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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the above posters.  DD14 is similar, and last year we set up an agreed upon allowance amount so she could save up and buy herself whatever she wanted.  She quickly realized how expensive everything is and how long she’d have to wait before she could afford to buy them.  She started asking to do odd jobs and chores for cash.  She makes me an iced vanilla latte that tastes even better than Starbucks and I pay her $5.

Then her friends told her they buy the fancy makeup brands at Marshall’s.  (This, after she had paid $18 for the exact same lip gloss)!  And then she found Lululemon in one of our local thrift stores.  And she finally started learning how to stretch her money.

For Christmas, she put an expensive Lululemon jacket on her wish list, but we bought her other stuff, and she received gift cards from family.  So she asked if she could sell me the gift cards and return a couple of items that didn’t fit, and then she got enough to buy herself the jacket she wanted.

I highly recommend this approach![/quote]
+1 excellent way to do it.

My 15 yr old DD has been getting an allowance since she was like 8.  I repeatedly told her that things are expensive, and so she needs to learn to budget if she wants things.  That's real life.

In the beginning she would blow through her allowance in the first two weeks.  She slowly learned to not do that.

I also told her to get a job if she wants to save more, but she's picky. So, she doesn't get what she wants all the time.

But, yes, she's also learned to shop at consignment stores and the good will.  We've had lots of conversations about how most name brands aren't worth the cost, and that at her age, she is still growing (yes, at 15 she's still growing b/c she was a late bloomer), and that she will outgrow these expensive things within a year to two. I don't mind buying her nice things, but they should last more than a year.

I honestly don't understand why people like Ugg boots. They are not comfortable, at all.  The souls are so stiff, I feel like I have cardboard on the bottom of the shoes.[/quote]

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