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big_bad_buff
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growing up? and what did your parents have you clean or do around the house to get it?
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How much Allowance did you get?
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Drunken_Weasel
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ZERO. Nadda, zip, not a dime.
I got a job the day I turned 16, and have been paying for everything ever since ... actually.. I don't have to pay rent.. but thats the only thing I don't pay for.. I even have to buy my own damn food...
I got a job the day I turned 16, and have been paying for everything ever since ... actually.. I don't have to pay rent.. but thats the only thing I don't pay for.. I even have to buy my own damn food...
big_bad_buff
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famous words of my father "CLEAN THE GARAGE, TAKE OUT THE TRASH, MOW THE GRASS, CLEAN THE HOUSE" i'm with the rest of you, i never got paid for it...all my friends would complain because they only got $15-$30 bucks a week LOL. and they never did anything.
strider364
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I think I got a buck a week.
Drunken_Weasel
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big_bad_buff said:
notoriousQQ
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No allowance. Parents would give me money for whatever I needed up until I was in high school. (seeing a movie or going to the arcade) But, about my sophomore year, they might give me $5 a week for gas or something, whatever I spent was up to me to earn, steal or borrow.
father was very old fashioned european, so no allowance for me
but he did hook me up with a job in the hospital while he was the head of psychiatry, so in my early teens i was getting $18 / hour for a easy porter job while my freinds were lucky to make $6 doing hard labour.
but he did hook me up with a job in the hospital while he was the head of psychiatry, so in my early teens i was getting $18 / hour for a easy porter job while my freinds were lucky to make $6 doing hard labour.
Drunken_Weasel
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KnoXville said:
You bastard!
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BangedUp
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Did you usual chores around the house, but did not really get an allowance. If I needed something parents would give me a little money here and there. Started working when I was 15 and from then own I payed for things myself.
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jeremys
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no money here. i do most of the work; babysitting, helping with odd jobs around the place, cleaning, etc. my brother and sister get money for whatever they need though
Puddles
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I didn't get allowance either. I did have to do house and yard work though...if it wasn't done "right" I'd be in some serious shit too. I started babysitting when I was about 13, worked at my dad's resterant when I was 15, worked on Wall St. when I was 17. Now I just hold out my hand and tell hubby I need some cash. I like being an adult! LOL
The Ranger
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My allowance....In the words of my farher, " A roof over your head, and food on the table. " Started work when I was 15, bought my first car when I was 16....
Ranger
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I was one of the lucky ones i guess.. i got a whopping $5 a week, my main duties included lawn work, cleaining the cars inside and out on saturday mornings (sunday afternoons if we had events to go to), and vacuuming the house. I didn't get paid for the normal stuff like taking out the garbage and such. I also didn't get paid if I had school activities to do and couldn't get my chores in for the week.
No allowance.
AND - no permitted to work.
(can you say control freaks?)
Which didn't really matter because I wasn't allowed to go anywhere anyway so what would I need money for?
SIDE NOTE:
Probably not a good parental tactic b/c it just helped me lie, cut class and teach ice skating until I had enough cash to leave.
AND - no permitted to work.
(can you say control freaks?)
Which didn't really matter because I wasn't allowed to go anywhere anyway so what would I need money for?
SIDE NOTE:
Probably not a good parental tactic b/c it just helped me lie, cut class and teach ice skating until I had enough cash to leave.
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The Shadow
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5 bucks a week doing chores and odd jobs, that much barely covered my comic book habit...and that was preticated on making straight honor roll, which did butI got U's in conduct b/c I talked all the time......lost the 5 bucks when I got a note sent home for being a smart ass. Parents asked what happened....during math class I was trying to help a friend who wasn't getting it(which is ironic b/c 99.9% of the time I was just talking). The teacher asked why I was talking, I told her that I was just trying to help Ted.....
*5 second pause*
She threw the chalk at me and said "If you think you can teach the class please come up here and do so."
I proceded to do just that....for the remainder of class, which was about 30 minutes
SHe preceded to send the note.
Ted went on to major in math at UGA and is an middle school math teacher
*5 second pause*
She threw the chalk at me and said "If you think you can teach the class please come up here and do so."
I proceded to do just that....for the remainder of class, which was about 30 minutes
SHe preceded to send the note.
Ted went on to major in math at UGA and is an middle school math teacher
casavant
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Sheeit. When I was a youngun, I had to split a rick of firewood every week, slop the hogs, milk the cows, and haul the drinkin water- the well was a half mile away and the bucket leaked. If I did all that, I got two full extra spoonfulls of sausage gravy on my Saturday morning biscuits.
I had to walk to school, too- 5 miles each way...barefoot...in the snow...and it was uphill both ways.
Made me the man I am today.
I had to walk to school, too- 5 miles each way...barefoot...in the snow...and it was uphill both ways.
Made me the man I am today.
DownUnder23
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what is this allowance you speak of?
