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I also dont think kids should pay their cell phone until they move out. i paid for my own when i was a teen. But it was a luxury then, its practically a necessity now. I dont have a house phone to tell him to use to call his friends. there are no pay phones. so i consider it a parenting expense. Extra data i would maybe charge for, but we have unlimited.
I also dont think kids should pay their cell phone until they move out. i paid for my own when i was a teen. But it was a luxury then, its practically a necessity now. I dont have a house phone to tell him to use to call his friends. there are no pay phones. so i consider it a parenting expense. Extra data i would maybe charge for, but we have unlimited.
I have told my kids that I'll pay for their phone through college, but at that point we can stay on a family plan to keep the discount but they'll need to pay me their monthly portion.
I assume that most young adults/teens have part time jobs these days. I wonder what they spend their money on. Do you prohibit certain things like alcohol, weed, drugs or are you permissive of them. Do they pay rent?
I got a job at 14 and I spent my money on clothes, the movies, going to go things with my friends, make up etc.
As I got older I started paying for more and more like my cell phone, car insurance etc.
I’ve had a bank account with a debit card since I was 14.
And no my mom had no idea when I spent $20 here and there on weed or alcohol for that matter. I wasn’t an idiot I didn’t ask permission to break her rules. 😂😂😂
Once I turned 18 I kicked my mom off my bank account and have been the sole person on my bank account since. So once I turned 18 she couldn’t see how I was spending my money anymore. 🤷🏼*♀️🤷🏼*♀️
Same as they are today, but a little more age and income appropriate.
Movies, carnival, local pool hall, taking a girlfriend out to eat, etc. My buddies and I would go to the local sub place on the beach, get a sub and hangout on the beach wall and talk for a few hours. This was late 90's timeframe.
Daughter 24, working. Pays minimal rent ($200) and pays for her cell phone ($65), buys her groceries, car insurance, car repairs, gas, registration, pet food, pet toys, some computer games some costumey stuff for her dress up parties, more pet toys, gas and more gas, occasional dinners or lunches out, occasional trip - camping or just visiting friends, buying stuff for her broke brother in Texas. Pets are probably her main expense. She has two cats, a huge snake and a Parrolet and maybe some fish if the cats did not eat them again.
Son 19 In college, works part time in the summer and weekends during school- computer parts (upgrades), computer games, eating out with friends, car repair, gas, saving for college, food, laundry, rent, musical instruments. He mostly subsides on scholarship money. We give him $100 a month. He earns the rest. We may chip in extra if there is a special expense like getting his wisdom teeth cut out.
Son in Texas 23. Food, rent, student loans, computer, bicycle payments.
Other two daughters are 27 plus. They spend it on normal adult stuff mortgage, student loans, car payments, food etc.
I don't have kids but those kids that I know want to work in animation industry (at least they think so right now and they believe it is a perspective area), so they spend time and a bit of pocket money in CLILK animation editor or they create cartoons right in the browser, this thing is my recent discovery and I love it. Anyway, I think that teens just try to find a creative activity that they like to do, so it doesn't cost really much money.
Today as I see a lot of it high priced tech stuff, pricey starbucks coffees and pricey juice/veggie blended drinks and all the other usual stuff but the 3 added which I never encountered growing up.
No my husband and I buy their drugs and alcohol, why should they have to spend their own money on the necessities? I hand it out on Monday mornings along with their lunch money for the week.
We have a teenage son who is living at home while he attends college. He spends most of his money on treating his girlfriend to eating out and buying her shoes and shopping and things. He also helps us out with paying for his college tuition that grants and scholarships don't cover. But we pay for everything else. We don't want him to stress about money as long as he is living at home and pursuing his education. He's also a very practical kid and doesn't seem to ask for that much or need that much, so he is easy. So we pay for his car, insurance, cell phone, etc. He works but we want him to use his money to enjoy being young - while he can! So he blows most of it on his girlfriend, it seems like. Our older son spent most of his money on cars and clothes when he lived at home. He liked the more expensive things that we were not willing to buy for him (istuff and other trendy expensive items), so he got a job so that he could buy those things for himself. Now he's married with a kiddo and so all his money goes to them. And he can't afford istuff anymore, so he's team Android like the rest of us bums. lol
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Thanks for the giggle today. 
