From starting work at 16 my mother used to charge me a third of my wages....and I had to pay for my own clothes etc.
In addition to that I paid almost another third out on train fares to work 6 days a week, as we lived 18 miles from my place of employment(They moved house a few months after I started the job).
I left home at 18.
I don't charge my son anything, though he has a part-time job, but he IS eating me out of house and home, with doing all the weight-training stuff.
After he finishes his A-levels he reckons he's going to Sweden to study (staying with his mother) , so I'm just happy to have his company at the moment.
