Baseball cards? No idea. First check came a few years after under the table cash. I was 15 so I'm sure the money went towards something frivolous.

How far back do we go. When I was 9, we lived next to a commercial bakery Once a week this guy would show up to take all of the several day old pastries etc. He said he fed it to his hogs. Me and a buddy helped him toss the stuff into his panel truck. He paid us each a dollar for about and hour's worth of work. First pay, we went to the roller rink. I think it was 50 cents to skate and 25 cents to rent rollers. I think we spend the extra 25 cents on goodies from the snack bar.

But in the real world of pay checks not counting the military, I bought a new suit for work.

I bought small things but don't remember, my first big purchase was a Glock 17 at 15 years old, $434.56 I believe and still have it. If it had a rail it would get used a lot more than it does.

Winchester 69A, cost around $30 or so. I still own it. The most accurate out of the box firearm I ever owned until 4 years ago when I bought a CZ 75b.....for a lot more than $30, lol.

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A 35mm camera. A Pentax ME with a Pentax 50mm f1.7 lens.

No shit. I still have one of those, unless my daughter sold it, or any part of my old bag of camera bits I gave her years ago. Well, so, she has one of those. Plus a Pentax K1000, the original trainer body!

Paper route.

Tortilla chips and salsa on the way to buy an airsoft type gun.

It was a spring powered thing, it had a magazine. the cartridges were like normal size and you put a plastic BB in them.

Paper Route 1st job (1971): Huge Chocolate Sunday

Stock-boy Clothing store 1st job to pay taxes on (1976): Tickets to ELO Concert.


Lock N Load

Michael
USMC Ret

Remington 870TB trap gun

A Benjamin Franklin “bolt action-hammer fire-hair trigger” pneumatic pump air rifle that shot .22 caliber lead BBs. Still have it with the original box and documents 55 years later. It still works even though the finish is worn off the brass barrel and air chamber. Bought with money I earned taking care of the neighbor lady’s yard and flowerbeds while she was out of town on vacation. I remember Dad driving me down to Gart Bros sporting goods in Denver to buy it. Those lead BBs are hard to find nowadays.

My best friend's dad ran the marina on the small lake I've lived on my whole life. I got a job there pumping boat gas and working at the malt and sandwich shop at age 10 in 1964 for $2/day. I used to walk to work with my Labrador Retriever and Blackie would swim across a cove beside me for a shortcut.

First purchase I remember was a fishing rod I bought at that marina. Tip broke and I was heartbroken. They gave me a new one without even asking.

The marina owner and my dad were at a party and he tells him: "Tim has been working for me for a month and he only owes $5.75. I bought my lunch and malts at the sandwich shop.

My friends dad was quite the player and he used to service a local young married hottie every afternoon like clockwork. Her husband either couldn't or wouldn't. She had kids with another friend's dad and somebody spilled the beans at a Christmas party in front of one of them when she was an adult.

My first paycheck pretty much went into the bank. I am sure that I had used some of it for living expenses, but didn’t really have a passion for things back then so I saved it. Eventually, my first big purchase came in the form of a Bushmaster XM-15 just before the CA AWB. Thus began a gun addiction that would eventually ring me here.

I won my Mother’s smile and a long hug when I turned it over to her for groceries. I was 14 and my Dad was ill and out of work .Still feels good to have stepped up.

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I won my Mother’s smile and a long hug when I turned it over to her for groceries. I was 14 and my Dad was ill and out of work .Still feels good to have stepped up.

God bless you!!!

I had a paper route in 1979. I don't remember what I bought with my first check, but I do remember saving most of my money until one day, my uncle offered to sell me his TRS-80 for $300. That was my first big purchase.

A pair of Oakley Sunglasses. I worked outside at a local amusement park doing maintenance, running rides and laying mini golf carpet.

My first personal purchase was an upright piano. I paid for it with Savings Bonds I'd bought with stamps over the years.

flashguy

1995 when minimum wage was $4.25. I bought a pair of blue jeans and a hoodie.

Clothes, shoes.