First Euro Purchase

mikedragon32 · 01-02-2012 01:24PM #1

I got a €2 coin in my change this morning which commemorates 10 years of the Euro being in use.

Image here: http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/new-e2-coin-commemorates-10-years-of-the-euro-318702-Jan2012/

It got me thinking about what was the first thing I bought with Euro.

My first euro purchase was a coffee and a glass of wine in Walter's of Dun Laoghaire. Not very exciting, I know...

Can anyone else remember what they bought?

Defiler Of The Coffin · 01-02-2012 01:27PM

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.

chin_grin · 01-02-2012 01:30PM

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

<rocks back and forth>

:P

Seachmall · 01-02-2012 01:30PM

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

jester77 · 01-02-2012 01:30PM

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!

Sky King · 01-02-2012 01:32PM

There should be a commemorative Anglo Irish coin.

biko · 01-02-2012 01:32PM

Pretty sure it was coffee.

Bad Panda · 01-02-2012 01:33PM

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

The King of Moo · 01-02-2012 01:33PM

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.

01-02-2012 01:34PM

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.

pencilsharp · 01-02-2012 01:35PM

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!

Seachmall · 01-02-2012 01:37PM

pencilsharp wrote: »

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.

token101 · 01-02-2012 01:38PM

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!!

Temptamperu · 01-02-2012 01:39PM

I think it was Esctasy for my 21st birthday.

dulpit · 01-02-2012 01:41PM

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...

Plazaman · 01-02-2012 01:43PM

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.

Saint_Mel · 01-02-2012 01:49PM

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

44leto · 01-02-2012 01:51PM

Knightsbridge nightclub and it was booze.

gbee · 01-02-2012 01:52PM

But me in the Bus Ticket purchase.

Seachmall · 01-02-2012 01:54PM

Temptamperu wrote: »

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.

44leto · 01-02-2012 02:25PM

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.

foxyboxer · 01-02-2012 02:25PM

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!

Ghandee · 01-02-2012 02:25PM

I think it was a handjob beer in Magaluf.

Nothingbetter2d · 01-02-2012 02:39PM

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

link_2007 · 01-02-2012 02:58PM

Pint bottle of Bulmers

KungPao · 01-02-2012 03:01PM

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

dibkins · 01-02-2012 03:03PM

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:)

no1beemerfan · 01-02-2012 03:09PM

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!

RachaelVO · 01-02-2012 03:17PM

20 B&H and a can of diet coke!

chocksaway · 01-02-2012 03:21PM

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

Lawrence1895 · 01-02-2012 03:22PM

A bottle of Brandy in Aldi

First Euro Purchase

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