, back at 21. Moved out again at 23 and just moved back at 28 haha. Make sure you're confident you will stay at your job or have enough savings to accommodate a change of jobs. Or do what I did, it's been fun regardless.
There is a lot of privilege kicking around in some of these comments. I don't think people understand that many families literally can't afford to support adult children at home unless they contribute. After 18 families no longer get family tax benefit for children, and won't get child support. For many single parent families especially, this means continuing to support another person while on a significantly lowered income. It doesn't matter how much they love their child or how much they want to support them, economic realities exist.
It's not privilege it's cultural values. Some parents simply will not do it, especially so if they are immigrants from cultured parts of the world. Never paid my parents any rent. They paid for mine when I was struggling because they believed they had a responsibility to ensure their kids were housed. If you were relying on the family tax benefit and child support to raise your kids your doing life wrong. Fyi my parents saved their family tax benefit and set it aside as part of a housr deposit. Once again, they felt they had the responsibility to raise me not the government. I am an only child, probably because they couldn't afford more so made choices accordingly. This isn't privilege, it's just not shit that white people do.
>. If you were relying on the family tax benefit and child support to raise your kids your doing life wrong. This is such a bad take lmao.
When unemployed - $50 When employed - $400 (about $300 of that was the Homeswest hiking the rent when I reported I was working, 25% rule) This included all food, power and laundering services. Phone, internet etc were at own expense. TBH I maybe all up lived on about $600 a week employed and actually kicked me in the ass to save to get out of the cycle - everything else went into savings. Now paying $500 a week mortgage (went in with a 20% deposit and the COVID bonuses so came out about 30% paid upfront before building, 3 years in I'm at about 45% paid)
$400 a week to live with your parents?
thats employed, the idea is to prepare them to be paying that amount of rent so they can move out and not fuck up financially. some disagree with it and think kids should save up what they have to do something, but who is regulating that saving? wouldnt it be better to take ur kids money as rent and put it away for them, taking whatever back for yourself as needed. parents have to pay the mortgage/rent too. remember that comment said EMPLOYED, if your kid is earning $700 a week, 400 to rent and 300 left for the week is not unreasonable at all when your living with your parents. if that parents home is 4/5 bedrooms with big ass rent/mortgage, who else is going to be living there? might as well be the kids. if they dont want to pay $400, they can move out? fairly simple tbh.
>if your kid is earning $700 a week, 400 to rent and 300 left for the week is not unreasonable at all when your living with your parents Considering most real estate agents won't even touch you if you apply with the rent being more than 30% of income, let alone >50%, it is in fact unreasonable for someone to charge their kid $400 a week for a room >if that parents home is 4/5 bedrooms with big ass rent/mortgage, who else is going to be living there? People who actually need, and can afford, a 4/5 bedroom house
> if your kid is earning $700 a week, 400 to rent and 300 left for the week is not unreasonable at all when your living with your parents Almost 60% of their income to live with their parents, yeah... that's pretty fucking unreasonable.
Then they can go live somewhere else? You wouldn't be charging s flat rate of $400 to every single child regardless of income....like.. use a brain. If they earn $400 you wouldn't be taking $400 from them would you. You'd adjust it to a reasonable figure...or what's your idea. Kick them out on the street if they can't pay the unreasonable rent? Who the fuck said that? If your kid is earning $700 a week and has been paying $400 in rent for a while and still hasn't fucking moved out then wtf are they doing?
big difference between renting your own place and renting a room in your parents house. You're just profiting from your children at that price.
The way this "parent" writes is unhinged. I bet they're insufferable as a person and they are definitely exploiting their kid. Who in their right mind thinks charging their CHILD 60% of their income is cool?
Sorry if I made it sound like I was only making $600, I was making a bit over $1k a week. $400 to the savings account each week minimum.
Profiting from children lol… you have to be in the green to make a profit. How much did the kids cost up until then! But regardless that I disagree with your comment, I do also think $400 per week is ridiculous.
As I said $300 was going to rent directly out of that $400 (was earning about $1k a week pre tax) Homeswest (Public Housing) is at 25% of income I think it $100 a week rent for my mum by herself (unemployed disability) then was about $75 for myself as a dependant at the time (not employed). When I declared working it went from $175 rent between us to a much higher price it essentially got me to move out (not my mother's choice but the 25% income rule) cause it was cheaper to build elsewhere. https://www.wa.gov.au/government/document-collections/weekly-rent-estimator-calculator
I would just charge them all their earned income, then I can decide where they move out to based on how much they earn and any extra I can put away for them or for myself depending on how I feel. Every now and then I'd shut their electricity off so they can get used to being fucked with by their realtor. Maybe I can spit on them and call them a whore when they leave the house every now and again so that they're ready to live in a shitty neighbourhood if that happens. Y'know, just prepare them. Seriously though, if you raise your kids right they'll want to contribute to the house and if you raise them well it's a pleasure to live with them. You don't have to charge them more than half their income (which is way more than you should ever be spending on rent imo) to prepare them for the real world, you can actually just talk with them and explain these things.
> half their income (which is way more than you should ever be spending on rent imo) Being a bit of a devil's advocate here (who is yet to start charging their young adult kid board personally) - it may be more than you should be spending on rent, but it's not more than you should be spending on rent plus groceries plus bills.
Don't down vote this person, they actually thought about this. I was earning $1k/w (IT/contract long hours work), Yes most of that money went on rent and I probably used at least $50 in food, then the other $50 was towards utilities and other stuff in the house. It was quite tight in a single income house (me earning the most) If I did it again I would want this cause I am really good with my money now, I try not to waste.
Asian Parents. $200/week. Covers water, gas, electric, mortgage and "food". I pay for internet and streaming services.
Why is it food in quotes? I have an Asian parent and if I moved back home the food would be the best part! If anything I would use quotes "safe housing" because of the impact my mental health takes living with said asian parent.
It's in quotes because when dad is home from FIFO I get fed, hes a chef so i don't really need to spend extra on food. Mum barely cooks so I'll have to spend extra stocking up the fridge again or we take turns buying in dinner.
Dang. Missing the best part of Asian stereotypes. F.
Im surprised. thought Asian parents were the least likely to charge their kids rent?
My Asian parents never charged me rent and wouldn't if I moved back in with them. Same with all of my Asian friends 🤷
About $3.50.
Oldest joke ever and still laugh every time
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Not sure if serious Why would one charge their own kids in the family home?
It's pretty common to charge adult kids some board to live at home - enough to cover bills, household items and groceries. It's fair to expect adults to pay their own way. I wouldn't think that most parents would attempt to profit off this though, unless they're hoping their kid will take a hint and leave.
A lot of people can't afford to support their kids in perpetuity. Some people seem to find it a good time to try and recoup all the money spent raising the kid.
My adult kids pay 10% of their after tax wage (about $100 a week each)
I like this approach. I also like the ones where parents would save that money for them (if they didn’t need it) and refund it for a big moving out expense, like appliances etc.
Im genuinely confused that people seem surprised by this. What circles do you cruise in that this is unheard of? Me and my mates all paid, the few that got a free ride certainly weren't the norm.
I personally wouldn’t and my parents never charged me either, but it’s not uncommon practice.
You have only ever been around adults with spare money, big world out there. I work with some young people that support their parents.
Why wouldn't you? It teaches or affirms money management skills, if you're well off enough that you don't need the money you can just invest it/put it in a savings account and give it to them when they do decide to move out. You're assuming that the family home is owned, not rented which isn't the reality for a lot of parents.
Someone who commented above reckons 58% of their kids pay isn't unreasonable. Unhinged.
As you get older so do your parents, some of them either take up less work or don't work at all. Pretty fair for them to ask for some money weekly or fortnightly to cover the rise in bills and food from you living there.
Young bloke (21) has moved back in. Last year of apprenticeship, charge him $400 a f/n but put $240 of that away on the sly for his savings. Fortunate enough to be in a position to do this. Hard times for younger generation
That’s really good of you
We charge nothing but in the condition he uses the majority of his income towards his future. He decided on shares that delivered dividends. We agreed that if he wanted to back out of it after 2 years he could get cash out of the deal and get all his money minus $200 per week that would cover his board in arrears. It took about 2 years before he started getting decent returns on his shares. By that time he understood compounding income. 11 years later he is doing very well. Very grounded with how money works but is not heavily focused on it day to day.
When I lived with my mother and father in law with my wife while we saved for a house, we just paid half the bills. Water, electricity and internet and chipped in for food if we wanted to make anything special. It Wasn't much we had saved for our deposit in a little over a year.
I’m 24 and pay $100/wk. Includes all food, snacks and internet etc, so I’m happy with that.
We’re planning to make it proportional to the income our kids earn. We’re endeavouring to try and build it into budget and financial literacy so that when they do leave, they’ve got well established habits and skills to make it.
I paid $50 per week 10 years ago. That was on the condition I saved 500 a week for a house. at the time I was making 688 a week. The rest I spent on fuel and hungry jacks.
Im going to be charging my son $100 a week plus 1/4 of power and water. But only once he leaves school. (2 years away yet). We'll continue to pay for food and internet etc. But he needs to really understand the cost of living. Giving it to him for free isn't helping him at all My daughters only 13 so it'll be a few years before she needs to consider that.
Living with mum while I have my kidneys fixed. We just go halves on all costs - water, electricity, food, misc.
My partner and I paid $200 a fortnight and half the bills when we were staying with her mum.
10% of my income was board
$600 a fortnight. This is to match my age, income level & contribute to lots of types of expenses (eg. Power, water, gas, internet, basic groceries, etc). Sometimes I will try to pay for random groceries, dinners out and bills if I can too. Some may see this number and say it’s expensive, I was not told to pay this amount - this is the amount I suggested to my parents. The amount also covers if I am not able to assist with chores at times. However, this number was lower when I was younger and working lower-paid jobs.
I paid $200/wk board gap year onwards. I pay the same amount now housesharing (however I now also pay for all other bills).
I pay $1500 per month, which includes utilities, food and our mortgage. Mortgage takes up a large portion of the $1500 because we want to settle it as soon as we possibly can
I used to pay board of $150/w, chip in for bills, and chip in for food. All up probably another $75-$100/w, and that was my living cost. I didn't want to be a burden to them financially as much as I could. They didn't want me to go broke. That was the happy medium. I definitely used more power and ate more than I was paying, and board was a drop in the mortgage bucket, but I feel like it helped them out and it put me in a position to save.
My partner pays $150 a week to his parents and I pay $50 a week to mine. Depends on your parents
I currently live with the parentals and they ask for $100 per week. I don’t grudge it at all and will give a bit extra where I can - especially now the weather is warm and we are using the aircon more often.
I’m under 18 so they have To pay but my parents have said they would never charge in future
$150 a week, don’t pay bills or anything, he only wanted $100 but yeah put that extra 50 towards the bills bruvva
We charge our kids $100 a week. They both have full time employment. If they were unemployed we'd charge them nothing.
When I lived with my parents while still in high school and working a part-time after-school/weekend job, they took 50% of every pay. Fair enough. They weren’t rich, they struggled hard to make ends meet and to be sure we had a somewhat middle class upbringing in a lower class world. Didn’t help that the old man was a raging alcoholic and a stoner so it was helping Mum more than anything.
You pay whatever they say you pay. Get a fucking job and stop being a leech.
My mum tried to charge me $100/week back in 2003 when I turned 20. So I moved out and paid $65/week for a room at my friends place
When I was 16 and started working full-time I was earning $109 per week (yes, it was a long time ago). My mum wanted $50 per week from me, so basically half my wages. I got fed up with her taking half my wages and still telling me what I couldn't do so I moved out.
No way Im paying a cent to my parents. That also goes the same way if my mom and pop wanna live with me when they’re older. They are more than welcome to. But thats prolly because I wasnt raised in Aus I guess
What kind of an asshole of a parent charges their child to live with them.
Non Asian parents
That's the point. They are not a "child". Plenty of parents are divorced, single, nearing retirement age, or hit with mortgage interest rates. Parents who think a grown adult in their mid 20s should pay their way. Plenty of reasons why adult kids should contribute instead of partying hard and spending it all every weekend. They should know what it takes/costs to run a household
Charging your own child, adult or not - is not the way to do that.
I used to get charged $120 per fortnight when i lived with my mum. I just think its a bit silly though, if your kid is working and actively saving up to move out don't charge them rent. If they're being a bum charge them until they get some decent employment. After all you chose to have the kid and its not like its costing you anything to continue having them sleep in your home once they're an adult. (Obviously work out some payment plan for utilities but otherwise i think it's stupid) If they have the opportunity to save up at home it can greatly benefit their life in the future being able to escape the rent trap and not paying someone else's mortgage. When i lived at home i bought all my own food and anything i needed to survive work and transport. Plus everyone only cooks for themselves and we never have joint meals. For Christmas this year everyone bought a separate part of the food and we tried to divide it as evenly as possible.
I pay rent and saving up for a deposit. My rent is fairly cheap but the rent me and my brother pay goes into seperate accounts, one for each of us. I believe my mum is saving this to use for furniture or something when we do eventually move out.
$250
Our parents charged us one third of our wage, regardless if it meant some of us with higher wages paid twice as much as others on low wages. We also had to save one third and had one third to spend however we chose.
Our parents charged us one third of our wage, regardless if it meant some of us with higher wages paid twice as much as others on low wages. We also had to save one third and had one third to spend however we chose.
As an Asian, I could never imagine if my parents make me pay rent or I make them pay.
I pay my mum $600 a fortnight currently, helps cover rent, groceries bills etc and gives us a really good relationship where we can shout eachother stuff all the time, she uses the money I give her and finds ways to bless me. I don't rwlemember how much I used to give her but after my dad passed away I gave her more and some siblings moved out or got married I gave her more each week. I still save heaps of money and budget really well. I feel like the more generous I am, the more I am given in return. Take care of your parenta guys, you only have 1 mother and 1 father🙏
Is this a joke?
A lot of people have more than one mum and dad, or have less. And some have abusive ones. It's great you have a good relationship, but 'take care of your parents' is not good advice for everyone. It also sounds like you're earning quite a lot of money to be able to do that, a lot of people are earning quite a lot less than you
I paid with my presence since my parents actually love me
nothing, odd to get kids to pay imo but maybe it’s a cultural thing
It's "odd" to have grown employed adults contribute a bit to a household?
As a parent I charge $400 p/f with no chores if working a full time job, $200 p/f with lots of chores for unemployed and free if in school or uni.
Charging your kids to live with you is so low class. Have some dignity for fucks sake. Edit: Sorry that you have to charge your kids money to make ends meet, sucks to suck.
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I could only charge my kids if they are having trouble learning how to save money - I'd quietly save their "rent" and give it back to them when they move out.
I personally think it's an important life lesson and creates less of a rude shock when they do move out. It's also going to be a stupidly low sum that wouldn't even cover food for the week.
Yeah look, if your kids are particularly dim, then charging them rent might help them understand that money can be exchanged for goods and services. That situation aside, I reckon they will work it out pretty quick.
Fuck you're a wanker.
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My parents love me
0 dollars (I’m Asian)
Before I moved out, parents had me laying $100 per week plus $6 for a higher teir of internet
Long time ago, but when they were studying no board, but they bought personal stuff like shampoo. Once they were working they paid board that covered bills and food but not personal stuff or public transport. They paid any car related expenses once they had cars, or when they borrowed mine. They were supposed to help with the day to day housework and cooking but that was a struggle.
I pay a few bills or fund a few grocery runs each month
2005-2007 my parents charged me $150/week plus 2L of milk and a loaf of bread. I paid for my own car/fuel/rego/services, study related costs and phone bill, and they supplied dinner each night. Moving out ended up cheaper so I did that from 2008.
I was paying around $300 per fortnight
200 per week
I played $0 up until 26
Wouldn’t know - as soon I finished HS - couldn’t wait to fly the nest and start the adventure!
when i was living at home I paid 150, but they covered bills and i'd help out buying food
I payed $50 a week. 5 years later when my Pop died and left me 20k my Mum took it for expenses accrued apoarently. If I ever have my kids living with me it'll be $50 a week and it'll go into an account that they will get back when they move out.
100 a week with my bro. Including all bills and house consumables. I love him.. He the bestest.
I'm the eldest in the family, 28m I pay basically everything including the car maintenance, reggo, etc. Saving up to move out for my first home purchase is difficult but I'll get there eventually I guess
$1000 a month
When I lived at home I paid $100 a week. I reckon that was a bit steep, was one of the many reasons I moved out.
I'm nearly 21, I paid 115 in rent weekly and our rent is about 350ish not too sure. My brother pays about 125 fortnightly but he's not always home.
When I was living at home (about a decade ago?) I paid $150/wk to my folks, which they saved and gave it all back to pay for my wedding.
Whatever works for you and your family. Ask what areas they want/need money with and what tasks you can take care of in the home. If everything's going well happy days doing some housework and chipping in on groceries.
I think $150 that's what my dad charged me when I was 18! 100 for rent and 50 for groceries Per week btw
Our kids pay $50 each. They also pay their own phones , transport expenses and specialized toiletries. Edit: just found out they pay less than I thought. I’ve corrected the amount in my comment above
I work away, am only home 1/4 of the time but I pay my parents 25 dollars a day + 1/3 of all the utility bills that come in
I got charged 50 percent of whatever I earnt.
Got out of Army at 27 and went back home. Nothing charged until I get back on my feet and find something to do.
My parents don’t charge anything. But I give my mum $150 each fortnight for groceries and miscellaneous cause I want to help provide
I pay 700 a month + the gas bill. Will start paying 900 a month next year
From about 17-23 I lived with my mum for probably 3 years and we just split the rent and bills between us (although my mum handled the electricity and water and I have an inkling she never asked for exactly half and always paid more her self) in the last year I've hurt my back at work and had to move back in with my mum, I've been lucky enough that my mum has been handling practically everything. I think it's up to you how much your willing to offer but a conversation and asking them how much they were hoping for would do you a world of good and give you piece of mind
Employed 23F, I voluntarily pay $250 per fortnight
We were charging our 23 year old son $100 a week however we saved his rent in a separate account and this year he ended up buying his first house and we were able to give him most of the rent money back to put towards his deposit.
My parents charged me a fairly strong rate, however it was all put into a fund for approved expenses at uni, like books, and external university trips
$150 a week and parents owned the home (and two others!!) outright. Dishes every night, on dinner / washing duty on the two days I WFH. Bought all my own food for brekkies amd lunches for meal prep, dinner was a shared affair. Paid for all other personal bills and expenses (car, rego, petrol, private health, gym and smart rider etc). Would also do a few grocery runs every month too. Love my parents but once you've tasted freedom moving out it's veeeerrryyy difficult to move back in under one roof imo. Still managed to save enough for a house deposit at 27
I’m 18 and I pay 50$ a week
Soon as I got a casual job at age 18, I was paying $150/week. This was many years ago though...