Pocket money

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Duncan
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Pocket money

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How much do you consider is the right amount of pocket money a school kid should be given every day.
The two oldest girls in my family, 13 yo and 15yo [ 16 next month ] get 10,000 r every day. The 4 yo gets 4,000 r and the 6 yo gets 6,000 r.
The two oldest record [ most times ] what they spend and how much money they have. For ease of management I usually give them 50,000 r each on the Monday.


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Re: Pocket money

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my daughter got $10/week from the time she was 12 till 14 than $15 till she was 18, before that NOTHING
for that she had chores to do plus of course her homework and keeping grades up.

She also got $5 for each A and $2 for each B on her report card

If ur giving a 4 and 6 year old money ur in for serious trouble later on.
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Re: Pocket money

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I usually give my 8-year-old kid about 5000 to go to school, but other times he'll ask for money to go to buy some hot-dogs or get a drink at the shop or whatever.
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Re: Pocket money

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my pocket money used to be £1 ($1.60) a week, and i had to have to do chores for that, i then got a rise to £1.25 ($2) my dad then said he would start paying us £5 ($8) a month, but me being smart worked out that £1.25 x 52 = £65 & £5 x 12 = £60 so the conning bastard was short changing us £5 a year! tight bastard hahaha
that was up until the age of 13 when i got a job delivering papers for £7 a week
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