Pocket money and Chores

Pocket Money 

I started paying pocket money around the age of 4, depending on the child. My step-daugther gets $1 for each year of her life, at the moment she is 8 so gets 8 dollars a week. My own children I gave 50c for each year since I didn't have much money.

With my own children I had a weekly chart and if they completed it they got paid. With Angel we use marbles, each marble is worth 25c, she can earn $1 a day and when she gets $7 I throw in the extra dollar.

We have a jar system for pocket money and with my kids they put certain percentages in each one 10% giving jar, 20% long term savings, 10% savings and 10% family jar. With Angel she just has to put money in each jar and we don't have a family jar. Angels giving jar goes to the SPCA because she loves animals.

Chores

Making your bed, tidying your room and cleaning up after yourself is not a chore it is daily life.

Some of the chores we have are dishes, bringing in firewood, washing windows, setting the table, feeding pets, washing - hanging out, bringing in and/or folding, vaccuming, sweeping, mowing lawns, weeding.