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How much communion money did you get?

  • 02-12-2009 01:06AM
    #1
    thatsa spicy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭


    I got £120 in 1997.

    A biggish amount at the time but not enormous!

    So, how much did ye get?


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  • #2
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I'm Jewish.


  • #3
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Please nobody say three-fifty or three-fiddy, for the love of Jaysus.


  • #4
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,510 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    £50 in eh, what age do you make your communion? Early nineties.

    Invested into an EBS account where "magic murty made my money multiply".


  • #5
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    £135.

    I think it was back in 1996.








    I really shouldn't have forgotten that already.


  • #6
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Think I made 400 pound back in 96' was great!


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  • #7
    K-Ren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭K-Ren


    stovelid wrote: »
    Please nobody say three-fifty or three-fiddy, for the love of Jaysus.

    Yeah, all those replies go here :

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055752799

    I think I must have got around £100 pounds. Blew it all on tapes, those were the days.


  • #8
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    stovelid wrote: »
    Please nobody say three-fifty or three-fiddy, for the love of Jaysus.

    Can someone please explain this three fiddy thing to me :o


  • #9
    DaveSlats
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭DaveSlats


    €200,000 in 2005.

    Well, it was the Celtic Tiger.


  • #10
    vigos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭vigos


    Arya Famous Bullfrog wrote: »
    I'm Jewish.

    so you still have it saved right?:P


  • #11
    The Big Red Button
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    I dunno. My parents took it off me to "mind" it. Never saw it again. :mad:

    However my best friend got £150, and I swear to god, no exaggeration, we spent every last penny of it on Lucky Bags. 50p a go, we went to the shop ever single day for the following 150 days and bought ourselves a Lucky Bag each. And we both still agree, it was the best money we (she!) ever spent!!! :D


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  • #12
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,677 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    I work in Centra.


  • #13
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    4 shilling and tuppence. With it, I bought some broth & stale bread and ate them by candlelight.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't know. I remember the exact date (17th May 1997) but no idea how much I made. Probably not as much as my classmates as my family are nearly all atheist.


  • #15
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Arya Famous Bullfrog wrote: »
    I'm Jewish.

    So you still have it and loan it out at outrageous interest rates? :p

    Got about IR80 in 1988 , twas a fortune to me at the time


  • #16
    jenzz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 986 ✭✭✭jenzz


    Christ I feel old - a long long time ago before the 1990s we dealt in pounds & old pence ..... I think it was about 30 pounds...... & it was still in the beehive account by the time I was putting the confirmation money in....

    I have a little angel making his in May - no doubt there will be more zeros on the end of his than my communion & confo money combined ....


  • #17
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    jenzz wrote: »
    Christ I feel old - a long long time ago before the 1990s we dealt in pounds & old pence ..... I think it was about 30 pounds...... & it was still in the beehive account by the time I was putting the confirmation money in....

    I don't remember a beehive account, was that Irish Permanent?

    Did you have a Henry Hippo Ulster Bank a/c? :)
    With your free Henry Hippo savings box, all the cool kids had this :cool:


  • #18
    ball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 479 ✭✭ball


    Enough to buy roller-blades and no more


    Bauer FX-1.

    Lethal times


  • #19
    jenzz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 986 ✭✭✭jenzz


    The Beehive was in the one before it was First Active - Could have been Irish permemant actually but so long ago I can remember - You were cooler than the henry hippo peops cos you got a beehive school bag..

    Long long ago it was so cool to be in a bank with a real bank account ... so cool you even advertised the fact on your back evey day... hmmm how the times have changed... Now the kids dont even get a bloody bank book to record their money in - 6 years of age & her account is " online" lol


  • #20
    FlawedGenius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭FlawedGenius


    £140 pound 1997:rolleyes:


  • #21
    clikityclak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭clikityclak


    I got about £120 in 1997 it went straight into the post office account but it eventually got spent on the likes of anything glittery or a bit of wally's world

    good times


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  • #22
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    £100 punts, back in the 90's. Can quite remember when though...can't remember what i spent it on. I think i "saved" it or something dumb like that, well it was more like my parents "saved" it!


  • #23
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    jenzz wrote: »
    The Beehive was in the one before it was First Active - Could have been Irish permemant actually but so long ago I can remember -

    Now that I think of it, you're correct. First Active was the Beehive offer
    jenzz wrote: »
    You were cooler than the henry hippo peops cos you got a beehive school bag..

    Blasphemy!
    Nobody was cooler then Henry Hippo :cool:
    jenzz wrote: »
    Now the kids dont even get a bloody bank book to record their money in - 6 years of age & her account is " online" lol

    Ah the old bank books. They are still around, it's mainly elderly people using them. But anyone can use them, it's no issue for the bank staff


  • #24
    cloneslad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭cloneslad


    I got about £300 back in 1991.

    I spent some of my money in one of those shops in my town that sells everything. Bought some model airplanes to build myself, a football on an elasticated string that was attached to a belt you wore, a few dandy comics, and some merlin football stickers to put in an album.

    With some of the other money I bought 2 houses and 10 acres of land and then I spent the rest of it bribing my local TD to get the land rezoned.

    Money sure did go further back then :cool:


  • #25
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    I feel hard done by, when I was growing up I wasnt allowed celebrate anythin.

    No communion.
    No christmas.
    No birthdays.
    No easter.
    No St. Whoever's day.

    Im owed a lot of money.


  • #26
    rohatch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭rohatch


    29 pound in 77 or 78


  • #27
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    jenzz wrote: »
    Christ I feel old -.

    Same here :)

    1987 it was and I thought I was Don Johnson. Every guy had a jacket with the sleeves rolled up, skinny tie, slip-ons and white socks. We looked like a cross between Miami Vice and a Madness Gig.

    No idea how much I got. Enough to buy Billy Idol's Rebel Yell I think.


  • #28
    jenzz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 986 ✭✭✭jenzz


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Same here :)

    1987 it was and I thought I was Don Johnson. Every guy had a jacket with the sleeves rolled up, skinny tie, slip-ons and white socks. We looked like a cross between Miami Vice and a Madness Gig.

    No idea how much I got. Enough to buy Billy Idol's Rebel Yell I think.

    Feeling even older now - I was a pre 85 & my sister wore a dickie bow to my communion - white shoes werent even around back then - black patent were the novelty. & a pound note in the bag was a massive heist from anyone


  • #29
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    jenzz wrote: »
    Feeling even older now - I was a pre 85 & my sister wore a dickie bow to my communion - white shoes werent even around back then - black patent were the novelty. & a pound note in the bag was a massive heist from anyone

    Yeah, remember my brother's patent.

    I did get big into Suede a few years later - thought I was Jon Bon Jovi with me brown suede chelsea boots :)


  • #30
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    48 punts in 1995, the lowest in my class. Stingy relatives.


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  • #31
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    £565 in 1997, great going.

    Spent every penny of it on Star Wars Micro-Machines, the bases for them and all the gear. Still have them all in the house somewhere. The amount of fun I had with them, fighting ''wars'' all over the place means it was well spent!:D

    Oh, and I always let The Empire win! Evil little shíte that I was back then!:D


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