Pocket money (merged)

tiff

Mine have to do jobs, like loading the dishwasher, cleaning out their hamster cage etc. They get paid for each job and we add it up at the end of the week. If they dont do any jobs, they dont get paid.

I have always paid for my 12 year old to play football and they have always had sweets on a Friday. He saves up birthday money to buy anything he wants, which is usually stuff to modify his scooter.

Fang_3

I'd say about £10 a week, but on condition that he saves half of it.

shellsuit

I used to give them £10 a week, but then the baby came along and we booked a holiday and we booked our wedding so we stopped.

If they NEED something, we buy it.

If they go out, we give them the odd few quid here and there.

Son has just spent the last of his Christmas and birthday money on clothes and now realises that money doesn't grow on trees.

He asked me to apply for him to deliver papers (which I swore I'd not let him do, but if he wants to do it, why should I stop him?!) so I did, and he has been selling drinks at school for a quid a pop, so in 4 days he has made £20. (And before anyone has a go about that, I was smoking and drinking at 14, so I'd rather he sold pop at school than be like I was!)


As soon as we come back from holiday in 3 weeks, their pocket money will start again at a fiver a week, then I'll see how they go and up it to a tenner a week if they don't waste it.

They are good though and normally save it up for clothes (which I hate, but hey, I was a teenager once, urrghh lol)

pinknfluffy0

My kids are 6 and 7 and get £10 a week each plus I pay for their activities

busiscoming2

My ds2 is 13 and he gets £5 per month. He spends practically all of it on sweets and drinks, porobably in the first couple of weeks. If he goes to the cinema I give him a little bit more.

ciderwithrosie_2

Recently started giving my 15 yr old a set £50 a month paid into an account. He has to budget this to last him, for cinema, gigs etc and if he sees anything extra he wants clothes/accessories wise (I still buy most of his stuff). He's expected to do agreed small chores to help us all as a family rather than just to earn pocket money, I don't get paid for washing up, so why should he? He's been doing a paper round once a week since he was 12 (took it over from older brother unofficially until he was 13) but the money's got less and less as people can't afford to have their papers delivered and the supplier's trying to cut costs.

MsHoarder

Does he pay for school lunches? Our system after starting at secondary school was cost of average lunch plus £5 time number of years we'd been there. That way money didn't need sorting out each day to pay for our lunches, and all personal essentials had to be paid out of this (we could use the family shampoo etc, but had to pay for the special stuff).

Becles

He prefers to take a packed lunch to school. He said the queues in the canteen and snack bar are really long, and he'd rather stuff a sandwich down in 5 seconds and use the rest of the lunch break to play football

I do pay for toiletries and stuff like that, but they get whatever is on offer. Eg Lynx was on £1 a bottle last time they needed shower gel.

Ex-Spendaholic

My 11 year old was getting £5 every Saturday to last him the week. The result of that was that it was spent on rubbish - ice cream, drinks, sweets etc before the weekend was over. This irked me as he was buying stuff in the shop that we had in the cupboard. He asked for a raise. :eek: What we are now doing is giving him £1 per day everyday except for Sunday. The reason behind him not getting it on Sunday is that he is with us all day and isn't out with friends etc. Miraculously this has brought about a complete change. He loves getting the £1 a day and rather than being frivilous is quite stingy with it. For example he'll buy a cadburys fudge for 15p rather than his usual choice of a galaxy at 65p. He is now just using 50p of the £1 per day and saving the other 50p. So he is spending £3 per week and saving £3 per week.

In addition he gets his monthly phone top up of £10 - when its gone its gone and I refuse to top up any more. He also gets a guitar lesson of £12 per week. If he is going swimming or to the cinema then we pay for that and give him a little extra for sweets.

In return he is responsible for walking the dogs once each day (twice if we are seriously under pressure).

My 7 year old and 2 year old don't get pocket money. They never ask for anything although they are very partial to showing me nice dresses in Next. :rotfl:

Jacqu79

My son will be 12 in August and up until now I've just pretty much bought him stuff he's wanted/needed and given him money to do things, but recently all I seem to be doing is giving him money which I don't really have, so decided enough was enough, and opened a bank account for him yesterday. The plan is to pay £20 a month in when I get paid, and that's to last him the month. Will see how that goes!:D

He's actually very stingy when it comes to spending any birthday/christmas money he gets, so he'll probably still have the full £20 in the bank by the end of the month!:rotfl: