How much did you get for your commumion?

Mr. Manager · 01-10-2012 06:27PM #1

Thinking back to mine, I got £11. Was totally over the moon and bought myself some sticky dart guns from my local Toymaster.

Now people are getting and giving insane amounts. I don't understand the point of even giving money for these events? What's the purpose behind it?

smash · 01-10-2012 06:30PM

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

I don't understand the point of even giving money for these events? What's the purpose behind it?

Sorscha needs to learn respect for things, so her communion money will go towards feeding her 25k pony for the next month!

01-10-2012 06:30PM

Enough to buy a sega megadrive in 1996

aaronjumper · 01-10-2012 06:30PM

Got nearly two hundred. Bought some toys, hoarded the rest.
I used to be quite good at saving

Angron · 01-10-2012 06:31PM

Not enough.

:pac:

Mr. Rager · 01-10-2012 06:31PM

I got give or take €300, a few others in my class hit the €1000 mark...pricks

meoklmrk91 · 01-10-2012 06:32PM

Got mario 64 and a Nintendo 64 plus a load of small bits and pieces like a blow up couch which were all the rage back then.

kwestfan08 · 01-10-2012 06:32PM

Bout three fiddy

Mr. Manager · 01-10-2012 06:33PM

Jaysus, I'm not even that old so I guess my parents/relations are just tight arses!!

Madam_X · 01-10-2012 06:33PM

£80-something in 1986. It was the day before my birthday though so that bumped it up a fair bit.

Bought toys with some of it, put the rest in the post office.

humbert · 01-10-2012 06:35PM

Between 20 and 50, it would have been around 1990. My mother would tell relations to have some sense if they tried to throw money at any of us and all credit to her.

Ronin247 · 01-10-2012 06:36PM

2 shillings and sixpence........and the priest rubbed my balls for luck:eek:

Miss Lockhart · 01-10-2012 06:36PM

Around £120 in 1990. My cousins were all in their 20s/30s by then though so I was spoiled by them as well as by aunts/uncles/grandparents.

kneemos · 01-10-2012 06:36PM

I'll just go and count it.

Mena · 01-10-2012 06:37PM

Didn't partake in these particular festivities so that'd be a flat zero.

Sunnyisland · 01-10-2012 06:37PM

0.56 old money :-)

dark crystal · 01-10-2012 06:38PM

Nothing - I made my communion in the UK in 1982. The whole money thing wasn't done back then. Actually, I'm not sure kids making their communion in the UK do the whole money thing even now.

purplegeko · 01-10-2012 06:41PM

I got £80 in old money and thought i was loaded - i bought a Nintendo game and my mam made me put the rest in the Post Office

1ZRed · 01-10-2012 06:41PM

I think I got €250? This was back in 2002.

My spoilt cousin got nearly a grand in total! :eek:

KERSPLAT! · 01-10-2012 06:42PM

£132, that was about '94 I think, not too shabby

Onesimus · 01-10-2012 06:43PM

I got well over 100 euro. Brother took me to by a budgie and cage. Most expensive budgie and cage I ever bought because I never saw that money again.

NegativeCreep · 01-10-2012 06:44PM

600 euro for communion and 800 for confirmation. Wish I kept it for when I actually needed it.

enviro · 01-10-2012 06:44PM

I can't remember

Jimoslimos · 01-10-2012 06:44PM

About IR£30-40 I think. Everyone else in my class seemed to get way more, most claimed to get a couple of hundred at least. Looking back now I think,

1) 95% were spoofing
2) Numeracy skills were lacking (due to spending all our class time preparing for communion)

DylanII · 01-10-2012 06:45PM

1100 - not sure if pounds or euro . . .

RayM · 01-10-2012 06:48PM

Around £60 in 1989. I remember feeling very pleased with myself, buying my mum a Choc Ice on the way home from mass the next morning. This was before Magnums, when the humble Choc Ice was considered second only to Cornetto in terms of ice cream extravagance.