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We have 14 year old and 13 year old in the house.
We would like them to take responsibility for their finances.
We plan on giving them the money for lunches, BB's and bike club subs, some clothes money (we buy pants and uniforms...) and pocket money.
I have an idea how much this is - but how much do you give your teens, and what are they expected to use the money for?
Depends how many chimneys they sweep. They're on price work.
I pay my 13 yo daughter £40 pm less her mobile contract, for this she does her ironing, clean room etc and has to pay for anything discretionary from this sum. We still pay for (school) bus fares, school uniform, sports kit etc.
How much do you want them to spend on booze, Mary Jane and her relatives? Just pay for everything and pretty much anything you vaguely approve of. Hand out cash and it will be frittered away on unhealthy activity.
We don't have an allowance for our 13yr old daughter.
Food and clothes are essentials. And clubs we feel are very good for learning and personal advancement.
She knows there's not a bottomless pit of money, so going to the shopping arcade every weekend is out, as is overpriced designer clobber. If she wanted to start a new club or activity, another would have to stop.
If she wants anything extra she has to work for the cash.
She knows there's not a bottomless pit of money, so going to the [b]shopping arcade[/b] every weekend is out, as is overpriced designer clobber. If she wanted to start a new club or activity, another would have to stop.
What era are you living in ?
I've not heard that for years, thanks for making my day !
What era are you living in ?
Child of the late 60s - bought up in the 70s - it's not a ruddy 'Mall'.
I also like to use shopping precinct, that really annoys my daughter!
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no its called a shopping centre !
!shopping precinct
I pretty much got what the muffin man described, but then again I had little interest in clothes/stuff so I pretty much muddled through on £2.50 a week pocket money till I was 16 then got a Saturday job.
Before anyone suggests less than £10, so how far £10 doesn't go...
Until my son left school he got his £20 pw Child Benefit, and now at college his Grandma tops up with £50 pm.
His mobile sim-free £15 is paid by us.
We live in the country though, and it takes 3 buses (or us taking him) to get to the town where his school/college friends are.
£60/week like JSA but pay for any one-off things that are a decent investment
same as Bimbler.
£60/week
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About £10 a week but I pay for clubs and clothes as don't see why she should pay for those.
She walks the dog when I'm at work other than that nothing much else. She understands the concept of cash even my 9 year old does.
£60/week
I'm looking for a new Sugar Daddy 😉
Jokes aside, when I was 16 (so erm, 20yrs ago) it was £50/m
Of course, no such things as mobile phones and transport was one of my bikes. I saved for everything else with my saturday boy wages in the LBS of £20/week
My 15yr old gets £40 per month with, from which her mobile contract cost is then deducted, paid into her account each month. We still pay for school trips, school uniform, sports kit and necessary clothes (I.e. make sure she has sufficient, in our opinion, clothes), she pays for more clothes if she wants them, trips out with friends and so on. She doesn't have specific tasks to earn this but whatever we ask her to do she does without complaining, so it's a fair balance. It's worked with her as she does save for things, and doesn't fritter it away.
Just about to start the nine year old on pocket money, not sure he'll be quite so good!
My pair had found themselves jobs @ 14, son in a car parts store and daughter waitressing. I started when I was 10 as was the way for farm workers in the early '60s 🙄 never realised how chuffed and at the same disappointed my auld man was about thus until it came up in conversation recently! He passed away just before Xmas and I'd been taking him around some of his old haunts and meeting old friends in the process.
Granted, this was over 20 years ago, but my pocket money reflected my age. At 13, I got £1.30, 13 - £1.40, 15 - £1.50 etc PER WEEK. I did grow up in the sticks however, so didn't really have a lot to spend it on... Can't even imagine how parents cope with the pressures of modern living nowadays...