raggygranny I did the same with my two daughters, at about the same age. I made sure that they were suitably kitted out with a warm coat, school clothes etc, then they chose and bought things themselves. At that time the family allowance was £3 for second and third children (They were 1st and 2nd, but number 3 was a boy and not then interested in clothes) so they had that to budget for clothes and extras. They did pretty well most of the time.
A couple of years later I realised that I was washing the same clothes daily, rejected after trying on, and thrown on the floor. So I showed them how to use the washing machine and how to decide what kind of wash each thing needed.
That was a good move except that the washing machine is in the cellar, and the way the lights were then wired, half-a-dozen lights went on down there (in utility room, workshop, store-room) when you put on one switch. They would put a load of washing in and leave it for a couple of days, with all lights on. The electricity bill soared.
Should women have equal pay and opportunities?
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Lame Limericks (but they are funny anyway) (
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic