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Shoes! As a teenage summer job I worked in a store right next to a great women’s shoe and handbag store. It was kind of fancy so had “bootery” in its name (not a cowboy boot to be seen though).
Back then I made less than $40 a week and Tano bags and Capezio shoes were popular. Shoes were mostly made in Italy out of beautiful leather and suede.
Sounds terrible but your date paid for everything back then so I didn’t need much spending money for food or entertainment.
A blouse I'd been eying (at the closest mall 20 miles away) and a Texas Instruments TI-55 "scientific" calculator - all in 1978 from detasseling corn. I think the blouse was about $25 dollars and the calculator $50. I was paid minimum wage and I think it was $2.65 which seemed like a really good deal.
How someone can remember what they did with a specific check from a half-century ago is beyond my comprehension, unless it was to buy an engagement ring for your childhood sweetheart. Or pay the hospital bill for her baby delivery. Otherwise...
I would absolutely agree for any of the paychecks after the first. But my first real paycheck, at age 16, was a big deal to me. Not a few bucks handed over for babysitting, but a real grownup style paycheck. They took out social security! I had to get a bank account! So I do remember that one and what I did with it. After that, you’re certainly right.
I can only imagine my first paycheck was used to pay back my family members for money borrowed while I looked for a job. Then maybe on transportation and a personal treat as a reward to myself.
Very first actual paycheck. As a lowly Marine Corps Private just out of boot camp during Vietnam I received my first monthly pay. It was actually paid in cash and was exactly 96.00. I bought a little transistor radio. I carried that little radio in SE Asia for two years and had it for years afterword.
A blouse I'd been eying (at the closest mall 20 miles away) and a Texas Instruments TI-55 "scientific" calculator - all in 1978 from detasseling corn. I think the blouse was about $25 dollars and the calculator $50. I was paid minimum wage and I think it was $2.65 which seemed like a really good deal.
I remember paying $125 for those first Texas Instrument calculators! LOL.
My first "real" job (hah) was at McDonalds at age 16 and I used to go to the very first Marie Callendar's next door for a piece of their pie.
How someone can remember what they did with a specific check from a half-century ago is beyond my comprehension, unless it was to buy an engagement ring for your childhood sweetheart. Or pay the hospital bill for her baby delivery. Otherwise...
One's very first paycheck is quite a big deal in the transition to adulthood. Hence, many of us remember it with clarity!
It's alarming to remember 50 years ago, but we were teenagers then!
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