Angel eyes Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Down to woolies……..vinyl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William H. Bonney Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Probably beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maroondevo52 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I can't remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilnunb Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I think it was about £100pw 😐 I have a feeling it was... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzroy Pointon Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 20 club and a quarter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 N64 Goldeneye 4-pack tennent's lager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo-Jimbo Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Can't remember but I thought I was loaded with my £14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrysmithsgloves Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 a home game and train fares Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victorian Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Ferranti Robertson Avenue. Went straight up to the Royal Bank of Scotland at Shandon and opened an account and paid in my circa £50 wages. An account I still have now and have my wages paid into. 37 years ago. When I spent some money it was probably on Big Country or U2 records and shit sportswear by Lacoste, Ellesse and Fila. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Beer, followed by two single records from a wee record shop in Longstone, near the Longstone Inn. On £24 per week, I was left with loads to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il Duce McTarkin Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Paid a tenner digs, a half quarter, 10 Regal kings, packet of Rizla, box of Scottish Bluebell matches, and a bottle of Irn Bru. YTS wages didn't go far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad von Carstein Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 A large proportion disappeared into my mum's purse as digs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Slog Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Magic the gathering first edition cards and boosters. This was a uni bursary. Was at least 20 quid for the starter and ten for boosters even then in the eighties. If i had still even one card I could retire now. Favourite recollection was someone else on the course, from whitburn Uni. He was a virgin, even though Whitburn girl in those days were, shall we say affectionate. He bought a girl in a sauna near the royal college of surgeons with his first pay, and lived on beans next three months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il Duce McTarkin Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 15 minutes ago, Konrad von Carstein said: A large proportion disappeared into my mum's purse as digs Aye, I started on £29 a week in 1990, and my mum took a tenner straight off me. By the time I'd bought a weekly bus-pass I'd £14 left to show for my week's work, so it must have been a sixteenth I bought and not the half quarter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I couldn’t believe the sense of independence I felt when I got my first wage . I loved it . It helped me buy things I wanted and felt I had earned by working . Think most of first wage was on a clothes plus a night out , well various night outs with my work colleagues , at places like the Pelican cafe or whatever it was called then , I never looked Back . Money = independence to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 1 minute ago, jonesy said: A few posters getting outed as being older than I imagined. I know ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 1 minute ago, jonesy said: A few posters getting outed as being older than I imagined. And some younger ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 12 minutes ago, Captain Slog said: Magic the gathering first edition cards and boosters. This was a uni bursary. Was at least 20 quid for the starter and ten for boosters even then in the eighties. If i had still even one card I could retire now. Favourite recollection was someone else on the course, from whitburn Uni. He was a virgin, even though Whitburn girl in those days were, shall we say affectionate. He bought a girl in a sauna near the royal college of surgeons with his first pay, and lived on beans next three months. Fabulous story ! 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 21 minutes ago, Konrad von Carstein said: A large proportion disappeared into my mum's purse as digs I already had my own house before working so didn’t need to pay digs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 48 minutes ago, Victorian said: Ferranti Robertson Avenue. Went straight up to the Royal Bank of Scotland at Shandon and opened an account and paid in my circa £50 wages. An account I still have now and have my wages paid into. 37 years ago. When I spent some money it was probably on Big Country or U2 records and shit sportswear by Lacoste, Ellesse and Fila. I’ve been with the same bank for 32 years . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad von Carstein Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 1 minute ago, JudyJudyJudy said: I already had my own house before working so didn’t need to pay digs I was 16.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Reynolds Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 First 'proper' pay packet funded a holiday to Oktoberfest. First Saturday job pay packet I think went on a pizza hut and blockbuster rental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull's-eye Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 51 minutes ago, Victorian said: Ferranti Robertson Avenue. Went straight up to the Royal Bank of Scotland at Shandon and opened an account and paid in my circa £50 wages. An account I still have now and have my wages paid into. 37 years ago. When I spent some money it was probably on Big Country or U2 records and shit sportswear by Lacoste, Ellesse and Fila. Exactly the same as you do now, incredible. You probably deserve a wee pay rise though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad von Carstein Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 51 minutes ago, Victorian said: Ferranti Robertson Avenue. Went straight up to the Royal Bank of Scotland at Shandon and opened an account and paid in my circa £50 wages. An account I still have now and have my wages paid into. 37 years ago. When I spent some money it was probably on Big Country or U2 records and shit sportswear by Lacoste, Ellesse and Fila. Aha, my first wage came from there too, 40 years or so ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 3 minutes ago, Konrad von Carstein said: I was 16.... Lol I had an unusual route to my first job really . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Slog Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 7 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said: Lol I had an unusual route to my first job really . Do tell James, apprentice, family? Maybe you worked as a kid and evolved into it in an early form of intern? For much of my life i seriously regretted uni and wished i had a trade, tho to be fair degree alone may have helped even though i never applied it. Would much rather have had an apprentiship. Most unfavourite story, Remember royal Navy had an office up Lothian road? I was sitting the Artificer exam there when my dad arrived to haul me out by the ears, Think I was 15 - bloody warrant officer called him up to come get me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTBCAL Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Postal Cadet 16 The Subway in Rose St - had 5 pints on the Thursday and I remember my Mum taking a fair chunk This was 1984 and I think I got about £26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Slog Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Not wages, but at 16 or 17 I recall beer was 78p a pint in Piggies in Broxburn, though we were cultured and drunk Sapporo or red stripe. Was cheaper up the road in Broxburn, they had a beer called Light, which my father instructed me never to touch, because it was where all the drip trays went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Slog Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I am for the life of me trying to recall how i could afford to drink before my first bursary. I had a paper round at 3.50 a week, and had summer jobs on the local farm I recall. I gave my mum fair portion as 'rent' too i recall. Was a slight bone of contention with more affluent mates you had been at school with who didn't do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinSmith1255 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Doing labouring work for an employment agency. A week off shore, I was living in Aberdeen, earned me six x £10 notes. Each £10 note was a 30 pint drinking voucher so lots of 🍺 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 38 minutes ago, Captain Slog said: Do tell James, apprentice, family? Maybe you worked as a kid and evolved into it in an early form of intern? For much of my life i seriously regretted uni and wished i had a trade, tho to be fair degree alone may have helped even though i never applied it. Would much rather have had an apprentiship. Most unfavourite story, Remember royal Navy had an office up Lothian road? I was sitting the Artificer exam there when my dad arrived to haul me out by the ears, Think I was 15 - bloody warrant officer called him up to come get me. Nothing exciting really to report . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 56 minutes ago, Captain Slog said: Do tell James, apprentice, family? Maybe you worked as a kid and evolved into it in an early form of intern? For much of my life i seriously regretted uni and wished i had a trade, tho to be fair degree alone may have helped even though i never applied it. Would much rather have had an apprentiship. Most unfavourite story, Remember royal Navy had an office up Lothian road? I was sitting the Artificer exam there when my dad arrived to haul me out by the ears, Think I was 15 - bloody warrant officer called him up to come get me. Sorry I wasn’t trying to be mysterious . 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bauld Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 First thing I remember buying..... 5 day camping ticket. Worth every penny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Slog Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 My gawd, Id take out a mortgage for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemclaren Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 A fuzz box for £15. Still got it but they are worth a bit more now. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124176168066?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338268676&toolid=10044&_trkparms=ispr=1&amdata=enc:1cIIubg_tRLSOaP92Upv4uQ88&customid=CjwKCAiAkrWdBhBkEiwAZ9cdcD_C3ijOWJU6RIcu7ghajDXSnXImnIsmiAVluezymdv6VVL2UpekmRoCaz0QAvD_BwE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notts1874 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Ecstasy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Mikey Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 4 hours ago, Jambo-Jimbo said: Can't remember but I thought I was loaded with my £14. I can't remember either, but ... £9.50 for me. Yes, folks, that was for a 40 hour week. Mind you, back then the average house price was below £13K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il Duce McTarkin Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Notts1874 said: Ecstasy. Good shout. That came early in the second year of my apprenticeship, though. August 1991, following a 1 - 0 victory over Rangers at Tynecastle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi must stay Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Saved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maple Leaf Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 5 hours ago, henrysmithsgloves said: a home game and train fares Me too, except it was bus fare from Gilmerton. And a match day program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 I don't remember exactly which album (it may have been ELO) but I went with my wage packet to Phoenix Records on the High Street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambos_1874 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Petrol and drink, and probably a Chinese takeaway. To be clear, the petrol was for the car and was not mixed with the drink in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Potter Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 14 hours ago, Angel eyes said: Down to woolies……..vinyl A digital watch , 75 pounds , a lot of dough back in 1977. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Lyon Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 First full time wage was £3-17s-6d and that included London Weighting and lowly paid officer's lodging allowance! I bought Out of Time by Chris Farlowe that Friday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
periodictabledancer Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Not me, buy a mate of mine in the mid 70s (he was a poor 1st year apprentice then) spent the lot on a pair of Puma King boots (for younger readers , they were probably the most expensive boots you could get back then). When his mum asked for digs money he showed her the boots and said he was broke. He got a right battering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 16 hours ago, Konrad von Carstein said: A large proportion disappeared into my mum's purse as digs 16 hours ago, Dirk McTarkin said: Paid a tenner digs, a half quarter, 10 Regal kings, packet of Rizla, box of Scottish Bluebell atches, and a bottle of Irn Bru. YTS wages didn't go far. And probably she paid out double to you both, all week. £35 a week a goat working in a factory when I left school, then after the summer I started my apprenticeship, then I think I started paying digs. Christ i was on good money half way through my second year (working weekends, selling slates) I made a fortune and pissed it up a wall, getting Pished. I should have bought a flat or house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argyjambo Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 First salary from BofS in 1972, I bought a genuine Crombie overcoat from Burton's. Cost me £30, most of my first two weeks salary. My mum kindly let me keep all that first fortnight's money to myself, dig money kicked in from month 2 onwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Driving lessons. I had a job lined up that I needed to be able to drive for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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