How much money for 14.5 year old

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Currently we give her £35 per month pocket money and buy her clothes, shoes, etc. She is starting a new school in year 10 where they wear clothes and I want to give her monthly money so she can manage her own budget.

Pocket money for outings? Is £35 ok?

And monthly money for clothing, make up, shoes, accessories? £50

She does jobs occasionally like pet sitting, watering neighbours plants and she earns money for that; but is not recurrent.

Her birthday present budget is £130 and £130 Christmas present.

We live in London

I have a 14 year old ds and he gets a pound for his age. So 14 pounds a week. I buy toiletries and mostly clothes unless there is something he wants that is a bit niche. I might sling him extra if he goes out with friends but he is super solitary so that is rare.

I’ve got a 14 yo dd and she gets £40 pm, and tries to save half for bigger purchases. Think your budget reasonable for clothes at £50 pm but be inclined to do the coats/shoes outside of that as expensive items.

Thank you both

Mine is 14 and gets 20 mth and saves half. We buy all uniforms, shoes and clothes and probably spend around 350 year on those.

My 14yo gets £20 a week from me plus £40 a month from my dm, and saves the majority. I paid for day to day clothes/shoes/toiletries but she can buy extras from her own money. She also saves money from birthday/Christmas but spends when she wants something.

She is saving for when she starts driving, although I'll probably pay for most of that to but I'm pleased she saves most of her money

My dc 14 and 12 get £20 a month. I buy essential clothes, replace trainers etc. 14 yo has a leaflet delivery monthly, gets approx £100 a month for that. 12 yo seems to manage on £20, I give extra money for outings, meals out etc. So the £20 is really just for stuff I wouldn't buy, for 12 yo that seems to be Dr Pepper and sweets

We don't give our 14 year old regular money. I buy things I think she needs and she self funds other stuff from birthday and Christmas money. If she is going somewhere where she will need to buy food I transfer some money to her account, maybe £15 and she spends £3.50 and consumes tap water. She is super frugal and spends hardly anything.

We sometimes go halves on things she wants if it seems reasonable, usually at her suggestion which is a poor strategy as I probably would have paid for it all. She is DC number 3 so we are following the habits we had with the other two and it wouldn't feel right to do something different for her.

None of our kids ever asked for money and always seemed to stretch out Christmas/Birthday money for ages. She has recently discovered Vinted and is very keen to pay less for something secondhand. The older two are frugal with every day spending but will buy things they want and need. MIL is queen of frugality despite being very solvent and refused to buy some mince pies at Christmas in Morrisons because they were over £2 and she thought that was a scandal. Clearly hereditary!

My two get £50 a month for pocket money, they use that for seeing friends and stuff they want to save up for. I buy their clothes and toiletries but if they want something particular that costs more they’ll contribute part of the cost.