How much do you charge your offspring rent ?

We don’t ‘charge’ ours anything. I so however make them work for 12 hours a day in the mine under the cellar. I think that’s totally fair – you have to learn to work for what you get. I find for 2x 6 year olds and 1x 8 year old that covers the cost of their rags, bread and water. Next year after watching that really good, long-running documentary series, I may set up a lab down there so they can get manufacturing some of that meth stuff. That will surely bring in more income than the sand they are currently digging out.

Over ten years ago, I was paying my gran £50 a week.

If you feel bad taking that much off them, put it away for a deposit on a house but don’t tell them.

Looking back, I think it was a useful lesson for me. It’s important to learn the value of money. I’d say you need to take enough so that what’s left, isn’t quite enough for him to do everything he wants to do.

I paid my parents about £25 a week 7 years ago. Again it depends what he is doing with the money. I was saving to go travelling and for the various things I needed when I got back as I had a proper job lined up and needed rental deposits, a car, smart work clothes, to move across the country etc.

If he is responsible let him keep it. If not maybe keep it for him if you don’t need it.

I paid £150/pm whilst at uni and now pay 200/pm now I’m earning, The reasoning is I can still save for a deposit paying that rent and that will get me out of home sooner, my dads being really subtle about getting me to move out!

What’s the going rate for a room in a shared house your way? I’d look at charging that figure if you want rid or just minus £100-£150 if you like having them around or you could make use of the money (whether for his or your benefit).

On my gap year when I had a ‘proper’ gap year job paying about £800 take home pm, I was paying my parents £200 a month for rent and food. That seemed pretty cheap compared to the other guys doing the same job who weren’t fortunate enough to have parents near by and paid out for rent, food, etc.

That was 20 years ago mind.