Current Events > Growing up, how much was your weekly allowance?

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And what did you buy most with that money?
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$2.00 a week for a couple of years, then I didn't get anymore for the rest of my childhood.
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I never got an allowance, just red pocket money from major events throughout the year.
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Started out at $10 every two weeks.

Then it gradually increased til I was about 15 years old to around $25 every two weeks.
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I got like $20 for weekly chores, mowing the lawn, taking out the trash, all that bullshit.

I was up to $80 for fully deep cleaning half of my house with my brother but we did such shitty jobs that my parents fired us.

I spent all my money almost exclusively on video games, I remember as a young teenager I would typically have about $300-$500 at any given time and I'd space out my purchases to buy what I wanted. My dad was Jewish so he did an excellent job of instilling frugality/cheapness in me.

I never got allowance
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Just like most things in my life, allowance was a complicated issue. For the very short time I was given an allowance for doing chores, it was $5 a week. I didn't learn until much later that it wasn't for my benefit that I was given an allowance, it was a cover for a much more sick/illegal situation my dad was creating. Once that was discovered and dealt with, the allowance stopped. However, my brother and I complained that it was unfair, so the allowance was condensed into a yearly birthday payment of $50(if they felt like it).
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SGT_Conti posted...

I never got an allowance, just red pocket money from major events throughout the year.

red pocket money? are you chinese?
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Didn't really have an allowance but my dad would buy a new video game for me once or twice a month.
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Hexenherz posted...

Didn't really have an allowance but my dad would buy a new video game for me once or twice a month.

For NES? that was kinda how it was like for me.
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I got $5 a week which I would usually take to the store and play Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.
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yeah a lot of those arcade games were real money suckers, ikari warriors etc.
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Lol, what allowance. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have money to waste.
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yeah maybe most kids back then, even today don't even get one.
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Smallville posted...

Hexenherz posted...

Didn't really have an allowance but my dad would buy a new video game for me once or twice a month.

For NES? that was kinda how it was like for me.

SNES, Playstation, N64, Dreamcast, and PS2 (he bought the consoles, too). He also bought me an Alienware laptop which absolutely set my mom and her boyfriend off.

It didn't take me long past high school to realize how much money he had spent for me to have these things and I felt really guilty about it.
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$3 a week for awhile, then only $10 a month. Then nothing for awhile, it was tough times. Then we did a $30 a month thing, but every time we got in trouble, or had to be asked a second time to do a chore, there was a $1 penalty.

By 4th grade we just didn't get allowance anymore. It amazes me that people got $20 a week, and really amazes me that people still got allowance in high school. I know most of you aren't much younger than me so it's not a generational or inflation thing.
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$10 a week.

Though we had to earn it by doing stuff around the house. Ain't no handouts up in here.
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$20 a week. I felt rich.
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i got like 90 bucks a week
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Lol, what allowance. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have money to waste.

This. I was allowed to do chores to avoid a beating.
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I got 10 bucks for mowing the lawn, that's it.
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lol who got an allowance.

what rich boy namby pamby neighborhood did TC grow up in?
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It got bigger as I got older.
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HitTheGroundWal posted...

It got bigger as I got older.

That's what he said.
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$0. My brother and I did chores because we were told to.
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I don't think I had an allowance. I got $200 for good grades though. And in high school I'd get $7 a day for lunch, spend half, and save that up
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TsC_PoLiTiKz posted...

$0. My brother and I did chores because we were told to.

geez, did you like your parents?
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Smallville posted...

TsC_PoLiTiKz posted...

$0. My brother and I did chores because we were told to.

geez, did you like your parents?

LMAO imagine only liking your parents because they paid you.

Jesus fucking christ i think it's become obvious what's wrong with CE

goddamn.

or imagine disliking your parents because they didn't pay and made you do chores.

I cooked dinner pretty much every fucking day for 6 years straight. Know how much i got paid? jack shit.
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was i talking to you anyway?
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My dad used to give me 100 pesos (according to google 100 dominican pesos are about 2 USD) for school every weekday, they were both for transportation and eating there but I didn't eat at school because the cafeteria line was too long, and go back home on foot so I'd keep all the money. So it would end up being about 10 USD a week (500 pesos).
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I didn't get an allowance, but if I was going somewhere my parents would give me $20 and when I started driving they'd give me another $20 when I had a quarter tank.
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None. When I had free time my friends and I would collect cans and bottles to recycle. We could probably fill a trash can every week, which was about $30 split amongst us.
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Doom_Art posted...

Started out at $10 every two weeks.

Then it gradually increased til I was about 15 years old to around $25 every two weeks.

the fuck? I had a job at 15.
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Wolf_J_Flywheel posted...

the fuck? I had a job at 15.

I didn't have a job until college. I did extracurricular activities after school / during summer that took most of my free time.
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Didn't get one, though my mom would sometimes give me twenty for being good.
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$0
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