If your DC asked for money for their birthday how much would you give?

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My ds15 is 15 tomorrow and has literally just asked for money. He’s autistic so doesn’t really do the whole gifts things and doesn’t actually need anything.

How much would you give?

Whatever your usual budget is for a gift?

It just depends on the time really! With gifts its easier as you can get more for your money (if you know where to look ).
I was thinking £150 as he wants dominoes pizza for dinner just wondered what everyone else does.

That sounds reasonable, my daughter likes money as a gift (13) and gets between 150-200.

At that age I would transfer £100 but give a gift of favourite sweets, snacks etc and / or clothes they needed

At least £200 plus a card, decs, a cake and perhaps a meal/takeaway. I’m always surprised at how little people on here spend on their kids though. I read a thread maybe yesterday where a child was being called spoilt and ungrateful bc his mum bank transferred him £50 for his 16th after she’d nobbed off and left him alone with his dad to go on holiday. I was thinking what a cheap, spiteful little mare she was to treat her son like that

See we always spend more on christmas, always have done since they were small. Birthdays was always a takeaway of choice and a large present they wanted but he’s past the present stage. Did offer to take him out for dinner but he’s at the stage where we are embarrassing to be seen with 😂
For his sixteenth he will get more than this year as it’s a special birthday.

Yes I will be popping out tomorrow to get his favourite snacks & drinks we always send them to school first and let them have their cards etc after school otherwise they’ll never go. He’s got a second cake to take to school too (sen school.) Literally doesn’t need any clothes as we just kitted him out with new trainers & tracksuits.

We do £50 for birthdays whether thats a gift or cash.

It would depend on my budget.
Even though the request is just money, I’d still make sure there were a few surprises to unwrap as well.

In our house, the budget for a bog standard birthday is £30 + whatever they choose as a birthday dinner. By the time you've got the gift, dinner for the family plus birthday cake, you're £150 down.

For 16th, the gift budget went up to £60 + dinner + cake + balloons
17th, the gift was ~£375 worth of driving lessons (block of 10 hours) + dinner + cake
18th, my son is getting a £200 watch + dinner + cake + balloons

21st will be similar to 18th.

Beyond that, its back to £30 + the 'treat' stuff.

I would give about £100. Anything more than that seems excessive to me, but then we don't have loads of spare money.

Surely it depends what you can afford and probably how many children you have. We both earn well and have one DC, we probably spend more than someone with only one income or working for NMW with 3 children