Pocket money / Allowances

I did not get an allowance. I had to clean the bathroom every weekend and do the family's laundry.. and I got nothing special for it. Though if I wanted money for something all I had to do was ask. It's about the same with my kids. They have chores they're expected to do because they make most of the mess. They do not get an allowance, but we'll buy them things when we can afford it and if they want something and we have the money we'll give it to them.

I got an allowance and I had to earn it....my kids got an allowance and they had to earn it.....my grandkids all get an allowance.....and they all have to earn it.....must be a trend in my family......I had tons of chores to do when I was growing up.....my kids shared alot of responsibility due to me working all the time.....my grandkids don't have to do quite as much as I did but that's because of all types of inventions etc that make our lives so much easier!

My mom hated ironing so by the time I came along , if it needed to be ironed, it remained in the store!Yes I got an allowance, a little money I could use to buy anything I wanted. Plus I got money for each A and B I got on my report card. My mom told me going to school was my job. The only " chore" I had was to clean my room. My mom Needed me to graduate highschool!

I remember I didn't get any pocket money from my parents until I was admitted to a secondary technical school that is hundreds of kilometers away when I was 16.Then I stretched the pocket money and never squander it.Usually I spent it on books or something else that I did need.My son is our only child, but we didn't pamper him and gave him less pocket money .When he was in his teens,sometimes he made some pocket money by handing out merchandise flyers.

When I were a lad I got 6d a week for doing chores. That included cleaning out the fire, rekindling it, lighting it and making sure it was burning brightly before the rest of the household were up. Then I'd have to see t'it garden - weeding, earthing up the potatoes and fetching in the vegetables for me mother to cook laters for us tea. After school I'd do errands and made sure me grandmas were OK too. Then after tea I'd wash pots and put out rubbish and take dog for a walk. And all for an old sixpence. Mind you, I could do well on a sixpence in them days. I could get a half price bus ticket into town, buy some sweets for pictures and get a cheap seat in the stalls, have fish and chips on the way home and read The Beano I'd bought from the local paper shop and still have change to give back to me ma to help with gas. She never told me father I'd got money for helping her or he'd clip me round ear hole and me mother too. He was hard me father. Used to sit in front of fire all day and never complain about the heat like I did when I came home. And when you tell kids today about this, they won't believe you.

I used to get money for chores. But at the same time I used to get £40 a month for nothing. I think they were trying to teach me how to like balance my money, ie- £10 a week, and to ration it myself, or else save a little and stuff lol! I can't say it worked, now I splurge when I have it lol!

When I was a kid in elementary school, my weekly allowance was $5, which was a lot of money back then, and when I got to middle school it was $10. When I got to high school, I worked, but I also got $20 a week because I had more things that I had to pay for.

I did not receive an allowance or pocket money. Every time I needed something I had to ask. So when I got in higher grades I skipped my lunches and kept the money. I gathered pop bottles to recycle, etc. When I was old enough I did child care. I felt horribly impoverished. I gave my kids allowances. I had read somewhere, and it made sense to me, that all members of the family deserve a portion of what the family earns. In addition, all members of the family are obligated to help take care of the home and family--hence we have chores. Allowance was not tied to chores, because that would have been to easy to say, Oh well, keep my allowance I do not feel like doing my chores. Now they could do extra chores for extra money. I am afraid I got even more complicated. I took cash each payday for school lunches, however, if they chose to pack food from home, that money in the envelope for lunches was theirs to spend at school or church activities. Their allowances were theirs to save or spend, but if they had overdue library books, they paid the fine. One of the first things my daughter saved for was a Papasan chair, and when she had the money I drove her to the specialty store to buy it. It was $79 and she was about twelve. My son bought a video game, used, because in my opinion it was not necessary. When he saved the money up, I drove him to go get it, though.

When my parents could still afford to give us allowances, yes I did have it. But one thing that was taught to me at an early age is that a portion of my allowance should go to my piggy bank. I was only seven at that time and I still carry that practice up to now where I have a piggy bank and make it a point to save something from my earnings each month. I recall that I was given P1 at that time ($.04 nowadays but back then this was big money) and I need to put P0.25 in my piggy bank. I must've saved a substantial amount that time because sometimes I would drop my whole P1 coin in my bank. Unfortunately our house got robbed that time and my piggy bank got stolen. So I never knew how much I had saved. I don't have kids, but when I do I will also give them an allowance. But I will also teach them my piggy bank method because having a piggy bank is a life saver. Right now I have a piggy bank (okay it's a doggy bank because it's a Walt Disney Dalmatian figure) that is already full. I bought a new coin banl that looks like a bear and is round. I plan to buy another piece of jewelry from what I will save from these coin banks.

Dad used to give pocket money to my elder sister, younger brother and me. My sister would get the highest pocket money. Mom Dad never asked us to buy anything particular from that money. It was our decision whether we want to save that money or buy something from it. We would only buy greeting cards and gifts for each other and for our parents from that money and save the remaining. By the time we all reached college one by one, we had a good amount of individual savings.

when I was a child - decades ago lol...- my parents were divorced. My dad paid child support. When I was 8 and my sister 7, he gave my mother an additional 5 dollars a week, which was for me and my sister to have for an allowance - 2.50 each. That was quite a sum back then - around 1964. I would save half in a little savings account I had - and then put an additional .25 away in my own piggy bank each week. At the end of the year, that was my Christmas shopping money. It was usually between 12. and 14.00 dollars, which then was the perfect amount for getting a gift for my dad, my mother, and my sister. The other dollar each week I would spend on comics and candy...lol...when I hit my teens, my dad upped it to 5.00 each a week for us. I continued doing to same, only this time, adding 1.00 a week to my personal piggy bank, 1.50 went towards my bank, and the rest was mine. Sometimes I'd save it for a few weeks to buy an album or something else I wanted. By then, though, I was making good cash babysitting, something I began when I was 11. I could make ten to twenty dollars each week babysitting. Plus, I worked whatever other odd jobs I could. My mother never used the child support on us, so I needed to make money to buy clothes and such. End result was I ultimately moved out at 17, put myself through college, starting when I was 24 and graduating at 28, and even now, I can generate money by working at whatever is available. With my own kids, I gave them money as needed. They never asked for much anyway. Their relatives always gave them plenty. On their father's side, that is.

Hello friend, Yes i recieve the pocket money in every month. Now i also recieve it. Because i am a college student and i recieve it from my parents. Have a nice day.

I did, from time to time. I used to help with the housework. It would be a good idea to start with a small amount and tell him/her that if it is used properly, and if they help with the chores it will increase accordingly. I'd say that you give them freedom to spend it as they like, but just keep tabs on what they purchase.

I am the luckiest daughter EVER! My parents are very supportive. They always provide us with allowances, during school and even after. I have been working for almost two years now. Today is my third job. So basically I haven't establish a stable savings account on my own. I was only a month old at my current job and without my parents I guess I can't go on. Since I'm new, I haven't accepted my salary yet so all of my expenses now are saved by my loving parents. When I become a parent also, I will also support my children just like my parents did.

it is a good idea to give your child an allowance because it teaches them how to manage their money. we actually never did give our kids an allowance just because we couldnt afford to.

When I was about 11, I started doing the dishes of my own volition so that my mom could spend more time with my dad. So they decided to give me 25 cents a week. As far as I know, I was the only one of us kids that got an "allowance". After high school, when I was lucky enough to be working, I'd give my two younger sisters an allowance of $1 a week. We all did chores, but it wasn't as a stipulation for getting paid. We just did them because it was expected that everyone would contribute in their own way.

I was given an allowance for basically doing small, understandable chores around the house. Making sure my own room was tidy, washing my own clothes and during the summer months cleaning and oiling the deck and window frames of the house. Nothing too major, and I got enough money to let me socialise with my friends each month. I could do extra work to make some extra money, which was helpful if I wanted to save up for something like a new video game or a music album.

I did not get an allowance. I had to do housework while my brothers went out and helped Dad. I hate housework. Always have and always will. Maybe that's why. My Dad worked construction. He got paid when he worked outside the home. He felt if we wanted to get paid, we should workout side the home. Besides, as a person who didn't have a constrant paycheck, he couldn't provide a constant allowance anyway.

My parents did give my sister and I an allowance for a little while, but for a good part of my teens and such, they didn't really do it. It was something that only lasted for a little while. I'm not sure why they stopped. All I know is that they did, for one reason or another.

When i was younger..no i didn't get money of any kind. Growing up with 8 other siblings made me responsible for everyone younger than me. Now as a mother myself when my 6 yr old does something like not fight with her little sis for a whole week or get up out of bed all by herself and stuff like that then i buy her a new skirt or a pretty dress or cute shoes! I wrap them up for her and make it look nice and I go on to tell her why im giving her this(these) things. I think that shows her how much i appreciate what shes done. Later on im thinking when she's a little older. When she's a preteen then she'll have to earn that in some way or another. Now that she's 6 about to turn 7 in late July i give her choises and i allow her to choose what she wants but i always tell her that everything we including her everything we do have consequences.if we do something wrong/bad then those are the consequences that are going to arise. I know she doesn't completely understand but the more i tell her the better she'll understand what consequences are. My neice once told me that being older is not so good because when ur little, everything is taken care of for u! when u get older that changes.