How much communion money did you get?

thatsa spicy

I got £120 in 1997.

A biggish amount at the time but not enormous!

So, how much did ye get?

arybvtcw0eolkf

I'm Jewish.

stovelid

Please nobody say three-fifty or three-fiddy, for the love of Jaysus.

DirkVoodoo

£50 in eh, what age do you make your communion? Early nineties.

Invested into an EBS account where "magic murty made my money multiply".

Carsinian Thau

£135.

I think it was back in 1996.








I really shouldn't have forgotten that already.

January

Think I made 400 pound back in 96' was great!

K-Ren

stovelid wrote: »

Please nobody say three-fifty or three-fiddy, for the love of Jaysus.

Yeah, all those replies go here :

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055752799

I think I must have got around £100 pounds. Blew it all on tapes, those were the days.

pebbles21

stovelid wrote: »

Please nobody say three-fifty or three-fiddy, for the love of Jaysus.

Can someone please explain this three fiddy thing to me

DaveSlats

€200,000 in 2005.

Well, it was the Celtic Tiger.

vigos

Arya Famous Bullfrog wrote: »

I'm Jewish.

so you still have it saved right?:P

The Big Red Button

I dunno. My parents took it off me to "mind" it. Never saw it again. :mad:

However my best friend got £150, and I swear to god, no exaggeration, we spent every last penny of it on Lucky Bags. 50p a go, we went to the shop ever single day for the following 150 days and bought ourselves a Lucky Bag each. And we both still agree, it was the best money we (she!) ever spent!!!

ronnie3585

I work in Centra.

starbelgrade

4 shilling and tuppence. With it, I bought some broth & stale bread and ate them by candlelight.

Lia_lia

I don't know. I remember the exact date (17th May 1997) but no idea how much I made. Probably not as much as my classmates as my family are nearly all atheist.

mikemac

Arya Famous Bullfrog wrote: »

I'm Jewish.

So you still have it and loan it out at outrageous interest rates?

Got about IR80 in 1988 , twas a fortune to me at the time

jenzz

Christ I feel old - a long long time ago before the 1990s we dealt in pounds & old pence ..... I think it was about 30 pounds...... & it was still in the beehive account by the time I was putting the confirmation money in....

I have a little angel making his in May - no doubt there will be more zeros on the end of his than my communion & confo money combined ....

mikemac

jenzz wrote: »

Christ I feel old - a long long time ago before the 1990s we dealt in pounds & old pence ..... I think it was about 30 pounds...... & it was still in the beehive account by the time I was putting the confirmation money in....

I don't remember a beehive account, was that Irish Permanent?

Did you have a Henry Hippo Ulster Bank a/c?
With your free Henry Hippo savings box, all the cool kids had this :cool:

ball

Enough to buy roller-blades and no more


Bauer FX-1.

Lethal times

jenzz

The Beehive was in the one before it was First Active - Could have been Irish permemant actually but so long ago I can remember - You were cooler than the henry hippo peops cos you got a beehive school bag..

Long long ago it was so cool to be in a bank with a real bank account ... so cool you even advertised the fact on your back evey day... hmmm how the times have changed... Now the kids dont even get a bloody bank book to record their money in - 6 years of age & her account is " online" lol

FlawedGenius

£140 pound 1997:rolleyes:

clikityclak

I got about £120 in 1997 it went straight into the post office account but it eventually got spent on the likes of anything glittery or a bit of wally's world

good times

Alanstrainor

£100 punts, back in the 90's. Can quite remember when though...can't remember what i spent it on. I think i "saved" it or something dumb like that, well it was more like my parents "saved" it!

mikemac

jenzz wrote: »

The Beehive was in the one before it was First Active - Could have been Irish permemant actually but so long ago I can remember -

Now that I think of it, you're correct. First Active was the Beehive offer

jenzz wrote: »

You were cooler than the henry hippo peops cos you got a beehive school bag..

Blasphemy!
Nobody was cooler then Henry Hippo :cool:

jenzz wrote: »

Now the kids dont even get a bloody bank book to record their money in - 6 years of age & her account is " online" lol

Ah the old bank books. They are still around, it's mainly elderly people using them. But anyone can use them, it's no issue for the bank staff

cloneslad

I got about £300 back in 1991.

I spent some of my money in one of those shops in my town that sells everything. Bought some model airplanes to build myself, a football on an elasticated string that was attached to a belt you wore, a few dandy comics, and some merlin football stickers to put in an album.

With some of the other money I bought 2 houses and 10 acres of land and then I spent the rest of it bribing my local TD to get the land rezoned.

Money sure did go further back then :cool:

FearDark

I feel hard done by, when I was growing up I wasnt allowed celebrate anythin.

No communion.
No christmas.
No birthdays.
No easter.
No St. Whoever's day.

Im owed a lot of money.

rohatch

29 pound in 77 or 78

OutlawPete

jenzz wrote: »

Christ I feel old -.

Same here

1987 it was and I thought I was Don Johnson. Every guy had a jacket with the sleeves rolled up, skinny tie, slip-ons and white socks. We looked like a cross between Miami Vice and a Madness Gig.

No idea how much I got. Enough to buy Billy Idol's Rebel Yell I think.

jenzz

OutlawPete wrote: »

Same here

1987 it was and I thought I was Don Johnson. Every guy had a jacket with the sleeves rolled up, skinny tie, slip-ons and white socks. We looked like a cross between Miami Vice and a Madness Gig.

No idea how much I got. Enough to buy Billy Idol's Rebel Yell I think.

Feeling even older now - I was a pre 85 & my sister wore a dickie bow to my communion - white shoes werent even around back then - black patent were the novelty. & a pound note in the bag was a massive heist from anyone

OutlawPete

jenzz wrote: »

Feeling even older now - I was a pre 85 & my sister wore a dickie bow to my communion - white shoes werent even around back then - black patent were the novelty. & a pound note in the bag was a massive heist from anyone

Yeah, remember my brother's patent.

I did get big into Suede a few years later - thought I was Jon Bon Jovi with me brown suede chelsea boots

Pride Fighter

48 punts in 1995, the lowest in my class. Stingy relatives.

DazMarz

£565 in 1997, great going.

Spent every penny of it on Star Wars Micro-Machines, the bases for them and all the gear. Still have them all in the house somewhere. The amount of fun I had with them, fighting ''wars'' all over the place means it was well spent!:D

Oh, and I always let The Empire win! Evil little shíte that I was back then!:D

Biggins

Jeasus - its been that many decades ago that I can't even remember the day, never mind the money. LOL

Joey the lips

What i got for my communnion kids now get for pocket money....

Dancor

£140 in 1996.

foxy06

80 quid in 1989.

GavRedKing

Got about 150-200 IIRC in '92. Ah them were the days, blew most of it on NES games to.:D

4zn76tysfajdxp

£45 in 1996.

ballsymchugh

i got 42 big ones in 1986. opened a beehive account too. closed it in 94 and it had grown to about 55 squid, enough to buy a pair of runners so that i could blend in with the cool kids. but i didn't get them in the end. i just had to be different.

ballsymchugh

Edwin Fancy Shrew wrote: »

£45 in 1996.

ha. not so smug then are ya?!!

mailforkev

Just north of £100 in 1986

xzanti

I got £74 in 1990, my first purchase was a pink skipping rope I'd been hankering for simple times

IvyTheTerrible

God ye're all so young!

My Communion was in 1987 and I can't remember how much I got. It all went into a savings account anyway, which I spend on a cd player when I got a wee bit older.

humanji

I didn't get any money at all. I remember being quite shocked when I heard that everyone else gets money for it (and even more shocked when I heard that some kids go around begging to all their neighbours).

But I'm not bitter. My parents gave me something a hell of a lot cooler than money and it made me a god amongst my friends: http://www.dukenostalgia.com/Kscope/Mask/Images/Mantaboxfront.JPG

MASK kicks ass!

4zn76tysfajdxp

ballsymchugh wrote: »

ha. not so smug then are ya?!!

I suppose not.

monkeypants

chatterpillar wrote: »

I dunno. My parents took it off me to "mind" it. Never saw it again. :mad:

My Ma did that. It was only about £7, maybe a tenner. When I went back to her later, she said that she'd already spent it on me. I was confused, as I hadn't received anything new, so I questioned her further about it. She'd spent it on food. Cheeky wagon!

Lollipops23

£245 in 1996, put £100 in the bank for my my holidays, gave my mam £20 for petrol cos of all the driving around she did on the day (extremely considerate for an 8 year old!) and spent the rest on a CD player (which was exactly £87) and some clothes....

foxyboxer

DazMarz wrote: »

£565 in 1997, great going.

Spent every penny of it on Star Wars Micro-Machines, the bases for them and all the gear. Still have them all in the house somewhere. The amount of fun I had with them, fighting ''wars'' all over the place means it was well spent!:D

Oh, and I always let The Empire win! Evil little shíte that I was back then!:D

George Lucas loved you so!!

-Leelo-

I got about £300 back in 1995 - The joys of having a huge extended family!!

Captain Slow IRL

Got £23 back in '87/'88. I was fooking minted!

Alessandra

180pounds. Lasted me about 3 years:D

arybvtcw0eolkf

mikemac wrote: »

So you still have it and loan it out at outrageous interest rates?

Got about IR80 in 1988 , twas a fortune to me at the time

Young whipper snapper, I was serving on the Israeli/Lebanese border in 1988!.