How Much Pocket Money?

[Lakelord]

Question from a mate of mine at the pub this lunch time. He has a 15 year old daughter and was wondering what the going rate is these days? I've no idea so over to you lot...

[pilchardthecat]

No idea but i'm really not looking forward to my daughter becoming a teenager.

I would make whatever the amount is somehow inversely proportional to the amount of flesh on show when she goes out. Bonus money for wearing a hessian sack and cast iron pants.

[AndrewW-G]

Have a chum staying here at the moment, his 14 year old is on £50 a week! . . . . . I've asked to be either adopted or for a significant rise in rent

[Cock Womble 7]

pilchardthecat said:

I would make whatever the amount is somehow inversely proportional to the amount of flesh on show when she goes out. Bonus money for wearing a hessian sack and cast iron pants.

Oh right, spoil it for the rest of us whydoncha.

[WorAl]

Cock Womble 7 said:

pilchardthecat said:

I would make whatever the amount is somehow inversely proportional to the amount of flesh on show when she goes out. Bonus money for wearing a hessian sack and cast iron pants.

Oh right, spoil it for the rest of us whydoncha.

you horrible man.....it's the truth though

[blueg33]

My 15 year old gets £5 per week and is happy with that. We live in a village and he has nowhere to spend it.

[Gusanita]

I think it depends, do their rely on the pocket money for luxuries - going out with friends, or do they need it for buying clothes as well as luxuries.

I never received pocket money but my parents bought me everything I needed and wanted (within reason) and gave me just enough to cover the occasional outing I had. I didn't go out much so it worked fine. It worked great with my younger sister as it was a means of controlling how much she went out.

If it's for luxuries I'd say no more than £40 a month, if it's for everything I'd say the same but maybe give them a 'bonus' if they particularly need something.

[Jasandjules]

AndrewW-G said:

Have a chum staying here at the moment, his 14 year old is on £50 a week! . . . . . I've asked to be either adopted or for a significant rise in rent

£50? FFS I worked when I was a kid and got less than that a week from my job. I think I got about £5 from my parents..

[Hammer67]

Little MissH67 is oh so sweet 16 and gets £50 a month.

[Robert Burns]

Hammer67 said:

Little MissH67 is oh so sweet 16 and gets £50 a month.

£50 a month,

I was lucky to get that in 2 months.

[pilchardthecat]

Robert Burns said:

Hammer67 said:

Little MissH67 is oh so sweet 16 and gets £50 a month.

£50 a month,

I was lucky to get that in 2 months.

Luxury.

When i was a lad we used to live in a cardboard box and eat coal.

[sparks_E39]

I had a paper round from 13 to 16 so my pocket money stopped. Think I was on £10 a week.

[Hammer67]

Robert Burns said:

Hammer67 said:

Little MissH67 is oh so sweet 16 and gets £50 a month.

£50 a month,

I was lucky to get that in 2 months.

OK so what are you trying to say then?

[Cat Face]

I was given £20 a week then. My school was in the centre of town so it was good enough for the weekly Starbucks and I could easily save up to buy a game or whatever.

If she lives in the middle of nowhere I guess she won't need much as she can just have her parents buy her clothes etc.

[AndrewW-G]

pilchardthecat said:

Robert Burns said:

Hammer67 said:

Little MissH67 is oh so sweet 16 and gets £50 a month.

£50 a month,

I was lucky to get that in 2 months.

Luxury.

When i was a lad we used to live in a cardboard box and eat coal.

Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

[Mr GrimNasty]

I remember when mine went up from 2p to 5p a week. And yes it was decimal you cheeky.....

[mathewb]

I don't consider myself old or particularly old-school, but anything over £10 a week is taking the piss. But then, what does a bus fare and a cinema ticket cost these days anyway?

[cartel]

15? Get a job!

I stopped getting pocket money when I was about 12

[Major Fallout]

pilchardthecat said:

Robert Burns said:

Hammer67 said:

Little MissH67 is oh so sweet 16 and gets £50 a month.

£50 a month,

I was lucky to get that in 2 months.

Luxury.

When i was a lad we used to live in a cardboard box and eat coal.

Cardboard box?

You were lucky.

We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down at the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.

[ArtVandelay]

I was on a tenner a week 4 years ago, more than ample.

Phone contract too...