I get slightly more than what the University student in the survey gets ^^; But 60 USD for a college final year student?! Kinda low I think. *Sees Mirai Business Cards. Drools ^^;*
Over in the US, college is basically the same as university. Did you mean like High School?
I get about 200 CDN pocket money each month from my parents. But most of my living expenses come from the money I save from work during the summer. University is also a money vacuum, you wouldn't believe how much textbooks and tuition is...and I heard its going to go up again next year. stupid stupid government....
I would make them do chores, and depending on if they did the chores, did them well, and so on, I would pay them based on that. This way they arent just handed money, and they have to understand the value of hard work. My parents had a lot of money, but if I wanted a dollar from my parents, I had to go work for it. If I needed five dollars, I could wash one of their cars. I remember packing seafood at my dads work into boxes in a huge freezer at age 8 so I could make a couple bucks. They didnt buy me a car, I leased one at 16, they didnt pay for any of my expenses except school and only then if I got a B average. At 22 I bought my own house from saving money, and make a decent living. I dont think I would have appreciated anything as much if my parents didnt make me work for it.. for myself.
@Qingy, wait until you start paying taxes. WhooooO!
im currently getting sgd500 allowance moolah from my company internship
Hi Danny, how r u? It will be great if we can have more details about these cute visit cards ^o^
Huh? What? Parents give money? All I got from my folks way back when was a smack in the head, and the phrase "don't you have a job to get to?". Luckily I was a professional hitman, so it paid well.
FatB, LOL KCA, I got two business cards - one for Mirai Inc and one for dannychoo.com. There are business chances everywhere! Don, Was referred to "college" in the UK back then so I guess "high school" in your region. Windbell, I must have forgotten to give you one last time ^^;
A lack of personal spending money builds character. By the time a child lives through a childhood of "poverty", watching all his/her friends go out and buy stuff with money their parents gave them, and they reach the legal working age, they will have the vigor and motivation to earn their keep. All that's left at that point is to teach money management.
Giving pocket money involves trust and responsibility... If the child thinks it is free money to spend on whatever goes through his/her mind, it is fruitless. On the contrary, the ultimate goal is to save and learn about spending money in a wise way. At least it's how I have learned things and must be much different for many. Let's say I have learned the true value of things and people and I'm glad for it.
Well, I'm a third year university student and I hardly get any money from my parents besides the schoolarship (and I have a government credit for half of it)... sucks to buy coffee with your own hard-earned money
I just got to ask Danny. What is that watch you have over there?
I think it's a good idea to sort of limit how much pocket money you give your kids. It makes them value things like earning their own, saving money, etc. Especially here in Japan where there are so many places and so many things to spend money on.
hmm. depends on the job i have and as they grew older, i guess ill increase bit by bit? just like how my parents are treating me now
"College" in the UK means something like... 11'th/12'th grade for US schools... Basically your AP's. In the UK, they take A-Levels... and for me... I took IB >___>
There really is something wrong with my parents since they don't give limit to my pocket money. They'd just give me around 40 USD initially and then they'd give me more if I used that up. But I have never asked for more than 114 USD of pocket money before, since everything is dirt cheap here.
The answer to the question though Danny... depends on what you conscider "pocket money"... right..? I know I used to receive more than 12,000 yen/month in highschool... but it would include things like transport etc... sometimes I'd use it to help buy stuff if my parents needed me to do some grocery shopping etc. And through this, I guess I learned more monetary responsibility... as... it encompassed more than just "self spending money" now, I'm in Uni in the UK... and I get FAR more for "allowance"... but this also includes money for cooking food, phone bills, competitions... Next year it'll expand to rent... internet, water, gas... electricity... everything. so yeah... You can't really "teach" someone how to be financially responsible by limiting the amount of money... you've got to be flexible to the situation... of course, there are limits. But yeah.
Well, I'm a highschool student, and most of my own things came from my own cash. However, lately, I've been too preoccupied with school to work, and so; resort to pocket money. Event though, I never try to swindle loads of cash from my parents and try to stay a little smart with it. Generally speaking, not including the money I have made, my parents give me usually anywhere from $40-60 out of their pocket maybe each month? Sometimes less, just depends on whether or not weekends are filled with studying or hanging out at a friends house.
Someone seriously explain to me the currency in Japan...
i never get this "pocket money." all i do is hassle some kids and win there money.
as a general rule, 100~120 yen = 1 USD. 1 yen = 1 cent... give or take a bit. Just divide any value you see of yen by about 100/110/120 and you have a very approximate value of it in USD. Half that yet again, and now you have the value in Pounds.
I'm just got into college, so i only get 20CAD from my parents every month since i don't have a job yet. So I'm really kinda broke throughout the year. All i can say is thank god for Chinese New Year!
For now as I'm a polytechnic student I do receive SGD 200 and abit more for other expenses. Thats pretty close to 130 USD a month. But I do take up holiday jobs when I have a long holiday, which usually lasts around 2 months. LOL those kids in Japan are getting so little... Then what do they eat/survive on? Air?
Much less then what I expected from the japanese. An average secondary SG student get at least 70~80sgd per month.
I used to get about $40 USD a month but now it's down to 0 seeing as I got a job.
about $20 gets me through a week... so i'd probably do the same with any litle ones... Like others I wouldnt mind more.
I don't get any pocket money, I just buy things with money from my study financing. ^^ I would probably give my future children somewhere between 1-50 euros (give them too much and they'll most likely start to get spoiled).
I didn't see the "per month" I thought it was like "per week" or something. It's a bit low over there. I'm getting around SGD 80 per month. So I'm your average secondary school kid in SG? I'll probably increase the kid's allowance along with their age.. giving too much at a young age would really spoilt them.
That is so little! I get about that amount per week for each level till university. I though Japan's high cost of living means higher pocket money.
Money from my parents... I get to live here for free. In fact I cant think of any of my friends that get any, we had to save what we got from b-day and xmiss.
@tetrflare Umm.. I think it's more like you're getting so much rather than Japanese getting so little.. yeah, they're getting lower than expected pocket money but it's not that low, I think... ^^ Cheers.
Wow... They have it tough those kids in Japan... I get roughly $50 a month, even with these, I still don't have enough to buy manga/figures... I'm also saving for a n Xbox 360, which will take about 12 months of pocket money to be saved... I'm gonna end up dying early... Sob
Hmmm... I think I started receiving allowances in the final year of Primary School, IIRC it was US$10 and I used it to buy a monthly comic book (Lupín the pilot, no relation with the anime) I continued receiving money in the first years of Secondary School, but after that I started to work. So when I started University, I paid for everithing with my own money. I was teached to save from the very beginning, as a result, now I'm a cheap bastard :P I don't even spend money in things I like. On the positive side, I can mostly rest assured that if my country's economy collapsed tomorrow (as it often does), I'll not become poor overnight. BTW, I have your feed displayed on my site since september, always forgot to mention. Can you activate me?
34 usd for secondary students per month, it is a torture, i get S$40 per week.
i get 20$ per week that's Rp200.000,00 in indo
To anybody who picked more than $50: please go back in time 20 years and adopt me. I promise I'll get a job when I'm 14.
O_o I... I got 1-2 SGD dollars max when I was in primary school LOL I remember skipping recess food just to play skipping rope games with my classmates :3 I think I got 5 bucks in secondary, more when I got into polytechnic :P It is most just to get some food in break time... Thankfully for side jobs (illustration related) for other savings (woot!)
oops forgot to add that it was per school days, weekends no $ ^^;
Seems like us singaporeans are getting more pocket money than average compared to other people. But I do not feel it is alot. Spending on our meals and transport is about it with a little left for saving. Is singapore cost of living actually considered high?
I was working part-time at McDs by my Junior year of High School and have been on my own since after graduation. My folks are always there should I hit a major financial snafu (like loss of employment) but for the most part I've taken care of my own expenses for the last five or six years. Allowance from my family when I did recieve it was rarely more than 10-20 USD and that was in return for doing work around the house (stacking/moving firewood, raking leaves, etc).
I would probably give $5 a month when they're young, but only if the do chores. They will get all of their "candy" from me, as I will be the one buying the candy and eating it lol. When they become teenagers then $50 sounds good, as long as grades are kept up. When they become university students then their "allowance" becomes tuition money lol. But thats a while from now as I am a university student myself ^^.
I got my pocket money depending on my school grades. So when i had a test and scored a 1 ( 100%) then i got 50DM (bout 25euros) which was the max. A lower grade would result in less money. Then again we had like 3-4 Tests every two weeks and sadly not every test ended up with 100%. ^o^; I don't plan to have kids, i would be a horrible mother with my anime and internet addiction. xD
I got a parttime job in the final years in Highschool and worked through university, it was better money then my pocket money and it saved my from the guild trip.
wah the pocket money amount in the survey was about the same as i got during my school days. I haven't got any pocket money since i started internship last year and now army. 1 year with my own money, most of it ended up in my hobbies XD
As a physics student,it's very hard if not impossible to have a part time job.I know some universities in japan even forbid students to get part time jobs,I wonder how students in japan without scholarships are able to pay all the expenses.
I've not had pocket money since I was out of highschool. The highest I ever got was probably about £10 a week? Got my first proper job at CEX in Leeds at 18 nearly 4 years ago, and then quit there and moved to Japan in 2005 and have been pretty much self-sufficient since then (with a whole host of mad money making schemes along the way!). It seems like an age has passed since the days of pocket money! When I have kids off in the future, I guess a decent secondary school pocket money would be about £5 or if it is still in Japan, around 1000 yen per week.
wow that's really small. i thought japanese kids are showered with money because when you look at their valuables clothes, accessories, models, toys, etc they got top brand stuff. or i guess they save up and stuff. hmm you learn somethign new everyday. anyways when i have kids i think $100 a month should be enough. i grew up not getting alot of money or getting alot of the stuff i wanted, but nowadays everything's pretty expensive and kids need to eat. haha
im a college student and i currently live with about 75USD a month so i think that should be enough for my kids as well(inflation excluded).
I never got money growing up, but I didn't really want to buy anything either so I never asked for it. In college I get around 200 USD/month for food, but since I cook for myself I can cut it down to about 80-100 and save the rest for more interesting things.
$34.00 per month is more than the average salary in Madagascar! xD But life's not expensive at all so kids don't need more than $10.00 I guess. If you live in the country side, $5.00 is too much, haha!
I hear that japanese kids in school pool their money together and give it to one lucky kid for the month to spurge on something big. big trust issue for me. i didnt even lend other kids my g.i.joes when i younger :/
I'm not voting in this poll for one single reason, I don't get anything per month XD, when I need money my parents give me. They give me in the beginning of each school year around 250€ to spend in college, mostly I only spend it on food and copies for worksheets and stuff. If I received 100€ per month from my parents......hehe hello new figures and gunpla ^^
I don't get anything, pocket money is alien to me. I used to envy the lucky so-and-so's at school but it doesn't make a difference to me any more.
Well, I would give my kid some money but not too much, in proportion I say.
Get roughly $20 a week
