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Oct 10, 2019 1:41 AM
KillBoFraggins3
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Edit: Holy hell, front page twice in one day! I love reading all the comments.
cryptidofthewood
My Mom worked two jobs and threatened to kick my ass if I didn't mother her kids while she was away. Great times..
thepatioheater
£5 a week for taking the bins out. Went on strike after not being paid for over a month
bjanep121
I got paid for doing chores - based on my age. But my parents "taxed" it and gave me what they taxed as vacation spending money.
Greymalum
Same, and their chores may have been necessary but it wasn't so to be a dick about it.
Jacobvm
14.7$
Blake242
Allowance?! The day after I finished secondary school my mum drove me into town and told me not to come home without a job
6Oh4
It was dependent on how many chores I did.
Jabberwotchi
I was working full time by the time I was 15 and paying half the rent cus my mom wasnt reliable....
mattshadex
I had some form of job since I was 10. Never got an allowance
JeffJuice
20$/mo when my parents started doing better. + instead of going to get my hair cut I bought a wahl hair clipper and did it myself to save$$
Isetherealism
We got $2 a month. But we weren’t allowed to spend it.
graehall
I worked. From about 12 onward. But I was good at it unlike school so I liked it. And it was fun to have money I earned.
CrouchingVaginaHiddenPenis
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NotMyUsualOnlineName
Christmas and birthday money from my grandparents. Which was usually spent on clothes for school. We could barely afford food, no way in
NotMyUsualOnlineName
hell I was getting money to do chores.
jackpkmn
per week? PER WEEK? $4. per month. and that was the doubled amount i started getting when i turned 16.
Linnywtf
£5 a week I think I got. I also remember being super ill and delirious one time and a giant pound coin rang my doorbell.
detour512
$20 every 2 weeks, $5 for lunch everyday. Then they saw I wasn't eating lunch. So no more allowance and half lunch money.
LuminoZero
$10 a week in 1990 for garbage every night and cycling chores with my two older siblings throughout the week.
ArtesianFalma
I'm an only child and my parents never had control how much they gave me. I always had money in my wallet. But I didn't spend that much tho.
Joad111
I got 25 cents a week for mowing the lawn and doing dishes in 1966.
YouJustGotRickRolled
Bagged lunches and 5$ a week, if i worked for it
thevortexmaster
I got $20 a week to mow the lawn, do the dishes, chop wood and take out the garbage. Then I got a job at 12 years old
alecdshope
I'm so old I'm not sure they had money when I was a teen. I can't remember.
sugarNspiceNnice
I was given what I reasonably wanted needed... then a job at 12 (babysitting) then pizza girl at 15!!
BobbyMillsfromAChorusLine
I got bday/xmas cash, then at 11 had a paper route, then 16 got a part time job at a movie theater. Any money I made was mine to keep, but I
BobbyMillsfromAChorusLine
bought a lot of my own clothes etc with it. Also helped with laundry and cleaning around the house but didnt get paid for that, it was
BobbyMillsfromAChorusLine
expected of us to pitch in and help.
JoleneJoleneJoleneJoleeene
I got $50 a week because my parents didn’t let me get a job. Education came first.
IrishTemper12ga
I'm jealous. Worked since I was 14 and ended up working 3 jobs while taking 18 credit hours a semester in college. I still have sleep issues
PlainPlaid
Same w/our kids, no jobs, school only. All got full ride academic scholarships to college. Cheaper in long run 4 us & no one has debt.
GreyKihano
My father sent me to full time job whenever I had vacation in school. I worked 40 hours per week, and got about $300.
JoleneJoleneJoleneJoleeene
Holidays were for me to get ahead in my academics. I was gifted textbooks to work though. Graduated with good grades, but no experience.
xVVitch
Lmao allowances were only something fake kids on tv got.
humanhotplate
Yeah I didnt get an allowance, and as soon as I was old enough to get a job, I had to start paying for my clothes and pitch in for groceries
dragonherder
Nah. I used to get like 10 or so a week. I think allowance was a good way to motivate. You did good in school, went every day, did your
dragonherder
chores at home and behaved and it was a little reward so you could get yourself a little something like a toy or what have you. If you
dragonherder
wanted that toy you saved up or you asked for it for birthday or christmas which was the only real time it was cool to ask for extras.
xVVitch
No, allowances were imaginary.
dragonherder
No they were not. I got an allowance so I know for certain they were not.
Grizy
Us poor people have to keep telling ourselves that so that we don't get TOO depressed. We can't afford the medicine.
scienceraptor
This is meant to be funny, but it hits too close to home... ?
xVVitch
Ahahahah...haha..hah.. *cries in poor*
Vesane
I was fortunate to have a comfortable time growing up, and do recognise that I did, but didn't get things like allowances so I'd learn value
Vesane
Of earning things myself, so I'm grateful to my Dad for that, even though it seemed confusing as a kid hearing about "pocket money" other
Vesane
Kids without having to do anything to get it. Made me better appreciate the privilege I had in growing up, without being spoilt
cheatingwalrus
Chopped wood, fed cows, chickens, and rabbits. Changed irrigation pipe, bucked bales, picked pipes out of the fields, fixed fence and 1/
hellodee
You must live in MT.
cheatingwalrus
I do actually. I'm curious on how you guessed that?
cheatingwalrus
When I was 12 I took over cutting and baling the hay because my grandpa who did was diagnosed w/ cancer. In return I got food and a bed. 2
dynoman
I’m probably a weirdo, but I used to love bailing hay. I always preferred stacking on the wagon.
cheatingwalrus
I never minded either. It was more of a family event so everyone was out working hard together.
cheatingwalrus
Wouldn't have traded it for anything.
HillOfBeans
Did you find your tusks to be a help or a hindrance for these chores?
Predacane35
They're falsies.
Eldibs
Allowances are a useful tool for teaching your kids about managing their money.
TiroDvD
It's actually more useful to deny kids buying stuff they want. Lot easier to reject "designer jeans" if they don't have allowance for it.
Eldibs
But that also teaches them that spending money on "designer jeans" is a frivolous waste of their entire budget/savings that could (1/2)
Eldibs
be used to get things like movie tickets, new games, snacks, etc... that they'll enjoy more. (2/2)
Icyfirebolt
I had to do all the cleaning my momma didn't want to do like dishes and dusting while my older brother did nothing.
PrincessOctopus
I used to get in trouble as the eldest for not divvying up chores evenly cause I'd do most everything so my bro didnt have to
Icyfirebolt
My brother did diddly squat and was the golden child and a clear favorite. Now he blames me for everything because he can't take responsibil
Icyfirebolt
Responsibility*
PrincessOctopus
Oh that's fun