How much pocket money do you give?

[santasgnome]

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How much pocket money do you give your kids and how old are they.

Do they get it for nothing or do you have a way for them to earn it?

And if you have more than one child, does that affect how much they get?

I've got 3 kids 14, 12, 8 and I haven't ever given pocket money but I want to, especially for the 14 and 12 yr old.

Usually i just buy what they want/need within reason but I would rather they had their own cash

8 year old DGS receives £8 a month from me. He can do whatever he likes with half of that and is encouraged to save the other half in a piggy bank. He chooses to save it all as is not very interested in money and rarely asks for anything
He does have to do one 'job' each month which we agree at the beginning of the month and this month it's sweeping up leaves.
I like that he can start to correlate money with work as he appears very proud when his job is completed

My partner and her daughter are currently ( for a number of reasons) living in their home country in East Africa. I give her daughter (15) £10 a week, which equates to 30,000 shillings in their country - in theory it is for her to spend on what she wants, hair, clothes, make up, sanitary products etc, all things which are expensive and hard to source in her home country. In practice, she spends it mainly on educational resources and saves the remainder for when she goes to university - she is very academically focused, like her mum.

Mine got a lot from when they started secondary school. $50 a week.
They cooked 1 night a week each, did kitchen patrol (KP) 2 nights a week. Fed the animals, did their own washing, cleaned their bathroom and bedrooms.
Both were also very sporty so had to roster around training and competition requirements.
That paid for school lunches, phones ( pre paid), outfits, outings, hair, makeup, gifts etc. I paid for sport.
They learned to budget very well and are now both very good savers. Both have travelled, funded by their savings, and both are now saving for property.
Other parents were flabbergasted at the amount mine got, but when they worked out what the paid for their own DC, realised it was not that much.
Pocket money stopped when they got jobs at 15. jobs at home continued as we were all working or studying full time, we all contributed to running the house.

Whats kitchen patrol? I'm sort of inagining you live somewhere with scary small animals!

Mine are at a school where there are richer girls but we just dont have it 🤷‍♀️

DS is 7 and gets £1 per week. DD is 5 and doesnt get any yet. DS uses it to buy candy for him and his friends after school sometimes.

Kitchen patrol is cleaning up the kitchen and doing the dishes after the evening meal.
DD1 is a kitchen hand in her part time job and has very high standards, the rest of us don’t quite meet her standards, much to her frustration 😎

18 & 16 dd’s both have p/t jobs but 14 ds gets £12 a week which has to cover his bus fare and phone.

Ours get their age per month. So the 10yr old has £10 per month, 12 yr old has £12 per month etc.
I looked into the cards but it all seemed quite a faff so I just keep a log on my phone of when we last gave them their pocket money in actual cash. Most of the time they just ask me to order something from Amazon or for credit on Xbox account. So it’s like bank of mum.

We thought the go henry was too expensive considering how much we actually give ours. We've direct debitted for the one over 11 though!

Both (14 & 11) get £5 per week into bank account and have fairly trivial daily chores (emptying dishwasher, feeding/cleaning pets etc). We still pay for most things, but this covers their minor costs when out with friends, Xmas presents for friends etc, small purchases of things I don’t approve of!

13 DS £30 per month, we pay phone and travel and he doesn't have to do anything but helps of asked and if he goes anywhere i will pay help out.
16 DS £50 per, again we pay travel and phone, doesn't do anything and i give extra if needed
Next child at uni and we help out (a lot)

We never tied chores to pocket money, since we all need to do chores as members of a family occupying the shared house. Mum or Dad don't get paid to clean up and mop floors; it just needs to be done. this and also what @willingtolearn* said. We started pocket money once they understood number conservation to 10, so about the age of four. It saved a lot of arguments as if we were out somewhere and they wanted it we would say they could have it if they used their own money. They soon learned not to buy rubbish! They are teens now and are very good about not asking for lots of things. DD1 has a little job and we top that up with a clothing allowance given twice a year for her to budget herself. Also pay for a basic phone contract for both of them.

I dont. We tried it in return for (not chores), but for picking up after themselves in all rooms eg not taking clothes off in the lounge and just expecting clothes to find their own way back, or putting sweet/food wrappers in bin and keeping their room reasonably tidy. They couldn't be bothered so I stopped, they dont go out without me anyway. One cant be bothered to go out without me and the other one has asd and complex other issues and either is not mature enough to do most things alone/with friends or when is able refuses to go out without me as anxious but wants to. They are 13 and 14.
The amount was £20 a month each.

My DDs are 11 and 9, they get £10 in their hyper jar account every month and I put £20 into a savings account for them too

All my dc got £1 per year of age each month up until around 13yrs. They didn't have any specific chores but I expected them to help,when asked, with no fuss or whining.

Around 3rd Yr of high school I changed it to £50 a month and out of this they have to budget for school lunches (buy at school or take a packed lunch to save money) and train fare to school (£1 ish per day). Anything else they could spend on whatever.

Works well for us and he's teach the older kids that money isn't never ending!

12 yo gets 25 a month in her bank account in exchange for sweeping the floor in the kitchen/ dining room. 8yo 5 a month for feeding the cat. 12 yo definitely gets the better deal but uses her money to go out shopping with friends or get snacks on way home for school. 8 yo normally buys some tat from Amazon so I’m not inclined to increase hers any time soon! - we still buy everything else for her. We put money into their savings each month too.