What did you buy with your very first paycheck? (gifted, boy, mother)

[BostonMike7]

I don't recall what i spent my first paycheck on, but i do remember that my motivating factor in seeking employment as a teen was to buy a car. So most of my money was saved for that. When i was 17, i bought one.

24 years later I still have it.

[oldsoldier1976]

Easy it went to pay off my car. It was 1972 and my car was a 1969 Chevy Impala convertible that I bought for $500.

[Sand&Salt]

Originally Posted by oldsoldier1976

Easy it went to pay off my car. It was 1972 and my car was a 1969 Chevy Impala convertible that I bought for $500.

Those were the days, eh? I recall a huge billboard from the 60s: VW Bug $1,700 (new).

Cars were foremost on our minds back then, unlike our modern counterparts at that age. Who could have predicted that trend!

[Sand&Salt]

Originally Posted by happygrrrl

Rent & groceries.

You didn't have any part-time jobs while you still lived at home? That's what I was referring to. Once you move out, of course it's all the necessary rent and groceries....

[Ralph_Kirk]

My first job in high school was cleaning up and mixing chemicals in the Ft Sill, OK, photo hobby shop. My first purchase from my first paycheck was film. Another couple of paycheck and I bought a camera and a light meter at one of the many, many, many pawn shops in Lawton.

I kept that job all through high school. I have been receiving DoD paychecks since 1969, and will until I die.

[happygrrrl]

Originally Posted by Sand&Salt

You didn't have any part-time jobs while you still lived at home? That's what I was referring to. Once you move out, of course it's all the necessary rent and groceries....

I was paid cash for babysitting jobs & had to use for toiletries, food or clothing/shoes or I wouldn't have them. I was emancipated at age 16 & supported myself with my first "real" job.

[RocketSci]

A digital AM/FM clock radio with an alarm - not even an LED but the type that flipped the numbers like cards.

[ukiyo-e]

My first job was working at the day care center in my mom's church after school. That was the most exhausting job I ever had, but it was fun. I'd guess I bought records, but I can't really remember. It seemed that was what I spent most of my money on in those days.

[VTsnowbird]

you expect me to remember something that happened 50 years ago?

[luvmyhoss]

I had a paper route

I bought school clothes with my saved money

Or I would not have any

TRUTH. I was 14