Allowance - Page 2

CoffeeNut · ‎03-15-2010

None. We were assigned chores and that was it.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

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

rms1954 · ‎06-06-2019

.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.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@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 · ‎03-13-2010

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 · ‎02-06-2017

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.

qvcfreak · ‎03-10-2010

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

judy0330 · ‎01-03-2011

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.

Luvitorleaveit1 · ‎03-09-2010

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!