What was your allowance?

[Stent]

I got nothing so I had to get part time jobs. It wasn't until I left school I realized my family were probably way more financially comfortable than I ever knew. The number of times my parents acted like money was tight now makes me think they were really just being cunts on purpose the whole time.

 

[guest]

An allowance? What am I, a McGowan?

I actually didn't get one lol

 

[Dennyislife]

Never had one. Would obviously get stuff brought for me that I needed but other than that?

As soon as I was old enough for a summer job I got one

 

[guest]

I got $10 every Saturday to do chores and spent it on Pokemon cards and Bionicles

 

[Smeckler's Powder]

For awhile we got how old we were a month. 11 years old-11 dollars a month. Doing quite a few chores. Can't remember when that stopped but probably in high school when I started cleaning the school/working at the pepper/onion plant at 15ish.

 

[DiarrheaDick]

Is anyone else perplexed someone was still getting an allowance as a teenager? I got paid doing various things around the house since there was always something to do with how lazy my parents were. Even during that time I'd still shovel sidewalks, mow lawns, rake leaves, paint, do catering, etc. Maybe I just had a shit childhood. I definitely became awfully Jewish with money at a young age though.

 

[Rutherford_b_Blaze]

I don't think I had I ever had a formal allowance but my mom would usually give money when I asked for it. My father refused to give me or my siblings any money, under any circumstances because he paid child support.

 

[soulbrotherman#1]

WWAW da Chore Chart
CHORECHART

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I didn't get an allowance but I worked for my family so if I ever needed money for something my mom would give me a 20.

In high school if I ever needed money for weed I'd tell my dad that I was taking a girl to the movies and he'd always give me $20.

I remember $20 being a big deal. It'd get you a gram of weed and a bunch of candy. I can't get fuck all at the grocery store now for under $60.

 

[FrogmanKurlan]

Never got an allowance but I’d usually get a decent amount of cash on my birthday during the summer and at Christmas so I always had a little pocket money

 

[EraGodless]

Is anyone else perplexed someone was still getting an allowance as a teenager? I got paid doing various things around the house since there was always something to do with how lazy my parents were. Even during that time I'd still shovel sidewalks, mow lawns, rake leaves, paint, do catering, etc. Maybe I just had a shit childhood. I definitely became awfully Jewish with money at a young age though.

I did all of those things (except the catering) and I worked Summers (best job was working for the city water district in the Summer before my senior year of HS)- my dad still gave me around $20 a week when I was home from school. I'm unfortunately the opposite of Jewish with money- even when I work my ass off for it, I'm pretty generous with it. It's a curse.

 

[TheRevAlJolson]

My broke ass family wasn't handing out free money. My allowance was whatever cash I could find around the house to steal when I needed some shit until I got old enough to sling weed

 

[Jesse Ventura]

I didn’t get an allowance but I remember a kid who lived down the street from me had some hilarious allowance stipulations. He’d get like $2 a week but he’d have to divvy it up between a “savings” jar, a “spending” jar, and a “gift” jar so he could buy his fat sister shit for her bday or Christmas. His parents siphoning his allowance to subsidize gifts for their lardo daughter always killed me.

I remember one time he and I wanted to go buy some useless crap at the mall and his dad looked at him and dead seriously said “all this money is burning a hole in your pocket!” and the kid had like $4 to spend. That’s stuck with me for 25 years.

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

bed clothes and food.

 

[guest]

This was like 8th-9th grade until I could get a job in 10th. I got $5 a day for breakfast/lunch at school. Breakfast I never got so I could save the money but I’d eat whatever the gross lunch of the day was for $2 (I think lunch was $1.80 and like an extra drink carton made it $2, idr for sure) so I’d have like 15 bucks leftover after the school week. My parents usually gave me like 10 bucks to have for the weekend. So I’d have like 25 dollars for beer or whatever that weekend unbeknownst to them. Occasionally I’d be able to squeeze another 20 on a Saturday if I said I was going to the movies or to something along those lines which would cost more than $10.

That stopped for the most part in 10th grade, I got a job bussing tables at bar/restaurants which I absolutely hated doing but it was really good money for a 15 year old. When I got my license in 11th grade my sister gave me her old shitty Saturn when she bought a new one after she graduated college. I started delivering food and then after awhile me and my older brother started a delivery company that was like Uber eats before Uber eats. We had like 15 restaurants and I got all my friends with cars to work for me for $5 bucks an hour +tips (off the books, bc there were no books) The restaurants would call a cell phone we got that was the “company number” and we would just dispatch a driver. No overhead, no taxes, it ruled. All the restaurants paid us cash under the table and I was making far too much money for a 18 year old soooo all that money just went up my nose lol it lasted a few years but I crashed and burned eventually.

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