Son takes £180 out of the cash machine the day he gets paid every month for this year

[Lee2628]

Thoughts? His 17 lives in our house for free as well as food paid for so what could this be?

Booze , cigarettes, drugs, condoms, sweets . He’s a teenager who likes to live on a budget maybe .

How do you know he does this ? Did he tell you or have you been prying into his private business?

Drugs...

Debt?
Gambling?

That's about the cost of an ounce of weed.

Child support?

Yep, I was thinking an ounce (of weed) too.

Thinking positively, could he be budgeting for the month?
Only you know if he's a 17yo buying drugs or trying to manage his money.

Does he use the remaining wages?
Or is that 180 used as his designated monthly spending money maybe?

Alcohol, travel, clothes, tobacco, weed, takeaways, all the usual stuff teenagers spend money on!

I reckon weed. But it might just be petty cash ? Some places you still do need cash - nightclub entry, car wash ( mine anyway), puggy machines etc.

@Lee2628

Thoughts? His 17 lives in our house for free as well as food paid for so what could this be?

Just I have some cash I suppose. It's nice for teenagers to have cash, makes them look good infront of their friends who probably don't have that cash. It's not all bad. Hopefully he's a good boy :) x

Spending money for the month? Maybe hes created a budget for himself. Or hes just having a puff like others have suggested.

Also if you have to split the bill with your friends it’s better to have cash and bus tickets! Where I am they only accept cash.

Or he might be putting into a savings account.

But how do you know ? I don’t really think you should be opening his bank statements!

How do you know? I have an 18 year old but have no clue about any cash withdrawals he makes.
Is this a full time job or is that most of his pay?

If all he spends is that each month then well done him that would of last me a week at most at his age.

If he has a job and it's his own money he's earning why and how do you know this?

Why is everything quick to say weed surely a months supply along with cigarettes would cost more than that.

Why do you need to know? Why can’t you ask him?

@Sweettea1

Why is everything quick to say weed surely a months supply along with cigarettes would cost more than that.

Teenage boy. All teenage boys smoke weed/take drugs/ up to no good according to most on MN.

Weed or coke.

Hi Op
If your son lives with you and he works, get paid once a month

Why isn't he paying towards some thing towards the rent and other house Bills then?
(Surely he could pay a reasonable amount towards these essential bills

(It will obviously teach him life skills, value of money etc..

Have you asked him?

Surely you’d know if he smoked weed though.

Realistically it’s his money, why is this an issue? He could be using it to budget for the month, to put in a savings account, to pay for other things like clothes/perfume/driving lessons etc

Why are you snooping at his bank statements?

Not sure what your issue is, how do you know he does this?

How do you know?