£30 pocket money + £30 clothes money per month at 14!!!
That's
a) the disposable income I had at uni to pay for bike parts, beer and clothes, i.e. everything after rent, food and utilities.
b) as much as I earnt doing an 8hr a day Saturday job at 16!
Even allowing for 8 years of inflation, do you not think that's a lot?
Then again I never bought a walkman, diskman, pogostick, yo-yo, tamagochi or pokemon card instead i saved up for about 5 years to buy a laser dingy for £250 matched by another £250 from my parents at 14, and a Honda CG125 with £800 of my own money saved form about 2 years of saturday jobs when I was 17 (toped up with another £500 from selling my moped which was bought by my parents).
I always thought my youngr brother got more than me, and;
- he has destroyed 5 mobiles, i've still got my original nokia somewhere and the upgrades were generaly forced by technology/networks.
- he's crashed his scooter multiple times, parents picked up the bill for the repairs, then he sold it.
- he's broken 3 creative Zen's, in that time i'm on my first secondhand 5th gen ipod i bought in my 3rd year of uni.
- he's now asking for an ipod touch for his birthday
On the plus side they just sold me their car for a bargain price, despite me offering to pay the full ammount they'd advertised it at (which i actualy though was on the low side already!). On the downside my brother will still get a new ipod, he will break it, he will get a new one next year as well. And they'll buy him a car at some point, he will crash it, be skint, and they'll pick up the pices.
I'm just saying................
Really glad to hear you got pocket money before hitting your century!!!
