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Allowance

wilma — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:43:02 GMT

I remember getting 50 cents a week when I was child in the 60s. When I got older I got a whole buck! 😱 We had to keep our rooms clean. I had to help with the dishes and my brother helped with yard work. We were asked to do other things occasionally too.

Did you get an allowance?

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cheriere — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:52:18 GMT

@wilma

I don't remember getting an official allowance. However, my dad would always give me some loose change to put in my piggy bank. It wasn't much, but I felt rich lol.😃❤️

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RoughDraft — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:51:50 GMT

So long ago, but I think it was bupkus. If something special came up and I wasn't a pest about it they usually just gave me what I needed.

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Jo1313 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:58:14 GMT

In the mid 60's..I got $2 a week for working in my parent's candy store/soda fountain..

My sister and I used to fight over who was going to vacuum the sofa..there was always change there from Dad's pockets after he napped.

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Carmie — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:06:55 GMT

I never got an allowance and I worked hard around our home. My parents had a business that was open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. six days a week so they worked a lot.

I washed and waxed floors on my knees, vacuumed, dusted and kept the house clutter free. I also cooked for a family of seven and did the dishes.

I cut our large lawn that was on a hill, and trimmed about 30 feet of hedges with hand clippers.

For all of that, I got a place to stay, food, clothing and tutition to a private school.

I started cosmotology school when I was 15. I went during the summer months and after school on Monday nights during the school year.My parents paid my tutition for that as well.

We went on a four week vacation every summer which was appreciated.

I worked as a shampoo girl after school for two nights and on Saturday mornings. I made about $15 a week, plus tips.

If I needed money for something, I just asked, sometimes I got it, and sometimes I didn't.

None of my friends got an allowance either, but they all had stay at home moms, so they didn't have chores.

I had more material goods than my friends. My parents were older and more established, but they were thrifty.

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tansy — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:20:13 GMT

I got a part time job at the front counter of a dry cleaners in high school. I didn't want to perform the song and dance necessary to buy a magazine or go to a movie.

I don't remember receiving a consistent allowance.

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wilma — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:22:45 GMT

@cheriere wrote:
@wilma

I don't remember getting an official allowance. However, my dad would always give me some loose change to put in my piggy bank. It wasn't much, but I felt rich lol.😃❤️

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@cheriere

We never had piggy banks. Our father opened savings accounts for us when we were very young. We were expected to put some of our allowance and birthday money in our accounts. We weren't allowed to spend it all.

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wilma — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:26:50 GMT

@Carmie

Wow! You did work hard! A four week vacation sounds like a long time to be away from home, but you definitely deserved it. Our vacations were never more than a week once every summer.

My mom's sister and mother lived with us so my mom had some help. That's probably why I didn't have to do more chores.

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AuntG — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:35:04 GMT

No, but we had to work. Lots of farm related chores. However, my parents always gave us the money for things, like going to the movies or the county fair. I guess that was considered our allowance.

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Carmie — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:37:04 GMT

@wilma We had a small house in Cape May, NJ. My older sister who is 16 years older than me, would take me and my three younger siblings to the beach house for two weeks.

Then she would drive home and our parents would drive down and stay for two weeks.

We, younger kids had to stay for four total weeks....always the last two weeks of July and the first two weeks of August.

My sister would also take us for a few days here and there. I was never a beach person, but all my siblings are.

I am the only fair skin child and I burn. I hate sitting on the beach all covered up. My two sisters still tease me about it.

I am heading to Cape May in a few weeks. I love it there, but won't be doing any beach sitting.

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CoffeeNut — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:38:25 GMT

None. We were assigned chores and that was it.

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SilleeMee — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:46:05 GMT

I worked as a teen and I had to pay rent and pitch in for food.

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rms1954 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:51:15 GMT

.25 cents for drying dinner dishes. We had a large family of eight. I had a baby sitting job for my aunt and uncle for their three kids after school. $10 per week. I also had weekend babysitting now and then for a $3 to $5 depending on how long.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:58:45 GMT

@wilma. As I recall, I also got .50 cents a week. Must have been the going rate. However, I got a whole $1. per hour for babysitting. I want to cry when I hear what babysitters get today.

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Desertdi — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:46:38 GMT

My mother wouldn't let me TOUCH ANYTHING in H E R house....so I had no "chores" there.

However.......my dad paid me to take care of the landscaping! I still do my own, and my snotty neighbors say: "Can't you AFFORD a gardener?"

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mildoo — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:11:58 GMT

No allowance. Too poor. Lost my father exactly one month before my 14th birthday. At age 15 I got a part-time job working in a dry cleaners three evenings a week and Saturdays. Bought all my own clothes, had some spending money and was never without a job until I retired at 64. Not the most desirable beginning for a teen, but each job was a stepping stone and that was something I learned early in life.

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qvcfreak — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:13:03 GMT

The 3 youngest $5 a week, the 2 older ones got $10 a week

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judy0330 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:23:59 GMT

I did not get an allowance but the question made me remember an allowance story when I was a child. It was probably around 1960. I was a young child. I can still picture the scene. Apparently the woman next door got an allowance from her husband. She had run out of money and was outside begging him for some extra money to pay their cleaning woman. He made it quite clear that she had obviously not budgeted well for the week and would not give her the extra money she needed. Interestingly -- fast forward years and she ended up being the major bread winner. I hope she put him on an allowance.

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Luvitorleaveit1 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:24:01 GMT

For me I think in the 70's I got $10 or $15 a week. I couldn't wait to start working my first job was McDonald's but that didn't last long I wasn't fast enough. Now I can't wait to retire but my countdown has started....six months I am outta there!

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ninjawife — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:34:25 GMT

I never got an allowance but I did have a paper route when I was twelve. I have been working ever since.