How much allowance do you give your teenagers??

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I have twin boys they are 15 and they get £60 a month from their Nana and £20 a mth for me.

I also pay for their gym membership at £37.00 a mth.

If they need clothes and choose an expensive pair of Nikes @ £70 for example I will pay £30. An expensive top I will pay £20.00 towards it. But basics ie: plain tshirts, trackie bottoms anything else like that I pay for.

When they go out with their friends I pay for cinema, and lunch out (now some of the kids have got into eating out in Nandos etc - thats £12.-00 a shot)

Both have had blackberrys either has been broken or lost etc we got them for birthdays/xmas etc.

One of the boys wanted a Samsung S2 so I said he could have it using his birthday money he got a big amount when he was 13.

Apparantly I am told all his friends think I am mean for making him pay for his phone???

So how much does your teenager get, and do they work at all??

My boys are 16/17. They get $200 paid into their accounts monthly. We buy them basic clothing twice a year, buy basic toiletries for everyone to use, pay for their phone contracts and they get $10 on a Friday to have lunch outside of school grounds. They're both in full time education and because of our circumstances it's not easy to get them jobs at the moment.

Wow some well off teens on here

Ds (15) gets £40 a month into his account. That is for his socialising - buses into town, cinema & burger king, as well as anything he wants to buy himself. He would like more. He is welcome to get a job

We give him £15 a week for canteen lunches, and pay for all of his clothes, shoes, haircuts etc.

I think he's doing alright tbh!

Dd (15) gets £85 a month plus £5 on her payg phone. I buy school uniform and essential coats and shoes, one school lunch a week, basic toiletries. She pays for her clothes, social life, buses, presents etc. And does babysitting for extra. She just asked me to help her set up a savings account so thats good.

One 17yo still at home. We pay for gym membership (fitness is requisite for his chosen career) and school lunches. Will be paying for driving lessons.

On top of this, he gets a £30 allowance which has to do for clothes and entertainment. Not a lot, I know, but most of his mates aren't well of either, so they don't have expensive tastes.

He doesn't have to do chores to earn it, but I would expect him to lend a hand with household chores when asked.

He used to get birthday money from his grandma but she died last year. Otoh he is now old enough to get a Saturday job.

Dd is 15. We pay for her phone & data (£9 per month) & she gets school lunches paid for. We provide essential clothing & toiletries.

She then gets £35 per month paid into her account. That pays for Saturday afternoons out (approx 1 per month) the occasional subway/Yo Sushi & non essential toiletries & cosmetics (make up/fancy moisturisers etc) & music downloads. Plus she has a thing for buying workout clothes (I buy 1 uniform set of plain black Nike sports crop top & leggings, she buys nice matching outfit ones)

Ds is 13. He gets £5 per week (he requested weekly as he's not good at budgeting. He also gets £2.35 per day lunch money & £2.50 per week bus fayre but he usually chooses to walk.

He seems to spend this on extra non essential food at school (slushes & cookies), Pokemon cards & music.

We do pay for family netflix. Dd used to pay for it but we were all watching so felt it only fair.

Age 16. £25 a week. And we pay for phone and any other big purchases like coats and trainers etc. In return (I don't ask she does it anyway) the whole house is hoovered and dusted once a week and bed is stripped and changed each weekend. Bathroom must kept tidy at all times clean bathroom myself as I'm a bit fussy

14 year old here - no set regular money from us. Will give him a tenner or so every fortnight to pop into city with friends etc.

I thought buying bus pass is automatically parental responsibility or is it not

DD1 is thirteen next month. We buy all essential clothing and equipment e.g. school uniform, underwear, winter coat, kit she needs for dancing, music books and necessary accessories for maintaining her instrument.

Her phone was a birthday present two years ago and I put £5 per month on it. She gets £10 per week on her Osper card to buy lunch at school but she sometimes makes herself a packed lunch at home to save the food money to use if going out with friends.

She earns money by occasional cat-sitting or helping out at children's parties but each week she gets paid to give music lessons to a couple of local children. It's this money she uses to fund the purchase of random things, to go to the cinema or swimming with friends. Because we're in London, her travel is nearly always free and she uses the school gym in the mornings before school so that's free too. She'd like a new phone but is hoping to inherit mine when I get an upgrade - it's a nearly 2-yr-old Samsung Galaxy, nothing fancy!

I have a nearly 14 year old DS. I don't give him pocket money as such ( no set amount per week etc) but I give him money if he goes out, keep his wallet topped up to a fiver.

I also pay £30 a month for his phone contract and give him money if he goes to the gym ( it's pay as you go)

He doesn't ever ask for much, if that changes I'll be putting pocket money plans in place so he appreciates money!

Jeez £80-£100 a month in pocket money??!

Ok, I don't have a teenager yet so maybe my perspective on it will change. But when I was a teenager, I never had regular pocket money and if I had, my mum couldn't have afforded anywhere near that much. She would buy some things for me and some time give me money to go out when I needed it, but no regular contribution. If I wanted something fancy, I had to save up from my birthday or Christmas money. When I was 16 and started college, I got a job at Tesco one week night and Saturdays each week, took Sunday overtime if I could. Mum paid my travel to college, my wages paid for my lunch, phone, clothes and going out.

Some lucky kids on here!!

To be fair, Lemondrop, not every child gets birthday or Christmas money. I had pocket money but never got money for birthday or Christmas, so no chances of saving up there.

Wow, they are spoilt. At that age I was working 2 jobs to pay for everything for myself. Why do they get money from their nan? That doesn't make any sense to me.

Cory, I would imagine most kids regular pocket money amounted to more than I got twice a year. I got maybe £50 or so in cards from various relatives at each event, and that had diminished by the time that I was 16 as my grandparents had died by then. Hardly a bonanza. My main source of income at 16 was my job. I can understand that 13-15 yr olds would likely need more parental support as they can't really work.

As I said, maybe it'll change when mine is a teenager, but right now I can't imagine regularly handing over the amount some kids here are getting. I realise that a lot of teen stuff is expensive (clothes, gadgets etc), and going out isn't cheap (cinema is so overpriced now!) but even with all that, £100 a month seems a lot of disposable income that a lot of adults don't even have. If you can afford it and want to give your kids that, then go for it. It's more than I can imagine handing over personally to my child though 🤷🏼‍♀️

I agree, there's no way I can find my DC in a similar way, I have 3 to fund, and neither of us are paid particularly well, although we are comfortable. Leaves me worrying about how I'll cope when Dd1, now in y7, wants to begin socialising- I don't have that kind of money spare. Just hope her friends don't call her on her lack of similar funds