Pocket money

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How much pocket money should I give a 9yo DD. How often, and is it dependant on chores etc. What do your DC spend their money on? My DD doesn't have a phone to buy credit, but is aware of saving for toys she likes, or in her bank account for the future etc. Trying to establish some new rules- and hopefully get some more laundry and room tidying at the same time, with a bit of bribery incentive

We're skint, so £5 a month. DD spends it on toys.

We gave around £5 but DGP gave another £1 a week at this age. She usually saves the money we givecsnd spends the money from DGP.

We didn't do cash pocket money, until 11 they got £50 a month into savings account each, once at secondary school they opened card accounts and I put £20 a month in. I still put money in but alas a lot more (university) they are both good with money.

I just came on this board to start a similar thread then saw this. I'm having the same dilemma. My DD is 11 (nearly 12) and is begging me for money because she wants to go to the cinema. Now she is starting high school and becoming a bit more independent this is probably going to become a regular ask.
I've tried giving weekly pocket money before but they don't do half the stuff I asked and said it wasn't enough money! So I gave up.
We are Just discussing what she can do to earn something every week but we've been here before and I really CBA
An idea of what others do would be good

At 12, she could do work for the neighbours, e.g. babysitting (with supervision), raking leaves, weeding of gardens, dog-walking. You could help her make some flyers to stick in letterboxes or hang up at the local shops. Or, if the school allows, she can make toffees to sell to her classmates at school (sugar, lemon juice, food colouring etc are very cheap to buy).

As for work at your own house, you could make a list of jobs that don't need to be done regularly (e.g. you wouldn't want to rely on her for the washing up and then she can't be bothered to do it and you're left with a sink of dishes in the morning), but take a bit of time and you don't really like doing them. E.g. cleaning the bathroom (shower, bath, sink, mop floors clean), washing the car, things like that. Give each one a price, and she can do them whenever she wants to, to earn money (but set a cooling off period in between, it is very easy to clean a bathroom if it was cleaned 2 days ago). This way if she knows she needs money for the cinema on Saturday, she can do a couple of jobs in the week leading up to it. If she hasn't - she can suffer for her poor forward thinking and planning skills, and not be able to go.

At that age we had a jobs jar

I'd fill the jar with 'clean bathroom' 50p, empty dishwasher 70p and they dipped in and calculated what I owed.

This was generally spent in sweets.

Ds (12) gets £20 a month. Has to do regular jobs (empty dishwasher, put clothes away, unpack shopping, help to hoover/clean). He can earn extra for other jobs like cleaning the car.

£5 a week for 10 year old DD. She has to put dirty clothes in basket, clean clothes away, make bed, feed hamster and keep room tidy (clear floor basically). She can earn extra for other chores like hoovering or car washing, roughly £1 per 15 minutes.

It was lower but she never did the chores because she didn't earn enough. Bearing in mind a comic/magazine is £4, at least now she can spend it straight away or save up for something she wants.

I'm going to try giving them a set allowance each week which will cover their phone credit and then give them a little extra to save for what they choose to spend it on.
They will have to understand that this is dependent on whether they are pulling their weight around the house and helping out and just generally picking up after themselves, but I don't want it to be linked to certain chores like washing up, tidying rooms etc as they should be doing that anyway without payment.
They can earn extra money by doing the bigger household stuff like gardening, washing the car etc

I've explained this all to them and they seem to be positive about it, so fingers crossed they stick to it.

At 9 I got around 100 - 200 RON (20 - 40 £, in Romania a kid can do a lot with this money, a medium Lego set is around 30£) from my parents and relatives on special occasions (birthday, Christmas, etc) and they also gave me money after completing chores. I was saving all my money and sometimes spent them on toys (at 9 I was saving money for a real telescope, my passion was and still is astronomy, now I do lots of astronomy with it). Now I am 12 and things have changed. I get pocket money (not a fixed quantity, I use them to buy pretzels and subway/bus tickets for going to school and activities. Sometimes Mom sends me to the shop with a banknote and if the price of the items is lower than the value of the banknote I keep the change. I am still saving money, I have an estimated total of 20£!

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My dd is a bit older (11), she gets £10 per month paid directly into her Lloyds account.

It's not dependent on chores as I prefer her to muck in and just help out as a member of the family, not for any material reward.

She's just got a phone so is currently spending it on phone cases! She likes stuff for her room from Primark too and it's cheap, she recently bought some fluffy cushions for £3 each.

My dc have never used their money on sweets because I like to have some control over how many they eat!