We currently share Netflix and other streaming services with our kids who are still in college. Family plan cell service too. It seems crazy to pay separately and I imagine we will continue to share when they are young adults. I am not interested in having them pay or pitch in. My daughter who will graduate in May offered to pay her share of the cell and streaming service and my husband just laughed " um no you are not going to pay us for that…When you you are married I guess you’ll get your own." What if I don’t get married? She said. “Well then we’ll pay til we die since we won’t need to pay for a wedding ha ha ha” (DD was not amused)
How about you? What do you share/pay for with college/adult kids or plan to?
Well, S pays the cell phone bill for all of us. We used to pay but he gets free insurance on the phones by paying for it, so we don’t fight him. We did give him a substantial amount of money for his online business awhile back, and the cell phone bill is a pittance in comparison.
D and S share AAA and we pay that bill. They also share a Costco membership that S pays. D also shared our Amazon Prine account. A has his own. D is on our medical family plan–S was until he aged out and got his own with his employer.
We pay all D’s bills, including auto insurance. We gave her a large lump sum and she’s using it to pay all her bills as they arise.
S is responsible for all his bills and has been since graduating from college in 2010.
Cell phone bill- not the long distance calls.
Costco
AAA
health and car insurance
dd pays her own Amazon and Netflix bill but we “leech” off of that account.
All the family is on the same cell plan, but I use everyone’s credit card info to pay their share, it’s cheaper for all and back when they got cell phones there were many charges for overages so we got in the habit 15+ years ago that each person pays their own cell bill. I’d rather give them a gift they see rather than them never seeing the mobile bill.
There is some sharing around between Netflix, Amazon, Comcast, though now that I think about it, DH & I and one kid are the only ones who pay for a primary, everyone else is a leech!
My ex-h pays for our adult daughters’ cellphone plans (he gets a good deal by sharing the Verizon plan with one of them, whereas I have only a Tracfone). I pay for Netflix, which both Ds share. (I’m not taking advantage of ex-h. D2 is still on my health insurance, I pay for D1’s health insurance, I pay their unreimbursed health-care and dental bills, I sometimes assist them with transportation expenses, and I cover the added costs when they come home to visit.)
I pay the cell phone for everyone but oldest son has a 20% discount through his employer which he gives me by having him listed as an administrator on the account. I also cover the triple play for landline, internet and cable.
Oldest son pays for Netflix, which I don’t use, but which he shares with H and his brothers. Apparently, one of the other boys pays for Spotify, another thing I don’t use, and shares it with his siblings as well.
H and I have the costco cards but a couple of my sons have a close enough resemblance to H that they can use his. If they shop for themselves, they pay cash. If they are with me, they give me the cash and I put it on my card for the rewards.
All but oldest son are still on my health insurance, but I am paying his dental Cobra until he becomes eligible for dental at work. D pays her own copays for medical but I hold the bills and if there’s anything left in the medical expense account, I will submit and get her money back. I cover her dental copays because I am covering oldest son’s dental. Last year, H had two knee replacements so there was nothing left. Depending on what type of coverage D gets, I will cobra her dental as well.
Nobody has Amazon, if I need something, I have a friend who lets me use her Prime. I think I have ordered from Amazon twice in 3 years and both were something the kids wanted.
We share an Amazon prime student account, pay her cell account (a discount plan from my husband’s employer),and she is on our AAA (was on our auto insurance but not now since she lives in a city without a vehicle).
“Nobody has Amazon, if I need something, I have a friend who lets me use her Prime. I think I have ordered from Amazon twice in 3 years and both were something the kids wanted.”
Wow. I think I ordered twice from Amazon TODAY… lol. Once for MIL ( she wanted new reeds for her oboe) and once for me ( my pricey shampoo which is half the cost as it is at the local salon store )
My son and I share Netflix but I pay for it. Son, daughter, husband all share my Amazon Prime but I pay for it. Son, daughter, son-in-law, husband and I are all on the cellphone plan and guess who pays for it? But it’s my pleasure to do so for the kids. We pay for son’s car insurance. He’ll probably pick that up himself if he ever buys a newer car. He has his own health insurance through work but I usually help out with the deductible and coinsurance. He has a lot of serious health issues.
You seem surprised that I don’t use Amazon. I have never really felt a need for it. I use 99 cent shampoo from the drug store and my H and D buy their guitar strings at a local music store in person. The things I ordered from Amazon were a mustache comb and wax that S17 was buying for one of his older brothers for Chanukah and I didn’t know any other place to get what he wanted that wasn’t crazy expensive and a particular yo-yo the same son wanted for himself that was not available at our local sporting goods store.
I have also never bought or sold on e-bay or any of the many other sites. I shop Lands End but I call my orders in. The only things I have ordered online are plane and train tickets and theater/concert tickets, along with textbooks.
My well-into-adulthood daughter uses my Netflix and Amazon Prime. Her work gives her a cell phone and data discount so our two cell phones are in her name, though I pay the bill. She is a medical resident and will likely start paying for her own cell phone in a year when she moves on to fellowship. She has no car, so no need for car insurance.
We share (parents pay) car insurance, cell phone, Netflix, Amazon Prime. I need to get my older son paying for his own car insurance and cell phone…lol. He can easily afford it, but we just forget to bring it up.
Netflix has different rates depending on the number of devices that can be logged in and streaming at any one time. We recently switched to a more expensive tier so our adult kids and MIL can be watching…oh, and we can too. It’s legit.
Oh, we have lots of UR points that we gift D so she can fly without paying out of pocket. If she gets stuck, her brother will also gift her points or miles so she can fly at the last minute at no charge. She’s a very lucky young lady! That’s not really a “service,” but transportation expenses would otherwise be pretty high and she has a hard time committing to firm dates, so she ends up using our more flexible options.
