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Pocket Money for 14 yr old daughter

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13laura · 06/08/2016 20:29

My 14 yr old daughter gets £5 a week. I pay for her mobile, most school clothes and 4 school lunches. So the £5 has to covers her everyday clothes and shoes, toiletries, transport, sweets and entertainment.But im starting to think that's not enough, so I was wondering what others gave there kids.

OP posts:
BertrandRussell · 06/08/2016 20:33

My 15 year old gets 40 a month. I pay for his phone, school clothes and lunches, and activities. Also very basic clothes and toiletries. He has to pay for everything else. Except when he sweet talks me into buying him vinyl..............

Balletgirlmum · 06/08/2016 20:34

£28 a month she has to pay for her phone out of that which is £10 a month.

Zhabr · 06/08/2016 20:37

No pocket money for my just 15 yo DD. I pay for everything except entertainment. She earns about £70.00 a month through tutoring/babysitting.

drinkyourmilk · 06/08/2016 20:37

I think that's quite low. I don't think you should take school uniform or lunches into account, nor basic clothing. As a parent I think you should be paying for these automatically. I'd suggest £40-£50 per month. Obviously I'd expect her to help with household chores for this.

lovelyupnorth · 06/08/2016 20:38

15&14 year old both get £10 a month and £8 for phone contract, we pay for school dinners and uniform they buy everything else pretty much. Both have Saturday jobs earning around £50 a week.

Wellywife · 06/08/2016 20:41

DD gets double her age so £26 a month as she's 13. I get all her clothes and we're on a shared phone plan. Her money is for buying crap if she goes shopping - stuff I think as tat!

insan1tyscartching · 06/08/2016 20:42

£20 per week, I pay for all clothes, school lunches, transport, her phone contract. Dd buys whatever she wants extra to what I pay for usually art stuff, cinema, make up, books, fan merchandise, birthday presents for friends and she saves a fair bit too.

LippyLiz · 06/08/2016 20:46

£90 per month but she's to pay for EVERYTHING with this, except school uniform and lunches. She's 13. She's learning to manage her money and is now not so demanding with the expensive clothing.

gamerchick · 06/08/2016 20:47

5 quid a week and you expect all that from it? Confused I want to know where you shop.

Mine get their child benefit and it covers transport and whatever else they do outside the house with an option to earn more via extra chores. On top of that they get 20 a month pocket money from their stepdad.

Oly5 · 06/08/2016 20:52

£5? A week???? To entertain herself and buy clothes?
No, it's not enough

ShockedWithKnobsOn · 06/08/2016 21:00

Mine gets €10 a week, I pay for all school stuff, phone, toiletries and treat her occasionally to clothes. I might as well just pay Primark (Penney's) the €10 directly!

Katedotness1963 · 07/08/2016 19:50

My youngest son just turned 15. He gets about £100 per month. We pay for his clothes, phone, toiletries and school lunches. I was thinking of giving him extra each month and letting him start buying his own clothes and shoes...

Balletgirlmum · 07/08/2016 21:31

Wow! I don't get £100 per month to spend on myself never mind giving it to the kids & I'd say we were fairly well off!

Whenwillthisphaseend · 08/08/2016 13:50

That's a lot to do with 5 pounds. I give 20 a week for entertainment really waggamanas etc she usually gets clothes/shoes for Christmas /birthdays and I pay for rest, toiletries and phone contract. Not sure how people manage over summer but I seem to be stumping up more have had to say no more than the average amount this week. She can earn more doing housework , ironing etc but never seems to keen , lazy!

sjr76 · 08/08/2016 14:27

Hi, do any of your younger teens have jobs, if so what sort of things do they do? My daughter has expressed an interest in getting a little job for extra pocket money, but I'm not sure where to start, thanks :-)

sjr76 · 08/08/2016 14:30

Please ignore last post, posted in wrong place, sorry.

19lottie82 · 08/08/2016 15:20

£5 doesn't get you a lot these days!
It isn't even enough for a cinema ticket, and you would only get 50p change from a McDonalds.

I got £5 a week when I was 12 back in 1994, and I didn't have to buy my own clothes!

panegyricS1 · 08/08/2016 19:05

£50 per month from grandparents in return for gardening (they've a complex garden that they can't manage alone now). Phone, school meals, toiletries (supermarket own brand) and clothes paid for by us. Golf and tennis club membership, and football season ticket also paid for by us. That £50 goes on cinema, entry to skate park, sweets, drinks, games of pool etc. Nothing is saved. Occasionally I'll have to hand over a fiver but I'm keen to encourage budgeting as a pp said.

littledrummergirl · 08/08/2016 22:20

Mine (16, 14 &11) get £10 a month to spend how they choose. I pay for clubs, sports training costs, basic clothes (If they want brands they save & pay the difference but all think that's a con and are happy with cheap), phone credit etc.
Ds1 is seriously considering a job when he starts sixth form in September as we have bigged up the freedom his own money will give him.
This is plenty for them to spend on junk.

CremeEggThief · 08/08/2016 22:26

My DS will be 14 in September and he currently gets £5 a week. I pay for his clothes, shoes, travel, phone, hair cuts, packed lunch stuff, when he doesn't fancy the free school meal he's entitled to, archery and Scouts (which he recently stopped attending). I would like to give him more, but I only have £854 a month to live on to cover everything, so it's tricky.

NeonPinkNails · 08/08/2016 22:31

My DD14 also gets £5 a week but then I give her more if she's going somewhere eg cinema, swimming. In addition I pay for her phone, basic toiletries, birthday presents etc and all school stuff. I sometimes wonder if I should just give her more and get her to budget but it seems to work like this for now. She also gets £10-20 now and then from GPs of which she usually saves some.

She'd really like a part time job but they seem to be few and far between round here - even babysitting is hard unless you know people. We're thinking of dropping off CVs at some local shops but I don't have very high hopes of that leading to anything.

Piemernator · 08/08/2016 22:46

My DS is 15 he earns £10 a week delivering papers once a week. I pay for everything and he saves all his wages.

SouthWestmom · 08/08/2016 22:53

balletgirlmum this is totally off topic but your post has just been a massive light bulb for me. Thank you.

Op, 10 PCM for the 8 and 11 yr old plus phone contract for 11 yr old. £20 for 13 yr old plus phone contract and random top ups - will move this to £30 from September. Older one gets £50 plus phone

Balletgirlmum · 08/08/2016 23:09

Which post - the one about my spending? Glad to oblige anyway.

Dd probsbly doesn't get as much as others but her dancing costs a lot & if I gave her & Ds more money they would just buy sweets (Ds) & coffee (dd)

I do give her extra if I need her to get the train back from school at all though if she wants to go out with her friends she lays her own bus/train fayre then.

SouthWestmom · 09/08/2016 07:10

Yes the comment about not having £100 a month - I appreciate it was probably a bit flippant but it's really just helped!

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