What did you do with the pocket money you earned as a kid?

jeanjolie · 08-06-2017 08:27PM #1

I'm thinking of working this July in Tesco seeing as I need some extra cash and something interesting to do over the summer as my friends are all going abroad leaving me here

On a positive note, I'll be earning 'minimum wage' and spending what I save on interesting things.

I've always seen lads who started working part-time at 15 while going to my school and I wonder what they spend their money on since their parents pay for the third level.

What did/do you spend your money earned from minimum wage jobs on?

domrush · 08-06-2017 08:29PM

The drink is a curse

Akrasia · 08-06-2017 08:29PM

jeanjolie wrote: »

I'm thinking of working this July in Tesco seeing as I need some extra cash and something interesting to do over the summer as my friends are all going abroad leaving me here

On a positive note, I'll be earning 'minimum wage' and spending what I save on interesting things.

I've always seen lads who started working part-time at 15 while going to my school and I wonder what they spend their money on since their parents pay for the third level.

What did/do you spend your money earned from minimum wage jobs on?

I was working from 12 on and i spent the money on music, my bike and hiking and camping gear

the_pen_turner · 08-06-2017 08:32PM

use every note I could earn as a note book to write up a list of topics I would like to discuss with random people on the internet.

Sweets, PlayStation games etc

OU812 · 08-06-2017 08:34PM

Bought my first car from what I earned working ages 15-17. Worked delivering milk from 4-9am, went to bed for an hour & then worked in a shop from 11-6 or 7. All for about £5 an hour. Saved continuously for two years & then got driving as soon as I passed my test.

jamesbere · 08-06-2017 08:37PM

Hookers and black jack

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 08-06-2017 08:42PM

As a kid? Straight to the shop after mass. Rake of chewy sweets, few bags of chickatees, some score bottles of coke and a Sabrina the teenage witch magazine. Sometimes we'd get to go to the toyshop, if my mother wasn't with us to kill the fun. We'd get bubbles, boats to use in the bath, tiaras and fairy wands.

Then I got older all my cash went on credit

snowflaker · 08-06-2017 08:43PM

Pocket money???

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 08-06-2017 08:45PM

Or do you actually mean wages? First job I ever had was in a shoe shop and I spent all my wages buying the merchandise. My manager put a ban on me buying shoes after a few months

major bill · 08-06-2017 08:49PM

Never got Pocket money, if I was good I got sweets and a few packs of Merlin Premier League stickers!!!

I was looked after well but never spoiled

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 08-06-2017 08:49PM

jeanjolie wrote: »

I'm thinking of working this July in Tesco seeing as I need some extra cash and something interesting to do over the summer as my friends are all going abroad leaving me here

Worked for Tesco (well, Quinnsworth as it was then) can honestly say it's a lot of thigns, interesting is NOT one of them!

On a positive note, I'll be earning 'minimum wage' and spending what I save on interesting things.

I've always seen lads who started working part-time at 15 while going to my school and I wonder what they spend their money on since their parents pay for the third level.

What did/do you spend your money earned from minimum wage jobs on?

Video games when I was a teenager, booze and travel when I was older.

Pac1Man · 08-06-2017 08:51PM

Pogs, FA Premier League stickers and Skittles branded yo-yos.

buried · 08-06-2017 08:52PM

Tapes and records. Bought tapes in the local Panasonic hifi shtore from around age 8. Then around 12 used to go up to Dubalin on the train once a month to get in the haul of bootleg concert tapes then the records. Still have the records! Wish I had the tapes

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 08-06-2017 08:55PM

jeanjolie wrote: »

I'm thinking of working this July in Tesco seeing as I need some extra cash and something interesting to do over the summer as my friends are all going abroad leaving me here

On a positive note, I'll be earning 'minimum wage' and spending what I save on interesting things.

I've always seen lads who started working part-time at 15 while going to my school and I wonder what they spend their money on since their parents pay for the third level.

What did/do you spend your money earned from minimum wage jobs on?

I don't know if being seen working in Tesco will help your striving for social status.

I never had pocket money. Anything I earned until I was 18, which was very little, was handed up to my mother.

Should you not be studying for tomorrow's exams?

08-06-2017 09:00PM

Music - mostly vinyl and some CDs.

That was my sole reason for taking on part-time supermarket work after the Inter Cert in 1987. Ended up working c30 hours a week - after school every day, late on Thursday and all day Saturday. Back then they closed on a Sunday.

buried · 08-06-2017 09:06PM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Music - mostly vinyl and some CDs.

That was my sole reason for taking on part-time supermarket work after the Inter Cert in 1987. Ended up working c30 hours a week - after school every day, late on Thursday and all day Saturday. Back then they closed on a Sunday.

You still got some of that golden stash?

Deub · 08-06-2017 09:16PM

Apple shares. Now if you don't mind, i have to go to the jacuzzi to relax after a long day of golfing.

s3rtvdbwfj81ch · 08-06-2017 09:22PM

Beano and gobstoppers

Later it would be tapes then CDs

jeanjolie · 08-06-2017 10:04PM

Yehuda Warm Mars wrote: »

I don't know if being seen working in Tesco will help your striving for social status.

I never had pocket money. Anything I earned until I was 18, which was very little, was handed up to my mother.

Should you not be studying for tomorrow's exams?

Ah sure, it'll be grand lads. It's only Geography and Maths Paper 1.

myshirt · 08-06-2017 10:06PM

snowflaker wrote: »

Pocket money???

Exactly!!

08-06-2017 10:07PM

buried wrote: »

You still got some of that golden stash?

All of it - still buying music every couple of days - probably 80% CD, 19% vinyl 1% downloads.

jeanjolie · 08-06-2017 10:09PM

Anyone have a DEEP regret that their parents didn't open a bank account for them when they were 15 to allow them to save pocket money instead of wasting it on sweets? Even I would have preferred being buying drink.

tbh I don't think any of us in Ireland barring the rare Michael Noonan, have good financial skills.

buried · 08-06-2017 10:10PM

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

All of it - still buying music every couple of days - probably 80% CD, 19% vinyl 1% downloads.

Rock the f**k on!!!! \0/

freshpopcorn · 08-06-2017 10:15PM

jeanjolie wrote: »

Anyone have a DEEP regret that their parents didn't open a bank account for them when they were 15 to allow them to save pocket money instead of wasting it on sweets? Even I would have preferred being buying drink.

tbh I don't think any of us in Ireland barring the rare Michael Noonan, have good financial skills.

You really do have a negative outlook on Ireland!

r93kaey5p2izun · 08-06-2017 10:18PM

I worked from 15 and gave half to my mother. I saved most of the remainder to pay for college and spent the rest on clothes and concert tickets. I earned £5.50 an hour then, which was a great rate at the time, and worked 20 hours a week during school term and 40 during holidays.

Burial. · 08-06-2017 10:42PM

Worked with a landscaper in the summers who handed me 500 in fifties every Friday evening. Fine income for a 14 year old. Bought a field car for about 300, an old Golf that was better than many road cars. Saved the rest and ended up paying for college fees a few years later with it.