I think I would go the way of mrsmopp, take quite a large amount which would force encourage him to look for work, save it secretly, then give him a lump sum towards a deposit for renting when he needs it, or for car insurance.
Yes, DS is a student studying music. I really can't see him getting steady work. He occasionally gets commissions, a few hundred here and there, or music-related jobs such as setting up recording equipment, but steady it is not. However he has always said that he would be happy to stack shelves in Tesco and carry on writing in his spare time. We shall see. Currently he earns money to supplement his lifestyle by belonging to the OTC. He has to spend weekends out camping in horrible weather, be on hand to do crowd control at large events, march in displays, put down sandbags in floods, that sort of thing. However that automatically ends when Uni does, unless he joins up as an officer for real.
I used to have to hand over two thirds of my earnings to my mother. As I was saving up for a house deposit, and knew she didn't need the money, I felt very hard done by. Then as soon as I married she left my father. My housekeeping was her running away fund. I realised then why she was upset when my sister moved to Birmingham to a new job - she had lost the income from her.
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic
Another Tired Kicking For The Sick And Disabled By Rishi
Do you still have all your own teeth?