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Lol no. I live with my parents for now but I finally have a job that will help me save up for my own place. In exchange for living here I help keep up with the house which isn’t too much to ask at all considering I don’t pay rent here. I wouldn’t have the balls it takes to ask my parents for money while friggin living here. 

I would put a bullet in my head if I still live with my parents.  It’s sad to me that so many of my friends do it, simply because they’re lazy.

I’m 20 and I have two jobs…so no…although I do still live with my mom. I’m only a sophomore in college so I’d be lying if I said I was completely independent. 

I got an “allowance” until I graduated from college.  I knew a lot of people that did when I was in college.  We didn’t qualify for a work study job, and when we went to get a job off campus, if people knew who our parents were, they’d tell us we didn’t need jobs.  I remember desperately wanting a work study job, knowing there were 100s of jobs out there, but I couldn’t have one.

I don’t receive any money from them, but I do live at home and don’t pay rent. I do, however, pay my phone/internet bill and I buy my own groceries. I don’t pay rent so I can pay off my student overdraft and save up for a car and driving lessons.

My exes and parents pay for all of my shit. They’re awesome.

I never got one. And I got a full scholarship to my college and have also worked all throughout my college years.
But I do live with my parents :3

I’m 19, and since i dont have a consistent job my parents give me $80 a month to live on while i’m attending college (living in a dorm so my food is paid for through a meal plan)

Mannn either most of you are younger than me or for some other reason want to live with their parents!

I don’t get an allowance, but I also haven’t lived at home for a long time.. I’m 23.

I live at home, so I don’t pay for rent, utilities, or food. I don’t do it because I’m lazy, I do it because I don’t make enough money yet to move out (rent in my hometown is extremely high). Also my parents are pretty laid back and I don’t have a curfew nor do they bother me, so it’s not like I’m starved for freedom.

I have no plans to live here forever, but at the same time it’s hard to see the appeal of moving into a shitty apartment and having to spend virtually all of my income just to stay in said shitty apartment, when I can live at home and save the money that I’d otherwise be using to pay rent.

Hahaha my parents never gave me an allowance.  I was lucky if they would give me $5 whenever I went with my friends to the mall.  As soon as I could I got a work permit and got myself a job.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - are your parents looking to adopt?  

If allowance means money I allocate myself for fun things like mani-pedis and coffee to go, then yes.  My parents don’t give me money, actually, sometimes I have to give them some money to make ends meet.

Nope, I’ve actually never gotten allowance. I was required to do chores/help out around the house with the dishes and laundry because I was a part of the household. So when I come home on the weekends from college, I still have to help out. Haha, but if I ever do need any money, I can just ask. Since I have a job that provides a little pocket money, I don’t like to bother my parents too much about some extra change. 

yup because i don’t work anymore and it’s my first year of college…
so i get around 200 bucks every month.

but i plan to pay back my parents everything and more
when i have the money to

I never got an allowance. 

I have never gotten a regular allowance. However, my mom is really good about giving me money if I need it. In high school she’d give me gas and food money if I asked. Now in college we have an unspoken agreement that every time I see her, she gives me money when we part (around $100 usually). That way I have something to keep me going for the next who knows how long. One time I needed money for a course packet so she sent it to me in a birthday card.

LOL. I don’t live at home anymore but I just got 50 bucks from my mom yesterday for cleaning all the windows in her house. She says she doesn’t hire anyone professional for the work until I’m “old enough” to make big money on my own. I often get allowance but I always try to do something (cleaning) around the house.

I never got an allowance when I was a kid. I just simply behaved and got good grades and in exchange, I went to the mall nearly every week with my mother and she’d buy things for me nowadays, I earn my own money and go to the bank to cash it out counting my own hard earned cash never felt so good my mom used to say that I spent all of her money so now nobody can say a thing and I buy whatever I want. I don’t like anybody doing things for me, especially buying things for me anymore. I have this newfound cashmoney power lol I feel like a rapstar sometimes so this is what it feels like to be boss rofl

I never got any allowance from my parents, but they always paid for something if I needed it and are allowing me to live at home rent-free in May when I graduate, so it all balances out, I think!

I never received an allowance growing up, we considered it being a responsible part of the family.  I earned money by doing extra chores for people in my neighborhood.  In high school I got a job and saved 50% of what I made (should have saved more) for college.  I paid for my college by hard work, and never asked my parents for anything.  Though I admit my mother insisted on sending a gallon of milk and a few canned goods with me when I came home.  I value my education more than most of the spoiled brats that went there.  It sickens me what some kids feel they are entitled to these days.

No. The last financial help I received was help with college. I paid 1/4 of my room, board, tuition, all of my books and all of my personal expenses. I am nearing 60 and my parents are now gone. I have never relied on them for anything after I left home permanently upon graduation.

I paid all of the tuition, room and board for my daughter. She paid for her books and personal expenses while going to school. She is now 27, supporting herself and hasn’t asked for a penny from me. That is just what adults do. There may be a few exceptions, but Very few!

I have learned to squeeze by without loans from my parents over the years. Haven’t rec’d a penny from them.

A lot of young people who live in NYC have their rent paid for or at least subsidized by their parents. Or a trust fund (which is a formal allowance arrangement).

Parents also paying for their grandchildren’s private school education because the parents of those children are too poor to afford the tuition themselves.

I live in Germany where parents receive child benefit from the state for each child up to the age of 25 as long as the child is still going to school. So while I was attending university my parents gave me that money plus a little extra since I didn’t live at home. I still had a job though because I coundn’t have lived on the benefit and allowance alone. 

I don’t have an allowance. I do live with my parents, though. There is no way I could support myself at this point so, they’ve agreed to let me stay here until I can afford rent or can’t stand them anymore. I have to help my mom with her business on my days off and take my younger siblings to school. It equals out to about $100 per week.

My dad handed me some change when we were at the bank and said “Here’s your allowance” a couple weeks ago when I was home. Then I did it to him later when giving him his change for something I bought at goodwill. 

My parents give me money for my rent and pay my utility bills (and also take care of the books and tuition for college each semester). I work to pay for everything else, including my groceries. So I guess the money I get to pay my rent could be an allowance? Starting around August, September, I’ll be cut off, though because I start work as a tax accountant, haha.

Pffftt. I’m raised by Vietnamese parents. I grew up in Viet Nam. We don’t even know the definition of allowance. Lucky kids in America get allowance, but seriously though, we don’t know what an allowance is. I didn’t even learn what it is until a few years ago :/ And I doubt that my little brother will grow up knowing what an allowance is either.

With that said, I earned everything I have. Through scholarships, a few extra jobs, and a whole lot of saving up the money I get for New Year.

I never did! You should not have to get paid for helping your parents around the house.

My parents are so considerable that after getting a job, they still give me some money for conveyance. God bless them.
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