22-05-2018, 04:09 PM
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Re: Pocket Money
My brother and I had to earn our pocket money. It was given to us each Saturday morning and only then if the chores had been completed satisfactorily. Also once it was spent - it was spent - no more was forth coming until the following Saturday and no loans were allowed - which taught us to save.Obviously cellphones and IPads weren't around but, if they had been, we would have had to save up for them ourselves. I remember the brother doing a paper round to save up for a bicycle and I used to embroider things for one of the teachers at school to save up for books.
It taught us to think before spending, not to squander what we had on junk, and we valued things more because we had had to save for them. There was such a sense of achievement when we finally held whatever it was.
22-05-2018, 05:11 PM
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Re: Pocket Money
All i got was 3 pence old money as I got older it increase to 6 pence old money a week. Saved like mad for weeks to buy a Brownie 127 camera costing £1 and 10 shillings or there abouts. Loved it so much it nearly went to bed with me each night. That must have been in around the early/ mid 1950's time
22-05-2018, 05:15 PM
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Re: Pocket Money
I can’t remember the age I was when I was first given pocket money but I had to earn it by doing some little job. My children earned their first pocket money by picking up and putting away their toys. Later on other little jobs like sweeping the path, keeping their bedrooms tidy.
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