If so do you remember how much it was ?, and did you treat yourself to anything with it ??.
I think mine was about 17 pounds ?, and i bought ELO's album - Out of the blue !.
2007-07-23 10:14:03 · 25 answers · asked by Richard 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Think I got paid monthly and it was about £80. I gave my mum some, bought a train pass and a load of clothes. It was so exciting!!
2007-07-23 10:18:35 · answer #1 · answered by Rachael H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Back in '74 my first wage packet was £15.40. It came in a little sealed envelope with my name and the amount written on it. I remember the amount exactly because I had planned to take the unopened packet home to show my mum and dad but then went to the shop at dinner time and bought my lunch using one of the £5 notes . When I got back to work I looked at the rest of my wages and found that there was only one fiver left . I then spent an hour retracing my steps looking at the floor to try and find the missing £5. I very nearly got sacked for being late back...and no the £5 never turned up.
2007-07-23 10:29:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I worked after school and all day saturday at a supermarket - £16 a week - the shop was next door to a market and I remember blowing my first weeks wages and got stacks of clothes, records (the old vinyl type) - could hadrly carry it all home LOL
this was late 70's
2007-07-23 10:19:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I made about $70 for the week and I put it away with the next 2 months pay until I had a down payment on a car that cost me $85 per month to pay off. The car was brand new off the show room floor!
2007-07-23 10:23:33 · answer #4 · answered by Madam Naka 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I was under aged and had to get a work permit so they let me continue to work but held my pay for three weeks. When I got that first check I thought I was filthy rich! Never saw so much money in all my life! I kept stacking it it in piles, sniffing the crisp bills. I think I even washed them so they looked crisper! Eventually I bought a little camera with the money.
2007-07-23 10:19:24 · answer #5 · answered by Harry Hood 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ye i got £29.50 , my boss always gave me £30 and asked for the 50 p back .(tight git) , that was about 12yrs ago i was on a yts training , my mum/dad let me keep my first weeks wages - god i thought i was loaded at the time lol.
I actually bought my first car out of my wages , it cost me £10 per week , what a heap of sh*t but thats all i could afford at the time .
2007-07-24 01:16:09 · answer #6 · answered by fafandloo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it was Jan 1960 and i received £1. had another pound saved for me for holidays. I bought a packet of sweets as my first buy really chuffed.my mates were getting 3 or times that in the mines.
2007-07-23 10:24:05 · answer #7 · answered by happy chappy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was about £ 8 in 1971
I bought a pair of yellow jeans and a black vest like t shirt
My mother didnt take any board and lodge out of my first wage
2007-07-23 10:26:02 · answer #8 · answered by Black Orchid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to work in my local shop when i was 13, that was 19 years ago and i used to earn 90p an hour.I used to love a saturday morning as it was pay day.I would go straight to woolworths and buy the no1 single,didnt care what it was.Those were the days.
2007-07-23 11:48:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good purchase! Gotta love Jeff Lynne and the boys.... I remember when I was a teenager I once had about 950 quid in my chequing account and I thought it was a very big deal... I thought I was Dr. Moneybags.... The Cabbage Man... how naive I was back then.... heh... silly git.
2007-07-23 10:23:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋