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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would encourage him to get an on campus job. That will give him spending money plus is a good way for introverted kids to make friends.

We gave our kids $50/month the first year + they spent from their savings so I don't know what their actual expenses were.[/quote]

wow someone from 1974 just commented.

I am old but even in 1982 was $3  bucks worth of gas, maybe $5 bucks movie ticket and even if I met girl for just splitting a $4 pitcher of beer afterwards and $6 bucks popcorn, soda and candy bar at movie. That would be $18 bucks and you are proposing $50 for a month in 2024.

Do these people not date or go out? Let alone, clothes, hair cuts, toothpaste and coffee type things. You dont have to give anything, my parents gave me nothing in school, but $50 is a 14 year old kid spending money for a trip to the mall in 2024  [/quote]

Of course, $50 isn't all a college student would spend, it is our bit for necessary incidentals. They pay for movies, beer, pizza, dates, clothes etc. from money they earn themselves. We pay tuition, dorm, meal plans. I feel no responsibility to provide pizza& beer money for a college student. From what I've seen at my kids' schools, if you are willing to work food service any student can work 10 hrs a week. One of my kids is a TA, mainly grading papers on his own schedule for 10-15 yrs/week and the other works in an admin office.[/quote]

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