From you?
Dd is putting the local uni down as first choice. I’ve said she can still move out if she wants but she says she’d rsther stay at home.
Household income is just over 80k so I’m not expecting she’ll be able to access a lot of loans.
If we feed her, pay her phone bill, buy her an annual rail pass into town how much do you think is a reasonable amount to giver her in way of an allowance? How much would she need? It’s really going to be clothes, makeup, socialising I guess.
She currently gets £40 a month and I pay her phone. But she taps me up for clothes all the time which I want to stop because she has no concept of money and currently throwing a strop because I won’t pay £40 for a jumper from Zara and have told her to get similar for half the price in H&M.
I don’t want to give her so much that she’s just wasting it all on clothes for the sake of it. And I do think I need to give her an amount which isn’t low enough to encourage her to go and get a part time job.
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NicoAndTheNiners · 13/09/2018 14:02
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