Irish children receive more money for holy communion

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http://www.thejournal.ie/irish-children-receive-more-money-for-holy-communion-survey-134032-May2011/

THE AMOUNT OF money which parents spend on their child’s first holy communion has increased, according to a new survey.
Despite dwindling pay-packets, the average parent will now splash out €600 on the day – a €70 rise on last year – according to the study by the EBS.
The survey found that 90 per cent of adults believed that giving a child €50 or less was appropriate, with the average sum per person being €37. While 70 per cent of those surveyed believed that giving children money was appropriate, 62 per cent insisted that this should be done within reason.
Children will now come away from the day with an average of €416 in gifts, in contrast to €398 last year.
The results show that most children (67 per cent) will save the majority of the money they receive, however this is slightly down from last year when 70 per cent of children planned to save most of their gifts. Some 71 per cent of parents said they encouraged their children to save more so that they will be better prepared for the future – two per cent up from 201o – according to the study.
The survey also explored how parents felt the economic downturn would effect children’s attitudes to money: while 79 per cent felt that the recession would negatively impact children, 69 per cent thought that it would encourage them to be more careful with their finances.
The EBS questioned 1,000 Irish consumers online between 14 and 19 April.

Where you spoiled for your communion or did you know a rich spoilt brat who got more than you?.

saywhatyousee

River Millions Wallpaper wrote: »

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Where you spoiled for your communion or did you know a rich spoilt brat who got more than you?.

I made 600 pound for mine:D:D I gave my mum 50 and spent the rest on sweets clothes and toys(Thinking back its an outrageous amount for a 8 yo)

dave1982

Was there not a thread where some fella said he robbed his Kids money:pac:

bobmalooka

dont tell Michael Noonan

tenchi-fan

I got around £50 for my communion (1987) and £80 for my confirmation (1993). Most people gave a £1 note, the rest £1x3 and some fivers.

edit: should also point out, I made my communion/confirmation at the same time as my sister and my confirmation at the same time as my bro's communion. This might explain things.

I know inflation really kicked in since then, but giving a child €50 for their communion really devalues the worth of money in my opinion!

Tar.Aldarion

I got pretty much nothing for communion or confirmation, a watch and I don't wear watches, and certainly nothing was spent on me by my parents!

Wolfe Tone

I only got a hundred quid or so, I have very few relations that my immediate family like. Some fukers got thousands.

OPENROAD

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

I only got a hundred quid or so, I have very few relations that my immediate family like. Some fukers got thousands.

:eek::eek::eek:

Dangerous Man

I got thirty pounds for mine. 1984 / 1985 - somewhere along that time line. I barely remember the proceedings to be honest.

Posy

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I got pretty much nothing for communion or confirmation, a watch and I don't wear watches, and certainly nothing was spent on me by my parents!

Me too. I got a watch sometime before my communion and I got a £1 note in communion money. I don't remember expecting any money.
I don't have any older siblings, cousins, grandparents, godparents and only have one aunt and uncle so maybe my lack of family affected my lack of funds.

bhur

Fifty quid from the priest



But dang i worked hard for it

Wheelie King

1980. I got 8 quid in total and it seemed to last weeks. Good times.

MagicMarker

I got 50 quid and Maccy D's.

brummytom

I didn't get any money for my communion, I just got a gold crucifix and a missal. For my confirmation I think I got a watch.

Guill

Got 220 pound in 1991.
Do you know when people say 'He still has his communion money'?

I bought a SNES.

Still have it!

4zn76tysfajdxp

I got forty-five pounds. My younger brother got over a hundred two damn years later. :mad:

phasers

For my Communion I got fcuk all, got about 100 euro on a my confirmation.

Some bitch in my class got over a grand.

Dyr

best thing I ever saw was schools insisting that kids wore their school uniform for communion, and then the f***kin parents insisted on dolling the kids up for afterwards... this country is mental

NothingMan

No idea what I got for my communion. Probably around £50. Would have been around 92 I think. Can't remember. No recollection of the day or the money. For my confirmation I made £110. I went to the cinema and McD's with my friends and I spent £90 on a pair of Bauer F1 roller blades that I used til they didn't fit and then passed them along. So some value for money.

I think a family member thinking €50 is appropriate is rediculous. The only reason I even got £110 is because I have a HUGE family on both parents sides. Most I would have gotten was a fiver off any one person and was chuffed with it.

Yet another example of our fine "catholic" culture in this country. I won't be getting my kids baptised and if they want money as an 11 year old they can do what I did and sell The Echo door to door.

Sanjuro

I made quite a bit for my communion. It was taken off me by my ma and put into a brand new post office account in my name. And rightly so.

Cianos

I think it's hilarious that the childs introduction in to the church is more focused on grabbing as much cash as possible. Just shows how much of a farce it is from the get go really!

stovelid

Made it in England and there wasn't that culture of receiving money or splashing out on clothes - at least not back then or maybe it was just the city I was brought up in. The boys actually wore a uniform of sorts - a white shirt, red tie and slacks.

Made my communion here (early 80s) and got money from my family and relatives - about 40 quid IIRC and thought I was minted back then. My parents would never have let me call around to the neighbours like some of the other kids did.

Dyr

I made a decent amount but I was'nt allowed to buy a f***king parrot with the money like I wanted

Actually this was the 80s in ballymun and I have a feeling that I "gave" the money to the parents as a "loan" :mad:

BizzyC

I got about £30 back in the early 90's, kids these days get money too easily....

stovelid

BizzyC wrote: »

kids these days get money too easily....

Fuck that. I had to wear a Little Lord Fauntleroy confirmation suit with corduroy shoulder patches. I earned every penny of it.

NothingMan

Bambi wrote: »

I made a decent amount but I was'nt allowed to buy a f***king parrot with the money like I wanted

Actually this was the 80s in ballymun and I have a feeling that I "gave" the money to the parents as a "loan" :mad:

Ok so assuming you made £100 in 1985. A reasonable loan rate of 6.5%APR. Your parents now owe you, taking into account inflation and conversion to Euro...... €574. That's not compensating you loss of interest to yourself. I'd definitely round up.





*I'm a not a mathamagician, my figures are most likely waaaaay off*.

Mint Sauce

Made both my commumion ('85) and confirmation ('92/3) in England. Cant remember how much I made from my commmumion, but got plenty of missals, rossary beads, crusifixs, and my uncle took us out for dinner.

Confirmation I got about £400, a few more rossary beads, and got driven to the church by the same uncle in his Company Mercedes car.

sensibleken

i remember i got 127 punds for mine, which was amazing back in 1987. bought myself Matt Trackers car from MASK and I still have some of it in a post office account.

thebostoncrab

I made around £100 for mine. Bought many a Ghostbuster toy with that!

the groutch

got £55 back in '88, lots of it in the good old pound notes (about €200 in today's terms)

kids have it so much better nowadays

Rocket19

I made mine in 2000 (I think) and I'm pretty sure I made a mint. I think I made about £600 which was a lottt back then.
In fairness, my parents held this massive party type thing at our house with pretty much all my relatives and their friends. I wouldn't have recieved that much otherwise and got a lot less for my confirmation.

One of the main things I remember about the day is all the money. I remember the party, photographs, bouncy castles and people fussing over me too but I really don't rmember anything about the actual ceremony.
They're very much like weddings imo. Most people aren't thinking about the significance (if catholicism is your thing) of the event, but rather the 'day out'. It doesn't really have any meaning.


I was made put it all in savings though zand wasn't allowed so much as look at it 'til was I was about 13.

rainbowdrop

I got rushed to hospital to have my tonsils removed the day I was supposed to get my Communion. Had to get mine two weeks later with kids from another school that I didn't know:(. Was eating ice-cream in a hospital bed when I should have been receiving Communion for the first time!

I made my Communion in England and, as others have said, I don't think the culture of giving loads of money existed over there. Maybe now it does but I made mine in the mid 80s and I don't remember getting much money. I do remember going out for a meal with my family, which was a great treat and getting the usual Rosary Beads, prayer book and loads of sweets from my Aunties.

When my daughter made her Communion (in Ireland) a few years ago, she got €400 which was probably at the lower end of the scale compared to what some of hers friends got. She bought a trampoline which gets used all the time, so a good investment!!

I made just under £100 for both. That was a lot of money.

Rocket19

ALSO! I really am NOT looking foward to being a proper 'adult'.

When I think about it, when I was a kid, my parent's friends and relatives religiously gave me money for EVERYTHING.
Birthdays, communions, confirmations, Christmas, Exams results...

How do peope cope with parting with this much money. At Christmas my parents give FIFTY euro to every one of my cousins, 50s to the kids of their close friends and 20s to the others.

How do people even cope with this if they are short of money? Giving gifts and presents to everyone?
You can't exactly go to a communion or something without giving the kid something as you'll look tight. But at the same time it is totally retarded that its expected to give money when (in most cases) the kid is just 'going through the motions' anyway.

Hannibal Smith

If you know the kid, you have to give 50. 20's too little...and forty made up of two 20 euro notes just looks so stingy and you'd be afraid they'd think 'why wouldn't they just go the extra tenner for a whole note!'

If you know the parents more than the kid, or your a mate, I think 30 quid is more than enough.

Anyone know how much your supposed to give if you're the godparent?

Professey Chin

Made mine in 93.Made somewhere between 100-150.
Spent it on Super Mario Land 2 and a Game Boy case & backlight thingy.
Maybe a Turtles game too.Think thats where the rest of it went.

NTMK

Made £350 for my communion in '98 and £/€300 for my confirmation in '01 one of my little cousins made €1100 in 07 for his commuinion:eek:

Saila

cant remember, I can hardly remember my confirmation!
must be the whole blocking religion thing out

AgileMyth

Rocket19 wrote: »

ALSO! I really am NOT looking foward to being a proper 'adult'.

When I think about it, when I was a kid, my parent's friends and relatives religiously gave me money for EVERYTHING.
Birthdays, communions, confirmations, Christmas, Exams results...

How do peope cope with parting with this much money. At Christmas my parents give FIFTY euro to every one of my cousins, 50s to the kids of their close friends and 20s to the others.

How do people even cope with this if they are short of money? Giving gifts and presents to everyone?
You can't exactly go to a communion or something without giving the kid something as you'll look tight. But at the same time it is totally retarded that its expected to give money when (in most cases) the kid is just 'going through the motions' anyway.

Just don't go. If anyone questions you just say you "disagree with organised religion", they'll rarely question that.

Also, your parents are mad.

Professey Chin

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

If you know the kid, you have to give 50. 20's too little...and forty made up of two 20 euro notes just looks so stingy and you'd be afraid they'd think 'why wouldn't they just go the extra tenner for a whole note!'

If you know the parents more than the kid, or your a mate, I think 30 quid is more than enough.

Anyone know how much your supposed to give if you're the godparent?

2 20s look stingy??? :eek:

NothingMan

NothingMan wrote: »

No idea what I got for my communion. Probably around £50. Would have been around 92 I think. Can't remember. No recollection of the day or the money. For my confirmation I made £110. I went to the cinema and McD's with my friends and I spent £90 on a pair of Bauer F1 roller blades that I used til they didn't fit and then passed them along. So some value for money.

That's what I did too

Korvanica

Got about 800 Pounds... Bought 2 Playstation games and a bike... saved the rest...

gosuckonalemon

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

If you know the kid, you have to give 50. 20's too little...and forty made up of two 20 euro notes just looks so stingy and you'd be afraid they'd think 'why wouldn't they just go the extra tenner for a whole note!'

If you know the parents more than the kid, or your a mate, I think 30 quid is more than enough.

Anyone know how much your supposed to give if you're the godparent?

When would you not know the parent more than the kid?

syklops

I got 95 pounds for my communion in around 94. Fast forward to about 2005 and my cousin got over a thousand :eek:

It is way too much for an 8 year old.

gosuckonalemon

I was listening to Sean Moncrieff and Henry McKeane (the most boring cnut known to man) was doing a Vox Pop on the subject.

As always, he targeted the inner city flats demograph, an easy target for a cheap laugh..

There was a woman on saying the day would cost her around 1,200€ but repayments to her loan shark would mean over 2,000€ by the end. (600€ on the suit alone).

She estimated her child would earn 800€ on the day and she wouldn't be taking any of this back.

What the fcuk is wrong with these people? Makes you wonder if she should be givin food stamps and fuel allowance instead of actually welfare payments.

MagicSean

I got £75 in 1990. Was delighted. £50 in the bank and the rest on booze and broads.

Dunjohn

Can't remember when I made my Confirmation, '92 or '93 thereabouts. In order to be cool, you had to get past the £100. I think I got about £110. I saved most of it, but did buy Scrabble.

Can't even remember making my First Communion.

BizzyC

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

If you know the kid, you have to give 50.

You have to be kidding, €50 is way too much money to be giving a child of 7 or 8 as a gift.

cbmonstra

^^^

Exactly.... My oh had to give his mother's friends child money for her communion last year.

He doesn't even know the child at all, and had to hand over 50 quid (his mam's orders) while the kid stood there, with her hand out waiting for it.

The child didn't even say Thank You!! I rarely feel the need to scold other peoples children, but this was one of those moments when I just had to say 'When someone gives you something, it's usual to say Thank You.'

Child looked at me like I had two heads. I felt very grown up saying that, it was weird!!

sh1tstirrer

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

If you know the kid, you have to give 50. 20's too little...and forty made up of two 20 euro notes just looks so stingy and you'd be afraid they'd think 'why wouldn't they just go the extra tenner for a whole note!'

If you know the parents more than the kid, or your a mate, I think 30 quid is more than enough.

Anyone know how much your supposed to give if you're the godparent?

You give what you can afford. Seriously this €20 and €50 nonsense is turning the whole thing into a competition. I know people that invite as many people to their childs holy communion so their child will get more money :rolleyes:

michelledoh

I think on my communion i got about £20 (all in £1 coins)

I made my confirmation in 2000 (midddle of the Celtic tiger i suppose) and got roughly about €200 which was huge money then and kept me going for years! Some of the kids in my class got €2000! Madness! I don't know what they could have spent it on!