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Whoopee the family allowance is going up by 45p a week.... Any ideas about how to spend it?

3 chuppa chops lollies. 1 1/2 packets of crisps (not multi pack) 1 pint milk 4 cheap sausages (the sort made mainly of rusk!!) 1 1/2 1st class stamps No you're right Bob, it's not gonna make much difference is it!!! Still, musn't grumble as it gets us absolutely knowhere!!!! lol Eleanorxx

bob you could always put it by for 20 weeks . you'll then have enough for i and a 1/4 certs!!! just a thought..lol susie

My daughter says it's hers????

45p is equal to 1.4 months on GC

save it up for 17 weeks and you can renew membership on GC and have 3p left over which used to buy 12 black jacks or fruit salads! Oh no ... that was 3d! :-( Jacky:-)

Hey don't spend it all at once!! Irene

hey bob hubby has just had a brainwave if you flog your kids and foster some more you'll get a couple of hundred quid a week PLUS family allowance now why didnt i think of that...lol susie

It's a rotten system....my son is doing a levels a year early at 17, so will leave school this summer. But that means we have to lose a year's allowance, even tho' he's off to university. i could have put the 45p towards the top up fees fund!

45p well where does that go? not even enough to spend in the sweet shop for my kids. Keep the dentist happy though>... KIM

And when you become 80 your pension increases by 25p. My mother was cock-a-hoop and told me it wasn't going to change her life. It just gets better, doesn't it? Nes

I'm sure that Mr Blair and Mr Brown will be grateful for the 45p extra per week per child. It will make the same amount of difference to them as it does to everyone else. Roll on the next election!

Hi, Marie-Anne is right. In New Zealand we used to get a child allowance. It was the only money some mothers actually received directly in their name - to use how they wanted. It stopped years ago. Christine