What is the first thing you bought with your own Salary?

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1. I don’t remember 🤔.

2. A nice wallet

3. I got a speeding ticket on my way home from the interview for my first job. 

4. A meal for my family 🥲 unfortunately I have a huge family, and there was more meal than salary leftover for me

5. My dad’s plane ticket to see the family. My dad haven’t been home to see our family for almost 15 years. So as soon as my first decent salary hit, I bought him his ticket home. It made me emotional tbh. Probably one of my small win 2 years ago

6. A stereo.

7. Laser hair removal 😂

8. A smartphone

9. A cat tree! A fancy one. I had already been living paycheck to paycheck, and been paying ridiculous vet bills for years.. didn’t even occur to me to “treat myself,” as I was so stuck in the mindset of everyone else first. I bought my cats a bad ass, 8 ft tall, 4 level mansion. They deserved it.

10. A Wacom tablet for digital illustration. I remember feeling proud to buy it.

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12. A PlayStation and Skyrim

13. The guy I was seeing at the time had the sweetest little stepsister and she was super excited about her 16th birthday, I got her a Polaroid camera with my first salary although I wanted one for myself

14. My first tattoo which was 3 hours… after a hike. Stupid….

15. Probably books.

16. Can’t remember first job, but current job first paycheck went on my gun

17. A pizza,

    I just turned 15 and had got my first paycheck, which was not much at that age, but on my way home from work on my bicycle (the day I also got my first paycheck) I stopped at my local pizzaria and bought a pizza with my own money for the first time, pizza never tasted that good before

18. A watch. It is still one of the very few ‘things’ I’d say I’m attached to.

19. An oven for my mom (because I still lived at home) and ours had been broken for over 2 years.

20. I treated my family to dinner

21. A new smartphone.

22. Groceries for the fam since we were poor and it was the entire reason I started working so early.

    First thing I bought myself? Tickets to a festival on the other side of the country.

23. I always wanted to take my parents for a vacation. This year, 5 years after i picked up my first job, i finally took them out of my country for a small vacation. My next goal is to take them to Switzerland, hope it happens sooner!

24. Littman stethoscope. (I’m a doctor) 😌

25. I’ll show my age a little bit, but it was a superdry jacket that was very trendy at the time. Green flannel with a button on grey hood. It was the most expensive item of clothing I’d ever owned and I was so proud of it.

26. A meal at a fancy sushi place on the counter by myself. yeah, I was a weird 18 years old

27. A computer monitor and slowly my first gaming pc.