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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just put it in a savings account. When the kids got old enough they added debit accounts linked to the savings accounts and could do with it what they wanted. One used it for spending money, the other keeps adding to savings. The amount of cash gifts they got before they started getting stuff like gift cards wasn't that much though - maybe $1,000 total by the time they were 14 and got the debit cards.[/quote] She's already got close to $7k in there at the age of 3. I can't see giving unfettered access to that kind of cash to a young teen. My parents turned mine over to me when I got my first job at 17 and told me that it was my responsibility to manage it and add to it so that I could provide my own spending money in college. At the time it had around $2500 in it and I got it up to $8k before I left for college. [/quote]
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