How much allowance you get/used to get in a month?

$80.00

Allowance was a sporadic thing in my childhood. Usually I got money when I asked for it.

it all depends on the age of the receiver.

I used to get 10$ a week.. this was in the early 90’s. lol Well its all I had so i didn’t have a choice. My mom got me a job the minute i turned 13 though. lol. Allowance was short lived.

I’ve never gotten an allowance. When I used to ask why not my dad would say “You do your chores and I let you live here. There you go.” lol So after a while I gave up asking.

None. My family was too poor.

@Chongalicious LOL!! wow, thats kinda harsh. I like the idea of pay for performance. I will probably do that when i have kids.

I never got an allowance. My parents gave me money when I needed it for hanging out with friends (getting food, going to the movies, etc.) When I wanted something like clothes or electronics or whatever, I would usually have to wait until my birthday or Christmas. My parents always were willing to buy me music CDs and they put money in my iTunes account (I rarely bought music on iTunes, though). In the case of clothes and shoes, though, I would usually go shopping with my mom before school started to stock up on them. :)

Never enough.

@TheBlackRanger haha I like that concept too! We never have gotten a taste of thet whole mysterious “reward system”, but rather the one of do what you’re told or you’re in big trouble!

@Chongalicious Thats one of the challenges I see with parenting. Making your kids understand that you do what your told regardless of a reward system, but teaching them if they do extra hard work, they will be compensated for going the extra mile. Any parents have success with performing this?

@TheBlackRanger I think kids do need some kind of reward some of the time, it’s more motivational than getting yelled at. They tell you to improve, and when you do you should get a reward..mmmm CAKE! haha

I was a spoiled brat. In the late 60s I got $100 a month. Spent most of it on books, classical records and motorcycle parts. I defied description, sort of a nerd-biker-loner.

ummm..we had to earn our money. Nothing given, you did the old fashion way, you worked for it.

$10/week for washing dishes. I’m just grateful I have an allowance.

I get €136,- ($188,50) a month from my parents now. Muhahaha.
Of course it’s not really an allowance, and I need every last penny of it to pay my tuition fees.
Studying is expensive as fuck. It’s almost like the powers that be want to discourage us from learning.

I worked as an office assistant for my father and I got:
$5 in grades 1–6, $30 in grades 7–12 $500 in college, 0 in university (from my dad) and (care packages and a t.v. and blankets ect from my mom)

all the time I could ask for anything of course I didn’t always get it.

@talljasperman – I wish I had your mom. My not so wealthy dad is giving me $1000 a year for tuition. My wealthy mom says she is going to give me money, but when student loan filing comes around she always pulls back.

I never got an allowance because my family didn’t have the money. I never complained though – I had everything I needed as a kid.

From 5–10 yrs old it was a quarter a week, then from 10–12 was 50 cents, then from 12–14 was a buck a week from 14–16 it was $2.50 a week at 14 I got a part time job to help carry me as the allowance thing was not cutting it. I loved saving those quarters though, I really did.

It was so long ago I got paid in stones.

@TheBlackRanger I’m not a parent, but I do get a say in how allowances work with my job.
They alternate putting away silverware (after I put away the sharp knives) and the kid cups. They bring their dirty dishes to the sink. They sponge off the table. They dustbust and tidy up when asked. They help fold and put away their laundry. They don’t do these things because of a reward- they do these things because they are members of a household, and that’s what families do. I freely point out to them that I don’t really wanna be scrubbing this pot after making them mac and cheese. I am doing it because I am a helpful member of the home and want them to have clean cookware.
Allowance comes when they are extra helpful without being asked. It’s a good motivator, but it’s not their reason for doing regular ol’ around the house helping. And it works.

When I was a kid in the 80’s and early 90’s, I got about $3 a week for doing regular helpful stuff. And I always tried to weasel out of it.

I stopped getting an allowance when i was around 12 or something cuz i just ended up asking my parents for money whenever i went out/wanted something and that was easier.
But i felt kinda snobby… o.o So now i get 10 a week. So i can learn to save

I got $50 a month starting in 7th grade through 10th grade when I got a job. My mom would give me $50 on the first of every month and I used it as I wanted. If I spent all my money and asked for more, she’d make up extra chores for me to do. (Laundry, clean the bathroom, wash the cars, yard work, walk the dogs for an hour for a week, etc.) After I got my job, I stopped getting an allowance since I was getting a paycheck then.

I gave no-strings allowances: “You’re part of the household and you get to share in its resources. You’re part of the household and you get to share in the work.” Allowance was never pay for anything. Sometimes a special chore would be worth separate compensation.

I also had these provisions:

Any time you want, you can ask for your allowance to be withheld and I will save it up for you. You can claim it whenever you want.
—This helped them save up for big purchases.

When you think you are ready for a raise, you have to apply in writing, telling me how much you want, why you want that amount, and why you think I should give it to you. If it’s reasonable, I’ll approve, so make it reasonable.
—These were priceless! I usually approved them exactly as submitted, but once I told one of them that he was asking for too little. He said, no, that’s all I want.

As a teenager and then a young adult – $150 a month

@Simone_De_Beauvoir
...Rich kid

@RAWRxRandy rich is relative and we haven’t felt rich as a family since I was 5 – it took us over 14 years to get to a point where I now have a job and we have a home that we can’t afford now that my father passed away – but with all the moving we’ve done from Azerbaijan to Russia and from Russia to America and trying to get established here, it’s still very hard…I wouldn’t call myself rich for many many more years but I will not call myself poor because I have non-material things in my life that beat everything that we can’t afford. Also, I don’t mean to sound like this but who are you to make an assumption like that when you have no idea how many people we’ve had in our household or what my expenses were (most went on food)...as a young adult, early 20s I already had a kid to support and my parents’ support reflected that.

It depends. My mom usually puts a few hundred in my bank account when I ask/need it. I wouldn’t call it an “allowance” though.

@Facade That’s a good point about the difference between allowance and the $ parents give their kids. I won’t get into numbers, but my parents have always given me the occasional helpful check, even as a full fledged adult. When I’m succeeding at life (making positive choices, etc) I get them more frequently than when they know I’m fucking around and spending my money at bars.

@Likeradar Yea, I agree. I was never paid for good grades or chores. Money was alway provided. My mom never asks me what I spend the money on. I usually end up telling her anyways.
How do they know what you do with the money?

@Facade My mom and I talk openly about a lot of stuff. I don’t tell her everything, but enough so that she has a good idea of how I’m spending my time.

My “allowance” was pretty much defined on how much work I was willing to put in amassing empty beer bottles and cashing them in.

Then I went and bought Sailormoon stickers haha.