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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 10:14 am
I have been giving my son a dollar for each tooth he pulls. The last one he lost, though, I totally forgot to put the dollar under his pillow, so he brought the tooth to me in the morning and just asked for a dollar! My daughter just turned six and has been very jealous of her big brother's teeth falling out every few months, lol. She is working on one of her front teeth, and I think she's MAKING it loose. She won't leave it alone. They'll start coming out soon enough. I don't look forward to her having a gap-toothed smile, though; she'll look funny to me. My son looked amusing with his top teeth missing, and his adult teeth have come in fully now, but he has a big Dave-Letterman gap between them! *gasp* He's still a cutie-pie, and I surely love my boy!

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Danas15146
Member
03-31-2004
| Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 5:15 pm
Sia -- he is too cute! When it rains it pours -- now Justin has his second loose tooth. The one right next to the one he lost (middle bottom teeth)
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 6:12 pm
Sia, those Letterman gaps are a blessing. That gives those little mouths more room for the bigger teeth. Sarah had one last year and we took her to the ortho who told us to wait until more teeth came in and boy was he right!
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 5:10 am
Speaking of allowance, my niece whom is 8 years old, gets ten dollars a week. I feel that is a lot of cash for a little kid...what do allowances go for now anyway?
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Danas15146
Member
03-31-2004
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 5:47 am
Dee - My kids get two dollars a week and they only get it if their job charts have enough stars. They are only 4 and 6 -- $10 seems like quite a bit of money for an 8 year old - my my niece and nephew (8 & 12) get $25 per week and don't have to do squat to get it! Plus, they don't have to budget - if they run out my bro & SIL give them more!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 6:42 am
holy crap Danas...$25/week wow I would love a copy of your job chart for my kids..I am getting sick of trying to get them to pick up etc. perhaps if I had a decent chart to go by I could get them to clean up their act. thanks..my email is in my profile
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 7:37 am
holly gets $15 a week, but she only gets it monthly. it is put onto a visa bucks account straight from my checking. depending on whether she gets all of her chores done or not, i can vary that amount by signing on through the internet. she has to budget herself for the whole month. any magazine or incidental she wants, she has to purchase herself. if she wants to go to the movies with her friends, she has to pay herself. if she goes with me, i'll pay for her. if she wants that cute bracelet at claire's, she pays for it, not me. and she still needs my approval as to what she can spend her money on. she also gets money from my dad once a month, that goes straight to savings.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 7:48 am
i forgot to add, holly is 14 1/2
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:01 am
Landi that is great! Way to teach about budgeting and fiscal responsibility!!!
for Landi
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 9:25 am
Sarah gets $8/week because she's 8. She gets the whole month at the beginning of the month. Of that, she gets to spend 1/2 but I have final say on what she spends and when. Forty percent of her allowance goes straight one of her college savings accounts and the other 10 percent goes to the charity of her choosing. We've been doing this since she was 5 or 6 years old and it works well for our family. She generally chooses to save up for things she really wants and/or she will spend her money on something for someone else, like her dad's birthday which is today. Next year when she's 9, she'll get $9/week, etc.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 10:19 am
For the tooth fairy, first lost tooth was $5 and everyone after was $1. Caleb lost yet another yesterday and tooth fairy just gave him all the change in her pockets cuz she didn't have any bills, lol. When he counted it this morning it came to $1.40, mostly nickles and dimes, lol. We use close to the same method as Tess. Kota gets $6 a week, Caleb gets $8. They're allowance is also based on chores, though not all of them. They have chores they have to do daily that they won't get paid for, like picking up their own messes, feeding/watering the dog, and helping to set and clear the table, and wash dinner dishes. Everybody in the family has things they have to do to help the family, that's there's so they don't get money based on that. They're allowance is based on keeping their rooms cleaned, helping with laundry, taking the trash out. Caleb has a few more chores than Kota, but he's older. We will take money away if they don't do their chores. Sometimes if they've been extra helpful, they might get a little money. I'm kinda funny about that too though, I don't want them thinking that anytime they help someone else they'll get a monetary reward so it's a suprise when they might get extra money. They put half their money in their piggy banks, other half they can spend or save as they choose (with our ok.) Around birthdays or holidays if I know they might want to buy a special gift just from them, I'll remind them that it's coming up so they can decide how much they need to save. It's kind of cool to watch, they take so much pride in earning and spending their own money. Plus they're learning some good lessons about earning money and budgeting.
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Danas15146
Member
03-31-2004
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 11:20 am
Skootz - I'll try to email you today with my "job chart" criteria. My brother has looked at it and said that it is ridiculous to expect anyone to do that much work for $2. Alot of stuff they do is what I call "citizen of the household" work -- you live here too - pitch in to make it nicer for everyone! Like Wargod, I don't want them to think that they should get paid for being decent human beings. I do get veto on what they spend their money on -- they have learned to save for bigger items (ie. video games for my son.) but I have found that when they are spending their own $$ - $4.50 for a pack of Yu Gi Oh cards is too much -- when it is my money - $13 for the trader deck isn't that bad! Samantha spend her first money a few weeks ago. She took $20 from her bank to get a My Little Pony house. It was $15 and some change. She was so cute taking her bill out of her purse and saying to the cashier "I have a two zero dollar - is that enough?". She was proud and takes better care of it because she bought it on her own.
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Monday, November 08, 2004 - 5:27 am
Thanks everyone for the allowance information. I have no idea what we will do when the time comes.
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 2:25 pm
you know what, I have tried the charts and I have tried the threats and and I have tried bribery and what ever to get her to contribute, too much headache and work for me, so now all I do is when it is allowance day is ask one question. Tell me all the things that you did this week to deserve the allowance. Usually it is 10 cause she is 10, if she hasn't done her share of things without being pushed to do it, then it gets cut, if she has gone out of her way to do a good job, she gets a bonus. Now I don't deal with her chores or anything else. If she keeps her room clean, that is half the allowance and the rest has to be earned by doing things without me asking. Took awhile but now I find her, picking up stuff and putting it away and remembering to feed the cats if she sees the dish empty, stuff like that. She is learning that you get out of life what you put in and that there isn't always going to be someone to take you by the hand and show you how to it. Seems to be working pretty well.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 10:14 pm
With the Tooth Fairy, I made it easier for my stepmom and my sister, because I bought a little pillow that you put the tooth into a little pouch in the back, then hang it somewhere in the room. That way, you still get the "pillow" effect, but you don't have to worry about them waking up. Allowance, I got 20 bucks a week from when I was 16 to 18, if I remember correctly, because my mom didn't want me to take up a part-time job because she wanted me to focus only on school work. But once I hit 18, everything was cut off, so now I get nothing at all. I mean, I think that even if my shoes ripped open, and I didn't have any shoes to wear, my mom'd say "Tough luck." So yeah, don't do that to your kids. LOL
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 3:36 pm
Lol Neko
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, December 03, 2004 - 4:37 am
20$ a week? Holy Cow! I wish I had that kind of loot when I was 16. I can even remember walking to the mall with a friend, and us dreaming of what it would be like to be turned loose on the mall with "a whole 20$" to spend on anything we wanted. But then, that was *cough* a couple of years ago. *cough* anyone know what 20$ in the mid 70's would be the equivalent of in today's economy?
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Danas15146
Member
03-31-2004
| Friday, December 03, 2004 - 7:20 am
LOL Who! I can remember getting my first "Paycheck" from my paperroute. I was twelve and took thirty dollars to the mall! Came home with tons of note paper, stickers, envelopes - you know the important stuff!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, December 06, 2004 - 5:19 pm
LOL Dana! I found a site that compares monetary values from then and now.... Economic History Services I guess it only goes up to 2003. But here's what I got for what it would take now to compare to 20$ back then... In 2003, $20.00 from 1977 is worth: $60.71 using the Consumer Price Index $49.42 using the GDP deflator $58.42 using the unskilled wage $82.01 using the GDP per capita $108.17 using the relative share of GDP I'm not really sure what all those things are in the list. I'm no economist. But, I guess it looks like 20$ then would be the equivalent of anywhere from $50-110$ now.
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