FabSwingers.com forum: How much pocket money did you get a week??

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The 'Spoilt brat' thread got me thinking

How much pocket money did you get a week.

I had to clean my bedroom and done the dishes on a Sunday.

For my troubles then i got £1.50 a week and that was the early 80's.

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By *riendlyfunfemWoman
over a year ago

A world of my own

When I was at High School (70s) I used to get 20p a day, it was up to me whether I spent or saved it after busfares where taken out, busfares then where 4p

So anyway I spent a little and saved a little, or saved most of it if I wanted a magazine or record at the weekend, (45s then being 25p) Bloody hell I feel old now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my first pocket money was a sixpence rising to half a crown, and I helped with all the chores and minded my younger siblings as both my parents worked.

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

im not saying as it will make me feel old

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"im not saying as it will make me feel old

Ginger bottles??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We never got pocket money but were expe cted to have a paper round, which paid 60 pence on a sunday. We also had to pick potatoes in the october holidays for £7 a day and then pick raspberries and strawberries in the summer season.

I know have 3 children and none of them has recieved pocket money from me, if they want money they need to earn it. It makes them stronger people in the making.

Ohh hark at me i sound like victorian mum lol

but thats the jock in me lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

20p in the seventies rising ta 75p. When i was 12 i had a part time job and the pocket money stopped xx

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"im not saying as it will make me feel old

Ginger bottles??

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shrup you!!! and nope it wasnt!! lol

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

"When I was at High School (70s) I used to get 20p a day, it was up to me whether I spent or saved it after busfares where taken out, busfares then where 4p

So anyway I spent a little and saved a little, or saved most of it if I wanted a magazine or record at the weekend, (45s then being 25p) Bloody hell I feel old now.

I remember buying e.p's (2 tracks on one side 1 on the other) for 3/6 (three shillings and six pence for those who don't undestand the lingo) or in today's money 17 1/2p

I know for my first paper round I used to get 2 bob a week can't remember what pocket money I got but always looked forward to thursday nights cos dad got paid and he always brought me and my brother 2oz of sweets each.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

£5 a week, but did alot of house work, for it, that was early 90's.

stood me in good stead though, taught me how to run a house and that i had to work for what i wanted.

I raise my own daughter the same as i was.

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

Used to get 50p and 10p off my Grandad.

He once said I could have a 50p if I could guess the date on it. As they had only been circulated that year I got it. Took him a couple of weeks to fathom it out lol

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

I ran a wee business through most of secondary school selling condoms to other pupils. The margin wasn't great but it was good repeat business - not because they were being used but because nobody wanted to admit to NOT having used the last one.

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By *aravancoupleMan
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

I got half a crown a week 25p to you young ones.

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By *ouvakMan
over a year ago

clacton on sea

i was 1 of 5 and the eldest i got a tanner a day for making breafasts for all, before school, i also got sitting money on a friday after mum and dad had been to the officer's mess ( usually all the change he had in his pockets)( could be a few pounds lol )then i got a paper round, pocket money stopped at that time, but duties were carried over,

so some weeks i got about 10bob and others i could have as much as was in dads pockets on a friday night ( so i was pretty well off compared to some of my fellow pocket money rivals lol )

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

never got pocket money lol had to earn it also had to get a job

worked on a bread van and also at the fruit and veg market had to get there at 4 in the bloody morning lol.

I used to give my 16 year old £15 a week but stopped it when he started getting EMA at skool !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I didn't get pocket money at all, but I wasn't deprived either - my parents looked after me very well, I was always fed, watered and clothed - but never spoiled.

When I was about 13, I started to work for a friend of my parents who owned a small hardware shop, it sold all manner of things including paraffin oil. One of my jobs was to fill the cans of oil for the customers. I worked from 10.00 till 3.00 on a Saturday and got £1.50 for my effort which in 1974, for me was bloody brilliant. After that I got weekend work at a petrol station as a pump jockey - in the days when the pump attendant came out and filled the car up, checked the tyres, oil and water if required. As I remember, I got £4.50 for Sunday and I think around £2.50 for Saturday night.

And do you know something ? I'd do the same again .. I loved it and to this day have never regretted it or felt hard done by.

So I worked for my pocket money, but it served to learn me that if you want something, to put in the effort and not expect it to be handed on a plate ..

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

50p a week in the 70's, plus whatever I could earn in "extra" chores. Got a summer job on a local farm when I was 13, which paid a fiver a day (7am to 10pm!), I felt like a millionaire but I would have happily done it for nothing. I got to drive tractors and the farm landrover (in the fields). Went back for three years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Didn't get pocket money but had paper round 1970-73. Went out mornings and afternoons and Sundays and was paid £1.50 per week. We got double wages on our birthday and Christmas if our attendance was good. I left school in 1973 to start an apprenticeship at the local steelworks for £10.49 per week before stoppages. And I'm still poor ahhhhhh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We never got pocket money but were expe cted to have a paper round, which paid 60 pence on a sunday. We also had to pick potatoes in the october holidays for £7 a day and then pick raspberries and strawberries in the summer season.

I know have 3 children and none of them has recieved pocket money from me, if they want money they need to earn it. It makes them stronger people in the making.

Ohh hark at me i sound like victorian mum lol

but thats the jock in me lol

wasn't it great that the school holidays always fell around the berries or tatties picking seasons lol xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know have 3 children and none of them has recieved pocket money from me, if they want money they need to earn it. It makes them stronger people in the making.

Ohh hark at me i sound like victorian mum lol

but thats the jock in me lol

Joc or not, but we never got pocket money (parents didn't have the money), so we had to get p/t jobs as soon as.

My kids like yours had to do chores for money, and if they wanted something they had to work it off through chores, never did them any harm......... and both got p/t jobs as soon as they could!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Didn't get pocket money but had paper round 1970-73. Went out mornings and afternoons and Sundays and was paid £1.50 per week. We got double wages on our birthday and Christmas if our attendance was good. I left school in 1973 to start an apprenticeship at the local steelworks for £10.49 per week before stoppages. And I'm still poor ahhhhhh

You may be poor as long as you are happy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If I confess that my first SALARY in a full time job was £2.50 per week will I be showing my age too much

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By *riendlyfunfemWoman
over a year ago

A world of my own

My first salary was £18.00, and I worked 6 day a week for it and had to cough up £12.00 to mi mum for keep

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My first yearly salary was £520 (£10 a week) and I gave my mum £10 a month for keep...........

Thought of a question to ask but going to start a new thread!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i never got pocket money but i did have 2 paper rounds that paid about £3.50 each a wk plus i worked wkends in the local hardware shop this was back in early 80s

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

I think I should go to the spoilt brat thread… at the age of 15 I was getting £5 per week pocket money

I will add... it was left to me to decide if I wanted to walk to school or use some of my pocket moeny to pay for the 8p ticket on the bus.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i never got pocket money but i did have 2 paper rounds that paid about £3.50 each a wk plus i worked wkends in the local hardware shop this was back in early 80s"

Did you sell Pink Paraffin or were you posh and sold Esso Blue

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

Oh... and if I didn't want to walk home for lunch I would need to buy food with it.

I'd get the clothes and shoes I needed bought, but would be expected to save for 'special' things.

So it may seem I got a lot but I was really being shown how to budget for things.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i never got pocket money but i did have 2 paper rounds that paid about £3.50 each a wk plus i worked wkends in the local hardware shop this was back in early 80s

Did you sell Pink Paraffin or were you posh and sold Esso Blue

pink paraffin lol but our biggest seller were 10p toilet rolls

.the shopkeeper used to get well pissed off with ppl buying them and sod all else lol.other good sellers were money maker tomato plants and seed potatoes.cant beleive i can still remember what were good sellers its nearly 30 yrs ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I got 6d a week until decimalisation in 1973 then my money doubled to 5p a week! When I reached my teens I got 50p a week but this stopped when I took on a paper round ... 2 rounds, 6 days a week and one on a sunday plus had to collect the money for £1.20

My first job in 1978 was in a factory making kids clothes ... 7am - 4pm for £17 a week and I paid my mum a fiver for rent.

How things have changed ... I still earn rubbish money but the mortgage is significantly more than a fiver!!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

When i first got "official" pocket money it was 25p a week and i was about 10 then it went up to 35p. From the age of 13 always earnt my own money

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We were too poor to have pockets

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to do loads of house work but we never had pocket money, so i did paper rounds before school.

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By *ebzStarWoman
over a year ago

Notting

I had 3 paper rounds!!!

Greedy fecker eh.

Loved em too - even in the wind rain and snow - didnt care.

Would walk around my last round reading my newest Novel (paid for by my paper money).

My little sis gets LOTS of money - and for free, she doesnt do washing up - has dishwasher - doesnt do ironing, doesnt look after younger kids etc etc.

And you know what - SO WHAT. She is still a good kid, knows how to save her own money and spend everyone elses!!!

Heeheehee

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Every penny we had from parents had to be earned with chores.

And my mom had a wall chart which had the amount we could earn doing whatever we did.

It was a fair way and some weeks i had sod all . lmao

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By *oe_Steve_NWestCouple
over a year ago

Bolton

We got sod all! Quite a big family, small business, so we had to work a lot just to get by, taught me a lot! So now I have a great job as I have a good work ethic. Z

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to do the Sports Post on a Saturday evening. We were supposed to just push it through if the customer was out but we all learned that if we kept the unsold papers and popped into the local pub at the end of our rounds we'd make 10 times as much.

No surprises for guessing who worked that one out lol...

Pissed Irishmen looking for horsey results are the most vulnerable people on Earth hehehe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

got 20p a week till I was about 10 .... then it went up..... to 25p!!

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By *heekychezzaWoman
over a year ago

warrington

"I got half a crown a week 25p to you young ones.

Ooooops....half a crown/two n six is actually the equivalent of twelve and a half pence

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By *heekychezzaWoman
over a year ago

warrington

We were always given pocketmoney in our family...never very much but it was there regularly as clockwork on Saturday mornings...but we had chores which had to be done or it was withheld. By the final year of high school I was up to 60p a week, but added to the 60p school dinner money (I stopped eating school dinners when I was 15) it was enough to get me 10 cigs a day

and still have money to go to the ice rink a couple of times

First wages were £17.50 a week...seven days 8.30 - 7pm

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