How much pocket money does your teenage daughter get...?

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And what does she have to buy with that? We are always subsidising dd's pocket money and think she needs to start budgeting. Thinking of upping pocket money but insisting she funds social life and presents out of that. What does everyone else do.tia,

My 15yo DD has £20 per month paid directly into a bank account, she has a debit card, but it will only pay out if there is money in her account (as she found when she got stuck in Frankie and Bennies and her card was refused as she had spent all her money, had to borrow off a friend and I had to pay the friend back when I picked them up). She babysits and I pay her £5 to do my ironing (which is a godsend as I hate it). I pay for toiletries and clothes.

She is rubbish with money, and it is a slow and hard process to get her to learn, she is very much like my brothers, both were/are horrible with money although my dad was a financial advisor and I am very good with money.

my allowance between 15 and 18 was 70ppm, this was to pay for everything apart from house food, and when i had to get the bus coz i broke my moped my parent paid half of the 50 quid a month bus fair. my allowance stopped when i went to university (fair deal really) i learnt to budget well. i must admit my dad did spoil me, when i got a weekend job he didn't dock my allowance on the agreement the allowance went into savings for university, which i did plus about £150 of my wage. i am now a mental saver and despite all my uni mates being in 500 quid overdafts i'm a grand in the black :) with still 200 quid left til monday when the next loan payment comes in YAY.

anyway i thought £70 was very fair and i could buy all i needed and if i wanted something specific, i saved up for it.

i think if your going to do it, do all or nothing, i don't think i would have learnt to save and budget if some money was coming in then i got extra left right and centre my budget was £70 that was all i was getting until the next month, ones money was gone, that was it money gone i had to wait, i never as dad for money or anyone else for that matter even though i have family who keep telling me if you need it i'll give you food vouchers.... i think i'm just proud and can't except handouts but i learnt very well about bugeting especially if you sit down and tell them about it :)

£30 a month for:
Going out
Presents for friends when they go to a party
Make-up
Accessories
Non-essential fashiony clothes (I buy basics like jeans, coat, underwear, boots etc)
Save up to buy Christmas presents for the family and any bits for friends

My daughters are nearly 17 and 15.

The seventeen year old has a Saturday job in a shop (approx £100 per month) and the fifteen year old babysits and dog-walks occasionally (varies enormously but perhaps averages approx £30-40 per month).

I pay for their hair (highlights and cut) every 8/9 weeks or so and their phone contracts (£30pcm each).

They have clothes or replace gadgets (eg cameras) as Christmas or birthday presents.

£250 pcm each for DD1 and DD2, aged 19 and 17 (but eldest taking a gap year, still at home and doing a cookery course) - they have to buy clothes out of that although I pay for their mobile 'phones and essentials eg school clothes, hair cuts, petrol for the eldest's car etc. This was agreed as fair after some negotiation. However, in view of the above, I am thinking that this may be too much.....

DS is 17 and gets £45 a month, he has to cover out of house food, entertainment and socialising, presents and other bits and bobs.
We pay for clothing, subscriptions and basics that go on the shopping list.
Why did only ask about daughters?

Older daughter (sixth form) cannot get a Saturday job - has tried for over a year and a half. She gets £10/week from us paid into her bank a/c, and still gets £20 EMA per week during term-time, but that will stop in June.

Younger daughter gets £5 per week from us, plus does a couple of hours babysitting every week for which she gets £10.

When my oldest son started secondary school I added everything together that I would normally fork out for:

Phone - £10 per month
Hair cut - £7 per month
Dinner Money - £60 per month
Toiletries - £10 per month
Clothing - £30 per month
'pocket Money' 10 per week - £40 per month

= £157 per month - and just stuck it all in his account each month ...then he had to budget. He had to buy everything except for food at home.... (from the ages from 11-15 he had to save half the pocket money each month)...he didn't get the dinner money out of the school term.

Bloody hell, Jenna it adds up, doesn't it? On that basis I think I'd get mine to take a packed lunch

am i mean then? dd is 18 and i stopped her monthly allowance whan she was 16 and of an age to get weekend work. She had a saturday job for a couple of months but got sacked. She has no phone (no money to pay for it). I give her money occasionally if she helps out with younger siblings - which is rare! she is at college 3 days a week so could do voluntry work - for which i would give her a 'wage'. but she refuses. If she was seen to be studying properly I wouldnt mind giving her an allowance - but she doesnt. DH and I are desperately trying to get her to take some responsibility for herself. I provide toiletries and necessary clothes/shoes - but extras she needs to fund herself.

No, I don't think that's mean crkm . As long as there is work going in your area (but that's another thread on here!) I'm guessing there is if she's been sacked already!
I have 3 younger DDs and I'm dreading when they get to this age. I'm sure the law of odds will mean at least one of mine end up lacking motivation for anything! I can already guess which DD it will be, too.

While I'm obviously tight a bit less well off than some of you!
ds (15) gets £15 a month and dd1 (13) gets £13 a month.

We pay subs for anything they belong to. We buy clothes / toiletries / occasional present for friend's birthday.

They pay for own phones, any going out, sweets, etc., presents for immed family for Christmas and birthdays.

dd manages fine.
ds never has any money. He now has a job which earns him just over £10/ week, which still doesn't seem to have left him with lots of spare cash!