Who pays board? (1 Viewer)

[shona1990]

Just wondering how many other people do, plus your circumstances etc - Are you working, if so: full or part time? Are you provided with food etc?

I work about 3-4 days a week (gap year), pay $100 a week rent (for a room which I share with someone else who's also paying $100 a week for it), buy and cook all my own food, travel expenses, clothes, gym fees etc. I do all my own cleaning (bathroom, kitchen etc), and in the rare times I do use the phone (mobile calls etc) I'm expected to pay for it. I'm still only 17, while my 25y/o brother who's a computer programmer makes about 3-4 times as much as me pays $130/week and Mum cooks him dinner.

I'm not here just to have a bitch, but was just curious whether you guys think this is reasonable or OTT??

And just for the record, Mum is not exactly struggling, we own a 5 bedroom house in Mosman, she doesn't need the money. Not that I see anything wrong with paying board, I just think I'm paying a lot for what I'm getting. Any opinions?

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[quixote studios]

$100 rent in mosman? shit, I'd be the house bitch for something like that

 

[Foxodi]

25 years old and living with the parents? meh, no comment
Your not paying alot for what your getting - its just you didnt scab off your parents for as long as your brother... Whatever reason that is, its up to you.
If I stayed home and worked part-time (next year), I would prob be paying $75 a week board, with free food etc.

 

[shona1990]

$100 rent in mosman? shit, I'd be the house bitch for something like that

Lol. Its to my Mum. It's not like i'm renting from some random...
I doubt it would make any difference whatsoever where we lived.

 

[SipSip]

My gf pays 250 a week to her parents; but she gets food..

I earn a bit more than my gf...but don't pay board to my parents...i did buy them a new car though...

so i think it really depends on how to show your appreciation doesn't it?

 

[The_highwayman]

i tell my parents i love them. they say that's enough

 

[johnmusic88]

they're teaching you a lesson

 

[rozymisty]

I had to give all my centrelink to mum when i was in high school...about 200 a wk or so, dont know how much i got paid then but it wasnt much. That was forevertyhing, whcih isnt much when you have a family of 5 and the youngest, my sister gets mroe than anyone else..

When I homestayed, i was paying $150-180, whcih includes food and bills and all that sort of stuff.

 

[fernando]

my parents would never in a million years ask me to pay board.

but i spose cultural backgrounds play a part in it.

BAHAHAHA!

 

[Captain Gh3y]

i earnt enough this year that my parents lost centrelink benefits (they both work), so I paid centrelink back for them, and now pay the equivalent in board each week plus some more coz i wanted to

plus i buy a lot of food and other consumables for myself

but i spose cultural backgrounds play a part in it.

Azn and indian: you can live there for free but they control every aspect of your life and you have no free will

wogs: live at home until they're like 50 but own 2 houses they rent out to bogans

anglos (bogans): if you haven't moved out by 17 then there's something wrong with you

 

[champo14]

I pay $60 a week, which is bitchin'.

And plus since I cook most of the food I get to buy whatever groceries I want and my parents reimburse me for them.

Having said that, my house isn't exactly anywhere near ANYTHING, and if they charged my much more I probably wouldn't stay.

 

[mr_brightside]

Yeah I do. Can't remember what.

Sounds like OP is paying fair bit though =\ may as well move out.

 

[Azamakumar]

I pay board no wait my parents love me.

 

[fernando]

I pay board no wait my parents love me.

that's because you're curry.

they don't love you. it's a cultural thing.

 

[Serius]

When i was between places for a few months i paid

$50 a week straight up
$20a week for their net[seen as obviously i was going to be using a good chunk of the downloads
plus random food that i bought whenever i cooked, so like another $20 a week or something

thats still cheaper than what i am paying now, which is $100 a week just for rent, plus own food, bills, petrol etc.

 

[Born2baplacebo]

$100 a week + free net + free austar + upper part of the house to myself completely + free dinner

 

[melanieeeee.]

wait so some people have to pay to life at home. wow never heard that before.

 

[champo14]

wait so some people have to pay to life at home. wow never heard that before.

Yep. Wait until your parents spring it on you.

Or you maybe they'll just do what they did to an old school buddy of mine ; take it out of your bank account automatically.

 

[fernando]

Yep. Wait until your parents spring it on you.

Or you maybe they'll just do what they did to an old school buddy of mine ; take it out of your bank account automatically.

not all parents do it.

 

[Born2baplacebo]

wait so some people have to pay to life at home. wow never heard that before.

You make me go lol with your stupidity sometimes.



....I live 400 kms away from my parents btw.