First paycheck!

[Vani]

Hi everyone I'm new! . I work for a charity at a call center and I got my first paycheck this week . Spending it felt really good even though it was just for bus tickets . So, how did you spend your first paycheck?

[Banrion]

My first 2 paychecks from my callcenter job went to buying a whole new bedroom set. At the age of 22 I finally got to upgrade from a twin bed to a queen !! Felt so good to buy that all on my own.

[BookstoreEscapee]

It was so long ago I don't remember. Probably something boring like rent, or food.

[ShortTemperHatesStupidity]

Gas in my car, and my cell phone bill. My mom thought that because I started working that I should pay my own bills... wtf mom...

[BlaqueKatt]

At the age of 22 I finally got to upgrade from a twin bed to a queen !!

lucky-my husband and I still sleep in a twin-we're only in it together twice a week though!

[Knightmare]

*clears the cobwebs*
Hmm.. I probably spent it on the newest Oingo Boingo album, or Tears for Fears.

I started working when I was 14, in 1986.

[Discourtesy Clerk]

I put mine in savings. Not so exciting.

[DarthRetard]

Oingo Boingo? Are you kidding? Weren't they like, a cameo appearance in back to school, with Rodney Dangerfield?

[powerboy]

My first pay check, I spent it on, probably dates. My first Huge Check, I had to pay bills

[sarahj]

My first paycheck was spent on a necklace. I'd seen it the day before I got a call about an interview; went to the interview the next day and got a call saying I was hired that night. I bought it as soon as my pay was in my account.

[NightAngel]

Oingo Boingo? Are you kidding?

I :heart: Oingo Boingo! The Dead Man's Party album is always a main stay in my music collection.

Even now.

*puts on headphones and blasts No One Lives Forever*

[tollbaby]

errrr my first paycheque was for $5.55 (the hourly minimum wage in Ontario when I started working at age 14... I think that was... 1989?). My mom gave me a $5 and had the damn thing framed. She *still* owes me the 55¢

And yeah, I had to start buying my own clothes, shoes and school supplies when I was 15 and could work LEGALLY.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Mmmm...my first "real" paychecque would have been from mowing the lawn at the local church all summer in 1997. I got paid a lump sum at the end of the summer, and I spent it all going through the Sears catalogue.

CD player-$190, crapped out by the time I started college. Still haven't replaced it.

Calgary Flames jersey-$65, and I still have it--it's the home jersey, and it was the first year that they changed the design from the old red, white, and yellow from the Lanny McDonald days. Used it as a practice jersey for my hockey "career", although I don't wear it much anymore. (I prefer to wear my red one.)

[ContraCorriente]

I started working as soon as I turned 14. I took my first paycheck to Wal-Mart, all $210 of it.

[lordlundar]

My first real paycheck? I bought a zip drive for my computer (biggest storage medium I could get for my crappy machine at the time.) That was about 8-9 years ago and I still have it!