What was the first thing you bought with your first paycheck?

My drivers licence.

And if you didn’t, I did.

My first ever really for real paycheck went as a deposit for my Sega Dreamcast. From Electronics Boutique. The store that was paying me to sell Dreamcasts at the time. It’s all circular, man.

And, I took my Uni friends out to dinner, as was traditional. Luckily there were only four of us… it was not the world’s largest paycheck.

An “Advance” digital watch. I couldn’t afford an Armitron. It had an alarm AND and stopwatch. Ooooooooo. That was 1979.

I was 15. Probably gas.

I don’t remember what I did with the rest of it, but I do remember that I spent part of my first cheque from my first “real” job (i.e. not babysitting) when I was sixteen on taking my parents out to dinner. I remember feeling quite proud that day.

See **Mr Bus Guy’s ** answer. Then probably weed.

With my babysitting money (I started babysitting when I was 11) I bought riding lessons. I later worked at the barn in exchange for lessons (that beat babysitting by a long shot!)

With my paycheck from my first real job I bought a leather coat and a boombox.

See silenus’s answer.

And on further review, probably we should reverse the order.

:smiley:

Some of it went for room and board to my parents. Some went in the bank. The rest I used to buy one pair of sturdy round-toed blocky heeled fabric covered black high heels, and one pair of pointy toed strappy black patent leather stilletos.

Ahhh. I guess I’m more of a shoe person than I thought.

Nearly 20 years ago, I got my first “real” job working full time at a doctor’s office as a medical assistant. With my first paycheck, I got a divorce. (It was a $29 Do-it-Yourself divorce, plus the nearly $100 filing fee.)

Best $29 I ever spent.

I got my first real paycheck during the summer of 2000 for programming work. I went on a holiday to London with my closest friend and I met my future wife in the hostel we were staying! The interesting bit is that I got my check slightly late, and if I didn’t get it by that day, my friend would have joined a friend of his to go to Spain, I would not have gone to London and so would probably be alone.

So the net result of my first paycheck was that I met my partner. Not bad at all! :slight_smile:

I was 15, and just completed my first week of work in my summer job, dipping ice cream at the Polar Bear Ice Cream Shop in Gun Barrel City, Texas. I spent something like $20 on a ticket to the very first Texas Jam at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

As far as my first (real) job out of college, the first thing I did was drive down to Birmingham, AL (I lived in Huntsville at the time) to the nearest Rickenbacker dealer and ordered a JetGlo Rickenbacker 330, which I still have, almost 21 years later… :cool:

I don’t remember what I bought from the paycheck from my first job at the movie theater. But I do remember after getting my first “adult” job out of college I bought one of those “home theater in a box” kits with 5 speakers, sub, and receiver. That was about 6 years ago, I guess.

I sold it during my unemployed days so I could pay rent. Good times.

With my first paycheck ever I bought the cutest shirt with the Cat in the Hat on it. That was in high school. With my first college paycheck I bought my first ever game console, an N64. (I wasn’t allowed to have any game consoles as a child because they weren’t sufficiently educational.)

Knowing me, Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

Now if only I could get some of that money back…

A RadioShack MC-10… I am such a nerd.

I was 18. I bought dinner for my ex husband (we had just started dating - BOY do I wish I knew then what I know now!) and a few of his friends at Friendly’s at Orland Park Mall.

Been paying for it ever since… :wink:

Knee high black high-heeled boots that laced up the back. I was 15. I’ve always been a shoe whore.

My first paycheck? I was 15 years old, I worked for an old man and we mowed lawns during the day and cleaned office buildings at night. I was a janitor I reckon. My first week I recieved a check for 50 dollars! Mom took me down to Crawfords food market and we cashed the check at the courtesy booth. On the way out of the store I asked her to wait a sec and I broke a 10 dollar bill to buy a candy bar. An almond joy. It cost a dime. All the rest of the candy bars were a nickle, BUT what the hell I was rich! AND I needed jinglin money!

The next summer and after school I worked at a bowling alley.It was probably what I consider my first REAL job. Saved all my money and bought the family car. Dad wanted to trade it in and I offered him 800 dollars cash and he took it. '61 chevvy bel air, this was in '68 and I was crappin in TALL cotton my senior year! Hell I had an almost NEW car! I also met my wife at the same time. DANG I wish I still had that car!

The wife? Yeah I did go ahead and keep her!