£120 each month for DD2

[biankia]

Hello, I'm wondering if the amount of pocket money that i'm currently giving my daughter is too much? She's really sensible, and only really spends it on books.

For £120 per month I would give her a house bill to pay, the internet or telly license.
It's fine if you explain the obligations that come with money otherwise you just teach frivolous spending.

Unless you are full on properly minted, and possibly even if you are, that's too much.

She doesn't need that much now. Better to give her less and save the rest for when she's older.

I got £25 a month at that age in 2006. I think £50 would be better

£10 a month here but I pay phone contract and all essentials like stationery for school, money on his lunch card, clothes etc. and will pay for things like cinema trips.
Will increase it as he has more of an independent social life but use that opportunity to teach him to budget.

What does it have to cover OP?

What does she have to pay for with that?
Do you pay for transport, phone, clothes, toiletries, school supplies etc?

£30 a week isn’t much. Yanbu it’s about the right sum.

It does sound like quite a lot, what exactly does she need to buy with it?

Is she saving any of it? How many books can she possibly be buying!

There’s a middle ground, say £50 a month? Something like £5 seems rather pointless, at least around here you can’t buy anything for £5 a week.

How can we comment when we have no idea what it covers?

It’s not a huge amount if it covers everything she needs, cinema trip £10, make up £10, McDonald’s £5 and that’s almost her whole weekly budget. If she’s paying for clothes, toiletries, underwear, books etc out of that money too then I wouldn’t say that was a huge amount.
I pay almost that a week for my 4 year old. £8 for gymnastics, £4 dancing, £7 swimming lesson, £5 soft play and perhaps a happy meal a week is near enough £30 and that’s without clothes, toiletries etc.

hahaha £30 pw isn't much
It is in this house

Wow. I wish I had £20 a month pocket money let alone £120! If that's purely disposable income for her then that's more than many adults get to themselves once everything is paid for!

My kids get £1 per month per year of age, plus phone top up, a fiver from their granny, and I cover music lessons/clubs etc. He has a travel pass for school. This is currently proving more than adequate on the basis of DS (14)'s bank balance but I will increase it when his social life starts to get more expensive. Not to £120 fricken quid per month though.

Christ. Far too much.

DSS 14 gets £20 a week.

That is to cover gaming ( v bucks) going out with friends. We pay for his phone on top Andrew buy his clothes. However he's after a North face coat and I've said he can save up and pay 1/2 of that as it's £190.
(We've just bought him another coat)

He has to lay the table help clear the table after dinner. Put the bins out and water the garden.

That is a lot!

I don't give DS1 (14) pocket money as such, so just when he asks for it. Probably works out £30-40 a month? Maybe a bit more during school holidays?

He hates shopping so most of it is spent on food, bus/train fare and outings like the cinema etc

I'm intrigued at what a 12yo finds to spend £120 a month on😳

Get her an on line library card and put the ££ into an account for her.

Dd14 gets 70€ a month. All clothes, school stuff, sports clothes, riding stuff, lunches with mates, cinema, présents come out of that.

Dd12 gets 45€ a month for the same but gets hand me downs (which she chooses to refuse).

DSD gets 30€ lives with us 50%. Mother buys her an absurd amount of designer stuff. Some of which is extraordinarily grim.

DS got £25 a month at that age. I paid for school dinners, clothes, school trips and so on, and he saved for Xbox games or cinema trips out of his pocket money. I increased it to £50 when he was 16, because he was going out more. I think £120 is a lot!

Another who would like to be adopted!

what on earth does she spend it on ???

My children get their age a month - so £11 a month for the 11 year old...if he tidies his room, puts away his clothes, unloads 1/2 dishwasher and puts the forks out at tea time.

My 13 year old gets £40 a month, plus I buy basic clothes and shoes and phone contract. I also will buy a books if she wants them, maybe another £10 a month, maximum. She rarely spends all £40.