charging kids board

[the big bang]

my mother was taking $300 a week from me, i was making around 700ish a week.

no i'm not joking.

one of the many reasons we now don't talk.

[Gozu]

In the late 90's I suggested to my mum $75 a week might be fair but still pretty much paid for all my own food. When I was gone the most my brother would give mum was $40 a week without buying any of his own food and he was a machine when it came to eating too. She was actually financially better off when he moved out.

[Pidge]

I don't pay board, but i'm pretty good with saving money, which is good i guess..
I've heard plenty of my mates say.. "Oh, can't go out this weekend. Only have $5 in my bank account"

[The Dark Knight]

I pay $100 a fortnight which works out to be a little more than 10%.

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

I've never paid board, don't know of any friends that have really either.

[Bully]

my mother was taking $300 a week from me, i was making around 700ish a week.

no i'm not joking.

one of the many reasons we now don't talk.

something that we agree on BB. I dont talk to mine either for many reasons

[bayman]

my mother was taking $300 a week from me, i was making around 700ish a week.

no i'm not joking.

one of the many reasons we now don't talk.

that is amazing i suppose it is good work if you can get it but seriously almost half, geez!! you could have been paying off a house & quickly with that kind of money ($1200.00 per month)

[the big bang]

my mother was taking $300 a week from me, i was making around 700ish a week.

no i'm not joking.

one of the many reasons we now don't talk.

that is amazing i suppose it is good work if you can get it but seriously almost half, geez!! you could have been paying off a house & quickly with that kind of money ($1200.00 per month)

yeah, and i was only 17 or 18 at the time. and if my girlfriend stayed over more than 2 nights a week, i had to pay an extra $50.

[A Mum]

All I can say is Blimey Charlie TBB

[fisho mcspaz]

That's ****ed up! You can rent a whole house for well under $300.

I was in and out of my parents' house from age 16, but whenever I was living there I would pay $50 a week in board. I think I was 18 when Dad first started charging me. When I was 21 I came home from the US and Dad raised it to $60 a week. I didn't get along with my family and I spent most of my time staying in Mr McSpaz's one-bedroom flat in Coro, but I reckon $60 was still fair enough, I did eat their food and use electricity and stuff whenever I was home, and Centrelink was giving me $800 a fortnight on the single mum's pension* plus study allowance, so I could well afford it.

*I wasn't rorting the system - when I was 21 I'd only just started going out with MM and we weren't living together as a family until the following year.

[Brucetiki]

That's ****ed up! You can rent a whole house for well under $300.

My mortgage is around the $300/week mark!

[Pag]

I didn't pay any while I was studying (high school and univeristy) while working part-time, as soon as I finished my degree it was $100/fortnight which I still thought was a good deal. That was 18 months ago, in that time I've managed to buy myself a new car and bought a house and moved in, so I guess the olds are now probably even happier than I was before.

[Squawk]

I reckon a combination of Booney + Fish is a good one, at age 14.

10% with the parents matching it dollar for dollar on the QT
+
10% savings that they can watch grow.

As they get a bit older, you can tweak the percentages.

[Dirko]

yeah, and i was only 17 or 18 at the time. and if my girlfriend stayed over more than 2 nights a week, i had to pay an extra $50.

Struth would've been cheaper to ditch the GF and head down to Hansen Rd.....

[the big bang]

yeah, and i was only 17 or 18 at the time. and if my girlfriend stayed over more than 2 nights a week, i had to pay an extra $50.

Struth would've been cheaper to ditch the GF and head down to Hansen Rd.....

indeed! where was your wisdom 6 or 7 years ago?!?!

yes, the rent on the house mum we were living in was $320pw. and it wasn't like mum wasn't making any money herself, i estimate she was on around $800-$900 a week. mind you, she spent a helluva lot of her money on cigarettes and useless nic-naks from cheap as chips.