Do you help your parents financially?

[Martinus]

I'm curious how many people do this (mainly focusing on people who have parents who are retired, obviously, and not active professionally).

[Grey Fox]

Only my father is retired and no.

It's still the other way around.

[crazy canuck]

I began assisting my parents financially when I started working - around the age of 13. 

[Barrister]

No.

Mom is retired with a teacher's pension.  Dad still works contract / part time.  They appear to be doing okay.

I have resigned myself that any future home should ideally have a mother-in-law suite for, well, my mother in law...

[MadImmortalMan]

I began assisting my parents financially when I started working - around the age of 13.

Ditto.

Mom owed me twenty grand on the day I moved out. When the total reached $35,000 I gave up on it. A significant amount of my mother's existence is still subsidized by me, and I'm about to buy a house for her to live in.

[Zanza]

No. My parents both still work and both have a higher net income than me.

[Valmy]

Ditto.

Mom owed me twenty grand on the day I moved out. When the total reached $35,000 I gave up on it. A significant amount of my mother's existence is still subsidized by me, and I'm about to buy a house for her to live in.

Heh never loan family members money.  It is either a gift or do not give it at all.

And no my parents do really well.

[Eddie Teach]

 

[crazy canuck]

Ditto.

Mom owed me twenty grand on the day I moved out. When the total reached $35,000 I gave up on it. A significant amount of my mother's existence is still subsidized by me, and I'm about to buy a house for her to live in.

Heh never loan family members money.  It is either a gift or do not give it at all.

Given the fact your parents are well off, you were never in the position MiM and I were/are in.  When my parents asked me for money they always said it was a loan which they would pay back as soon as they had the money.  I quickly learned there was no chance I was ever going to see that money again but kept up the pretence of it being a loan because it seemed easier for them that way.

[Brazen]

No, still poorer than my retired father. He's giving me a loan to extend the lease on my flat which was refused by my mortgage company, for shame 

[Richard Hakluyt]

My mother does not need any financial help. But my mother-in-law lives in a house that we have provided, I should add that both of these people have been very generous to us in the past.

[MadImmortalMan]

Given the fact your parents are well off, you were never in the position MiM and I were/are in.  When my parents asked me for money they always said it was a loan which they would pay back as soon as they had the money.  I quickly learned there was no chance I was ever going to see that money again but kept up the pretence of it being a loan because it seemed easier for them that way.

Yep. That's how it happens. Things keep "coming up", but we'll get to it soon. Meh. Let them keep their dignity.

[CountDeMoney]

It's still the other way around.

Ditto;  both my parents are comfortably retired, and they're looking at bankrolling me in the future.

Already told me they won't let me move back in. 

[derspiess]

It's still the other way around.

Ditto;  both my parents are comfortably retired, and they're looking at bankrolling me in the future.

Already told me they won't let me move back in. 

Your mom still takes care of her boy, with all the meals she makes you.  Lucky bastard.

[CountDeMoney]

Your mom still takes care of her boy, with all the meals she makes you.  Lucky bastard.

LOL, don't buy into all the hype;  if it's something she's made and she doesn't like it, it's passed on to me.  "Well, I didn't like the way it turned out", or "it smelled funny".  Thanks, Mom.