I didn't get a regular allowance. It was just my mom and me for awhile. If I wanted something, she would just get it for me. I always kept my room clean and helped around the house. I also made sure her coffee was made, by the time she got home from work. I never asked for a heck of alot, just essentials.

I got 10$ a week after I got old enough to start doing chores. I took out the garbage, did a terrible job with the dishes although I was tryng, and kept my room tolerable. I also mowed the lawn(which was tiny). Grades didn't get me anything, because then my parents would feel bad for not giving anything to my older brother, who was terrible through school and would have never gotten anything.

I got 61 cents a week. I had to submit a budget (including taxes) to justify it. That was great training. I also had chores -- lawn mowing with a push (not power) mower. Stuff like that. And grades (only As counted).

My opinion is that chores are a good idea for this.
I have the interesting view that money for grades, however logical is not a good idea and all my children were valedictorians. My idea was to use oth...

I got 61 cents a week. I had to submit a budget (including taxes) to justify it. That was great training. I also had chores -- lawn mowing with a push (not power) mower. Stuff like that. And grades (only As counted).

My opinion is that chores are a good idea for this.
I have the interesting view that money for grades, however logical is not a good idea and all my children were valedictorians. My idea was to use other things like why you want to get grades and learn as an incentive.

I got a dollar a week from age ten to fourteen - then I earned my own money by babysitting, picking and selling blueberries, cranberries and wild strawberries until I was sixteen. Then I got a part time job at a grocery store, and worked there all through highschool and college. Paid for my own education! I still had to do chores around the house, but not for money!

Fifty pence a week as long as i washed my father's car and hadn't got into trouble.

I was lucky! I got $40 to $80 a week, a car AND gas money from the time I was 15 until I was 19 and left home. But I paid it back and more. I bought my Mom a new 2001 Buick Century that cost $21K when I was 40 years old. Two years later she got sick so I had my Dad quit his job to take care of her and I paid their bills. Mom died in 2004 and I kept paying for everything until Dad died in 2006. It was the best thing I ever did and I would have done it as long as they lived. I loved them both and miss them every day....

I was lucky! I got $40 to $80 a week, a car AND gas money from the time I was 15 until I was 19 and left home. But I paid it back and more. I bought my Mom a new 2001 Buick Century that cost $21K when I was 40 years old. Two years later she got sick so I had my Dad quit his job to take care of her and I paid their bills. Mom died in 2004 and I kept paying for everything until Dad died in 2006. It was the best thing I ever did and I would have done it as long as they lived. I loved them both and miss them every day.

No money was given but toys were lieu of an allowance from their slave jobs. My parents taught us how to earn money by helping others in the neighborhood. I earn 25 cents a week that was big money back then.

I got none so when i was 10 i got door to door job collecting the money for the Star and Herald newspapers. I also delivered pamflets for the local chemist. When i was 14 i got a babysitting job for the "Tops" they were a lovely couple with 3 perfectly behaved boys. They had me there every weekend until i left school to start full time work.

I got none. Doing the best I could do in school was required of me. No money for that.
My parents provided all my needs. If I wanted something beyond that, I had to earn the money. From an early age, I helped older women clean their houses, I raked leaves, I sold greeting cards, you name it, I did it.
Has stood me well in the long run and even the "short run".
I felt so proud to make my own money and it taught me an excellent work et...

I got none. Doing the best I could do in school was required of me. No money for that.
My parents provided all my needs. If I wanted something beyond that, I had to earn the money. From an early age, I helped older women clean their houses, I raked leaves, I sold greeting cards, you name it, I did it.
Has stood me well in the long run and even the "short run".
I felt so proud to make my own money and it taught me an excellent work ethic. I have never once had a bad job review and always have had a good reputation as a hard worker, no matter what my jobs have been.

I live in India and purchasing power parity is very different here compared to US. What a cup of coffee costs there in US we can buy 15 cups of coffee here in India. We lived in joint family where my grand father and his brother's offsprings used to live in huge mansion. It was a small town where there used to be be real market twice a week where people used to buy their bi weekly household stuffs from vendors who used to sell everything from vegetables to all other necessary items.
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I live in India and purchasing power parity is very different here compared to US. What a cup of coffee costs there in US we can buy 15 cups of coffee here in India. We lived in joint family where my grand father and his brother's offsprings used to live in huge mansion. It was a small town where there used to be be real market twice a week where people used to buy their bi weekly household stuffs from vendors who used to sell everything from vegetables to all other necessary items.

We kids were given bi weekly allowance of 50 Paise and those days ( 1$ = 10 Rs ) and that is equivalent to a nickle. We kids used to buy one of our favourite toy + 1 ice cream bar + 1 piece of rusk biscuit ( which I don't see these days in market and I miss it). That was most satisfied life.

Here in India either you have to complete your college and get to job and if do not study then you better get into family business or find a job and this happens usually after the age of 20 and not before that.

There are child laborers who are poorest of poors and their parents do not earn enough to feed them and shockingly they start working as early as 6 yrs. If they have to write here they will say they never got pocket money and rather were self dependand at the age of 6 which is a shame for our society.