News, Do your parents still pay your cellphone bill? You're not alone. (teaching, boys)
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I am 27, I moved out at 19 and got a land line in my apartment so I could use the internet. I didn't get a cellphone until I was 20-21 and my parents were not a part of that. My parents never paid for anything for me aside from food while I lived at home.
At 16 I got a job so I could pay for the gas and insurance on my (old, paid off) car so I could go to work. I don't think I ever actually made money but when your parents expect you to get a job you do.
I don't understand this mentality of parents paying for everything in their child's life.
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I am 27, I moved out at 19 and got a land line in my apartment so I could use the internet. I didn't get a cellphone until I was 20-21 and my parents were not a part of that. My parents never paid for anything for me aside from food while I lived at home.
At 16 I got a job so I could pay for the gas and insurance on my (old, paid off) car so I could go to work. I don't think I ever actually made money but when your parents expect you to get a job you do.
I don't understand this mentality of parents paying for everything in their child's life.
This thread is not about that.
It is about parents, at their own discretion, providing light financial assistance to their young adult children who are trying to make their way in a very tough economy for millennials.
I have a FT job as a May 2012 college grad, but my mother has helped me out on occasion. I'm not happy that I end up needing her assistance sometimes. I'm hoping to advance in my career soon so I can be totally independent. I guess she figures me having a entry-level job in a high COL area like DC and putting experience on my resume will leave me better off and is cheaper for her than sitting in her house in Kentucky on unemployment not gaining any experience.
My mom put me back on her cellphone plan at Christmas and got me an iPhone.
I pay her $40 a month, I don't even have to take it to her, I can just pay online or over the phone.
It's pretty nice.
I had a prepaid phone before that and my mom wanted to get me something nice because she'd seen all I sacrificed.
It's much better than paying $100+ a month for a decent phone with a decent carrier.
I love my phone, I love that I can pay a reasonable amount and I love the gratification that I get from knowing that the big cellphone companies can't gouge another person for their money.
I pay for my newly out of the house 19 year old son's $30 phone bill. He pays his own rent, utilities and insurance and gas. I know he lives paycheck to paycheck.
If I didn't pay it, it would probably get shutoff and I'd never hear from him again.
Once kids are out of the house, they can either pick up their own plan or split the entire cost (not just the $10/month).
I was confused by this post. My husband's phone is our "main" line, so his is the most expensive. Each additional line adds $10 a month to our plan (including our 18 who is living away from home). Why would I expect her to pay half of the whole cost of our bill? Her phone line only costs $10. If we removed her phone, we would still be paying almost all of the bill anyway...
Is this what you were talking about? Making my teen child / adult pay for half of our plan?
I was confused by this post. My husband's phone is our "main" line, so his is the most expensive. Each additional line adds $10 a month to our plan (including our 18 who is living away from home). Why would I expect her to pay half of the whole cost of our bill? Her phone line only costs $10. If we removed her phone, we would still be paying almost all of the bill anyway...
Is this what you were talking about? Making my teen child / adult pay for half of our plan?
Seems unreasonable to me...
He didn't say "half" - he said split, which I assume means an equal share. Let's say we have a plan with 2 adults, 3 kids. When one becomes an adult, if they want to remain on the plan, pay 1/5 of it. Seems fair to me.
I disagree. It would be unreasonable imho to expect my young-adult child to pay 4 times what their phone is actually costing me (this statement is based on my phone bill). It's hard enough to get your feet under you as you leave the nest without insisting that you pay for your siblings phones as well as your own (again, based on my phone bill).
I disagree. It would be unreasonable imho to expect my young-adult child to pay 4 times what their phone is actually costing me (this statement is based on my phone bill). It's hard enough to get your feet under you as you leave the nest without insisting that you pay for your siblings phones as well as your own (again, based on my phone bill).
How would he/she be paying for their sibling's phones by paying their own share, not theirs?
And um, I paid for my own phone once I went to college - didn't have one prior to that, had a beeper (late 90s) prior to that, which I paid for fully when I bought it at age 14. It wasn't very pricey, just don't get the plan with all the bells and whistles.
I have a 21 year old niece who is going to a community college and still lives at home. Her phone bill is paid by her parents, but she pays for her car payments each month, gas, clothing, food, haircuts and anything else she needs besides toiletries (shower/bath stuff, toothpaste) that her mom will buy for her. It's kind of strange to think of all the stuff she independently pays for, yet her parents cover her phone bill.
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