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Can you remember what did you do with yours?

My very first pay cheque blew away!!!!

I asked my dad to put it in the bank for me and as I ran outside to give it to him there was a huge gust of wind and as I let it go to give to my dad the wind took it, and it flew high up into the sky and over my house.

We never did find it, I had to wait untill Monday so my company could write a new one.

When I finally got another one issued I went out and bought my very first pair of Jeans.

I think it was about three weeks before I could have enough to spend on what I wanted. I was still at school and worked a few nights a week at Gateways in Sidcup by the train station.

There used to be a sweetshop further down I think it was called Maynards and I bought my own record player from an advert in the shop window.

It was in a blue case and had the little arm that went across so your records could drop down ontop of each other (I know I am horrified these days what we used to do to vinyl).

I cycled on my Universal bike up round the back of sidcup to go collect it and took it home balanced in my front basket. I think it cost £12.00 second hand.

December 1994. After finishing A-levels then spending 4 years unemployed, all the family had nice Xmas presents that year :-)

Too soft, me :-)

-S-

August 1977 £16 including sales commission from the Co-op department store where I was a proud spotty 16 year old trainee manager, bought Dad a bottle of Old spice and Mom some Helena Rubenstein perfume...not much left after my board and lodging had been paid as well!

Watcha Rosi,
I remember my Saturday job first wage packet:0))
1977 and I ran round the corner from the chippie where I worked to the record shop and bought David Bowie ...Heroes" album.

Still love it now :0))

Sept 1976, I earned £15 for the week and I brought Abba's Arrival album, some make-up and gave my mum £5 for my keep.

Helen

Hi Rosi

You must of work in a posh place to get a Cheque lol

I think i just sat there for ages just staring at all that money a whole £28.
Can't remember what i 1st brought though, remember giving my mum £6. keep

In 1964, when I was sixteen, working in the general office of a firm of solicitors, my wage was £4 10s per week, in cash, and always brought round the office by hand and in a little brown wages envelope.
I always gave my Mum half of it (wish I had kept that up with my two boys!) so I wasn't left with much, but I managed as I still lived at home.
When I got a raise to £5 I was thrilled. It seemed like such a lot of money then.

£32 and bought skirt , suede shoes and something else , still had change,
Ros xx

1964 - £9. 00 - bought a full length brown suede coat, nothing for Mum and lived on fresh air for a month as I recall.

It was a lovely coat though!

Jac

1970 i was 14 and worked 2 hours a day after school and all day saturday for £2 I got to keep it all to myself lol

Rosi, I can't remember how much I got but I'm sure I spent it on clothes and going clubbing plus a bit of rent:)

I do remember that it got paid straight into bank and I was really good at checking how much was in there but I didn't know what OD meant so I didn't get why the amount I had kept going up the more I spent.

1950,£2- ten shillings, I had looked at a pair of
grey suede shoes for weeks, as soon as I got my
pay I ran to Timpsons and they had gone out of
the window, I went in and there they where on a
shelf,I paid £2-seven shillings, loved those shoes.

Jean x

Talking of shoes (which we weren't) we had a shoe shop here in Nottingham in the mid-60's that had one window full of shoes priced at 29/11d a pair and one window with shoes prices at 49/11d a pair. Some months I would literally kill for a pair from the 49/11d window! They were so much smarter - classier! lol

Jac

ROSIE
I WAS 12 AND WORKED FOR A MARKE TGARDNER
I CUT FLOWER BUNCHED THEM
PUT INTO WHICKER BASKETS THEN WADED OUT TO A SMALL STREAM WITH BASKETS
AND ANCORED DOWN IN ALL WEATHER
ALL FOR A POUND A WEEK

1974 and i earned £11 , only employee in a record shop...gave it all to my mum .

Rose xx

Dizi you reminded me I had a job in the 70's following the milkman on my bike in the close and collecting the empties. I used to get 5p and if I recall I would go straight to the sweet shop. 2 black jacks for ha'penny and and two fruit salads bought it up to a penny - Id also get a qtr of tom thumb drops or winter mixture and a sherbert dip dab and a licorish wheel. I think the lot came to 5p.

My wages were £2 a week
back in 1956 when i was 14yrs old
i gave my mum £1 a week , the clothes shop i worked in took 10s for insurance, so that left me 10s
of which i used to pay back to my boss 5s a week
for a dress that i wanted at £3. it was a white v neck dress with big red flowers on lol
Hazelx

1966 i got £2 two shillings, had to give my mum £1 for board, thought i was hard done by LOL

My first job was as apprentice hairdresser after I left school in 1972. I earned £5 per week. I paid 48p NI and had the princely amount of £4.52p per week.
£2.50 went to my Mum for keep and the rest went on bus fares,scissors,combs,brushes, toiletries, make up, clothes, etc...
I also used to get tips for shampooing clients.