Pocket Money - what's the going rate?

Ands
Ands Posts: 1,437
edited May 2010 in The bottom bracket
What is the going rate for pocket money these days?

We suggested £2 a week to our daughter, who has just turned 6, and she came back with a counter-offer of £2.50 :shock: .

Can we tax her? :lol:
Cannondale Six Carbon

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  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Tell t' whippersnapper she can 'ave an extra ha'penny when she's done her first shift down t' pit. :wink:
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Her counter-offer is subject to negotiation. What is she prepared to do for the50p bonus?
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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Tell her she's adopted from Eastern Europe, and pay her as little as possible
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • NormanPrice
    NormanPrice Posts: 34
    My daughter's 7 and gets up to a fiver a week.

    She has a star chart with 5 stars per day over 7 days for various tasks / behaviours each day. If she does the task (clearing table, tidying up etc etc) or meets the behaviour (not being asked twice, goes to bed without complaint etc) then she gets a star.

    At the end of the week she gets 10p per star, with a £1.50 bonus if she has a full 35 stars.

    Works a treat but costs me a flamin' fortune because she's stopped being cheeky and started to help a hell of a lot more than I expected lol.

    Oh well, makes for an easier life.
  • lemon63
    lemon63 Posts: 253
    Get them a paper round.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    lemon63 wrote:
    Get them a paper round.

    She's only 6! Much better for sweeping chimneys at that age :D
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Ands wrote:
    What is the going rate for pocket money these days?

    We suggested £2 a week to our daughter, who has just turned 6, and she came back with a counter-offer of £2.50 :shock: .

    Can we tax her? :lol:

    Lucky she only came back with a counter offer!... I was expecting to read that she came back with a mouthful of expletives :shock: :wink:
    Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    I used to get 1 quid a week off my nanna.
  • Hals1967
    Hals1967 Posts: 231
    Yep thank God for Nanna's - mine used to top up the pocket money I got as a kid and throw in biscuits, sweets and the best chips I've ever tasted.

    I used to get 30p a week and blow it every Friday on a 29p Kalkitos rub-on transfer thingy - usually Dinosaurs or Planes. Heady days indeed !

    1967 Engine
  • Vino2007
    Vino2007 Posts: 340
    Any more than a quid or two for that age group is teaching the wrong thing. I'd much rather give a treat than paying up for them doing chores for mummy and daddy.
  • desmosedici
    desmosedici Posts: 117
    Hals1967 wrote:

    I used to get 30p a week and blow it every Friday on a 29p Kalkitos rub-on transfer thingy - usually Dinosaurs or Planes. Heady days indeed !

    Oh. My. God! KALKITOS! I'd totally forgotten about them. Sigh, where has my childhood gone? Thanks for the memories.

    I used to blow my pocket money on "Battle", "Action", and "2000A.D."

    My older boy is 9 and gets about a pound fifty a week.
  • Hals1967
    Hals1967 Posts: 231
    desmosedici wrote:

    I used to blow my pocket money on "Battle", "Action", and "2000A.D."

    Going off topic but I'd forgotten about those !

    Crikey, memories of "Hook Jaw" & "Hellman of Hammer Force" !!!

    Battle & Action merged IIRC, then my favourite strip was "Johnny Red".

    My brother got 2000AD.

    Anyhow, back on topic...

    1967 Engine
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    My little girl gets £1, shes 6. My 2 boys get £1.50 each, they are 10 and 11.

    I look after them kids.... :D
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    My 6 yr old gets £1 a week as long as she keeps her room tidy and makes her bed every morning.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    A friend of mine's 8 year old when questioned on how he was getting on cleaning his bedroom anwered that he had managed to "clear a path to his bed" :D
  • sheffsimon
    sheffsimon Posts: 1,282
    £2 each for my 10 and 8 yr old boys - generally immediately blow the lot on "Match Attax" or "Adrenalin XL" football cards.

    Now have approx 35 million of the f*****g things in the house :)
  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    £2 it is. I'm not going to enter negociations with a 6-year old! :D I assumed that she might want to buy a 'Hello Kitty' comic once in a while, or save up for some Build-a-Bear clothes (teddy bear clothes). She tells me she's saving for a Wii and some Lelli Kelly shoes. :shock:
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Ands wrote:
    She tells me she's saving for a Wii and some Lelli Kelly shoes. :shock:
    :lol::lol::lol::lol:

    My little nephew from Slovakia (4 years old) threw a massive tantrum the other day because his Mum wouldn't take him to Paris.

    I would have paid to see that.
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    desmosedici wrote:
    Hals1967 wrote:

    I used to get 30p a week and blow it every Friday on a 29p Kalkitos rub-on transfer thingy - usually Dinosaurs or Planes. Heady days indeed !

    Oh. My. God! KALKITOS! I'd totally forgotten about them. Sigh, where has my childhood gone? Thanks for the memories.

    I used to blow my pocket money on "Battle", "Action", and "2000A.D."

    My older boy is 9 and gets about a pound fifty a week.
    OMG Battle and Action were fantastic comics, you remember 'Hook Jaw' the shark in there? I would LOVE to buy some old comics, some old collection nobody wants ..... sigh ......
  • macondo01
    macondo01 Posts: 706
    My 7 and 5 year get one pound a week each. They can earn more by doing odd jobs like cleaning bikes!

    2000 AD - ah happy memories and Space Dust that fizzed in your mouth!
    .
    "Let not the sands of time get in your lunch"

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    dmclite wrote:
    My little girl gets £1, shes 6. My 2 boys get £1.50 each, they are 10 and 11.

    I look after them kids.... :D

    You'll have UNISON on your back if you aren't careful - equal pay for equal jobs and all that :wink:

    My older daughter will claim she doesn't get pocket money - she conveniently forgets the fact it costs us about £300 per month to keep her bloody horse :evil: :wink:

    My 6 year old gets £2. Neither of them appear to do anything in return for their payment, bit like me and my job really :lol:
  • macondo01
    macondo01 Posts: 706
    My older daughter will claim she doesn't get pocket money - she conveniently forgets the fact it costs us about £300 per month to keep her bloody horse Evil or Very Mad Wink

    I will never, ever, ever complain about the tropical fish!
    .
    "Let not the sands of time get in your lunch"

    National Lampoon
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    Used to get 25p a day, except on Sundays. At 13 I got a paper round and was paid £3.25 a week, took on 2 rounds and was paid £5.00 a week - seemed like a fortune! I don't recall what I spent my money on, wouldn't have been computer games, we pirated them :lol: must have been 3 1/2 inch floppies and sweets.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I didn't get pocket money as a kid but did a paper round delivering a free paper and got paid 1p for each of the 250 papers I delivered each week. Saved up for a disgusting yellow jumper and a nylon ski jacket (it was the 80's in my defence!).
  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    I did a paper round for 3 years. I was given the 'posh' area, where everyone had broad sheets, plus the FT, and TV & Radio Times on a Wednesday. It was so heavy I had to do it in 3 goes. The upside was at Christmas, I'd get over £100 in tips. I'm sure carrying that load on my right shoulder/left hip is the root of all my lower back problems today!

    My money went on vinyl records and breakdancing clothes (oh the shame :oops: ). I did have a lovely Kappa jacket though. 8)
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