Penny chew? Bag of crisps for 5p? What did you splurge your pocket money on when you were a DC? Share your memories of all things pocket money with Santander - you could win £250*! DRAW NOW CLOSED

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Santander have asked us to find out from Mumsnetters what you spent your precious pocket money on back when they were a kid. They'd also like to know how much you used to get versus how much you give your DC now.

Cast your minds back to the time when a packet of crisps was 5p/ 10p/ 20p/ cheaper than they are now and you could buy all manner of teeth-rotting sweets with a fraction of what your children are getting each week.

So indulge us - let us know what you used to love to spend your pocket money on. And tell us how much you got when you were a child, and how much you're now giving your children. Where did you prefer to spend the money? Or were you a saver?

Everyone who adds their thoughts to the thread will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £250 shopping voucher*.

Please note that any comments posted on this thread may be used by Santander in further marketing material (anonymously, of course).

Thanks and good luck!
MNHQ

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there is still a local village shop now that has all the penny sweets. The kids go in after school and carefully choose their 10ps worth of penny sweets. It takes hours, but I love it, so much better than 60p for mars bar etc

I always used to buy a 10p mix from the local newsagents. My brother and I were good customers I think, as the majority of our pocket money went on sweets , so we used to get a couple of extra sweets thrown in for free!

I can't remember when I was very young, how much I got, but when I was 16 I was given £25 a month, which was to buy train fares, clothes etc. We give our son, who is 13, £12 a month, on top of which he earns money acting. It doesn't seem enough, but he seems happy with it. We give him extra for snacks, or if he wants to have lunch with his friends etc. I don't give my ten year old a regular allowance, but I should!

I got 50p a week, and used to buy a 10 pence mixture every school day on the way home, or sometimes a bag of fizzy strawberry laces.

I didn't get regular pocket money, but I worked on the farm and reared calves and when they were sold I bought a pony with the money. Any further pocket money then went on looking after the pony!

DD gets spending money on a day out or a holiday. She is only 6yo. I have just started to save £1 a week for her into a separate account, so that when she wants to buy something, she can take the money out of there. She also gets a bag of sweets once a week after her dance class

1p and 2p sweets- usually fruit salads, sometimes black jacks so I could look in the mirror and watch my mouth turn black :-)

I did not get money regularly but when I did it was 25p so I either got some nivea cream or a mini roll on mascara from Rimmel. I also sometimes saved up for ages to get some Mary Quant make up!!! Satin slicker was my fave lipstick at the time - a shiny goldy pink.

I'd spend my pocket money on a double dip which was 10p. Two different flavours of sherbet plus a dipping lolly.
I think I'd get 20p or 30p to go up the shop with (mid 80s) but I always saved some for a rainy day so I could have sweets when I wanted!

We bought 'Mr Freeze' ice pops from the tuck shop for 5p each.

I got 50p a week and I used to buy the Beano and some penny sweets from the village shop, and save the rest up for Secret Seven books.
My DSs are 6 and 4 and don't get pocket money yet - DS1 is quite unworldly and doesn't like the idea. Maybe next summer!

I didn't really get pocket money until I was old enough to go out unaccompanied by parents; if I wanted sweets or a magazine etc they were bought for me (in moderation!) I used to get given lunch money for school though, where there was a tuck shop. I used to buy as many 'astrobelts' as I could afford at 5p a pop, and pick the cheapest lunch option.

When I started getting pocket money of £50 per month, I think most of it was spent on horse related things- Pony Magazine, your horse magazine (I'd go straight to the 'for sale' section and mark off the horses I liked as a hint to my parents.....it didn't work :()

My parents were (and still are) very generous, however I wish they'd encouraged me to save more as a child, so maybe I'd have been slightly better at it as a young adult. I could easily have had a much bigger house deposit saved if I hadn't frittered away my money from the ages of 16-24.

My first child is due in November and I want to teach him the value of money and the importance of saving- learning from my parents' "mistakes"

Pogs! I think they came in crisp packets... I used to feel all the packets in the shop to make sure I got one.
Penny sweets too :)

I'd get some lemon sherbet in a paper bag. After dipping my fingers in until it had all gone, I looked like I'd been smoking 20 Rothmans for years.

And my copy of Look In too.

I used to buy flowers for my mum.

I got 6d a week (circa 1967). 1d a day on sweets, usually penny chews, with 2 oz of something that cost 2d on a Friday. Once, though, I saved up a whole £1, so that must have meant no sweets for 20 weeks. No idea how I managed it. I remember my parents were very proud of me. All those sweets explains the fillings in most of my teeth...

10p on a Saturday for sweets plus a comic of our choice once a week. Those were the days.

Now the kid gets a fiver which she either saves for weeks to buy Lego, or splurges on the same penny sweets I used to, except they cost a lot more than a penny now.

I started getting pocket money when I was 11 and I used to get about 50p per week. I was a saver and I loved saving money for special treats and occasions.

I remember going to the cinema or buying a special magazine with the money saved.

I didn't get any pocket money, but I used to spend my 25p dinner money on two packets of crisps and a mars bar every day at school from the ice cream van . I earned my own money from the age of 14 at a local supermarket so I could buy my own clothes as I only had one outfit other than my school uniform.

My dc aren't given any pocket money, they both earn their own money. My 11 year old earns £48 every three weeks doing a paper round and my 13 year old earns £64 doing his paper round. They buy everything they want/need for their PC - headphones, mice, new games etc. They do also save some as well.

Didn't get pocket money until I was about 10 or so, and used to fritter it on sweets. When I was 13, I got an allowance - I was so excited about that - which was basically the monthly child benefit, from which I needed to buy anything that wasn't school related. Unfortunately it coincided with CB being frozen, so the value of my allowance gradually eroded over the years!

HubbaBubba was 13p and penny sweets really did only cost 1p or 2p in the 80's

I did love the mr blobby sweets in the early 90's though.

Do you remember the sweets which were a gel sweet poured into a clear plastic mould in swirls of colours and you used to have to peel the sweets out.

We didnt receive much pocket money a few 2 pence pieces. One summer I think it was Cadburys or Mars that had an offer, 10 pence for every empty chocolate wrapper. My sister & I went round the school lanes collecting the old discarded wrappers. I believe we received about £14 back each which was alot of money in those days. We used to spend our money when we were on our family holiday in UK. Happy days ! I havent changed I am still a saver & love bargains & vouchers for money off deals

In the summer our kind relatives used to give us small amounts of money eg 10 pence in exchange for odd jobs eg cleaning car, cooking cakes, hoovering, picking fruit, gardening etc. We spent the money on ice lollies in the summer. I still have the ice lolly wrappers eg haunted house, funny feet, fab, nobbly bobbly. Doing chores taught me alot and the value of a job well done

I used to buy fake penny sweet cigarettes and pretend to smoke them.

I got £1.50 per week, if I kept my school uniform tidy and made my parents the odd cup of tea! £1 I saved in my piggy bank until I had enough to buy a book - I remember paperbacks tended to be £3.99 so I could get a new book every month - usually a new Brian Jacques Redwall book, or a Fighting Fantasy adventure. I still hoard books to this day ;)

With the remaining 50p, I would buy two packets of Take That stickers, and remember being a bit miffed that mum would keep the 10p change every week!

I was a little monkey. I was given two 10ps for two collections at church and I always left early, then saved that other 10p for sweets. In particular flying saucers. 1p I think they were.