£5/week pocket money for 5-year-old
Josh gives his young son £5 a week in pocket money — the same as his daughter — which the boy saved up to buy an £11 megaphone.
Snapshot · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
S12 EP51: The Ransom Is My Ego
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Jun 30, 2026
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Josh's Son's Pocket Money Megaphone Purchase
At 18:05 · chapter starts 18:02
Josh introduces the pocket money segment by noting the delicate fairness problem of matching his son's allowance to his daughter's £5 a week — paying less would feel wrong. The reveal of what the son has saved up to buy lands perfectly: an £11 megaphone, deployed immediately during the recording in a way that Rob notes is likely to cause car crashes if listeners have their volume up. Josh notes — semi-seriously — that an interest in new media at age five is excellent for a future career, and Rob calculates the weekly cost would soon add up across two children.
Josh's Son Buys a Megaphone with Pocket Money
Josh's young son has been on £5 a week pocket money. After two-and-a-bit weeks of saving, he bought himself a megaphone. Josh's concern is not the money — it's the noise.
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