Do you remember what you spent it on?
2007-08-02 02:22:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I think it was 6 old English pence per week. I seem to remember buying 1 penny sherbets with it. You couldn't get much else as we had rationing until, I think, 1953.
2007-08-02 02:36:01 · answer #1 · answered by Tony A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was given 25 cents a week, if I cleaned part of the house, and did my share of the dishes, sweeping, and cleaning up the dinner table. Otherwise, I got squat. When really little, I spent it on perfume, but not for the perfume, but for the tiny pretty colored bottles. Later, I liked to spend my money on those candy cigarettes that came in a candy cigarette box (my parents hated those) and I bought those tiny plastic coke shaped bottles you could chew on and they had cola flavors. I also saved my money to buy b-day presents for my family, and x-mas presents, and mothers and fathers day presents.
2007-08-03 22:27:41 · answer #2 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
50p a week, which sounds mean but it was a good amount back in the mists of time.
I spent it on all sorts of things, Misty comics, records (singles usually, vinyl ones if you remember those), toys like jacks and of course sweets.
I was never much of a saver.
Edit:
Hey Brain_child! It wasn't that long ago, lol.
*I'm off to sit in the geriatric corner with my knitting now*
2007-08-02 09:31:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
$2 / week. I put $1 in the bank savings account and the other $1 on candy
2007-08-03 03:06:44 · answer #4 · answered by wilsonmatthewf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never had an allowance, had to do chores for money. We would go to the butcher shop and buy rancid meat. This meat became shark bait. Sharks would be sold to lobstermen for more money than we paid. We could then buy twinkies, pepsie cola, more rancid meat and ammunition to shoot sharks. This cycle doesn't work anymore. Too bad, I miss those days.
2007-08-04 17:00:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
o my gosh 50p and an old english 6pence wooow lol that was a long time ago it jus makes me fink of how different things are now
i was givn £5 a week and i used to save it and spend it on albums or toys-i had a reali big stuffed animal collection but now i only have my old harrods bear that is older then me! lol
my mum never let me spend it on sweets :( and they lookd soo yummy!
2007-08-02 09:41:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
$5 - and I would spend it on lunch off campus with friends.
Needless to say that money only lasted a whole day.
2007-08-02 09:31:10 · answer #7 · answered by Done 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
20 cents per week allowance, and I was expected to save it.
2007-08-02 16:06:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
$5 a week...i saved it all up til i had like $700 and went on a shopping spree! lol ; ))
2007-08-02 09:27:43 · answer #9 · answered by Erin Elaine. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Allowance? Ha ha ha! That is pretty funny. Aw, man. I wish.
Anyhoo, care to enlighten us on what this has to do with gender and women's studies?
2007-08-02 09:30:03 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋