{"id":156347,"date":"2025-11-01T02:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156347\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T02:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:13:13","slug":"bill-linnane-my-22-year-old-daughters-been-sponging-off-us-for-years-but-moving-out-or-getting-a-mortgage-isnt-happening-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156347\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Linnane: My 22-year-old daughter\u2019s been sponging off us for years \u2013 but moving out or getting a mortgage isn\u2019t happening anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">After living a miserly existence, saving every cent she had, the bank told her to come back in a few years\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"She was despondent after the bank appointment. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ttyImages_951640954.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">She was despondent after the bank appointment. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The eldest is on her way to home ownership. She has been working hard, saving hard, refusing to contribute in any way, shape or form at home, eating my food, WhatsApping me in the middle of the night looking for my Netflix password and generally avoiding putting her hand in her pocket on pain of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She loves to save the way many of her peers love to spend and her system of incredibly miserly, mean-spirited living has paid off as she now has a tidy-sized chunk of change to put towards a mortgage, which, given she is only 22, is not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After living a miserly existence, saving every cent she had, the bank told her to come back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[44444,79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-156347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bill-linnane","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115472027244185693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}