To Adults Living with their Parents, do you "Pay Rent"?

[Avocado LaSchaap]

Seems like everyone ends up moving back home after college (including me, haha). But I'm curious about what you pay for and what your parents pay for. Like. . .

Do you pay rent or help with the bills?

Do you buy your own clothes and toiletries or do your parents continue to buy those for you?

If you have a car, did you buy it yourself? Do you pay for gas or insurance?

And. . . do your parents pay you to do jobs around the house ever? Not chores but like, painting or reno work or gardening or anything?

I know every family is different, but I'm curious.

 

[ams]

I'm with my dad right now while I'm completing my second degree. I buy my own clothes, toiletries and food. I also have a certain area of his house that I live in so I clean and take care of that area and the kitchen whenever I use it. So basically the things that I don't pay for are rent and utilities (which I'm pretty grateful for considering I'm paying $10,000 a year in tuition and don't have time left over during the school year to work). I also let my dad claim my tuition tax credit in his name so he gets a little money from me in that way. I just bus everywhere so I don't use a vehicle but I pay for my transportation myself as well. I can't say there's been any big renovation work or anything that I could have helped with but if there was I definitely wouldn't be paid for it!

 

[Fleshy]

I'm living with my mum, I don't "pay rent" but I buy all my own stuff: clothes, food (although I still do use food that I don't buy), toiletries, phone bills etc. I do things around the house for free, I wouldn't ask or expect money for things like that, and I never have. I help my mum out with money things when she needs and often pay for family meals/days out and things like that. My mum always said that she doesn't believe in charging her children for living at home, specially if they're still in education/studying but now that I have some sort of money I really should be paying more I think, maybe helping out by paying for electricity or paying digs/rent or something

 

[ShinyYoshi]

I'm living with my parents over the summer until I go back to my university but they don't charge me rent. They buy food and I buy pretty much everything else for myself. I've been paying for my own clothes and gas since I could drive and had a credit card (so about 6 years now). I don't pay for the insurance and I didn't buy my car, my dad did and he makes the car payments and pays my cellphone bill. He also pays my tuition for college and rent if I'm living in an apartment. I'm very fortunate to have a dad that pays for all of this stuff while I'm a full time student. But I've been told MANY MANY times that school is my number one priority and if I screw that up I'm out on my own.

When I move out in August he actually won't be paying my rent, but he will still be paying my tuition and car bills and I'll still be paying for all my own stuff that isn't related to the car (except gas, I pay for that).

 

[piske]

I recently moved back in with my parents after a breakup of a long term relationship. I buy all of my own things/pay my own bills but they graciously don't charge me rent/utilities. I'm using it as an opportunity to save to pay loans and save up for a home c: it's difficult sometimes as I'm older but they help me take care of my dog and I get a lot of free dinners heh ; v ;

 

[guardgirl]

i am 19 years old, i pay for my phone, clothes, food, and insurance. my grandma and i share a car, and i pay for gas. i get paid for gardening and cleaning my great grandmothers house because she cant do it herself. my grandma doesnt make me pay rent because she would rather see me use the money for college and working towards getting my own car. im so lucky that shes so supportive.

 

[Soda Fox]

I don't live with parents any more, but we did move in with my in-laws for a short time when my husband and I moved to a new state. We originally didn't pay rent to them (we were getting established) but we would do chores, buy food, pay bills and buy them things they wanted but wouldn't buy themselves (like a grill and fixing their hot tub)

They did ask for rent after a month or two, in addition to everything else we were doing, so we cut our losses and moved in to an apartment. Not only did we spend less money but we also had less chores to do.

 

[Aquari]

well i dont live with my parents, but with my brothers, ive quit my job about a month ago, so im just on cleaning and cooking duty lol

 

[ZebraQueen]

I don't pay a daren't with my parents
But I do have a car so they are always telling to but stuff for them
With their money so I guess I'm fine
I got my own money so I buy whatever I want

 

[Heisenberg]

I'm a college graduate and I live with several roommates still to lessen the cost of rent; but if I lived with my parents I would pay rent.

 

[Emachi]

No my mother would never ask me to pay rent or do anything. She knows me, I play video games she does whatever she wants and we don't have any problems.

 

[Balverine]

I moved out about 2 months ago, but when I did live with my parents, I would pay some on the bills and help with food

 

[MozzarellaSticks]

No. The idea of that is just weird to me, but I come from a culture where moving out is weird. Your parents are supposed to support you, and in turn you support them when they get old. Even married couples will sometimes live with parents for a bit.

 

[Dim]

I am 19, and although I have been living for free my whole life, my Dad recently had to make my siblings and I pay him $100 rent every month due to financial problems. We also take turns paying for gas to fill up the car since we all are being driven to work. I really don't mind though, it's the least I could do.

 

[visibleghost]

i'm not an adult, but when my older still brothers lived at home they didn't have to pay rent to our parents. they did however have to help out more with cooking and stuff because they were adults but not pay anything.
guess it would have been different if they were like 30 and not doing anything to try to get an apartment but uh yyeah no that wasnt the case

 

[piichinu]

Even if I did (which I won't be) no they wouldn't make me pay? That's mean

 

[Hurplepippo]

We have a give and take relationship. It's pretty awesome.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

Do you pay rent or help with the bills?
I pay $250 dollars, 200 is rent and 50 is for help with the bills, it started as just for summer when we run the air a lot, but then my mom blamed us for the electricity being so high, even though when it was just me and her she never complained... My sister, her boyfriend, and my boyfriend all pay $300 and 50 for the bills as well. So me and my boyfriend, who share one room and have like no rights to do what we want in our $600 room... We get yelled at for doing laundry even. It's a great time.

Do you buy your own clothes and toiletries or do your parents continue to buy those for you?
I buy my own everything, the only thing my mom buys for me are presents on my birthday and Christmas. I buy my own everything else. My sister, her bf, and my bf split buying toilet paper and stuff, but everything else we buy ourselves. My bf and me split paying for food.

If you have a car, did you buy it yourself? Do you pay for gas or insurance?
I own my own car but don't drive it, even if I had a licence I wouldn't be able to drive it because we have 6 employed people who need to drive to their jobs... I pay for gas for it but not insurance, I do help pay to get it fixed when stuff happens to it and pay registration which nobody else helps pay for... It's super cool. :/

And. . . do your parents pay you to do jobs around the house ever? Not chores but like, painting or reno work or gardening or anything?
I work 40 hours a week, grave shift, so when I am up it's usually middle of the night, to early morning, and my mom yells at me to do chores and help around the house, but it's usually in the morning right before I go to bed so I don't really do much, since I am up at like 3am, if they didn't mind me vacuuming in the middle of the night I would totally do it. I helped my mom put in a yard when we first moved in, got heat stroke from it and everything but she didn't pay me, she has my boyfriend do "honey-dos" like fixing stuff and yard work but rarely pays him for it, only because he lazy af boyfriend never gets around to it, and he often does the work when her bf says he's gunna do it, because he cons my bf to "help" and then he ends up doing most of the work.


I also pay for my own phone bill and insurance.