Question Posted Thursday January 18 2007, 12:33 pm
how long do you think it would take for a 13 year old to get 320 dollers? i want to buy new clothes,but i dont want my mom to have to pay,she said i could do things around the house, and pay me 10 dollers a week alowence and 20 dollers for takeing wall paper off the walls. soo,how long do you think it would take?
Brandi_S answered Thursday January 18 2007, 12:50 pm: Good for you for learning responsibility at such a young age! A pat on the back to you from afar!
Well, if you save all of your money you earn and not spend it, it is a simple math equation.
$320 divided by $10 per week = 32 weeks. Since you will get paid $20 for the wall paper job, that makes 2 less weeks you have to save your allowance, making it 30 weeks. 30 weeks divided by 4 weeks per month = 7.5 months.
So your answer is 7 and 1/2 months of saving.
If you can do more odd jobs in the future, every $10 you earn doing them is one less week you have to save. However, for every $10 you spend you have to save for one more week.
geegollyHOLLY answered Thursday January 18 2007, 12:43 pm: Well you could try getting a babysitting job and get payed by the hour, if it snows near you, you can offer to shovel people's driveways for a fee of ten dollars, and do other things around the town. Hope this works! [ geegollyHOLLY's advice column | Ask geegollyHOLLY A Question ]
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