ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
Im sure a 7 year old doesn't get as much as a
14, or 17 year old, but I have no idea, my kids were in the 70's and 80's!
14, or 17 year old, but I have no idea, my kids were in the 70's and 80's!
OT/MISC I'm curious, What do kids get for a weekly allowance nowadays?
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Sandcastle76
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Ditto here…I told all my kids you don’t get paid to be a part of this family. I provide you with all your needs and probably 85% of your “wants”. Anything else we will talk about and if your father and I agree we will come up with a plan for you to earn the extra money.
ETA… all my kids are great with their finances .. better than I am in some instances.
ETA… all my kids are great with their finances .. better than I am in some instances.
These days, every time a teenager walks by you can expect to throw a 20 dollar bill their way.
I'm not exaggerating much.
Even without an allowance: sports pictures and paraphernalia, gas money. Just snacks even if they don't do sports and just go to watch adds up bigly.
I'm not exaggerating much.
Even without an allowance: sports pictures and paraphernalia, gas money. Just snacks even if they don't do sports and just go to watch adds up bigly.
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West
Senior
A allowance? Heh....I do give my juvenile kids(grands and my adult kids) cash sometimes. If they earn it. Not bad cash either. All things considered I tell them. It would be twice if not three times more if I didn't have to pay FICA taxes on the cash in the first place, room and board for them and the mama needs a new pair of shoes tax.
gjwandkids
Contributing Member
We don't do allowances. We pay for all their needs, many of their wants, and music lessons. Himself considers an allowance too much like welfare. They all get summer jobs the year they turn 16.
energy_wave
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I was lucky to get a dime a week to spend on penny candy in the mid to late 60's back in my early years. Maybe a dollar a week as I got older. By the time I was ten, my dad bought a lawnmower at a going out of business sale and sent me on my way to making my own allowance. That progressed into leaf raking, snow shoveling, ice chopping on roofs, etc.
Never had a cell phone, bike helmet, laptop or any of the other crap kids expect these days.
Never had a cell phone, bike helmet, laptop or any of the other crap kids expect these days.
Elza
Veteran Member
Our granddaughter (We're raising her. Another story in and of itself) doesn't get an allowance. We told her that we would pay her for jobs done around the house that weren't her responsibility. You work, you get paid. To date we haven't paid her a dime. She's 15 and too lazy to earn money she wants if given to her. Ain't happenin'.
Frankly, I'm sitll trying to figure who is wiping her ass. She's too lazy to do it herself.
Frankly, I'm sitll trying to figure who is wiping her ass. She's too lazy to do it herself.
Great question in OP. But, like the others (apparently), I've not a clue what kids get now.
In the '50s I was "paid" so much for specific chores, like mowing grass (based on what Dad thought those chores might have been worth in the '20s). But I"never" saw the money. I was not trusted to buy anything on my own, but I'd have to "present" a case for a coat or something and get my parents' approval. Though when dad died I found all the records and took my cash then, so I did get it in the end. But I did get room and board, and was always welcome at home (the girl next door had free room and board only until she turned 18; no surprise, she got married on her 18th birthday). And dad (to his credit) paid for the first 2 years of my college.
In the '50s I was "paid" so much for specific chores, like mowing grass (based on what Dad thought those chores might have been worth in the '20s). But I"never" saw the money. I was not trusted to buy anything on my own, but I'd have to "present" a case for a coat or something and get my parents' approval. Though when dad died I found all the records and took my cash then, so I did get it in the end. But I did get room and board, and was always welcome at home (the girl next door had free room and board only until she turned 18; no surprise, she got married on her 18th birthday). And dad (to his credit) paid for the first 2 years of my college.
John Deere Girl
Veteran Member
Ours get $50 a week for doing chores.
West
Senior
What if they become adults living in you and yours house?
Profit of Doom
Dismember
So, we was gambling away your allowance rather than giving it to you?
John Deere Girl
Veteran Member
Our kids are farm kids and actually work. Our adult children don't live with us, but if times get tough and they need to move back, they are welcome to. Not one of our kids are lazy, so there would be a good reason for moving back. Our adult children often help out if they know we need it without pay, except for whatever they ask me to fix to eat.
Toosh
Veteran Member
We don't believe in a guaranteed income but we always have opportunities for them to learn to perform and be paid for tasks.
- When they start 1st grade they are permitted to make their own brown-bag lunch and if they do, they can have anything they want. If I make it then they eat what I pack... I've been known to pack brussel sprouts.
- At 9 we begin offering a menu of age-appropriate tasks that they can choose to do or not but we pay for each completed task that passes inspection. They must put 1/2 of earning into savings and they are free to spend the other half as they wish. Oh and we pay $50 for each A on a report card.
Chicken Mama
Veteran Member
At the age of 16 I was paying $300/mo to live at home as I was working full time, had an evening PT and Saturday job! No allowance needed!
Door Dash is a big thing.
h_oder
Veteran Member
we did 10/week - right into their savings account. If they wanted something above and beyond what we were willing to cover, that's where they went. Just like a direct deposit from your paycheck to savings, they never really "saw" it, but knew it was there. There were only a few times that either one needed to use that money. Even though they are older now, we still put the $ in their account. When there are emergencies (that might over extend their current situation), they know they have something put back.
For the older DD, it's not much right now - she's starting out on her own and learning that adulting comes with unexpected situations - but at least it's something.
The younger is a tightwad and will have a good cushion when she graduates college (or doesn't graduate and is required to move out and be independent).
For the older DD, it's not much right now - she's starting out on her own and learning that adulting comes with unexpected situations - but at least it's something.
The younger is a tightwad and will have a good cushion when she graduates college (or doesn't graduate and is required to move out and be independent).
ibetiny
Veteran Member
$50.00 a week. They have set chores that I do not have to remind them to do, plus extra stuff that comes up. I have a "no bitching" policy. If I have to remind them or even get the slightest attitudes no money that week. Works good for our family. 400 a month and house is looking good and odd chores are taken care of with a word.
Tennessee gal
Veteran Member
I started babysitting when I was 13 and made .50 an hour. In college in the late sixties my parents sent me $5.00 each week.
Redleg
Veteran Member
Never got an allowance when I was growing up. Did some odd jobs to get some money.
Never gave my kids an allowance and they didn't expect it. I did get some video games/computers for
Christmas and birthdays for them. They enjoy playing those. No cell phones either. I told them give me a good reason
and I'll get you a flip phone to make calls or get a job and pay for your own.
Never gave my kids an allowance and they didn't expect it. I did get some video games/computers for
Christmas and birthdays for them. They enjoy playing those. No cell phones either. I told them give me a good reason
and I'll get you a flip phone to make calls or get a job and pay for your own.
mikeho78
Contributing Member
Growing up, it was $0.25 for every year of age, so if you were 8, you'd get $2 and if you were 12, you'd get $3 per week. This was in the 80's so it seemed fair. We had a list of standard age appropriate chores to do each week (vacuum, dust, dishes, our own laundry)
If I were to adjust for inflation, $1 for every year of age sounds about right to do the same today.
I'd like to do that with my 3 girls, but I think the standard list of chores with a price tag attached to each sounds like the better idea because they'd get to pick what they want to do and/or earn and would likely encourage more initiative.
If I were to adjust for inflation, $1 for every year of age sounds about right to do the same today.
I'd like to do that with my 3 girls, but I think the standard list of chores with a price tag attached to each sounds like the better idea because they'd get to pick what they want to do and/or earn and would likely encourage more initiative.
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
I got $.25 at ten yrs old, about once a month to go to the Saturday matinee at the little movie house in Fowlerville MI. It WAS $.12 for the 3 hs of serial westerns and comediy's 5 cents for popcurn, 5 cnts for soda pop and 3 cents left for candy!,
I was happy. I didnt. Know we were poor.
But we always had enough to eat.
Mom finally took a job as a waitress
at Ann's tavern, across US 16 from us, the only
business within walking distance from our farm.
I was happy. I didnt. Know we were poor.
But we always had enough to eat.
Mom finally took a job as a waitress
at Ann's tavern, across US 16 from us, the only
business within walking distance from our farm.
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Taco Salad
Contributing Member
I think our son was 6 or 7 when we started giving him an allowance. It was $5 at the time with a few chores, now he's 12 and up to $20 and a lot more chores. He does get extra at times of the year when there are a lot of extra chores though.
Firebird
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Pretty much this when I was growing up, I was housed and fed, chores earned me no money. Then started working full-time at 15, with only Sundays off. I wanted to buy a car, and that was the only way I was going to get one.
Chicken Mama
Veteran Member
You pay them to live there?????? WTH?
prudentwatcher
Veteran Member
My twin granddaughters just turned nine. They get $2 a week each and do have chores to do (helping feed the cats, helping fold the laundry, and the like). They only started getting an allowance when they turned 8. Money doesn't really mean anything to them at this age, and they are not the kind of kids who ask for things. They do have piggy banks though.
John Deere Girl
Veteran Member
He stated at the bottom of his post in tiny print that he doesn't have children.
straightstreet
Life is better in flip flops
We gave our kids between $5 and $10 a week according to age and responsibilities - loadng the dishwasher, taking out the trash. All 3 of them were required to keep their rooms picked up daily. They're all young adults now. I'm not sure what kids get these days. I don't really think DD can afford to give her sons an allowance. She's just struggling to get by. We do have a grandson savings account that we put money in each week.
Night Owl
Veteran Member
I never got a penny, I had chores, but I started babysitting at 10 and at 12 I started watching a 10 yr. old girl, plus fed and gave medicine to 4 demented adults for a single R.N. Mom that ran a group home for 50¢/hour while she went on long dates and went away for the weekends with different guys. I had to put 1/2 in the bank and 1/2 I could keep to use.
I started working a retail store part time at 15 for $1.60/hour. I was rich, I finally could buy clothes. Remember we only got a few clothes for school in the fall w/a new pair of loafers and a pair of gym shoes and a new dress and shoes aT Easter. So I was so excited when I could buy clothes for myself.
My children never got an allowance and I started letting them delivering Avon magazines at 5 years old, working for a neighbor that paid them penny for every Avon weekly magazine they put on a door. If they had an event I would pay for that but they worked to make extra for themselves. They still had to feed their animals and do their chores at home.
I’m happy they know how hard it is to make money and save for something they want.
I started working a retail store part time at 15 for $1.60/hour. I was rich, I finally could buy clothes. Remember we only got a few clothes for school in the fall w/a new pair of loafers and a pair of gym shoes and a new dress and shoes aT Easter. So I was so excited when I could buy clothes for myself.
My children never got an allowance and I started letting them delivering Avon magazines at 5 years old, working for a neighbor that paid them penny for every Avon weekly magazine they put on a door. If they had an event I would pay for that but they worked to make extra for themselves. They still had to feed their animals and do their chores at home.
I’m happy they know how hard it is to make money and save for something they want.