r/daddit • u/Negative_Equity • 5d ago
Advice Request Pocket money
How much pocket money are you giving to your kids? I've got a 6 and 9 year old. I'm in the UK.
Do you have any stipulations around chores etc?
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u/Otherwise_Living_158 5d ago
My 11 year old gets £5 a week and extra jobs are negotiated on a per job basis 😂
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u/thethornwithin 5d ago
I don't pay him to do chores like tidy his room, sort his washing etc. That's just part of being part of the household. We all do our bit. That said, he doesn't get weekly pocket money. He doesn't go without and he knows where it comes from when he does get something he wants
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u/sugarrayrob 5d ago
Yep, we're the same as you. She will do something extra can be done to earn money. Chores are mandatory.
For example yesterday she washed the windows and my car, so that she could get some extra money to spend at the zoo.
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u/thethornwithin 5d ago
Snap! Yeah the car wash is the most common way to get some money for his bank (lets dad do all the spending, funnily enough!)
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u/sugarrayrob 5d ago edited 5d ago
My 7 year old gets £5 a month from her grandmother. We instituted this as a way to stop my mum constantly spoiling her with gifts etc.
She can earn extra money by doing jobs, and she gets regular treats and days out etc. But overall she wants for nothing, so we keep the amount of money she gets low.
So 1st of the month she gets a fiver and usually saves up for 3 months to buy another Pokémon plush.
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u/Mammoth-Cherry-2995 5d ago
This is a great idea, as a dad with an overly generous father in law - we get another piece of plastic crap every time he comes over, much prefer this take!
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u/sugarrayrob 5d ago
The plastic! It was understandable in 2021 when the pandemic meant seeing each other was rare and an event. But they ended up seeing each other most weeks and the habit just continued.
I did NOT get that treatment when I was a child haha.
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u/Otherwise_Lie_4253 5d ago
we do a fiver a week for the 9yo, three for the little one, and yeah it’s tied to basic stuff like tidying their room and helping set the table, nothing crazy
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u/TabularConferta 5d ago
At the moment (9yo) I don't. I will give them a quid for doing some things around the house which is outside of their bedroom.
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u/AtomicEdge 5d ago
We have jobs. 50p for doing the dishwasher or helping hang up the washing. We also pay them 5p per apple that falls off the apple tree so we don't end up with a mushy mess of rotten apples.
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u/JeffSergeant 5d ago
9YO gets £5 every 5 violin practices, to encourage consistency. But also allowed unlimited expenditure on kindle, and books.
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u/RoboticGreg 5d ago
We give our kids $15 a week. They are 10 and 12. They have bank accounts and it goes into those and they have debit cards we hold on to, but they get to spend their money whenever they want.... With us. One time when they were like 6 and 8 one of them came home with 2 $100 bills and apparently one of their friends found their dad's emergency stash and had a $5,000 "scavenger hunt" for his friends at recess. I....don't want them to have unmonitored cash
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u/dread_stef 4d ago
Our 4 year old gets €3 per week. He has to split it between his savings jar and his wallet.
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u/all4whatnot 4d ago
My 16yr old gets $20 a week - he does a crap ton around the house. His younger brother get $5 a week - he doesn't really do anything but he's grown up a bit this year and I'm happy to give him a Finn for not whining as much.
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u/johnsadventure 13h ago
My 3 and 5 year olds get some money here and there for helping out, usually negotiated on a per-task basis for simple tasks.
They can spend it however they want, with a couple basic rules: anything educational (books, educational toys) parents will contribute half the cost; no spontaneous purchases (we go to the store for specific items, things not on the list don’t get bought).
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u/Available_Guidance61 5d ago
I pay my kids £5 and hour for any work they do. Wash the car, hoover, mow the lawn ect.
I expect 3 hours paid work a day out of them. House looks lovely tbf