Did you get ‘pocket money’ as a child?….

[Ammi]

…and if you did, how much pocket money did you get…was it given per chore and dependant on what chores you did or was it just a general weekly allowance etc…?…were you a spender/were you a saver or a bit of both…?…


….I’m not after stealing your pocket money, I was just reading an article about pocket money ‘rates’ in 2024’, which will obviously have inflated a bit since all of us oldies were kids…I’ll link the whole article but this is what it’s stating…or giving as some figures …

£5.68 for a six-year-old
£24.71 for a 17-year-old


https://news.sky.com/story/inflation-mortgages-interest-rates-latest-sky-news-money-blog-13040934

[Kate!]

I did get pocket money and usually spent it on magazines, plus my dad always got me a quarter of mint imperials when he went to the newsagents. :love:

[Crimson Dynamo]

nope and none of my lot got it either

[Cherie]

No, we had to do jobs for free :laugh:

[arista]

No, I worked
on a market

[Niamh.]

No, I just asked for money if I needed it. By 17 I had a part time job

[Gusto Brunt]

Yes, but not weekly. Not a fixed amount.

Like if there was something I wanted to buy that was inexpensive, my mother would give me the money. :)

[LaLaLand]

No just bits and bobs here and there and then a few quid when visiting relatives.

Always remember being asked that in school by a teacher and being singled out for not getting any, almost ridiculed (by the teacher!!) so my Mam went in and almost decked her. :joker:

[AnnieK]

I was offered the option of getting a weekly amount but my mum said that would be it ...if I spent it and then wanted to do something with friends etc but had nothing left it would be tough. I decided to not have a regular amount and be able to ask my mum if I needed something.

[bots]

i got £1 a week and felt rich :laugh:

There were no compulsory jobs, but it was understood that we were expected to contribute when required

[bots]

No, I worked
on a market

you worked on a market at 5 years old?

[rusticgal]

A little bit...enough to buy a comic and some sweets.

[smudgie]

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Not that I can remember.
Not a set amount, but we were given money if we wanted to go anywhere or do anything.
Our two were given a monthly allowance then their grandad uses to give them a fiver a week each. But we obviously bought them treats etc.

[Swan]

£2 a week from about the ages of 11-13. A group of friends would go up the Shopping Centre every Saturday, it's amazing how far you can make £2 stretch when it's all you have. Probably the equivalent of a fiver now I'm talking 99/00.

I think around 14 ish i was getting a tenner a week off my dad, then I started working at 15 in a Scaffold yard and earned my own money. £80 a week for 3 days work. Though iwas rich :laugh:

[Swan]

No, I worked
on a market

https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/img_8037.jpg

[Redrose]

Yeah get a pound. Would get 4 chocolate bars that were way bigger than today and change.

[Mystic Mock]

I never really asked for much tbh.

I mainly got money when it was my Birthday or Christmas.

[The Slim Reaper]

My folks used to give me the family allowance payment, which was about £12/wk at the start and around £17/wk at the end.

I'd also get thrown some cash as and when I needed it.