How much do you think it's reasonable to give a 17 year old girl as a monthly allowance?
DD is starting sixth form college in September - she's also 17 in September.
I want to start giving her a monthly allowance in order to teach her how to budget, value money etc. This needs to cover:
Clothes
Make up
Basic toiletries, toothpaste, sanpro etc
Some money for lunches at college although she tends to take a sandwich / salad from home.
Stationery
Socialising
Occasional salon appointments, e.g. eyebrow wax (yes, yes, I know this isn't essential, flies in the face of feminist principles etc etc and no, I'm not getting into a discussion about it)
Her dad pays for her phone and will continue to do so. Travel isn't really an issue as we live in a city centre and literally everything is walkable. I don't expect a big outlay on college textbooks but tbh I would pay for these.
I know it's a case of "how long is a piece of string?" but I'm interested in what other Year 12s get.
She is determined to get a part time job, although this might prove harder now with All This Going On.
The purpose of doing this is so that she doesn't start university clueless about how to manage her own money like I did.