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First Euro Purchase

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    One of the first things I bought was a game of pool, remember feeling disgusted that the price had increased from 50p to €1, just like that. Sign of things to come really.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Definitely definitely coffee and a glass of wine in Walter's of Dun Laoghaire. Definitely.

    <rocks back and forth>

    :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I remember buying a bag of €10 in different coins when the transition was being made, don't remember what I spent them on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Can't remember what I first purchased, but I do remember getting mobbed at the airport when I came back here after xmas from Ireland. People wanted to exchange my Irish €'s for whatever they had!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    There should be a commemorative Anglo Irish coin.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Pretty sure it was coffee.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    Think it was a bus ticket - back when I didn't realise that 'public transport is for losers.'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    I'm not sure what the first thing I bought was, but I know the first euro change I got was for some chocolate and crisps while walking home at about 8am after spending New Year's Eve out.

    I was so absent-minded (possibly added to by being a bit drunk/hungover/hungry) that I'd temporarily forgotten about the euro changeover and was momentarily surprised by my change.

    Actually, I think Eternal Darnkess: Sanity's Requiem for the Gamecube in the January sales may have been my first euro purchase.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Can't remember what my first purchase was but I was working in DLIADT at the time and remember the first day where you got back euros when you paid in punts so I guess it would have been something in there. Tea or something equally as lame.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭pencilsharp


    Bought a newspaper in Centra. I worked there at the time and that day was a complete nightmare! People hadn't a clue and couldn't understand the rate change between euro and the irish pound!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Bought a newspaper in Centra. I worked there at the time and that day was a complete nightmare! People hadn't a clue and couldn't understand the rate change between euro and the irish pound!

    That reminds me of those calculators they gave out. Still have a few at home I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    A £1!!! Went into the local shop on the day the big switch was to happen, had gotten those packs for Christmas with the euros in them. Grabbed a Moro, went to pay for it, 'We're out of change for Euros'. Had to turn to my buddy and swap him for a £1. He still bitches about the 27c every time I see him!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    I think it was Esctasy for my 21st birthday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,354 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    I have no idea what the first thing I bought with euros was, I was away with the family that New Years.

    Actually, that New Year's Day was the first time in my life I ever saw a £100 note though, in the till in a McDonald's... :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    token101 wrote: »
    A £1!!! Went into the local shop on the day the big switch was to happen, had gotten those packs for Christmas with the euros in them. Grabbed a Moro, went to pay for it, 'We're out of change for Euros'. Had to turn to my buddy and swap him for a £1. He still bitches about the 27c every time I see him!!

    LOL, I remember buying two packs of Euro coins from the Post Office before we switched over. I went into work and thought I was the cool kid showing them about until two auld ones that I worked with started giving out yards to me about the size of the coins being a disgrace and didn't believe they were going to be that size. As if I designed them....

    Back to the question left work at 5pm on the day the Euro came into being and went for a Pint of Carlsberg. Had to bitch about the price going up for the laugh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭Saint_Mel


    I emerged from a house party the morning the Euro went live ... went to a pub to get some carvery with just an Irish £20 Punt note to my name. Handed in £20 and got the change in Euros.

    Got a taxi back to my house and went to pay but the driver had no Euros so had to give me change back in Punts!

    It was all terribly confusing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Knightsbridge nightclub and it was booze.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    But me in the Bus Ticket purchase.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I think it was Esctasy for my 21st birthday.

    I'd say the dealers made a bomb taking advantage of the confusion around the whole thing.

    Shysters.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Seachmall wrote: »
    I'd say the dealers made a bomb taking advantage of the confusion around the whole thing.

    Shysters.

    In my case the booze dealers did as well, I remember feeling somewhat out of pocket.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring. New Years Day.

    After a visit the atm with a crispy €20 note and change in shiny coins.

    Daycent!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    I think it was a handjob beer in Magaluf.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    the first thing i bought in euro was actually dearer than the same thing when i bought it with punt. Euro sucks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭link_2007


    Pint bottle of Bulmers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    A desktop PC. Was during the dual-currency time and I took out €1200 or something for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭dibkins


    Milk and bread. My mum had given me a €50 note and the shop didn't have enouhg change so we got some punts back as well as euros:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    Remember like it was yesterday.

    My grandfather died about 5pm on the 31/12/2001 and as the house got full a few of us decided to drive into Sligo after midnight to a chippers. It was then 01/01/2002 and I got a bag'o'chips and a coke and used the Euro coins out of the introductory pack!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    20 B&H and a can of diet coke!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭chocksaway


    Guinness book of world records. Bought it in shop in westport.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    A bottle of Brandy in Aldi


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    44leto wrote: »
    In my case the booze dealers did as well, I remember feeling somewhat out of pocket.

    I was only a wee lad at the time but I remember the "old" folk whinging about everyone taking advantage.

    This topic is bringing back a boatload of memories, thanks OP :)


  • Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Was working in a little shop in a shopping centre that day, armed with the little euro calculator, can't remember what I bought first with €, lunch probably.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    jester77 wrote: »
    Can't remember what I first purchased, but I do remember getting mobbed at the airport when I came back here after xmas from Ireland. People wanted to exchange my Irish €'s for whatever they had!

    Wheres here?

    Can of coke.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    20 blue a lighter and a can of redbull on graphton street.

    I remember ir well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    A ticket for the 20B into town, tried to pay with Irish money but the driver said no so I had to give a €2 coin for an 85p fare, the bastard was lying too :mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Price of pills actually went DOWN as far as I remember. Had been paying £5, and the price dropped to €5.........

    :cool:

    Well they've gone up since. I heard some selling for €10 at high-demand gigs. Before that I heard 3 for €20. Although I've heard they can be bartered down to €5 or €6 if you shop around. I heard many years ago you could get 5 for £5 (sterling).

    That's all I've heard...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    I bought a Mr. Freeze...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Coke and hookers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    I remember it was a red nokia 8210.

    Thought I had it made! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,356 ✭✭✭NeVeR


    It was beer.. and bacon fries.

    I was a Barman when it came out.. and we ( the pub ) acted like foreign exchange, We took in punts and gave out Euros to everyone at one till- no one could spend Punts they had to change there money before buying anything. .. So that night we all had Euros and bought beer :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭crazyguy01


    Drink


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭travelledpengy


    I remember buying the package was it 10 euros I think,

    Then I bough some penny sweets!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    I'm pretty sure it was sweets in the local shop - I remember the change and I'm pretty sure I remember the lad I got it off, just not exactly what I bought. Remember as well when the preview packs of coins came out one of the teachers in school passed one round for us to have a good look. I was about 13 so it was a bit wierd having a new currency.

    Edit: Thought this was my 4999th post, actually 5000th. Yay! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭GalwayKiefer


    Was in a pub with my (at the time) girlfriend on the night of the changeover and they were changing notes for customers so my first purchase was 2 drinks. I remember looking around and seeing groups of people huddled together studying the new notes they'd just been given.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Elba101


    I can't remember the first thing I bought with euros, but I do remember the last purchase I made with the punt. It was a trio from a not so great Chinese. The guy at th counter was all stressed asking people were they paying in euro or not adn then trying to convert it on that useless euro calculator that every household got.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    I don't recall... I think I went to Spar for the sheer novelty of it, good buzz about the place. It'll be might for a few days altogether when they bring the punt back overnight.
    Can't remember what my first purchase was but I was working in DLIADT at the time and remember the first day where you got back euros when you paid in punts so I guess it would have been something in there. Tea or something equally as lame.

    /googles
    /nods
    bronte wrote: »
    I remember it was a red nokia 8210.

    Thought I had it made! :D

    A handsome phone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    RoverJames wrote: »
    Was working in a little shop in a shopping centre that day, armed with the little euro calculator, can't remember what I bought first with €, lunch probably.

    Ah the little blue euro calculators, didn't every household got one sent to them (like the iodine tablets except useful)? I still have mine somewhere lying around the house, never could work the fúcker, but came in handy for other things.... emergency beermat......throwing at crows......writing 58008 on it for the fun.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Pints.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I do remember the time, but I don't actually remember handing over the money.

    New Year's morning, needed petrol. Headed down to the N4 service station beside the Foxhunter and they had a money van outside the door. Basically a converted chipper van. Before you entered the shop, you gave your punts to the van who converted them to euros. Inside the shop they would only deal in euros.

    Lots of whinging at the time about whether it was legal, but looking back on it it was an ingenius idea for the shop to operate more efficiently.

    Anyway I decided at that point that I had no need for punts anymore and just gave all my punts to the van and got my euros back and paid for my petrol. And considering the day that was in it, I probably got a breakfast roll and botle of lucozade too, to calm my banging head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭McTigs


    My first purchase was a pint.

    I handed over 20 quid and i got a pint, 20 euro and some coins back.

    I thought "this is class!"


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