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What was your last major purchase in punts?

  • 15-09-2020 10:41pm
    #1
    magick
    Registered Users Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭


    Mine was an ATI Radeon 9800pro. It was a great graphics card.


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  • #2
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Euros.


  • #3
    FanadMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    I left £25 or so behind the bar in my local and kept drinking till it was gone.....and then switched to Euros.


  • #4
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,190 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    My first car


  • #5
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,441 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    A house (not the band).


  • #6
    D3V!L
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    I didn't have "major purchases" in Punts. Back then I was broke. Thankfully not so much now.


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  • #7
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    100 penney sweets.

    Back then I only ever saw one Punt


  • #8
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,065 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    A return flight to Atlanta.


  • #9
    JasonStatham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    I think i bought some PC games.....


  • #10
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭touts


    A lot of Euro notes.


  • #11
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    The year the punt went out I turned 21 got a rake of punts as gifts and blew them all on drink... fun but blurry times.


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  • #12
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    i remember the pool table in my local used to still take the old 50 pence piece for years after the change over...


  • #13
    Orange Tiny Terror
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭Orange Tiny Terror


    Packet of monster munch and a chomp, probably


  • #14
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    magick wrote: »
    Mine was an ATI Radeon 9800pro. It was a great graphics card.

    Who was still taking punts in late 2003? The entire 9000 range post-dates the Punt.

    I bought some RAM the week before Christmas 2001 that cost about £90, I could probably still find the receipt somewhere because I'm extremely bad at throwing those out when warranties have expired / stuff has physically been binned.

    The most expensive thing I bought with my own money pre-euro would have been the motherboard, CPU and base RAM for that PC as a bundle a few months earlier. Too young to have bought much else dearer and my dearest posession at the time - record decks - were a gift.


  • #15
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Plane ticket for about £650 as a travel agent along with Aer Lingus and Air France together decided to rip me off. I was home on holidays and needed to get back to work as a colleague was ill, so forked out £650 on a ticket that usually cost £250. Purchased on the morning of the 31st, flew out on Jan 2nd.

    No proper internet back then so couldn't check around to get a better deal.


  • #16
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Your Face wrote: »
    Euros.



    Euro not Euros.


  • #17
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Championship Manager 01/02. Probably the last game I ever bought. 19 years on, I still play it occasionally, complete with modern-day updates.


  • #18
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Went to the shop hungover on new years day. I think I bought a lucozade and got the change back in euros


  • #19
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Went to the shop hungover on new years day. I think I bought a lucozade and got the change back in euros



    Euro.


  • #20
    Cherry Blossom
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cherry Blossom


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    My first car

    Same.


  • #21
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    Euro.

    Daddy, what's a Euro?


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  • #22
    bobbyy gee
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭bobbyy gee


    magick wrote: »
    Mine was an ATI Radeon 9800pro. It was a great graphics card.
    ATI Radeon 9800pro
    Came out 2003


  • #23
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    Euro not Euros.


    Euro clown.


  • #24
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Your Face wrote: »
    Euro clown.




    Where were you? in Tescos?


  • #25
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    I arrived in Ireland at the same time as euros did so it was rather a confused issue, I know I changed sterling at the airport coming in..


  • #26
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    I can't remember.

    Like most normal people, I'd wager.


  • #27
    JasonStatham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    Anyone on here still got a few punt notes? To be honest, I liked the look of 'em better than the euros. Was it Daniel O Connell on the 20 and some nun on the fiver?


  • #28
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,002 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    I had a lot of punt angst back then. ;)

    Not your ornery onager



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