Gone are the days of walking the dog or doing the dishes in return for pocket money 📱 Now, children are being paid in data for their mobile phones to keep up with their household chores, finds lauriehavelock
to wash the car, do the gardening or tidying up their bedroom with a set amount of data to use on their smartphone, research shows.
This is followed by sweeping leaves which would allow two hours of music streams, hanging out laundry , walking the dog and tidying their bedroom which would each cover streaming music on Spotify for around 1 hour.Jit Jagita, 42, an IT consultant who lives in Cheshire, began giving “data pocket money” instead of cash to his kids – son Jay, 12, and daughter Ananya, 9 – as he finds it is the most efficient way to get them to help out around the house.
As well as offering data instead of money for household chores, Jit and his wife also began rewarding Jay and Ananya for achievements at school. He also said that his two children also take an active interest in monitoring the house’s energy usage and “walk around the house closing doors and switching appliances off” in order to save more money.
It comes as many households are struggling with the cost of living crisis, with higher bills meaning many families have less disposable income to treat their children.
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