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How much allowance do you get?

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I have to ask my parents, it's not like I dont earn my own money. I have probably given them about $5-6 grand in checks/cash for my computer repair work. But I never have received a weekly allowance. I wish I had though, it teaches money management very well.
 
yeah, get a job... all you 13 year olds out there who are too young to work legally, I guess that just sucks for you.

once I started going to school, my parents gave me $10/week. when I started high school, it got bumped up to $30/week (really only a $5 bump, since once I started hs, I had to pay $15/week for the subway+bus back and forth to school)
 
Never had an allowance, but when I was 16 my parents would give me money for gas or for trips when I didn't have enough from working.
 
I got 20$ a week to pay for 16.50 in food when I was in highschool 🙁

Now I have a job and I can buy all the food I want :gift:
 
i was getting 20$/week for lunch when i was in high school (we were allowed to go off campus, so thats what i did instead of buying lunch in the cafeteria).. now i'm 21 (turning 22 in a week) and i dont get anything...
 
hmm....

i used to get $5/week when my dad remembered when I was like 8-13,

then i started working @ age 14......now, @ age 22 my allowance is from my job!!!
 
I got $2 a week and I had to bust my ass to get it. Do you know how long it took me to buy a freaking NES?
 
Allowance, funny stuff. I have been working since i was 10.

Well 10-12 I was a paper boy. Then at 13 started working, at the time it was 4.00 an hour.
 
heh.... first job when I was 14, never had an allowance. I suggest you get off your ass and work before you get used to taking handouts princess
 
I get every cent my husband makes and I'm old enough to have earned it. (Remember ladies, the mantra is "everything I have is mine and everything he has is mine.") 😀
 
I never had allowance, my parents made me work for my money - they dind't spoon-feed me until I was 10.
 
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I get every cent my husband makes and I'm old enough to have earned it. (Remember ladies, the mantra is "everything I have is mine and everything he has is mine.") 😀
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lol, so *that's* what my wife has been mumbling every night...
 
used to get $10 a week when i was in middle school. it all stopped when i got my first job in 9th grade.

oh im 22 now and get about $900 per week pre taxes/401K/medical
 
my parents thought that it was important to teach my sister and I to be responsible about financial stuff pretty early. got my first credit card when I was 14 🙂

I have a 23 year-old friend who still gets an allowance... it's pretty sad, but she's been virtually unemployed for almost 10 months (hasn't been able to find a job since college graduation except short-term temp work). her parents took pity on her and started to pay her for doing housework.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
my parents thought that it was important to teach my sister and I to be responsible about financial stuff pretty early. got my first credit card when I was 14 🙂

I have a 23 year-old friend who still gets an allowance... it's pretty sad, but she's been virtually unemployed for almost 10 months (hasn't been able to find a job since college graduation except short-term temp work). her parents took pity on her and started to pay her for doing housework.
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wow i'd feel so depressed if my parents had to give me money now. why cant she work retail?
 
wow i'd feel so depressed if my parents had to give me money now. why cant she work retail?
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over-qualified.

at least that's what she says. we have two theories that we talk about behind her back... either she has a job and she's to embaressed to tell us about it (ie: McDonalds or retail), or she only has another few months to live.

3 of us have had 7 jobs between us in the time that she's had none. heh.
 
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