Did you receive an allowance (pocket money) from your parents when you were growing up?

No

 

  No, not regularly, no actual allowance.

  I remember that there were times when our stepfather would drop us off at a local arcade, which back in those days was filled with skeeball machines and pinball machines, before video games had been introduced. The average pinball machine offered a set of 5 games for 25 cents, or a deluxe machine was 3 games for 25 cents. Hot dogs were 30 cents each, a soda was 25 cents, candy bars were 20 cents, and a bag of popcorn was 15 cents. My two brothers and I would spend an hour or two or three playing games and gorging on junk food. We would pool our money and get 3 hot dogs but only  1 soda, which we shared, because we wanted to play as many games as possible before our stepfather returned to pick us up. Sometimes, we wouldn’t eat or drink anything at all so that we could play more games. We learned lessons about making money stretch. 

  The grand total our stepfather gave us each trip? A five-dollar bill to each of us. It was the most money we ever held in our little hands at any one time, we thought it was the most money in the world, and we were ecstatic for those trips, which were very few and far between, maybe once every few months.  I believe they started when we were about 7, 8, and 9 years old respectfully (I am the middle of the three of us), and continued for a few years. 

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Not for any length of time.  Mother once was going to start giving us a tiny allowance but all I remember was her talking about it.  I don't have memory of it happening.

My family couldn't afford to give us an allowance.  So we said we'd keep track of what they owed us, then whenever they got some money they could pay us.  We even kept a tally sheet.  However, all we ever got were lectures about how their love was immensely more valuable that any allowance (ever tried to tell a store clerk that you wanted to buy to buy a .10 candy bar with love?)

No. I mowed lawns in the summer and pushed snow in the winter. I started working when I was 13.

I did get an allowance when I was in junior high school so I could eat lunch out.  A slice of pizza and a small Coke was 25 cents.  The only other price I recall is when Mom would wrap a quarter in a piece of paper, clip a clothespin on it, throw it out our 6th floor apartment window and tell us to get a pound of potatoes, which was also 25 cents.

Yes. $10 weekly.