How much did you get for your commumion?

01-10-2012 06:53PM

About £100 I think. Can't really remember. Can't remember what I bought or anything like that. Sure I was only 7. My mam probably stole half of it.

JamieKCCO · 01-10-2012 06:54PM

I got around £600 in 1996...I wonder where it all went?

LoonyLovegood · 01-10-2012 06:54PM

I got...€550? Jesus, it was a lot of money. Bought a GBA, Harry Potter, a pressie for my brother and sister and the rest (around €200 ish?) went into the bank.

juan.kerr · 01-10-2012 06:55PM

JamieKCCO wrote: »

I got around £600 in 1996...I wonder where it all went?

Well if you're from Cavan it's probably exactly where you left it 16 years ago.

JamieKCCO · 01-10-2012 06:57PM

juan.kerr wrote: »

Well if you're from Cavan it's probably exactly where you left it 16 years ago.

No I'm not from Cavan but I'll check there, thanks

Rayne Wooney · 01-10-2012 06:57PM

I got €500 for my communion.

Would have got €250 more if my family members hadn't thought it a good idea to adopt a dolphin for me.
I hated that dolphin. "little fucklipper" is what I called him, I'd be sitting eating breakfast in the morning and my mother would come in with the post, a letter addressed to me from little flipper.

He'd send me pictures of himself lapping up my €250, living the fine life in the sun, the little bollocks.

Tope · 01-10-2012 07:04PM

Got a tenner altogether: £5 from my godfather and £5 from my auntie, and that was it money wise. Was given rosary beads and a little statue of Mary too, just what every 7 year old wants!
This was in 1983, but still I think I got the least of anyone I knew - most of my friends got around £50 and upwards.
Biggest amount in my class was £100 - we thought that kid was spoilt rotten back then! Nothing compared to what they get now, I find the whole thing bizarre these days.

01-10-2012 07:09PM

I was only 5 so I haven't a clue if/what I got
I'm sure any money went into the post office
I do remember getting a couple of kids' bibles
I'm sure those would go down well these days as gifts

suicide_circus · 01-10-2012 07:14PM

I got an eternity of salvation.
Some tacky cünts cap in hand collecting cash for a religious ritual, stinks of poverty in here.

Sir Pompous Righteousness · 01-10-2012 07:19PM

I am Commumion, with the power to commum you!

4zn76tysfajdxp · 01-10-2012 07:24PM

45 pounds. My brother got over one hundred pounds, two years later. Inflation, apparently. :rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight · 01-10-2012 08:04PM

thruppence ha'penny

Dead Man Walking · 01-10-2012 08:14PM

50 punt in about 81. bought a 4 man tent, old heavy triangle style, family got about 4 years of summer holidays in wexford out of it.

Ruski · 01-10-2012 08:17PM

How old are kids when they do their communion? Eight? Nine? And they get hundreds just like that?

dafuq do they do with that much money?

efb · 01-10-2012 08:20PM

£103 in 1986

01-10-2012 08:21PM

£0 for my communion. I got £50 for my confirmation though and put it towards my first very own bike though.

efb · 01-10-2012 08:23PM

It went into the post office- never saw it after that!

cloud493 · 01-10-2012 08:25PM

I'm english, so we didn't get communion money

think I got a WHsmith's voucher.

BillyMitchel · 01-10-2012 08:41PM

A few quid away for the price of a commador 64.. All the rage back then.

LordSutch · 01-10-2012 08:57PM

We don't do 1st Communion in the C of I thank God.

SpannerMonkey · 01-10-2012 09:46PM

back in 1992 i got £230 was freaking loaded:D

Dravokivich · 01-10-2012 10:19PM

not enough to bother counting, got a few pound coins here and there. Seemed to be a big deal at the time as it was still around the time the notes got taken out of circulation.

No more then 50 anyhow.

Ruski wrote: »

How old are kids when they do their communion? Eight? Nine? And they get hundreds just like that?

dafuq do they do with that much money?

I would of been 6 when I did it in '91, but a year later they put up the ages for it. Not too sure why.

brummytom · 01-10-2012 10:21PM

A missal and a crucifix, I think. Wish we got ridiculous Irish-level presents.

alphabeat · 04-10-2012 01:37PM

I actually got a slap in the chops for trying to pick the host off the roof of my mouth.

Wolfruin · 05-10-2012 11:27PM

i got about 150 in all having a big family helped took my parents for a meal and then got my self some werebears
im a full grown adult but i miss growler

tan11ie · 06-10-2012 12:15AM

As far as I remember I made £350 but I didn't see much if any of it, back in the 80's Mam & Dad didn't have much so I guess they used it for essentials

phasers · 06-10-2012 12:20AM

dunno, under 50 pounds anyway. I reckon my Dad was skimming.

A neighbour of my Great Auntie who was a total stranger saw me in my dress, came out and gave me a pound coin and a bar of turkish delight. the bar was fookin rank but it was still really nice of her. Its my only real memory of the day

How much did you get for your commumion?

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