AIBU to think this is wildly excessive?

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DD aged 12 has recently started going shopping with her friends. We give her around £30 to spend each time, which I had thought was actually fairly generous. However, her friends are turning up each time with £200 - £500, which I am completely astonished by. I wouldn’t spend that on myself, never mind giving it to a 12 year old for a shopping trip. None of the families are especially well off, living in a not great urban area. I also think showering money on kids stops them understanding the value of it and the amount of effort it takes to earn. I had thought it was just one particular friend, but they’re all doing it

AIBU to think this is utterly and wildly excessive, or have I lost touch somewhere along the way?

Of course it could be something like those kids with £300+ have that money as a monthly allowance that has to cover all their expenses - clothes, san pro, meals out etc.

One of my friends had a monthly allowance. It always seemed that she had huge amounts of money to spend compared to us, but our parents bought our clothes and consumables like toothpaste and so on. She had to buy her own (was v fussy and I think her parents got tired of her demands. so told her to buy her own!)

@Cam2020

I also wouldn’t want a child so young walking around with that much cash anyway!

I was thinking the same thing!

Why do you think they are carrying cash?

I came on here to say £30 was a bit excessive - missed the point obviously!!

That is absolutely insane..but a few of DSDs mates have very thick purses with notes often. DSD whinges sometimes that she gets loads less, but fuck giving multiple hundreds..

I hope nothing bad is going on.