Better than all red . Thanks ! <| sep |> As others have said , start charging room boardrent . I ' m currently 30 , and when both myself and my brother were still in high school , our dad made the rules very clear about what would happen when we graduated If we went on to local post secondary , we could continue living at home rent free If we didn ' t go back to school , we had to start paying rent . If we didn ' t have a job to pay for rent , we had to get one . I lived at home for a year after highschool , paid rent , then a month before I turned 19 I moved to Alberta from BC on my own to start my own life . I strongly feel that having the clear , defined rules made it easier for me to prepare for s e lfsufficiencyindependence . I would be embarrassed to still be living at home today , especially if I wasn ' t paying any rent ! O