Allowance

How long did you guys get allowance? and how much did you get?
i won't tell mine now... unless you guys are really curious

Originally posted by gang$tarr
How long did you guys get allowance? and how much did you get?
i won't tell mine now... unless you guys are really curious


What type of allowance? The kind where you do chores around the house, and get paid for it? Or here son, let me pay you for being my child type of allowance?

I had to do chores for my weekly allowance.

Either way, that stopped when I was legally allowed to get a job (15 years old)

And no, I could give a rats ass.

Hmm...if you mean like weekly allowance from your parents, I never got any.

Originally posted by Seraph
Hmm...if you mean like weekly allowance from your parents, I never got any.

that sucks.... so you didn't have any money till you got a job?

Originally posted by gang$tarr


that sucks.... so you didn't have any money till you got a job?

No, I always had money...I didnt have a set amount of allowance per week (like $30 a week or whatever). I got it ocassionaly, for example when dad came back from overseas trip I got $150-$200 (which by Russian standards is quite a lot). Most of I saved for stuff like PC, car etc...I didnt have a job, but just earned money when opportunity came, assembling PC's, fixing stereos, selling CD's etc..When I bought a car I used it to earn money - in Russia anyone can be a taxi, and you can make quite decent money, it can be dangerous but it was a good way to gain some driving experience, plus I was sick and tired of driving a shitty Lada 2109 and wanted a better car. Then I came to NZ...I never really had a proper job before my current one, just earning a bit when the opportunity came.

oh yeah, that's cool then :)

it would just suck if your parents didn't give you any money :D

i kinda know a guy in my school that came from russia like 5 years ago, his name's nikita, and he looks like eminem but with brown hair :D

I had my chores to do and there was no "allowance" If I wanted money I had to go and get work. So I mowed lawns (my dad would let me use his lawn mowers - the rider and the pusher) to earn some summer money when I was about 10-14 and after that I had a regular summer job doing manual labor from dusk to dawn. No complaints about it at all, its just the way it was.

My allowance was $5 a week. I don't know when it started, but I stopped getting an allowance for doing chores when I was 12.

From then until I got a job I just lived off my savings account...

damn, that's harsh

i wouldn't be able to do that, you guys are strong!

Never had an allowance. I had to work to get dough.

ditto here

I got $2 for helping clean the house when I was little, upped to $5 when I hit 13. Once I was old enough to mow the lawn or shovel the driveway by myself, I started getting paid for that. $10 for mowing the lawn in the non-snow months, and $10 for shoveling the driveway in the winter. I still get that when I'm home and I do it, but now that I'm out of the house and 1800 km's away from home, I don't often get a chance to mow or shovel.....

I have to buy all my own stuff though. I only get stuff from my parents at Christmas and birthday and stuff. I bought my own car, insurance, PS2, stereo, etc...

Nothing feels better than looking at something you own, knowing you payed for it with money you earned.

Originally posted by kbslacker
Nothing feels better than looking at something you own, knowing you payed for it with money you earned.

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

i don't think i've ever had that feeling :(

Then start saving, and buy yourself something nice. Say, a nice chrome Borla exhaust for your car....

http://www.borla.com/automotive/?cartID=2001110313532024.101.188.217

Originally posted by Heep
Then start saving, and buy yourself something nice. Say, a nice chrome Borla exhaust for your car....

http://www.borla.com/automotive/?cartID=2001110313532024.101.188.217

Borlas nice, but I like HKS more for the 3000s.

Originally posted by Heep
Then start saving, and buy yourself something nice. Say, a nice chrome Borla exhaust for your car....

http://www.borla.com/automotive/?cartID=2001110313532024.101.188.217

i could buy an exhaust right now if i wanted to.... but none of my money is actually money i earned :(
it's all from my parents

i got like 5 bucks a week when i was in elementary school, then it went to 10. i used to get it during the summer just for being alive, now i only get it during school to pay for lunch or if i do some chores. but i get paid 20 bucks to mow the lawn, but thats stopped now that the snow will be here soon. i bet gang$tarr's allowance is like 300 bucks a week...:mad:

Yup I seem to be with the majority. Nominal sum for a weekly allowance until I was legal working age then nothing. If I wanted something I had to save up. Great satisfaction quotent when I bought my first car, '79 Datsun P/U. Damn it was fun.

Most of the time I'd save up for something I really wanted, then by the time I had enough I wouldn't buy it. Suddenly I didn't think I needed it anymore. :)

Originally posted by G-Forces
Most of the time I'd save up for something I really wanted, then by the time I had enough I wouldn't buy it. Suddenly I didn't think I needed it anymore. :)

I'm all too familiar with that....

Snowboarder: How long does it take you to mow your lawn? Like, 20 minutes? and you get paid $20 USD?! My lawn takes 2 hours to mow, and I only get paid $10 CAD :( Thank goodness for my wireless headphones, just hook the transmitter up to my computer, load my list of mp3's, hit random, and mow away listening to them....

Don't hate me, but it only takes about 5 minutes to mow my lawn. i have a riding lawn mower:D

I hate you.


:D

Nah, I've got a stinkin half acre to mow, and with a push mower. Oh well, builds up the pipes, if ya know what I mean...:D:D:D

heh, keep mowing...:p

I used to get 20 cents a week for brining in garbage cans, but half of that had to go into that bank... So I ended up getting 10 cents a week. Then it just stopped. So now i get no allowence. But I do get $15 a week for lunch, so if I dont eat lunch, I get $15 a week.:licker:

Originally posted by snowboarder927
i bet gang$tarr's allowance is like 300 bucks a week...:mad:

not that much! (a week) :D lol

Okay what is it then?


Mine currently is 5 bucks a week, but I have to do very little. I also work, so my net income per week is about $60-80, which ain't bad for a Grade 11 student.

i don't wanna say
but i don't do anything either, cause the maid comes in twice a week... and some other guy mowes our lawn and does some gardening (but my mom gardens too)

Hey, I put up my few bucks, so spill thy guts!

nah, i don't wanna say... you guys will think i'm some spoiled brat or somethin

Originally posted by gang$tarr
nah, i don't wanna say... you guys will think i'm some spoiled brat or somethin Its a little late for that...:finger:

Originally posted by gang$tarr
nah, i don't wanna say... you guys will think i'm some spoiled brat or somethin

snowboarder927 beet me to it.
We know your a spoiled brat, now tell us just how spoiled!
:D

Originally posted by Porsche
Okay what is it then?


Mine currently is 5 bucks a week, but I have to do very little. I also work, so my net income per week is about $60-80, which ain't bad for a Grade 11 student.

I made $400 a week working when I was in grade 11 :D:D But then again, that was during the summer, and I was working for my dad...

$100 a week

that's canadian though.. so it's like $2 american :D
well not quite

:eek: Must be nice. :rolleyes:

argh!! the rolleyes, i hate the rolleyes...... i knew i shouldn't have said :(