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How much do you pay your AP?

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Quattrocento · 11/09/2008 22:06

We pay our AP this:

Mobile phone contract £15 per month
Travelcard £90 per month
Weekly pocket money £65
Language course £900 for the year

She comes to do the supermarket shop or lets me know what she wants in the way of toiletries, food etc and there is no limit on that.

She works 20 hours a week over three set days and has the other four days entirely free. Her work is all childminding, no housework or cleaning.

What do you think? Am I being a bit mean? I remember PPH saying she always bunged her AP £100 a week

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FourArms · 12/09/2008 07:33

Simply - could you ask around with neighbours / school mums to see if anybody needs a babysitter in the evenings. If she could pick up a night of babysitting a week then that would pay for her English lessons.

Simply · 11/09/2008 22:33

Eeek! Ok, an honest answer. £60 for 25 hours which is a mix of language tuition for ds and dd, some cooking (this means that she prepares things she likes to eat for us all), some dog walking, some ironing, hoovering and tidying up.

There's the use of a mobile phone but I don't expect her to use it much for her own social use as she could use the land line or e-mail. If she makes lots of friends I think we'd get her the £10 a month contract my ds and dd have got and we'd pay for that.

Umm, she'd love to drive our car but we don't need her to and she has only just passed her test so I think the insurance would be far too much for us. Plus dh is away a lot and I'd need our second car for ferrying ds and dd around and it would never be here for her to use socially.

She has just got turned down for the free English course at the local college (as her English is so good) and the correct level course for her would be £15 a week which she feels is too much for her to spend and we couldn't afford to pay for it ourselves.

She has a PC in her room and we've bought speakers and what not for her Skype to work.

She has been away with us overnight already and we paid for all food, accommodation and treats.

I think we're paying as much as we can afford. Any more and it would be cheaper for me to give up working part time tbh. Saying that, I'm on a final salary pension scheme so I'd be loathe to do that.

jurahasfoundthehiggsboson · 11/09/2008 22:29

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DadInsteadofMum · 11/09/2008 22:26

If you go over £97/week paid you need to register as an employer with HMRC and are in to the world of pain that is making Income Tax and National Insurance returns.

Pocket Money £65/wk
Mobile Phone £25/month
Use of car:
Petrol £15/week
Tax and Ins £70/month?