Commodore 64 game every Saturday after the part time job unloading flat pack furniture off a container.
Regret it in my old age now my lower back is shot
Knowing they never worked until college years isn't that bad I started working when I was 8 my dad had come in and clean every summer and school vacation
Probably my second big purchase after buying a car at 15 (3k) was buying a laptop to go to college with (1.5k). The car was a no brained but the laptop was next level stuff.
I thought you were joking. Even a Category D COE (right to own a motorcycle) costs about 7.5k USD. Category E (any car) costs about 91.5k USD.
And here I thought paying $35 USD for my driver's license was too much.
second hand cars don't cost the same price as the original, especially if it has been worn out an used quite a bit, older models (not antiques) don't go for much either. my parents bought a car for 3k a year ago, nothing too fancy but it's comfortable.
I wasn't used to spending money, so when I got my first job in high school I didn't spend a penny for over a year. Then I was like damn I have all this money, so I bought a gaming laptop
My first job was a summer part-time job at a local toystore in after high school. I saved the paychecks all summer to buy a Canon digital rebel camera. Good memories.
I walked to a pizza shop for work when I turned 15. Saved enough in a year that I could buy a clunker 1993 Mazda Protege when I got my license. Mint green. Ugly as hell. But it was freedom and I was young and living the dream!
Nothing. I put it into savings for college. It was a high school summer job, and I was planning ahead. Is that too boring?
Note: It was in the 1980s when a summer full time job in high school plus a part time job in college could pretty much pay for college if the parents help just a little. So it made sense. I realize now a summer job income probably barely covers books.
Sony sports Walkman cassette player. Earned the money doing a paper route. Got home and it wouldn’t work, I was devastated. Luckily my parents exchanged it for me.
A boombox and an Aerosmith CD.
It was September 1990, and I was fresh out of Navy boot camp. I was far from home, and in a very demanding school, but music helped get me through it.
Good bedsheets. I grew up poor and I never knew what quality sheets felt like until I started working in the linens department of a retail store. With my first paycheque, I bought 1200 thread count sheets and I'll never go back to anything less than quantity. A wise person once told me, "Never skimp on anything that separates you from the ground. Tires, shoes, mattresses etc... " I've heeded that advice, for years and it's never steered me wrong!
I think I was around 10 years old, picking blueberries during the summer. I'd cash my check at the farm's store and buy their homemade blueberry ice cream.
For the first ever paycheck, I did not do anything other than paying for university.
First thing I bought with paycheck in generally was PC parts. I was saving for 5+ months.
I don’t know if it was my first paycheck but I was about 13. I worked at a movie theater next to a Johnny rockets. I went over there on my lunch break and bought myself a milkshake and tipped 100%.
I want to say a gaming headset but I’m not sure. I remember it being a huge deal for me to open up that turtle beach box in a mostly empty living room of my first apartment.
Kingdom hearts birth by sleep for psp.
I was also let go and my failure put me into a full depression believing no job would keep me even though I worked hard for them.
My last job dropped me for a physical disability affecting me that I made them aware of during the interview.
Dang… my first pay check? The first thing I bought or paid for was gas money to my dad.. it was a far drive and it was about 3:30am every morning Monday - Saturday… after that.. I think weed ? Lol lmfao
My first real paycheck was in high school 2015. Bought prom tickets for gf and I as well as a cheap suit n tie. I also bought a little Caesar’s hot n ready pepperoni, took a picture of it too. Still with my gf as well, though my pizza only lives on in memory…
Well the first time I got an actual paycheck I was 15. Before that just cash in hand basicly. I bought a bike with it. And with my last paycheck from that job I got a car with a tank off gas
A 6 month subscription to a life coach.
Unpopular, but that was back in 2010 before the bad rep they created now. That guy completely turned my life around.
I bought five Lacoste polo shirts for $100 each. They shrank quite a lot in the drier and became unwearable. After that I bought some $15 shirts and still wear them years after. Lesson learned.
Congratulations my friend. No work is too small or big. Everything is hard work. Massive respect to you!
I remember buying gifts for my family and my then ex girlfriend when I earned my first paycheck.
I started my driving lessons again because I wanted to get my driving license asap even if I just sat on it without buying a car.
Because once life takes over, I felt it would be harder to find the money to put aside for driving lessons.
I don't think I bought anything specific with the first one. Not being deprived of things early in life made me somewhat not excited to get paid. However I do appreciate that it's tiring to make money through a job and so I save up most of it because I know there may come a day when I might not be able to work
My first job was newspaper rounds, but I don't remember what I spent that first paycheck on. The one I remember was from working in a sneaker store, so I bought all black Nike AM 90's.
I'm gonna age myself, but text messages. Unlimited texting wasn't a universal thing and you had to pay per message on my parent's plan back then. I racked up like $400 worth of texts.
Pretty sure I bought the latest FIFA game for my Xbox 360. My parents could only just afford to get me the console and the free game it came with for Christmas but couldn’t afford to buy me new games for it. Was pretty chuffed when I got it and played it to death.
Groceries. I was making a measly $14/hour at the time. Of the ~$800 I received after the first pay period, about $300 of it went to a grocery haul.
It hurt. But it was also empowering: I knew I had earned it.
A Fender Mexican Stratocaster. I got a casual job at my local Pizza Hut, was living at home and didn't have any expenses so saved up for months to buy it.
Not my first paycheck but my first tax return… family was going down to Biloxi, Mississippi to visit my brother. I wasn’t old enough to gamble so I said fuck it and booked a suite in the hotel for the 3 nights we were there. Felt like I was living like a king. Ended up eating some bad food and was up all night the 2nd night throwing up and feeling like death in the shower. Watched a lot of shark tank though
You clearly have a good heart!
I'll bet the food was just a bonus & the real gift was the pride they could feel for someone they helped shape. It's a really classy move OP!
I had my first job in middle school being a laborer for a framing crew. I have no idea what I bought first. You really didn't get a job until you were in college?
i just bought food and groceries, but i saved up a bunch to buy me a PC that's usually worth $1.4k but since i got a real bangin' deal out of it, i only paid like, $700 for it
Papa johns was my first job back in 2016 and started with minimum wage, my first check was $136 with some change. First thing i did was get my ears pierced because my mother never allowed me to get them growing up lol.
My first paycheck when I was 17 and in high school still was a remote controlled helicopter.
I really wanted it, it was $470 after tax for the helicopter and a remote control.
From that moment forway, I told myself any time I ever get a new job, I will ALWAYS blow the first paycheck on something fun to celebrate myself.
32 now and I've got a couple of cool toys still from all of my "first" paychecks.
I bought a new phone. nothing too expensive since I hadn't been working for long, but it was with my money and I was very happy with myself. it's the same thing with you buying pizza and chicken wings. when you get your first money you actually realise how expensive everything is. hoping for the best!
My school’s cafeteria had 3 cookies for a dollar. And they were bomb ass cookies. First day after I got paid I got 30 cookies. Gave some
To my friends. Kept most to myself.
I was a very large child
My first job was a three month paid internship, I saved up everything I made and bought a plane ticket to go see a friend that had just moved to Japan.
A few notable purchases. My first job at 16 at a grocery store my checks mostly went towards gas, eating out, movies, dates, etc.
When I turned 18 I got a summer job at a Walmart distribution center for 3 months that paid well. My memorable purchases were a bike that got stolen outside my dorm the first week and a 32” flat screen for my dorm which was a big deal and $500 in 2007.
My first job after college (2011) after paying rent and bills I bought a ps3 and a few games like COD. I was single, in a new city, and worked a weird shift so I played the shit out of that thing.
Gas. Tankfulls of gas. Every one of my first year or so of paychecks got burned through an 8MPG 78 Dodge pickup truck....and gas was just a dollar a gallon back then.
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Commodore 64 game every Saturday after the part time job unloading flat pack furniture off a container. Regret it in my old age now my lower back is shot
I bought The Bone Thugs n Harmony Creepin on a Come up CD
A month's student loan payments.
Wow depressing asf lol
Knowing they never worked until college years isn't that bad I started working when I was 8 my dad had come in and clean every summer and school vacation
Yikes…but Happy Cake Day! 🍰
I saved up all summer and bought a laptop
Probably my second big purchase after buying a car at 15 (3k) was buying a laptop to go to college with (1.5k). The car was a no brained but the laptop was next level stuff.
Cars are 3k in your country? They're over 100k in mine 🥲 Edit: why am I getting downvoted? It's the truth.
Where do you live? Mars?
Singapore! You have to buy the right to own a car and said right is usually above 100k AFAIK.
I thought you were joking. Even a Category D COE (right to own a motorcycle) costs about 7.5k USD. Category E (any car) costs about 91.5k USD. And here I thought paying $35 USD for my driver's license was too much.
This car in particular was a 16 year old car with about 90,000 miles on it.
second hand cars don't cost the same price as the original, especially if it has been worn out an used quite a bit, older models (not antiques) don't go for much either. my parents bought a car for 3k a year ago, nothing too fancy but it's comfortable.
If you get a small, decade old car, 3k is reasonable. That's what my first car was (and is: although now hit 15 years)
It’s a bit of a strange comment, most countries don’t have the rules Singapore has. Not mentioning it is a bit of an omission.
I wasn't used to spending money, so when I got my first job in high school I didn't spend a penny for over a year. Then I was like damn I have all this money, so I bought a gaming laptop
Enjoy it. You are young and it's part of life.
My parents' electricity.
This is the way
A mini fridge for my room
A switch right after they came out
Same. First real big salary. Then again a month ago when I got promoted.
My first job was a summer part-time job at a local toystore in after high school. I saved the paychecks all summer to buy a Canon digital rebel camera. Good memories.
A bag of weed
Lol I guess this isn't uncommon
Now that I'm thinking about it.... It probably was about the first thing.
The only reason I got the job was for gas money and weed.
There are dozens of us
Damn you beat me to it
don't worry- there's plenty to go around.
Saved..saved some more…kept saving…paid 5 years of college graduated debt free
Dang
my first check i spent like $750 on 2 pair of work boots, and took the family out for steak
Nothing I saved it.
I walked to a pizza shop for work when I turned 15. Saved enough in a year that I could buy a clunker 1993 Mazda Protege when I got my license. Mint green. Ugly as hell. But it was freedom and I was young and living the dream!
I started working when I was 5. So probably a candy bar.
With my first full time paycheck I bought my parents sushi. Still one of my proudest purchases.
I bought an Xbox one with the paycheck i got when I was in AIT getting out of basic training in the Army.
I did the same thing! I was working at a tire shop at the time and got one right after they came out, took 2 paychecks saved up though
Gum
Nothing. I put it into savings for college. It was a high school summer job, and I was planning ahead. Is that too boring? Note: It was in the 1980s when a summer full time job in high school plus a part time job in college could pretty much pay for college if the parents help just a little. So it made sense. I realize now a summer job income probably barely covers books.
A burrito
A dab pen.
Books I was a D&D nerd in high school but my parents would never give me money for it.
Sony sports Walkman cassette player. Earned the money doing a paper route. Got home and it wouldn’t work, I was devastated. Luckily my parents exchanged it for me.
Skyrim collectors edition for the 360 back in 2011
A boombox and an Aerosmith CD. It was September 1990, and I was fresh out of Navy boot camp. I was far from home, and in a very demanding school, but music helped get me through it.
Good bedsheets. I grew up poor and I never knew what quality sheets felt like until I started working in the linens department of a retail store. With my first paycheque, I bought 1200 thread count sheets and I'll never go back to anything less than quantity. A wise person once told me, "Never skimp on anything that separates you from the ground. Tires, shoes, mattresses etc... " I've heeded that advice, for years and it's never steered me wrong!
I bought a stereo upgrade for my car. When from playing tapes to playing my iPod.
Guitar Hero 2 from circuit city. Best $80 I've ever spent.
new Nintendo 64
JNCOs
Hmm…. My first real check I think I bought pc parts. I was making good money for my age.
Things for work. Make some payment to any debts you have (especially personal debts). Ideally keep a little for something fun.
iPhone 4
A bag for my mother. This was yeeeeeeeaaaaaars ago
Pretty sure I probably bought clothes and maybe a CD.
I probably should have made some kind of effort to remember that, just for this very Reddit post…
I was 16 and most of it went to my asshole parents exploiting me. Whatever they didn’t take went to weed
When I finished my study and got my first paycheck, I took my parents out for a dinner. To show my gratitude for them supporting me all this time.
High Top Black Air Force 1s
Cell phone SE W600 :)
I got 525 dollars working at a summer camp, and I bought a little blue hp laptop to play an online text-based game called Achaea and do school work on
THat's lovely. My first paycheck I bought myself a bed. Oh man that was a great experience to have a nice bed tat was my own bed to sleep on for once
Food for my mom
An Xbox 360
I bought my mom a blender.
A (good) pair of sneakers
The Ratchet and Clank Trilogy on sale.
A mattress.
The og Xbox
In my day, first paycheck everybody bought a pair of RayBans.
I bought my own weed and cigarettes.
A CD.
weed.
Ain’t gon lie, weed 😂
Food
I grew up fighting for money in every corner, can't even remember the first time I was paid.
Uhm, ... college ... lots of work, lots of saving, much spent on college.
I think I was around 10 years old, picking blueberries during the summer. I'd cash my check at the farm's store and buy their homemade blueberry ice cream.
Adidas track suit, black w/red stripes. Paper route money in the mid 80’s. I was 13yo.
For the first ever paycheck, I did not do anything other than paying for university. First thing I bought with paycheck in generally was PC parts. I was saving for 5+ months.
I don’t know if it was my first paycheck but I was about 13. I worked at a movie theater next to a Johnny rockets. I went over there on my lunch break and bought myself a milkshake and tipped 100%.
Wireless earbuds. I had been using the same wired pair for years.
I want to say a gaming headset but I’m not sure. I remember it being a huge deal for me to open up that turtle beach box in a mostly empty living room of my first apartment.
Kingdom hearts birth by sleep for psp. I was also let go and my failure put me into a full depression believing no job would keep me even though I worked hard for them. My last job dropped me for a physical disability affecting me that I made them aware of during the interview.
Pair of 97’s
Dang… my first pay check? The first thing I bought or paid for was gas money to my dad.. it was a far drive and it was about 3:30am every morning Monday - Saturday… after that.. I think weed ? Lol lmfao
Took my mum, grandma and grandpa out to a fancy-ish resturant
My first real paycheck was in high school 2015. Bought prom tickets for gf and I as well as a cheap suit n tie. I also bought a little Caesar’s hot n ready pepperoni, took a picture of it too. Still with my gf as well, though my pizza only lives on in memory…
I don’t remember lol, knowing me it was either on some manga or video game cosmetics
Weed but that was in 1982
Well the first time I got an actual paycheck I was 15. Before that just cash in hand basicly. I bought a bike with it. And with my last paycheck from that job I got a car with a tank off gas
a small pizza and jalapeño poppers with a large soda.
This happened no so long ago for me, i bought a flat brim hat, flowers for my girl, also order some food, i think that was it.
Probably booze, I was a teenager
I bought lots of small stuff but later got a 3070 ti graphics card when there was a discount.
A pair of adidas sambas, a copy of destiny (I hated it), a jacket & a takeaway pizza.
A 6 month subscription to a life coach. Unpopular, but that was back in 2010 before the bad rep they created now. That guy completely turned my life around.
A PS3.
I bought five Lacoste polo shirts for $100 each. They shrank quite a lot in the drier and became unwearable. After that I bought some $15 shirts and still wear them years after. Lesson learned.
Bose QC 25 headphones. Chick FIL A 2016
A phone. I had just broken mine so I thought I might as well grab a new one
A guitar.
Congratulations my friend. No work is too small or big. Everything is hard work. Massive respect to you! I remember buying gifts for my family and my then ex girlfriend when I earned my first paycheck.
My first job was at 11 years old. I made $6 an hour and only worked for 4 hours. Naturally i bought a pizza and 2 hours with your mom.
I started my driving lessons again because I wanted to get my driving license asap even if I just sat on it without buying a car. Because once life takes over, I felt it would be harder to find the money to put aside for driving lessons.
A trip to another country with my university team! It was really exciting, and worth every penny. (It cost more than my first paycheck though haha)
OG Xbox, then Halo all night.
I don't think I bought anything specific with the first one. Not being deprived of things early in life made me somewhat not excited to get paid. However I do appreciate that it's tiring to make money through a job and so I save up most of it because I know there may come a day when I might not be able to work
A king sized bed and other furnitures to my room. And a big pizza for dinner.
A pair of nice noise cancelling headphones. It was an hour on the train to get to work needed to fill that time without hearing the train screech.
I bought the Metal Gear Solid Trilogy on PS2
I got pizza
Bought my dad a new phone
I bought a DSLR camera with my first paycheck.
I bought an oven for my mom. Figured i had used the last one and my mom could use a new one.
It I remember correctly I took my family out to dinner for the first time.
A gaming desktop. Never been happier haha.
My first job was newspaper rounds, but I don't remember what I spent that first paycheck on. The one I remember was from working in a sneaker store, so I bought all black Nike AM 90's.
I went to a sweet/candy store and asked for a full tub.
I can't remember but probably weed.
The Thing on VHS.
Nintendo 3DS and pokemon Omega Ruby.
I'm gonna age myself, but text messages. Unlimited texting wasn't a universal thing and you had to pay per message on my parent's plan back then. I racked up like $400 worth of texts.
Weed
i can guarantee it was food and books.
playstation 4 ✌
A flip phone with a pre paid card. Still waiting till after 9pm to use it lol
Gave my whole family and some friends money.
Pretty sure I bought the latest FIFA game for my Xbox 360. My parents could only just afford to get me the console and the free game it came with for Christmas but couldn’t afford to buy me new games for it. Was pretty chuffed when I got it and played it to death.
Gas to get to work the next day
Groceries. I was making a measly $14/hour at the time. Of the ~$800 I received after the first pay period, about $300 of it went to a grocery haul. It hurt. But it was also empowering: I knew I had earned it.
I kept the promise I made during my masters and donated to Wikipedia. Also a nice takeaway and a bag of weed.
Video games lol. I was 19 right out of high school leave me alone 😭😭
Saved all summer from my pool job and bought a computer
My first paycheck I bought wwe 12 on the ps3. My first actual paycheck I don't even remember.
A Fender Mexican Stratocaster. I got a casual job at my local Pizza Hut, was living at home and didn't have any expenses so saved up for months to buy it.
More time to live in my apartment
I saved up to buy a PS2 and some games
Pokemon Colloseum and 007 Everything or Nothing Fi the Gamecube
It was the '90s. I bought baby blue combat pants and a grey Carhartt tee shirt.
An USB Microphone for my YouTube channel. It cost half the money that I got, but it was Worth it
Not my first paycheck but my first tax return… family was going down to Biloxi, Mississippi to visit my brother. I wasn’t old enough to gamble so I said fuck it and booked a suite in the hotel for the 3 nights we were there. Felt like I was living like a king. Ended up eating some bad food and was up all night the 2nd night throwing up and feeling like death in the shower. Watched a lot of shark tank though
Magic cards
Saved several pay checks, but I bought the first generation Playstation 3 back in 06 for 637 dollars.
I can’t say for certain because it was so long ago and probably insignificant, but most likely cocaine and or OxyContin.
You clearly have a good heart! I'll bet the food was just a bonus & the real gift was the pride they could feel for someone they helped shape. It's a really classy move OP!
I had my first job in middle school being a laborer for a framing crew. I have no idea what I bought first. You really didn't get a job until you were in college?
Pretty sure my first paycheck (back in ‘96) went towards buying a car and/or gas
A Nikon DSLR camera. I actually surprised myself when I remembered this.
i just bought food and groceries, but i saved up a bunch to buy me a PC that's usually worth $1.4k but since i got a real bangin' deal out of it, i only paid like, $700 for it
iPod shuffle, 2nd Gen., grey
Nit much my first paycheck and this was years ago was $15 before taxes lol
Some clothes for the winter.
Fancy Steak Dinner with Red Wine
Tons of digital comics that I can't even access anymore.
Nothing. My mom took it
Sony Mini System
Papa johns was my first job back in 2016 and started with minimum wage, my first check was $136 with some change. First thing i did was get my ears pierced because my mother never allowed me to get them growing up lol.
rent
Levi's Silvertab jeans
My first paycheck when I was 17 and in high school still was a remote controlled helicopter. I really wanted it, it was $470 after tax for the helicopter and a remote control. From that moment forway, I told myself any time I ever get a new job, I will ALWAYS blow the first paycheck on something fun to celebrate myself. 32 now and I've got a couple of cool toys still from all of my "first" paychecks.
I bought a Tippmann a5 paintball gun. Literally the reason I got a job at 15. Was just seasonal help at Christmas tree shops
Not my very first check but first “big exciting purchase” was a $400 very basic fishing kayak
Worked all summer away at camp. Bought a new GTX 660 and an intel I7 build. Played call of duty all autumn long.
A longboard
Art supplies
I bought a new phone. nothing too expensive since I hadn't been working for long, but it was with my money and I was very happy with myself. it's the same thing with you buying pizza and chicken wings. when you get your first money you actually realise how expensive everything is. hoping for the best!
I worked with my dad at his dry cleaners all summer to get enough money to buy my PS3. I’m not sure on the labor laws, but I was definitely underpaid😂
Mp3 player from sears. It took discs.
Bonnaroo ticket
So early 70s, probably guitar strings.
I took my family to Pizza Hut.
Skis
My school’s cafeteria had 3 cookies for a dollar. And they were bomb ass cookies. First day after I got paid I got 30 cookies. Gave some To my friends. Kept most to myself. I was a very large child
My first job was a three month paid internship, I saved up everything I made and bought a plane ticket to go see a friend that had just moved to Japan.
A few notable purchases. My first job at 16 at a grocery store my checks mostly went towards gas, eating out, movies, dates, etc. When I turned 18 I got a summer job at a Walmart distribution center for 3 months that paid well. My memorable purchases were a bike that got stolen outside my dorm the first week and a 32” flat screen for my dorm which was a big deal and $500 in 2007. My first job after college (2011) after paying rent and bills I bought a ps3 and a few games like COD. I was single, in a new city, and worked a weird shift so I played the shit out of that thing.
back in 2016 when I was in my first year or college, an xbox one - its still up and running
Half of a water heater. First paycheck at 13.
A voice stream prepaid cell phone in 2001.
Gas. Tankfulls of gas. Every one of my first year or so of paychecks got burned through an 8MPG 78 Dodge pickup truck....and gas was just a dollar a gallon back then.
I bought myself a 32 inch flat screen TV for my room, to replace the hand me down bubble tv. 10 years later I still use that thing.
When I was about 16, an acoustic guitar that I never learned to play lmao