14 year old - how much does pocket money, clubs & mobile cost you?

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DD has music lessons which cost £60 pm and belongs to a club which costs approx. £10 pm. As this is quite a bit for us, we've said in the past if she wants lessons, she can only have £10 pocket money. We pay for mobile phone top up, but that's nothing (approx. £20 a year as she doesn't really use it). Over the last year she's met up with friends in town more or gone for tea out, so I've always wanted to make sure she has enough money to come home on bus or for a snack/main meal.

Just wondering whether to give her an allowance each month and tell her she has to manage it. There'll obviously be a limit as to how much we can give her, but just wondering how much other teens have for pocket money, clubs & mobile phone.

DD14 gets her phone contract plus music lessons, school fees and extra curricular clubs paid for by us - and £20 monthly for going out with friends etc.
We buy the 'essential' clothes and toiletries but anything else she wants ie. Fashion clothing or makeup she has to buy herself.

Dd1 is 15 next month, does athletics twice a week at £1 per session so seems quite cheap but her sports kit expenses mount up ur £90 for trainers/trail trainers/spikes . £50 a month pocket money which she has to top her phone up with and buy any fashion clothes etc, she has a job once a month delivering local magazines to a couple villages paying £25 a month. Is busy looking for a job as she has expensive taste in clothes and make up , my younger 2 get £7.50 a month

Mobile 'phone top up, maybe £10 every other month. I don't give him an allowance, I buy him clothes when he needs them (not v interested) or more 'designer' stuff at Xmas. If he needs money to go out then he does chores to earn it. All in all maybe £20/25 per month.

\sorry - he doesn't do any clubs, if he did I'd happily pay

DD is 12. She can earn £7 pw pocket money, so up to £28 a month, which is for her spending, except she is expected to pay for presents for people.

On top of that, I pay...

£15 mobile phone
£75 month gymnastics (she's in a squad)
£95 month dancing (4 X normal lessons, 1 x private competition lesson)
£5 netball (once a week)
£40 month music lessons at school.

Then just extras for school trips, essential clothes etc.

She's very expensive :-)

Each month we spend:
£70 on instrumental lessons
(orchestra & choir are free of charge)
£10 on phone
£50 on lunches & snacks bought at school
£14 on pocket money

He doesn't go out much, which makes him cheaper to run than his older brother.

However, some time in the next year we are going to need to buy him an intermediate level instrument, which will cost £1000 or more (for second hand).

DD gets phone 20 per month (all inclusive), 5 per week spending money and all extra curricular (about 150 per month). I would buy all toiletries, snacks and clothes and any extra equipment or sports fees. She is 12 and we will up her 5 cash per week to 10 for the summer when she will have more free time. Will review it when she starts secondary in Sept.

My Dd is 11 so a bit younger than most of your children but she doesn't have pocket money yet so this is interesting to me to see how much other people give their children. I was thinking £20 a month?

She also has £14 a month for sea cadets and £10 for guides

I expect we'll soon be setting up a phone contract though, probably sim only with one of dh's old iPhone. I wouldn't want to be spending more than £10 a month on that

I dont give pocket money.if they go to town with friends (which is very rarely) I just give them £20ish.

DD1 mobile is £28 pm. £2.50 a day for lunch. other activities is football which costs £150 per season for 2 teams. DD2 attends too.

DD is 16

£100 for personal x's and the odd lunch
£25 phone
Music lessons £250 per term
Drama Club £150 per term
Clothes as and when
She wants to join a gym and that's OK

DS3 is 15. We give him £25 a month, pay for his phone, buy his clothes, toiletries etc. He doesn't do any clubs. If he goes out with friends we give him a tenner or so for a pizza, and pick and drop him off.

DD 13 gets award points at school (leads to a certificate) so we use this to reward her. She gets 50p a point, and can earn more for jobs around the house or getting full marks on maths tests etc. Used to do £25 per month pocket money , but this is about the same and she feels she's earning it. We pay for music lessons £13 /week, drama school £90/term, and will start horse riding again once the winter's over! She buys her own makeup, games, downloads etc. We pay for everything else!

£40 a month pocket money. £10 a month phone. £5 a month minecraft server. Her club is free.

Dd 14 £30 a month pocket money and then we pay term time singing £10 a week and another £21 a week for ballet. I buy basic clothing and toiletries, she covers anything else she fancies plus occasional cinema, swimming with friends etc. Not a recreational shopper and her hobbies don't leave much time anyway. She's good to pitch in at home (own room is a tip though) and is keen to get a holiday job. We pay £15 a month into a savings bond not to be touched until she's older. We give cash rewards for As at school or other awards.

Hit post too soon before. She's a good saver, has bought her own gadgets and puts money away for holiday spends and tops up her phone herself though I sometimes help with this.

Not pocket money as such but we top up his dinner money account £80.00 a month.
He gets £4.00-£5.00 every Saturday when he goes to engineering club and money for cinema around £6-£8 every few weeks

Oh and moBile phone contract £20.00 a month

DS16 and 13 both get pocket off their grandparent. £10 a week

DS16 has a part time job so gets £25 every Saturday. He doesn't ask for money very often. I pay £45 a month for both mobiles.

DS13 gets £5 on a Friday to play football and buy a drink. If he asks for money to go to the cinema I will usually give him £10.

They have been on school run trips to Europe, costing about £300-400 each over the past couple of years.

I did tell them I would give them £20 a month (£5 a week) if their bedrooms were tidy, rubbish in the bin, clothes in the washing basket etc every Friday but it has NEVER happened, not once. To me, that's easy money and a 5-10 minute job to earn £5! Don't get them at all.

I'm 17 and get €20 (we're in Ireland)-about £15 per month- as an allowance. My brother and sister (18 year-old twins) get €20 each as well but up until a while ago I was always on half what they were as I got my phone at an earlier age than they did, so that meant I didn't accumulate more money than they did,but then I was matched to them. All the basics like clothes,food and toilet are paid for by our parents but luxuries (including phone bills) are paid for by us. Me and my brother are pay-as-you-go so don't buy that much credit but my sister has a bill-pay phone plan which she started while working. Brother and sister get some money during term time for helping to tutor some local children.Our parents do treat us to meals out and occasionally contribute money towards us going out with friends to the cinema or for food,but not all the time. We don't really do any extra curricular activities so don't occur any expenses for them,if we did our parents would cover the cost associated with them as they have done that previously and wouldn't expect us to pay for something like that. I suspect things will change in September though when the twins go to university...

My twins are both 14.
Dd: £60 Pm phone bill (she keeps going over )
£88pm horse riding
£60 pm violin lessons
£59pm Irish dance
On top of all that £150 6 week train ticket
£3 pocket money a day or if she's going out with mates she'll usually get £30 for the day. She's good at saving so gets herself a few bits and pieces but I always end up the one paying when it comes to clothes.

Ds: £40 pm phone bill
£10pm football fee + £3 every match
&
£3 pocket money per day
I buy all his clothes
£25 pm on haircuts
£30 if he goes out with his mates (every other weekend)
£10 gym fees per week

Hmmm I think I need to cut down

I have five DCs aged 14 to 25. I have always provided just food and toiletries. exH got a family phone plan with work that cost him nothing and two of them are on that. The other three provide their own.

If they want money to spend then they have to earn it. Starting at about 13, the DDs babysit and DS used to do odd jobs like mowing lawns, painting fences, clearing out basements.

They generally save up and buy their own clothes and footwear or find second hand or sale rack items. They also pay for their own entertainment, films, coffee with friends, etc. They have also bought items for themselves like laptops and prom dresses, as they have learned to save.

They participate in extra curricular activities in school which are free. Youngest DD volunteers at the local library and hopes to get a good reference when she starts looking for an actual paying summer job at 16.

We don't do pocket money, I pay for their phones - 15yo has a £12pm contract currently 12yo is on PAYG and just turned 18yo has just got a brand new phone on £22 contract which is part of his birthday present.

I give them spending money as they need it, pay for odd games/t-shirts/books depending on my finances. They get money from MIL on an irregular basis and enough money from her for birthdays and Christmas that they've all got money in current accounts. They don't really spend anything. If they want more cash I'm quite willing to help them find jobs, taxi them around. Their choice really. Only extras atm are DDs flute lessons (£60 a term) and DS2 doing NCS this year (a wopping £20!) Next year DS2 will be old enough for some BFI courses at Easter and we'll pay out for that.

Neither me or DH came from families that did or could afford pocket money. We worked when we wanted our own money.

Ds1 is abit younger, at 12, but he gets £10 a month put onto his Osper card plus his mobile phone, which I think is £22 a month.

He's just started wanting extra money for trips out with friends ( cinema etc) so I just give him the money for that. I'm trying to work out whether to up his pocket money to cover these, or increase chores..