Pocket Money

And yes this IS football related, loosely.

How much pocket money does a kid of 11-13 or so get these days? I've got no kids so no idea.

I ask because when I was that age I could afford to got to 2 Reds games in a week and pay for admission and a programme out of my pocket money. Not sure if a kid could do that these days.

 

you probably did something to earn pocket money too.

 

i used to get so much for washing dishes,a little bit more for cleaning my bedroom. these days i think kids just ask and they get.

i then got a paper round at 13 that payed 7.00 a week.

 

Pocket Money???

All mine got was bread & water and a beating and they were grateful for it, too!!

 

bread and water they were lucky. in our house it was one or tother

 

Re: Pocket Money???

Bread and water if they were lucky. Begod aye.

 

**** all. Well ours does anyway.

She gets money as and when for Meadowhall and stuff. I don't think they have milk rounds/paper rounds these days, idle little ******.

 

Snap. I used to do odd jobs like washing up, cleaning the car, cutting grass etc. Also had a paper round from 13 too.

The point I'm trying to make is that I don't think a young kid could afford to watch football on pocket money alone these days. When I was at school about 75% of the lads in my class were Reds fans and went regularly. It was the thing to do. Football was one of the main talking points and we idolised the players. No-one complained about the price - in fact money didn't get mentioned.

Just can't see how football clubs expect young 'uns to go to football these days. Unless I'm completely out of touch with pocket money, hence my question.

 

I was too soft with them

I was too much of a humanitarian!

 

Sometimes

It was stale bread.

 

stahlrost you are 100% correct.

kids cant afford i dont think. but saying that how many want to go,i think there happy these days playing fifa or call of duty.

maybe its a sign of the times but maybe if the club said from now to season end kids under 16, 2.50 wonder if that would help/get more to go.

 

Too true GO. Idle, workshy feckers.

 

I don't get enough pocket money NOW to pay for 2 matches a week including programmes. I was thinking of asking Warks if he could adopt me.

 

This thread hasn't quite worked out like I intended, I'm still no wiser. Maybe I should have asked about Bobby Hassell's wages or Craig Davies' transfer value or summat.

And I know how poor software bods are these days, having to live on a pittance. Do you get parachute money as well?

 

If the admittance fee is £18

And a programme is £3, then I can't see how pocket money can come anywhere near covering the cost of one match, never mind two in a week.

 

Football is way too expensive for pocket money to cover it, never mind transport, bag of chips and drink. You would need to be giving a kid 25 a week and I don't know many that get that much and if you did it would all be spent in 2 hours. Oakwell is sadly lacking in groups of young uns, the price is the main reason. Should be a fiver at the most. When I look around oakwell I see a very large majority of middle aged and over males. The future is bleak.

 

Nope, got to buy our own parachutes. Fortunately we don't need them all that often as parachuting plays little part in the modern software development lifecycle.

So this really isn't how you intended this thread to work out? You surprise me.

Back to your question though, if it helps then most of the parents I know seem to buy things for their kids as and when rather than giving them a set amount of pocket money. It would probably be uncharitable of me to suggest that might have something to do with why the concept and practice of implementing a personal "budget" seems to have gone out of fashion.

 

Re: If the admittance fee is £18

Agreed, just shows how it's got out totally of proportion these days.

Maybe I should plot a graph of football admission prices against the price of petrol and beer over the same time period instead.

 

Yet those who run the game as a whole

Or an individual club in particular, can't see this being a problem. They then appear baffled as to why fans in their thousands are doing a Pontius Pilate with football.

 

Reading through this thread I can only say one thing - doomed.

Liked your slogan about football passing away the time until the day of reckoning comes. Made me feel much better.