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What's your allowance?

I NEVER got allowance, and my dad never paid me for any work that I ever did. He called it my room and board. And he wonders why I spent $700 on Magic the Gathering cards in three months.
 
I have not gotten any money for purposes other than lunch or "... okay you're heading out of town for a week[end], have a twenty" in over four years. This is mainly because my parent-types are lazy bums and apparently forgot to give me allowance for a year and a half. Consistently. After which they decided, "yeah you don't have one." --;
 
I've never really had an allowance. Or official chores. I just do crap and my parents buy me stuff. And when they give me money I try to keep the change.
I am both skinflint and a cheapskate.
Usually.
 
I don't get an allowance. I have a job which pays $7 per hour.(4.734 Euros or 3.75 pounds). I still have to do chores, though.
 
No allowance ;-;

Let's see.. lunch money doesn't really count, as half the time I eat homemade lunch and if I do buy the change goes back to our parents.

I do get $50 for CTY, but a lot of it gets spent on weekend and field trips.

Then for shopping, I only get to use what's left from CTY and what Keta gives me when I ask [but only for shopping, and shopping for smaller things like anime shtoof, not clothes or anything.] Whenever my parents buy me stuff I end up leaving them in the corner to get its own little dust collection, so they've pretty much stopped doing that except for my b-day and for Christmas.
 
Being the resident old guy of the forums, I have to work for my money :( But back when I did get allowance, it started off as "If you want something, we'll buy it for you if you're being reasonable" and then switched to $20/week. When I got into high school, they also gave me $5/day for lunch (There was pizza right across the street :D). During my first while of university, I got all of the above, and unlimited free use of the family Topaz. Then there came a point where I wasn't expected to stay home and look after my little brother anymore (AKA he was 15), so I went out and got a job, and the free stuff pretty much quit after that :(
 
I don't know if you could consider it allowance but...

Well, when my report card come in, I get 10$ per A, 5$ per B, 2$ per C, and -1000$+ grounding per D.
 
I have the same system as Dragon_night. Except it's $40 per A, nothing for a B, -$20 for C, -$50 for D, -$100 for failing, and they take it from my bank account if losses exceed profits. And/or refuse to buy me anything until the next report card since usually they'll get me something that isn't screen-related if I ask.

I need to get more than four marks per report card ; ; without making anything harder. There are also little bonuses on the side and anyone who gives me gifts gets me money since they don't know me enough to guess at what I might want. (Which as it turns out is money since I don't know what I want either.)
 
I'm in the same boat as AK right now. ; ;

(especially now that there's a possibility that my dad could lose sight in one eye and his job. FUN TIMES)
 
I don't get an allowance. Basically, I get money for my birthday sometimes so I have it lying around, and if I need money to buy snacks before karate or whatever, I either take from there or ask my parents.
 
€100/month. Give or take. The catch is that I actually have to use it, I can't just let it pile up (unless I feel like eating nothing and cycling 40km every day).
 
I get like 35 euros or something, but it's shit compared to the money I make because I get money from the government and I work and it's much more than the tidbit of money I get from my parents.
 
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