How much pocket should children be given

My eight year gets £ 2.00 a week to spend on comics, football stickers etc, but it is dependent upon bedroom being reasonably tidy!

I forgot pocket money this week so got fined an extra pound!


:rolleyes:

Depends on the household income, and whether the kids deserve any.

They should do jobs around the house to increase it, but misdemeanors should cause a decrease.

So lets say 20p at three years old increasing by 20p per year so they get £2.20 @ age13.

10% deducted for each wrongdoing, 10% increase for each job.

A regular 'extra' could be given for tidying their bedroom weekly.

It works in our house. They can 'earn' £5 or more a week, or get nowt. Its up to them!!!

:thumbsup:

a few years ago that's what i had to do, tidy my room and do dishes to get cash and stuff. now i'm at college and we have a dishwasher, and my rooms a tip :)

what weirds me out a little these days is like 13-14 year old kids going into shops with like, £40+ to spend on Playstation and stuff. i'm all for it, especially if they've saved the money, god knows i can't save money at all, but would you really trust kids that old with that amount of cash?

being a non kid owner myself, i can only relate to myself when i was a child. I think i got £1 a week. I'm 26 now so i'm not sure how that works out. This isn't much use at all really, is it?

I got 10p a week when I was about 6, increasing by 10p for every year I got older. It felt really odd when I got a paper round and I could actually afford to buy things without saving up for weeks.

i got about £1 or £2 a week til i was about 14, then for some reason it stopped! still, it encouraged me to get a job the moment i turned 16!!!!!

i never got pocket money, sometimes my mum would buy me a magazine or something tho. and i didnt have to earn it :thumbsup: hehe but if i had kids id give em some pocket money every week if they were good etc, say a quid a week n if they wanted something that cost more theyd have to save up

Originally posted by Andy78
being a non kid owner myself

hehe :D

i never used to get pocket money :(

I used to get a fiver a week off me Nan.

Over the years this has doubled to a tenner about once a fortnight or every 3 weeks depending on when we can get up there.

I never had pocket money, had a paper round from age twelve then started delivering milk a year later, at the time (twelve years ago) £20 a week was a lot for a teenager so i was happy.

I never had pocket money as such, more the case of being given money as and when I needed it i.e. if I wanted a comic etc. Although, this was really restricted so I wasn't spoiled. Later, I was made to do a paper round to earn my own money. I shall be raising my children in exactly the same way, should I have any.

i get £30 a month (£7.50 pw) but for that i was two cars once a month, wash up 2 times a week, bedroom tidied ebey week, hoover once a week, and possably cook once a week.

the £30 pays fo reverything i do, going out with mates, swimming, sweets, mags, ect.

i also have a paper round and lots of contacts for labour.

im 15

Sounds like you earn your keep Fletch!

Keep it up.

Bet it riles you a bit when others your age probably get £10 per week just to bugger off from under their parents' feet.

:(

Originally posted by markham
Sounds like you earn your keep Fletch!

Keep it up.



yea, good lad :thumbsup:

I started getting pocket money when I was 11ish, when I went to secondary school... I used to get £5 a week, which was more than my friends got, some got as little as £2 a week... By year 8, or year nine, it was upped to £10 a week :D I had that right up until my 17th birthday, then my parents decided that they would pay for all my driving lessons, theory test, driving test, instead of giving me pocket money... :) I had a job for 6 months, but packed that in, but I receive EMA payments, which is in effect pocket money, once I have forked out for my mobile phone bill, gym membership, savings for holidays etc...

I have learnt the value of money through not having a job... I used to splash cash like crazy with working at meadowhall, so now I hardly go there anymore, I've saved tons and tons for my holiday and been able to afford a lot more from my EMA payments by budgeting :)

Originally posted by Fletch
i get £30 a month (£7.50 pw) but for that i was two cars once a month, wash up 2 times a week, bedroom tidied ebey week, hoover once a week, and possably cook once a week.

the £30 pays fo reverything i do, going out with mates, swimming, sweets, mags, ect.

i also have a paper round and lots of contacts for labour.

im 15

That would be one car.

And how often do you get the full amount ?
And how often do all these things get done? I believe it was only one washing up last month, so you are not that desperate for the money.

It is for you to with as you please though. It is quite funny how my mates that pay you get jobs done (wash cars, do gardening) get them done much quicker than i do. They think he's a great lad (and they are right sometimes :) )

The unfortunate thing is Fletch goes to school with many kids that get there family allowance given to them for not doing a lot at all.

He didn't comment on the money that goes into bank account for him, though he is not allowed to spend this (if he wants to learn to drive when he is 17) without explanation.

Maybe i am tough, but i was expected to do jobs like wash up, without money promised, and if i didn't do them i didn't go out. If i did them i would get 50p to to youth club for the night. On a Sunday i was not allowed to go out to mates until i had hoovered (moving everything) downstairs. I always thought my mother seemed to be a slave driver, but i lived there too and why should i not do it.

Originally posted by Fletch
i get £30 a month (£7.50 pw) but for that i was two cars once a month, wash up 2 times a week, bedroom tidied ebey week, hoover once a week, and possably cook once a week.

the £30 pays fo reverything i do, going out with mates, swimming, sweets, mags, ect.

i also have a paper round and lots of contacts for labour.

im 15

It does seem like you deserve what you receive. Well done.

it is two cars! or at least it was 2 days ago!

i dont get all of it most of the time because you dock me £10 for not doing a washing up

it was only one washing up last month because i had hurt my leg and couldnt stand up for a long time at once

i do jobs for others quicker than i do jobs for you because they pay better than you! (so naturally do it for them)

do i really go to school with people like that do i? have you ever even met any of my mates???

yeh i get £20 in my bank each month! but if it didnt get in now i would only be asking you for it then!

i agree with having to do work for money its just when you rip me off! but things have changed since those days.

And how many nights a week do i ever go out with mates? i go to scouts wednesday and Thursday and do stuff for my D of E and comunity. the only time i really spend my money is when u take me to the pub for a drink and even then i glass collect for some extra drink and ect

Er,...... fuzzy, Fletch. Is this a family argument going on here?

If so, I'll but out of this one.:confused:

i get £50 a month but that covers everything i do in that month includingt travel to n from skool(a bus and a tram each way), going out wiv mates holidays and nething else i want-as wiv skool i dont really have time for a job if i wont a life -its ltough livin on £5 a wk but its btr than wrkin n having no time! long live the broke student wiv no job!

Originally posted by markham
Er,...... fuzzy, Fletch. Is this a family argument going on here?

If so, I'll but out of this one.:confused:

nah she had a go so i thort i would put my side of the story about. its been going on for years about how much i should get and what i have to do for it. and if i dont do them what i lose.

as you have probably noticed i have been very quiet for the last month- due to the banning of the computer because i did no jobs (which i think is unfair due to the fact that i have no money so cant go out and do stuff. so why do i have to be complained at for doing nothing at home and getting in the way when i could be on the comp doing work.)

my lad (12) gets £4 pw, and daughter (15) £5 pw
at 16 i got £2, so i'm tighter than my parents!

i got about 30-40 p/month from the age of about 15-17 then strated working and it stopped.
Helped with general thing round the house but a got a little more if i did the car or lawns.

I think it is difficult to get a right balance .If to much is give people become selfish and spoilt, but if too little is give there is the temptation for getting credit and borrowing of ppl as soon as they can which is a bad habit.
any way thats what i think.

My parents couldn't afford to give me pocket money. However, my grandparents gave me some when I visited which wasn't very often. I never had a paper round but I earnt my money by helping out with the old peoples gardens on my road and washing cars.