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first thing you remember saving money to buy

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October 05, 2019, 05:56 AM
Bassamatic
first thing you remember saving money to buy
It was a small transistor radio. Operated off a 9 volt battery if I remember correctly and came in a brown case. I think it was 10 or 11 dollars. That was a lot of money back in 1956.



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October 05, 2019, 07:23 AM
Plasteek
I did save for my first car. my dad never give off what anyone doesn't work for. you always work for everything you want. no free stuff.
October 05, 2019, 07:54 AM
BigSwede
quote:
Originally posted by ruger357:
Dukes of hazard digital watch that played Dixie.


Wow. If I had known it existed, I would have definitely wanted one



October 05, 2019, 07:56 AM
sig77
I used to save money for baseball cards. Which reminds me I have a trunk full of baseball cards in the basement doing nothing....



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October 05, 2019, 08:11 AM
joatmonv
A car. Early 80's and I saved enough to put a down payment on an Oldsmobile.


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October 05, 2019, 08:22 AM
Beancooker
Skateboard deck. Manufacturer was Alva. Board was the Freddie Smith Punk Size (short deck). It had a steep tail, and wicked concave. I never had a board I skated so well.





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October 05, 2019, 08:27 AM
Chance228
A better fishing rod and reel...the good ol' days.
October 05, 2019, 09:01 AM
Ironbutt
I had a paper route when I was 8 or 9 years old that paid 50 cents a week. Two miles out & two miles back the other side of the road. My Dad said that I had to save it all for at least one year before I could spend any of it.

At the end of the year I went into the local hardware store. I had a choice of a bike, which would make my paper route considerably easier, or a .22. I came home with a nice Mossberg bolt action .22, and Dad ended up buying me the bike a couple months later.Smile


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October 05, 2019, 09:57 AM
45 Cal
It was 1955 and I saved my tips from the grocery store I worked .
Then I rode my bike to Savannah Ga to a pawn shop and bought a brand new Remington model 550
auto loader 22 rifle.
Then back home to Pooler Ga with it proudly across the handle bars.
That was not a good site for my mother.
October 05, 2019, 11:12 AM
gpbst3
I was saving up $20 to buy a commemorative NASA coin I saw on a TV ad. I almost had all the money but decided to go to the local corner store and by $18 worth of candy.


October 05, 2019, 11:23 AM
6guns
My own stereo.

Nikko 5055 receiver, 18 watts per channel

Sanyo turntable

Ohm E speakers

I had to buy it in pieces, receiver first and I listened through headphones, then the turntable and finally the speakers. Hard to remember, but I think I had it all in about six months.

I always loved the smell of walking into a stereo shop!




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October 05, 2019, 12:19 PM
MrToad


Saw a Kenner Star Wars Tie Fighter in the 1978 Sears Christmas catalog and did extra chores to order it. I wanted the Star Bird too, but couldn't afford both at the time. However, for Christmas I received the Star Bird, so I was a very happy camper.




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October 05, 2019, 01:15 PM
220-9er
Anyone remember S&H Green stamps?


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October 05, 2019, 01:18 PM
ARman
A Savage .22LR over .410 shotgun. I was like eight years old and wanted my "very own gun", my dad let me use the Winchester 1897 12ga., but that was "his". I wanted my own.

Lots of grass cutting, lots of can and bottle collecting, but I made it. I remember that Saturday we went to buy it. That a box of .22LR and .410 shells. Man, I was so proud of my new awesome squirrel slayer!


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October 05, 2019, 01:33 PM
motor59


Saved my allowance for nearly a year, and my birthday money put me just over the top. I remember that my cool Aunt took me to Woolworths to buy it, and gave me enough change to allow me to get this too:






Best day ever, in 1965. I was 7 years old...




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October 05, 2019, 01:52 PM
erj_pilot
quote:
Originally posted by 220-9er:
Anyone remember S&H Green stamps?
Oh yeah...I can't even to BEGIN to describe the HOURS my brother and I spent pasting those dang things in the books just so mom could get some some bakeware or something. But you know...those are fond memories as a kid of family time together! Something SORELY missing in today's societal construct...

As for saving up for something, that's a tough one. I honestly don't remember and I can't remember paying outright cash for a "large" item...always financed at some level. I started working at McD's when I was 16 and had cash to spend. I guess I'd have to say I maybe saved up to by motorcycle parts...my brother and I dabbled in motocross when I was in my mid/late teens. But I remember getting small loans many times (for as little as say $500) to buy something over time. But that was probably when I was 18 or older, since I don't think the bank would sign a single signature loan to a minor...



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October 05, 2019, 02:17 PM
83v45magna
The little green plastic M48 Patton tanks (about 6 inches long). I wanted a bunch of them, brigade strength at least, so I could stage battles in the back yard.

I wound up with three.



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October 05, 2019, 02:24 PM
83v45magna
quote:
Originally posted by Bassamatic:
It was a small transistor radio. Operated off a 9 volt battery if I remember correctly and came in a brown case. I think it was 10 or 11 dollars. That was a lot of money back in 1956.

1956. Was it this one: TR-63


Or this one?
Regency TR-1




I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:11

...But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. - Psalm 63:11 [excerpted]
October 05, 2019, 04:54 PM
kramden
I too saved for a pellet gun.
October 05, 2019, 05:12 PM
irreverent
Horse back riding lessons - I was probably somewhere between 8-11 y.o.


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