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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 414431" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p><em>"i also told her we are no longer handing her money for lunch or weekend money. she's using it for lunch yet also for alcohol and cigarettes"</em></p><p> </p><p>Something else I wondered about ... if she's been buying her lunch at school and still had enough left over to buy alcohol and cigarettes, she was obviously getting waaaaay too much money! I don't drink but I know it's not cheap and cigarettes here are $5 a pack, a lot more other places. I'm all for her taking sandwiches for lunch, and if she wants spending money, she can get a job. Nobody deserves money just because they exist! Mine did get a small amount of spending money, not really an allowance, because they were expected to do a lot of chores to earn it. No chores, no $$$. I worked full time then and my daughter helped out a lot around the house. My son did most of the yard work. I was a single mom by then and I could keep them in the basics but if they wanted the "extras" they had to pay for it themselves with after school jobs. And it's amazing how much more careful they were with the money they worked for than they were with the money that I gave them!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 414431, member: 1883"] [I]"i also told her we are no longer handing her money for lunch or weekend money. she's using it for lunch yet also for alcohol and cigarettes"[/I] Something else I wondered about ... if she's been buying her lunch at school and still had enough left over to buy alcohol and cigarettes, she was obviously getting waaaaay too much money! I don't drink but I know it's not cheap and cigarettes here are $5 a pack, a lot more other places. I'm all for her taking sandwiches for lunch, and if she wants spending money, she can get a job. Nobody deserves money just because they exist! Mine did get a small amount of spending money, not really an allowance, because they were expected to do a lot of chores to earn it. No chores, no $$$. I worked full time then and my daughter helped out a lot around the house. My son did most of the yard work. I was a single mom by then and I could keep them in the basics but if they wanted the "extras" they had to pay for it themselves with after school jobs. And it's amazing how much more careful they were with the money they worked for than they were with the money that I gave them! [/QUOTE]
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