Re: What is a fair amount to pay for allowance?
My mom used to pay us to clean her closet (which meant hanging up all the clothes on her ironing board and exercise bike).
We got $5/week for lunch. We could chose to take something from home (I'm still not sure how that was supposed to work since she didn't provide baggies or containers and this was the time before plastic bags from grocery stores) or buy the school lunch. This worked well for my brothers because then the lunch was $3.50/week. It didn't work so well for me because my lunch was $5/week. We did have open campus, so I learned to bum rides with friends and go to their house to have microwave popcorn or whatever their mom would make for us. My junior and senior years I had ag right after lunch and the ag teacher had a microwave, he would let me pop my popcorn there and eat during class (we were all allowed to eat and drink and he even sold beef jerky and soda for FFA). That was good since we had 25 minutes for lunch and couldn't get far in that amount of time.
My mom would also pay for me to come do filing at her office. She worked in an insurance office and always had filing. Her boss was also a CPA, so I'd get paid to put the checks in number order. I think I'd get about $3 for doing that.
I had chores I was expected to do and if I didn't do them I was grounded. I still got my $5/week for lunch, but couldnt' do anything else.
|