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What's the going rate for confirmation money (Godchild)

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  • #32
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Big Bag of Chips wrote: »
    He has no idea how much it cost - and his mother was with me and picked it out!!
    I got off light there!

    Had I been giving cash, I would have given €50!!

    (he got plenty of cash - he only got 1 watch!!)
    I'm only skitting, I'd be mean enough as well, sorry, careful.:D


  • #33
    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    Im sponsor for my niece in a couple of weeks im going to give her 50 euros id say that should be enough for a sponsor to give like


  • #34
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    "Yeah, thanks Unk BigBagofchips, I'm thrilled, so I am"






    "Did you see the shyte that Bigbagofchips gave our little Johnnie? The miserable b0llix"

    The bolded bit

    Said by the parents and not the child, interestingly enough


  • #35
    opinion guy
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    Give them a copy of the God Delusion


  • #36
    NuckingFacker
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    My youngest did his Confo a few weeks ago. The Godparents gave him €300, Aunts/Unks were allowed away with €100/€200. Anyone bearing less than €50 could feck right the feck off. He ended up with €3k. Proper order. I don't scab their kids, don't come here scabbing mine. It's a question of respect. I don't just expect it, I demand it. It's a Loreal thing.


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  • #37
    Boombastic
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    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    My youngest did his Confo a few weeks ago. The Godparents gave him €300, Aunts/Unks were allowed away with €100/€200. Anyone bearing less than €50 could feck right the feck off. He ended up with €3k. Proper order. I don't scab their kids, don't come here scabbing mine. It's a question of respect. I don't just expect it, I demand it. It's a Loreal thing.

    Did you have a charge in to the bouncing castle?


  • #38
    Fr_Fitzexactly
    Site Banned Posts: 85 ✭✭Fr_Fitzexactly


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    My youngest did his Confo a few weeks ago. The Godparents gave him €300, Aunts/Unks were allowed away with €100/€200. Anyone bearing less than €50 could feck right the feck off. He ended up with €3k. Proper order. I don't scab their kids, don't come here scabbing mine. It's a question of respect. I don't just expect it, I demand it. It's a Loreal thing.

    Loreal.. pleb.


  • #39
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Boombastic wrote: »
    Did you have a charge in to the bouncing castle?
    No, I got one for free. He was honoured to be able to give me one for the day. Actually.


  • #40
    Deskjockey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Deskjockey


    Ok I feel validated and am going to give €50 in a really nice card


  • #41
    Boombastic
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    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    No, I got one for free. He was honoured to be able to give me one for the day. Actually.

    Should have had an entry fee in for each of the guests, you missed a trick there...:pac:


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  • #42
    blatantrereg
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    bonkers. What's a kid going to do with that sort of money anyway.


  • #43
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    blatantrereg wrote: »
    bonkers. What's a kid going to do with that sort of money anyway.
    Borrow it to me.


  • #44
    Deskjockey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Deskjockey


    blatantrereg wrote: »
    bonkers. What's a kid going to do with that sort of money anyway.

    Start of loan sharkin at 2 points above the vig.

    Sheesh


  • #45
    Kichote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 305 ✭✭Kichote


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Tightwad? FFS no.

    What can you afford? If you want to exceed 50, 70/80 is extremely generous IMO. And a wedding gift, when the bride and groom have gone to a lot of expense, is hardly comparable to a present for a kid's confirmation.

    100 is too much IMO. If a person can afford it and wants to give it to their godchild, fair enough, but I personally don't see the point. Pity there's the notion that there's a "going rate".

    Got £100+ in total for my confirmation in 1991. I loathe doing the "In my day..." thing like a woman of 70, and I know it's over two decades on, but I still can't help finding it absolutely staggering that it's deemed not particularly excessive for one gift to be 100 now. :eek:

    People have their pride, it isn't all about pressure, but a figure somewhere in the middle is plenty.


    In my day a funt up the hole was the going rate. For the trouble you put your parents through making them go away from the farm and having to drag you to church and buy you clothes that cost a week's food but they bought it anyway for the sake of the family's reputation


  • #46
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Kichote wrote: »
    In my day a funt up the hole was the going rate. For the trouble you put your parents through making them go away from the farm and having to drag you to church and buy you clothes that cost a week's food but they bought it anyway for the sake of the family's reputation
    Ye were posh. My parents couldn't even afford to give us a kick in the hole.


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
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    Talk to siblings and parents and buy the kid a family pass for the zoo together.


  • #48
    Akrasia
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    You should offer them a choice. 100 euros or the contents of a 'mystery box'.

    Valuable life lessons will be learned

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #49
    passive
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    Akrasia wrote: »
    You should offer them a choice. 100 euros or the contents of a 'mystery box'.

    Valuable life lessons will be learned

    ... by the OP when the kid takes the €100?


  • #50
    Liamario
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    Boombastic wrote: »
    Prayer book and rosary beads

    Couldn't agree more. What the hell has money got to do with. I'd love to hear the bull**** from the parents though. "The scabby bastard!"- it would be a great litmus test on how important religion actually is to them.
    I don't who I resent more; cultural Catholics or the real ones.


  • #51
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Liamario wrote: »
    Couldn't agree more. What the hell has money got to do with. I'd love to hear the bull**** from the parents though. "The scabby bastard!"- it would be a great litmus test on how important religion actually is to them.
    I don't who I resent more; cultural Catholics or the real ones.
    O.M.G, people will just keep dragging religion into absolutely everything.


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  • #52
    GarIT
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    Going rate for mine was €500 (each) from parents (because on the day I decided that I wasn't doing it), €200 from godparents and €50-100 from anyone else.

    I'd never give a child anything for one now though. Someone who is supporting a criminal organisation doesn't deserve money.


  • #53
    Akrasia
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    passive wrote: »
    ... by the OP when the kid takes the €100?

    Trust me, they all choose the mystery box.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #54
    gramar
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    50eur is plenty. Give 'em that and explain the miracle of compounding and how they'll have a nice little nest egg when they're older.


  • #55
    Kannon Nutritious Belly
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Kannon Nutritious Belly


    I'll vote for the book and prayer beads!
    100 from one person, insanity


  • #56
    smcgiff
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    efb wrote: »
    €100

    €150


    I'm assuming this is some weird non-committal internet auction thingy.


  • #57
    Mrs Garth Brooks
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    I got €0 from my godmother. Not even a card


  • #58
    miss no stars
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    I seem to remember getting a dove necklace from my godmother. You know it's always an option to ask the parents is anyone getting him/her the cross/dove that's normally associated with confirmation.

    ETA: for a girl I think a proper locket would be a very nice idea. I actually think godparents can get away with a nice present rather than cash.


  • #59
    Mam of 4
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    miss no stars wrote: »

    ETA: for a girl I think a proper locket would be a very nice idea. I actually think godparents can get away with a nice present rather than cash.



    Agree with this, have often chosen to give a lovely present,like above, as it's something the child will have as a momento years later when the money has been spent.
    My kids still have the gifts they were given for their confirmations and can remember who gave them to them,they loved the getting a gift idea. Ok, they loved having the cash too but both are fine imo :)


  • #60
    Freddy Smelly
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    SamHall wrote: »
    In before tree fiddy.


    in recession times its now one fiddy :P


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  • #61
    Alias G
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    Just finger them in the bum. Tis a Catholic ceremony after all.


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