Why I'm downsizing to a one-bedroom cottage so my feckless immature children stop moving back in By Anonymous Published: 01:53, 30 August 2024 | Updated: 02:04, 30 August 2024 e-mail View comments My son Jake called last week to say he's struggling financially and needs to come home while he gets himself straight. He's 32, and earns a good salary working in sales. Yet his immature attitude towards money means he still hits his overdraft limit before payday each month and now can't afford to live in his flashy rented flat any more.
From the tone of the call, Jake wasn't asking if he could move in – he was merely informing me of his plans. What annoyed me even more is that this would be his fifth time boomeranging back home after continuing to live beyond his means. And I've heard various versions of this same sob story from both my adult children.
I've only recently been able to call my home my own again after getting rid of Laura, 29, a retail manager, who moved back for the fourth time after falling out with her housemates. Like her brother, she earns good money but has a talent for overspending and seems incapable of managing her finances sensibly like the adult she is. Twice she's come back after running up credit-card debts.
This is the fifth time my 32-year-old son has boomeranged back, and I only recently got rid of my daughter Laura after she came back for the second time, anonymous reveals In fact, both of them treat the family home as a free hotel they can check in.