Your biggest extravagance during the Celtic Tiger

jimgoose

anncoates wrote: »

Let's be fair, it's now time for a moratorium on the word 'decking' in this thread.

Can we deck the next deckhead who mentions the word "deck" in this otherwise serious screenplay? I still lament the difficulty in getting a decent sit-down full Irish, with all these Cheeses petrol station forecourts full of gibbons in white vans. Thankfully that's improving slightly lately.

El Guapo!

This is getting rideckulous.

boobar

Mint Aero wrote: »

. There was hookers, and coke and cake and decking everywhere. We'd so much decking we decked the van.

This has to be the best funniest thing ever written.

anncoates

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

Could we have a moratorium on big words?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Massimo Cassagrande

I let the missus get a babycham AND crisps. Mad times. She still talks about them crisps.

riclad

It would be more realistic to say a paid 150k for an apartment in a small town outside dublin thats now worth 80k .
But thats not funny .

rainbow kirby

I was a student through the peak of it. Booze?

MRnotlob606

Remember when I had to go my relatives house we had to take our shoes off we go onto their carpet.

To Elland Back

Spent €2,600 (trade price) on a 32 inch flatscreen TV, which is now in my bedroom. Watching one now that cost €399

beertons

Nasal sherbert.

ted1

I has a permentaly stocked champagne fridge that was in great use.

We got engaged and went on an engagement moon fir 4 weeks to South Africa, then we got married in MIchelin starred restaurant in San Sebastein in Spain with 110 guests. We spent 2 weeks there , then went on a 3 week honeymoon to Hawaii and San Fran.

While in San Sebestein a few of us went to Arzark which is a 3 star Michelin restaurant which after wine cost a couple of hundred each

padd b1975

Mint Aero wrote: »

Ate breakfast rolls everyday for an entire summer working on building sites. I was a kid and t'was like another land thinking back on it now. The queues of white vans outside the petrol stations in the early sunny mornings and the smell of bacon to cure the hangover from the night before. T'was the summer before it all ended. There was hookers, and coke and cake and decking everywhere. We'd so much decking we decked the van.

Lol @ you and your white van.

The real money was in commercial Toyota Landcruisers and Izuzu Troopers.

sadie06

An amazing piano, justifying it by telling myself it had to be of recording quality.

It has been recorded, but not very often.

*Kol*

I used to leave the immersion on and not use the water.

ancapailldorcha

I bought a laptop for gaming for about €1,800. Still shudder thinking about it.

Sheep Lover

Bought a house made of decking with a decking out the back made of concrete blocks.

bnt

MY biggest extravagance was thinking it was safe to quit my job and go to university full-time. Five years of recession, featuring grants that started as "inadequate" and went down from there. Oh hindsight, thou heartless bitch ...

darkpagandeath

Anyone mentioned Public services wages yet ?

ted1

bnt wrote: »

MY biggest extravagance was thinking it was safe to quit my job and go to university full-time. Five years of recession, featuring grants that started as "inadequate" and went down from there. Oh hindsight, thou heartless bitch ...

The opposite for me, I did a two year course, then went working for Intel, took voluntary redundancy and went back to college full time for another 3 years with a **** load of money thanks to the generous salary and ridiculous pay out from Intel. College years were great with no shortage of money

faceman

Going on a date and paying for dinner

razorblunt

Packet of Tyrell crisps, most expensive packaged air ever.

Volovo

Flying lessons.

Intensive Care Bear

Ah the Celtic Tiger... breakfast roll for breakfast, hot chicken roll for lunch, 50 Euro a day in Spar, good times.

osarusan

Was in recession-era Japan for most of the Irish boom.

Moved home in the second half of 2008.

A masterpiece of timing, me.

blueser

4 pages in, and no mention of acquiring a wife/husband/mistress/girlfriend/boyfriend/any combination of those yet?

PizzamanIRL

From someone who was only a young lad during the good years, the way people go on about it sounds like there was just endless trunks of money available to everyone.

steddyeddy

Sparklygirl wrote: »

I had a public sector job so didn't have buckets of money but had no kids so did have a disposable income. I just enjoyed being young and having meals out and going to the pub and shopping for clothes. On hindsight, I should have gone on more holidays had I known the responsibilities that lay ahead. I helped my sister and brother out financially while they studied and I am happy I did that, it was money very well spent.

Best post of the thread. Well done for helping your siblings out.

blackcard

Disappointed with this, thought there might be a few boardsies who bought a private jet or arranged a private showing of Riverdance for their daughters birthday

mickydoomsux

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

From someone who was only a young lad during the good years, the way people go on about it sounds like there was just endless trunks of money available to everyone.

There was endless trunks of credit that people mistook for endless trunks of money.

"I'm wealthy because the bank let me take out a 20k personal loan even though both my credit cards are maxed!"

Bonzo Delaney

Used to peg the burnt toast in the bin and stick on more toast
These days I i stand over the bin grumply mumbling" for forks sake " while scraping the burnt layer of toast in to the bin