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What should teen spend windfall on

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Jaws2025 · 26/07/2025 15:47

My ds will be 18 in a couple of months. At this point he will receive money from gps, of around £15k - lovely! Clearly I want this to be of use to him in the future, and although it's nice to spend some on something fun I really want most of it to help with future expenses such as getting somewhere to live. I know he would probably spend most of it on a car, which he doesn't "need" due to where we live and hasn't yet got his test.
GPs have said it's up to me how the money is presented to him. Does anyone have any ideas? Should I say he has a few thousand to use for a car later on and the rest should go into savings/ISA for his future?
Should say, he lives at home and has no expenses, and has money from his part time job for whatever he wants.

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Jaws2025 · 28/07/2025 20:00

thats so weird, I just posted about something I was worried about him doing with the money and Mumsnet have hidden it!

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