The first pay packet

Furryanimal

Furryanimal

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​Can you remember what you bought with your first pay packet?
 

A train ticket for the following week, my keep to my mum, cigarettes, clothes and make up, those were the days ! ;)
 
I didn't buy much.

I got my first real job through an employment agency that took my first months pay as a finders fee. The agency spread the fee over my first six checks so about all I had was enough money to pay for a ride to work.

As it turned out that was a good investment, I worked for the same firm as it morphed into several different companies over the next 31 years.
 

I didn't buy anything. I had to hand my pay packet over to my father, unopened, and he gave me my fares for the next week, and that was all!!

I remember all of my friends parents allowed them to keep their first pay packet so they could buy something nice and grown up for work, but when I asked my father if I could keep mine he nearly blew a gasket!!
 
With my first wages-paid into my bank account by the council-I bought a portable colour tv which lasted for 24 years.I have been through several TVs since!
 
A beautiful suede coat. It took a couple of weeks of checks (was working part time while in HS), but that's what I bought. Haven't thought about that coat in decades!!!

After that single splurge I saved like a demon so I could buy a car as soon as I was old enough to get my license.
 
I bought an iguana at Woolworths. It was dead, the following morning. I brought it back, in a shoebox, and demanded my money back since it had taken me three weeks of pay, as a drug store delivery boy, to afford it. When the cashier tried to refuse my refund, I threatened to dump the box on her conveyor belt. She gave me back my money. I was eleven. That incident taught me to not tolerate bs in my life, and showed me that it pays to have nerve, a very valuable lesson, indeed!
 
In spite of an occasionally difficult relationship with my parents, they only asked for a token contribution from my salary (which was paid into my bank). Not sure what I bought, but I suspect I might saved what I could and treated my then girlfriend. If I did, it must have worked as she's still my wife after 45 years.
 
A beginner set of Sam Snead Spalding golf clubs

$75

Very worth the two weeks of working in the cannery

It was strawberry season

I’d have worked for free
 
It was a Polaroid camera called "the Swinger​," quite the rage at that time...
 

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