Did any of you have pocket money when you were a kid?

I think I got £5 a week from 11 in the 90's. I also did 4 paper rounds a week morning, evening then 2 on a Sunday morning so got extra money that way.
 
When I was younger I got a few pounds a week in cash.

My 9 year old gets £25 a month digitally and is able to keep track of what's left. She is able to then buy bigger items if she wants.
 
Used to get 50p a week and went on strike until I got £2 a week due to the amount of chores.

Good times
 
Can't remember how much i got, probably a lot less than 50p though in the late 60s - early 70s.

Got a paper round to get some extra cash. Early mornings and Sunday, Saturday was my day off.
 
Never got any pocket money. Did a paper round and washed people's cars etc, and earned money that way. If I could go back in time I wouldn't change a thing ; has taught me to be disciplined with money, and only buy luxuries I can afford now, not with credit.
 
montymint said:
Pound a week until I was like 16
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Same :( Council estate kid, we were poor! However, it did instil into me that if you want something you have to work for it. I'd see the rich kids with their new trainers, decent clothes, foreign holidays etc. So got off that council estate asap!

My kids were getting £30 per month pocket money in 2000's, daughter wanted more, so got a part time job, son saves his like Scrooge McDuck.
 
I used to get £1 a week or something but when I was in secondary school I got £2 for lunch so I just used to skip getting lunch and kept the money. I used to spend it on cigarettes.
 
Yeah it wasn't a lot though just enough to buy a comic or two and some sweets can't even remember how much its so long ago now doubt my father would remember either. I do remember using it to buy a skateboard I asked for it as a loan essentially i.e. putting off future payments of pocket money against paying off the debt and it took a long time I was without any money for what seemed like an eternity. It was a proper loan too had to pay off the debt with interest, fun times.
 
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I got £5 a week as a teenager during the early ‘90s. That bought a lot of pickled onion Space Raiders back then.
 
Yes but it didn't amount to much (can't remember exactly how much), I wasn't buying sweets on the way to school with it and from teenage years it and any birthday or Christmas money mainly went on buying my choice of clothes and maybe a game or 2. I didn't really have money until I started working at 18 and I'm sure the regular pocket money stopped well before then, although I do remember my Dad funding my first month of expenses when I started working. The idea of asking my parents for a mobile phone (with a contract) seems laughable back then.
 
I got a thruppence, then a sixpence, then a shilling, then twobob.
 
I used to set out the dining tables at the primary school i attended, the dinner ladies bless them, gave me a tanner a week, other than that, no never.
 
Yeah, got £1 a week until I started high school and then it went up to a fiver. Used to supplément it though, we lived in the shadow of the Victoria Ground and so, on match days, I used to 'mind cars'. Then at high school I used to buy a pack of 20 fags on the way into school for ~£1 and sell them at school for 20p a single. That was a nice little earner. Afforded me to the ability to go to the chippy for dinner, drop a few coins into the arcade games and still squirrel away quite a bit.
 
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Used to get £1 a week in the late 90s, until I discovered 2 of my older sisters were getting £2 :eek: So mum had to match that.

In reality it was delivered to me in the form of weekly 2000AD comics, which IIRC were £1.10 when I started and £1.90 when I stopped reading. So pocket money just tracked comic inflation.
 
esmozz said:
Same - mid 80s. I remember my Sunday morning paper round was £1.35 for a good couple of hours works at around that time.
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one of my friends in the 90s got paid one of to deliver some kind of paper.
IDK what it was but it wasn't a normal news paper. I think it was full of adverts but looked like a news paper.

He dumped them in some bushes, but his dad had followed him to make sure he actually posted them lol....


I think it was like some side job his parents took on, I knew a few parents back in the 90s did stuff from home before machines did it all.

one kids mum used to get massive stacks of printed stuff delivered and had to separate them in to piles of 50 or whatever.

I remember the guy dropping them off when we were there one time and he was like "count 50" then just measure piles against that! don't count every single card!"

Cromulent said:
I used to spend it on cigarettes.
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using your National Insurance card as ID lol? they came before people were 16 too

there were always shops that would serve anyone even if you were in school uniform :O
 
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I use to get £3 pocket money, then in my early teen's I would also save my dinner money & spend it on booze & cigs at the weekend. :P
 
RxR said:
I got a thruppence, then a sixpence, then a shilling, then twobob.
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Same here - We used to buy one fag from shop over the road -Think they were a penny but not sure -When I left school and got my first job I was rich with £2.10 shilling a week (that was 1969)
When I retired it wasn't much more.
 
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