How much was your allowance when you were growing up?

Question

Money allowance and what was your curfew.

Answer 1

We started at a dime in the early 60's and got up to a quarter and had to be in before dark.

Answer 2

At first I got a quarter a week. then I started mowing the neighbors lawns, and shoveling snow in winter. Got a paper route and started helping at local gas station after school. Don't recall a curfew. I grew up in a "mafia" dominated neighborhood, and there was no crime.  

Answer 3

25 cents a week if we did our chores.

We had to earn our money doing yard mowing raking shoveling snow babysitting helping on the farm. Didn't really rely on the 25 cents but what the heck it was a gallon of gas then! Try that now.

Answer 4

I didn't get an allowance.  I cleaned house, ironed, washed windows and pin curled the neighbors hair.  I was very busy everyday and always had spending money . . . Good grades too.

I was afraid of the dark so I was always home before dark.

My curfew was 11 pm when I dated. Couldn't date on week nights.

I bought my own clothes and paid for my lunch and I didn't think anything about it.

We walked every place we went.

I got my first car when I was 21 and ended up giving it to my brother when he went away to the University.

It was good. It taught me the value of a dollar and because of it I have been very frugal and it paid off big time, now that I'm 73.

DeeJay.

Answer 5

25 cents a week and it bought a lot!

Curfew was  when it got dark.

Answer 6

I didn't get an allowance. Whatever money I had I had to work for. I lived on a farm and didn't get paid for doing the chores, so after I finished them I would go to the neighboring farms and work. At 12 years old I was offered a job working nights as a dishwasher in a truck stop restaurant so I took it. I still had my chores and school and the boss said I had to keep my grades up to keep the job. At 16 I took a summer day job as a carpenters laborer and kept my night job at the cafe and was given a chance to start cooking. Dad sold the farm when I was 15 and moved into town. This made it easier on me. No chores!

I graduated third in the class, and had bought myself a brand new car for a graduation present and paid cash. I never had a curfew.

Answer 7

Allowance, what was that?  We were expected to do our chores as we were part of the family unit. I have 6 younger brothers and we all did our share. We did not have enough money to able to get an allowance.

As for curfew, we all ate dinner as a family unit, but the city was our playground until dinner time. After that we would if we wanted just play in and around the block after dinner until almost bedtime. Or we would be inside watching TV, doing homework or playing inside if it was cold or winter.  

Answer 8

Hello,

1) In the early 60's, $2.00 a week but I had to do a lot of yard work and chores for that. Mind you back then, 25 cents would by you a bottle of coke, an ice cream bar, a chocolate bar and three black jelly babies.

2) My curfew was 7 pm on nights that weren't school nights but as I got older and made my curfew the time was gradually extended.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 9

I didn't really have either. I pretty much got what I wanted and I never had a curfew.

It was (especially now, in retrospect) both a good and bad thing. Great for me at the time (so I thought) but not so great because I just had way too much freedom and was kinda spoiled.

But I'm not complaining! lol

Answer 10

I got 50 cents per chore and never had a curfew. I was always home at night.

Answer 11

I'm 13 and i don't get an allowance :(

Answer 12

I never got an allowance and never had a curfew.  

Answer 13

25 cents a week

Answer 14

Dollar an hour working on a dairy farm, pitching ****, bailing hay and cleaning udders at milking time.

Answer 15

What allowance and six o'clock.

Answer 16

hi . i got 10 cents a week . had no curfew as we wernt allowed out much after 7 each night . lol

we KNEW we had to be in or look out , the belt would come out . lol

fun question . have a great eve .d.

Answer 17

$0.15 a week.

Answer 18

It was $1.95 I think I am not to sure anymore.

Answer 19

My whats???

Answer 20

Same as Judy...and no curfew...always home

Answer 21

I had to pay my parents.

Answer 22

Yeah right!!!  We were poor as church mice!!!  My dad was a bus driver after he sobered up and wouldn't take any state aid even though there was 5 of us kids!!  Proud man!!!  

Answer 23

We never got an allowance. Big family and we had to help out without expecting anything. If we wanted something extra, we did babysitting for the neighbors.

Curfew was like 8:00 on a school night and 9:00 on weekends.

Answer 24

My brothers and I rarely got an allowance.  When we did it was a quarter.  We started working odd jobs at an early age for movie money.  I worked regular jobs from age 14 on.

We had to be in by dark.  As teens it was 10 or 11 depending on where we were going on a date.

Answer 25

We didn't receive an allowance. My mother claimed that clothing, feeding and housing us was allowance enough. There was no curfew, because there was no place to go!

Answer 26

    You have got to be kidding, we were so poor we ate out of the same stew or soup pot until it was gone, sometimes two or three days. I slept in the barn so not to wake the others when changing irragation lines at twelve years old around the clock.

Answer 27

Half a crown - or two shillings  and 6 pence.  (About 50 cents in those days) - do not remember having a curfew.

Answer 28

when i was in elementary school, my weekly allowance was a dollar... and to earn this, i had to take care of 3 dogs, 3 rabbits, 2 hamsters, and an aquarium of gold fish- i had to pick the rocks, pine cones and sticks up outta the yard (which doesnt sound like much, but my family had 6 acres of yard to pick rocks, sticks, and pinecones out of)

I had to be home before it got dark, whatever time that was.

when i got to middle school, my allowance was 10 dollars a week, and i had to do laundry, dishes, vacuuming, and dusting (in addition to my chores from elementary school)

I had to be home by 9.

in High school, i didnt need an allowance 'cause i had a job, and i had to be home by 11 on week nights and by 2 on weekends.

Answer 29

25 cents a week as a child. Curfew was 9 pm. I was a p*****n and just hanging out in the neighborhood.

Answer 30

I can't remember now... it's been too far back in my foggy memory.

But I DO remember how CAREFULLY we SPENT it!

Curfew?  We never had a SET curfew.  But if we didn't get home at a "decent" hour, we were in trouble... or if we didn't let our parents know if something were to delay us... we were in trouble.

But I DO remember that my father always stayed up until we got home, JUST to be sure we were alright, or didn't need his help (you know, a safe ride home, no questions asked).

Have a Senior Day.

Answer 31

I'd get a dime from my dad if I cleaned his desk.   ;-)  But I would ave done it for nothing, cause he was my hero!!!  My curfew?  I was only about 10.  lol