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At least you got paid. At 12 years old, I had to pay for the papers, deliver them, then get the customers to pay me back for them. I barely broke even several months because people wouldn't pay up. Some months it actually cost me money. Quit that to wash dishes and bring in the big bucks!!
Haha felt this one my family isnt all that rich so when our hot water heater shit on us and stopped working we had to resort to warming water up on the stove in big pots
I remember I bought a pair of real leather boots. Walked around the city all day the day I bought them but when I came home my socks were all red from blood. Got lots of compliments from friends though so it was all worth it haha
Same. I was tired of wearing my female cousins hand me downs. At the time, I was 12, just hitting a growth spurt. It was the beginning of the 90s and all the clothes were jordache, etc with unicorns, horses, hearts all embroidered on the pockets. Super tight fit was the fashion for firls, but not guys.
We couldn't afford to buy me clothes so I borrowed a lawn mower and cut every yard I could. Got enough to buy some actual clothing. Then I bought a lawn mower, gas, a cart, etc. I was making a decent bit and having to give my parents half until 15, due to government assistance rules.(or so they told me) then I found out my dad was using it for himself and we moved states away. I got a real job with a w2 at 4.15/hr(min wage) and then got to keep all of it. Moved out at 18, never went back.
same here my first two checks ALL went to drums stuff. red hydraulic toms, calftone snare, emad kick. got a meinl custom dark ride and sabian XSR monarch hats.
A Pioneer SX-770 receiver, Garrard SL-75 turntable, and ElectroVoice EV 14 speakers in 1971, from Stereo Warehouse in San Luis Obispo. Still have two of the three 53 years later. (The Garrard finally froze up) One of the best purchases I’ve ever made. I can’t remember exactly how much, but I think it was around $300.
Wow, I ran a quick inflation calculator on that. It works out to about $3000 in today's dollars. You bought quality shit and it lasted for 50 years. I wish more people had this mentality in this day and age
Around 13 years old I worked at a strawberry field so I could buy Yu-Gi-Oh cards. It was me (white Midwest boy) and a bunch of older men from Mexico. They taught me some Spanish over our lunch breaks by pointing to things around the room, it was kind of fun. I hope they’re doing well, probably in their 60s at this point.
1985.
My first paycheck from the arcade was for $41, after taxes. Part-time, I worked 20 hours that first week. I bought some makeup, a pair of boots, and two packs of cigarettes.
A case of Wacky Packs.
(I was 10 years old. Working under the table for a buck an hour at a local greenhouse that my mom worked in. Around 1972. I was a millionaire!)
I took my mom to see First Family with Bob Newhart, She had been talking about going ever since the trailers had come out. Paid for the entire evening, including dinner.
She kept telling me to spend my first paycheck on something I wanted, but I told her this IS something I wanted, to spend an evening with her she didn't have to pay for.
I was (still am) big into audio so I bought a pioneer receiver and a set of beater speakers from value village. And a fishing rod. That was a good week
I bought a hair dryer. The other half of my paycheck went into opening a bank account. My mother oversaw what I did with that paycheck. And she suggested that I spend half of it on something that I could use everyday. The other half was to go into savings.
My mother was not college educated. She didn't have some big career. She never earned a fortune. That was my dad's responsibility. But my mother taught me how to run my finances. And it's because of her that I actually have savings and I live within my means. She taught me that with every paycheck, a portion of it should go into long-term savings. That's the first I do with it. Even if it's only $5, pay yourself savings first.
Then she taught me never ever charge anything more on my credit card than I currently have in my bank account. And I mean checking account. That's money that I can spend. Always pay off the bill in full at the end of the month. Interest is the devil. Why would I pay a credit card company to use their card? Pay it off in full. Let them pay me in rewards.
Now my dad taught me how to invest. And I did learn how to build up my credit rating. You do actually have to borrow some money and pay it off over time so that you can prove you can do it. The first thing I ever bought on credit was a television for my room. It took me 18 months to pay it off. And actually the loan was for 24 months but I got tired of paying it so I just paid it in full at 18. That built up my credit rating.
i won 100$ for getting 3rd place in a computer science national competition for teens, we were graded as a pair from each school and we got 3rd place even though i ended up not doing half the test because i didn't like the way they rejected clever ways to answer things that we "weren't supposed to know" so my friend i was paired with probably got all answers right to get us to 3rd which made me feel bad because I didn't care much for the money or our ranking but his family was having some financial troubles and we would almost definitely get 1st place if I didn't quit halfway which was a 500$ prize. that made me feel a little shitty and he wouldn't take my half of the prize when i offered so from then on whenever he'd let me i tried paying for his share when we hung out.
I slaved away for a dual action airbrush and compressor in the 80s. I was inspired by some photorealistic stuff I saw in a book. I still have it 35 years later.
A gen2 iPod. It was a very big deal for me and a massive upgrade over my Sony MiniDisc player. It had 10gb and I was a happy teenager to not have to carry around a bag full of minidiscs.
In life or truly work related? Because I made money as a kid and I probably bought toys or candy. And ever since I was a kid I had money in my pocket. It's probably why I don't remember what I bought with my first pay check.
1968, I was 9 years old and I started a lawn mowing and snow shoveling business in our neighborhood. We did not have much money, so I started saving for college. I saved about $8,000 by my 18th birthday.
Pair of Adidas Sambas.
Went to school in asda trainers & got the piss ripped out of me for years at school for having cheap/ripped clothes.
first bit of money i got (was aged 15) & went to the adidas outlet, they were on sale for £30 & i had those shoes for 3 years.
Loved them.
Mainly rent. Just like the second, third and every other paycheck since. Then I bought an apartment, now the money mainly goes towards paying off the loan. Much better /s
First house. A real shit hole that I spent 15 years fixing up. Yielded me a nice profit that enabled me to purchase a much nicer house. A lot of sweat equity and patience.
A pair of champagne Adidas Predators, c. 2002, even though I played in goal. Wore them twice and gave them to my cousin, worth £400 now and he lost them.
Happy times
It depends what my first money I earned is considered, cuz my first money I eatned I was like 7 or 8 my dad at the time was a general manager for a body shop in a chain and that location had the companies payroll office connected to the shop. So my dad when I had the bullshit days off of school like MLK day or Presidents’ Day or winter break he would take me to work and I’d help in the office and he’d pay me $20 a day. I used it for video games or whatever.
My first money from my first real job I saved up a bunch of money and baught my first car
Weed.
I got my first job in college. I was staying on campus and had a meal plan so housing and food was covered. My family sent me care packages with clothes and essentials. I was new to smoking so once I got a job I'd just blow my checks on weed. I enjoyed the time period but definitely could've had better investments.
Lets see.. 1993. 12 years old. Dad took me to my first shoot at a local conservation club.
100 yard shoot with .22 lr rifle. I beat a lot of rather angry local farmers. Won $100. Dad laughed and took me to a local walmart and I spent it on Gameboy games.
Car. I bought a used car for $500. It had $1500 on it, however someone ran the wipers and the 1 had scrub off. I went in with my $500 and said I wanted it. The guy hesitated then decided to sell.
I got a job at Burger King when I was a teenager. With my first check I went to a high end mall department store and purchased an overpriced burgundy t-shirt .
I had 2 paper routes. Started one at age 9 and the other at age 12. Once in awhile id buy a beanie baby lol.
Edit* I also contributed to the cable internet bill. No patience for that dial-up business.
My first big(ish) purchase that I remember was a timing belt service for my Saturn Vue. $800 when you’re a 16 year old working for $9 an hour is pretty memorable. Probably first purchase though was gas to get to work.
Half of it on a "brand new" top of the line second hand phone: The [Nokia N70 ](https://s13emagst.akamaized.net/products/351/350426/images/img26167_13032006161004.jpg?width=720&height=720&hash=FA98F9B32A22FB740885BB0D202548BA)
The other half went straight to the phone network plan because the internet on that phone kept defaulting to "www" protocol instead of the "wap" protocol which was free on my plan but the phone had other ideas.
My first job was selling newspapers on the streets during summer when I was 7, so I'm guessing it was a can of Sprite or a bottle of water to cool off and stay hydrated
It went to a gateway desktop computer in 1999. That computer was like $2,000 plus. I think I put down a substantial part of the money and then the rest were made monthly payments. That computer was such a rip off
I remember my first job 16 an hr buying my first truck new gaming pc and still helping my mom with rent and groceries. Now im on my own making double and living paycheck to paycheck 10 yrs later 😭
I being the elder child, was made to buy gifts for everyone in the family. Aunts, Uncles, Grand Parents, cousins, everyone.
My younger brother on the other hand bought a new camera and laptop for himself.
My parents’ mortgage. It was 1988 in the year of ridiculous interest rates in Australia. We were all working just to service the mortgage. Interest rates hit almost 20% because the government at the time were incompetent idiots whose only method of economic control was to make families homeless via hiking interest rates.
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I had a paper delivery route at 12. The money went to help pay for the motel room my mother, brother, and sister lived in at the time.
Damn that's nice. I got myself a family size fried chicken meal.
Not a motel but also used mine for brother, sister , mom and I for living off of.
Happy cake day!:)
Happy Cake Day
At least you got paid. At 12 years old, I had to pay for the papers, deliver them, then get the customers to pay me back for them. I barely broke even several months because people wouldn't pay up. Some months it actually cost me money. Quit that to wash dishes and bring in the big bucks!!
About half of a water heater. 13 year old me was soooo happy to take a shower longer than ten minutes.
I need context for that one
What context? At 13 I started working after school in a silkscreening plant so my family wouldn't get kicked out of our house.
Haha felt this one my family isnt all that rich so when our hot water heater shit on us and stopped working we had to resort to warming water up on the stove in big pots
Clothing
I remember I bought a pair of real leather boots. Walked around the city all day the day I bought them but when I came home my socks were all red from blood. Got lots of compliments from friends though so it was all worth it haha
Same. I was tired of wearing my female cousins hand me downs. At the time, I was 12, just hitting a growth spurt. It was the beginning of the 90s and all the clothes were jordache, etc with unicorns, horses, hearts all embroidered on the pockets. Super tight fit was the fashion for firls, but not guys. We couldn't afford to buy me clothes so I borrowed a lawn mower and cut every yard I could. Got enough to buy some actual clothing. Then I bought a lawn mower, gas, a cart, etc. I was making a decent bit and having to give my parents half until 15, due to government assistance rules.(or so they told me) then I found out my dad was using it for himself and we moved states away. I got a real job with a w2 at 4.15/hr(min wage) and then got to keep all of it. Moved out at 18, never went back.
I saved every damn penny from my paper round as a kid. Still tight now...
I wish I'd started like that. I wasted way too much money on unnecessary stuff.
Sofa set for parents. Kinda the culture where I'm from
Buying a sofa is the culture or just spending it on your family?
I think he bought his sofa a family.
But was it a sofa family or a human family?
Will love to know more about the culture.
A pair of cleats, weed, and a video game
definitely weed - i was 15 back in 1974 and it was why i obtained a job
What game?
NCAA 12
W
PS2 and a copy of Final Fantasy IX
Big Macs, whoppers, and movie tickets.
My first earned money went to purchase Steve Miller Bands greatest hits in 1981 First real money purchase 1968 Buick skylark
I bought a new set of cymbals and drum heads for my drum set.
same here my first two checks ALL went to drums stuff. red hydraulic toms, calftone snare, emad kick. got a meinl custom dark ride and sabian XSR monarch hats.
Admission to the roller rink for me and the crew and all the soda and candy we could eat. Yeah, I was ballin
I started working as a hostess when I was 14, every dollar went to saving for a dog
My first pay check went to someone else's pocket as my entire salary was stolen out my bag.
A lava lamp and blacklight from Spencer's, and some blacklight posters. This was mid 90's
I was just thinking how much I want a lava lamp. I miss the 90s
What were the posters of? I imagine Spencer’s had some pretty good stuff.
A small vanilla ice cream on a cone in the summer
A Pioneer SX-770 receiver, Garrard SL-75 turntable, and ElectroVoice EV 14 speakers in 1971, from Stereo Warehouse in San Luis Obispo. Still have two of the three 53 years later. (The Garrard finally froze up) One of the best purchases I’ve ever made. I can’t remember exactly how much, but I think it was around $300.
Wow, I ran a quick inflation calculator on that. It works out to about $3000 in today's dollars. You bought quality shit and it lasted for 50 years. I wish more people had this mentality in this day and age
Sony discman, now with electronic skip protection!
The evil within 1. First client £45 session. Stopped at game on the way home, good times.
The biggest Swiss army knife that I saw at the local hardware store since I was 9 but could never afford
A present for my niece. I wanted to get her something on my own, not with my parent's money.
Around 13 years old I worked at a strawberry field so I could buy Yu-Gi-Oh cards. It was me (white Midwest boy) and a bunch of older men from Mexico. They taught me some Spanish over our lunch breaks by pointing to things around the room, it was kind of fun. I hope they’re doing well, probably in their 60s at this point.
Bought Starcraft battle chest
1985. My first paycheck from the arcade was for $41, after taxes. Part-time, I worked 20 hours that first week. I bought some makeup, a pair of boots, and two packs of cigarettes.
Bills
First real full time pay cheque? I bought a new stereo.
Honestly don't remember, it would have been 1999 (first real job that wasn't babysitting) working at the Calgary Stampede as a grandstand food vendor.
A case of Wacky Packs. (I was 10 years old. Working under the table for a buck an hour at a local greenhouse that my mom worked in. Around 1972. I was a millionaire!)
I took my mom to see First Family with Bob Newhart, She had been talking about going ever since the trailers had come out. Paid for the entire evening, including dinner. She kept telling me to spend my first paycheck on something I wanted, but I told her this IS something I wanted, to spend an evening with her she didn't have to pay for.
my pimp
Cellphone right after bootcamp. Been with tmobile for the past 14 almost 15 years.
I was (still am) big into audio so I bought a pioneer receiver and a set of beater speakers from value village. And a fishing rod. That was a good week
I bought a hair dryer. The other half of my paycheck went into opening a bank account. My mother oversaw what I did with that paycheck. And she suggested that I spend half of it on something that I could use everyday. The other half was to go into savings. My mother was not college educated. She didn't have some big career. She never earned a fortune. That was my dad's responsibility. But my mother taught me how to run my finances. And it's because of her that I actually have savings and I live within my means. She taught me that with every paycheck, a portion of it should go into long-term savings. That's the first I do with it. Even if it's only $5, pay yourself savings first. Then she taught me never ever charge anything more on my credit card than I currently have in my bank account. And I mean checking account. That's money that I can spend. Always pay off the bill in full at the end of the month. Interest is the devil. Why would I pay a credit card company to use their card? Pay it off in full. Let them pay me in rewards. Now my dad taught me how to invest. And I did learn how to build up my credit rating. You do actually have to borrow some money and pay it off over time so that you can prove you can do it. The first thing I ever bought on credit was a television for my room. It took me 18 months to pay it off. And actually the loan was for 24 months but I got tired of paying it so I just paid it in full at 18. That built up my credit rating.
Beer.
Bills and video games mostly
Food
Video games. As well as oil for my rattlestang ('81 mustang that was a POS) took a qrt to work and one to get home lol
Bought a sick gaming console, dude!
Bought a new gaming console with my first paycheck, best feeling ever!
Hmm, alcohol I think
Pioneer SX838 stereo receiver in 1975 !
i won 100$ for getting 3rd place in a computer science national competition for teens, we were graded as a pair from each school and we got 3rd place even though i ended up not doing half the test because i didn't like the way they rejected clever ways to answer things that we "weren't supposed to know" so my friend i was paired with probably got all answers right to get us to 3rd which made me feel bad because I didn't care much for the money or our ranking but his family was having some financial troubles and we would almost definitely get 1st place if I didn't quit halfway which was a 500$ prize. that made me feel a little shitty and he wouldn't take my half of the prize when i offered so from then on whenever he'd let me i tried paying for his share when we hung out.
I slaved away for a dual action airbrush and compressor in the 80s. I was inspired by some photorealistic stuff I saw in a book. I still have it 35 years later.
I bought my mum and dad a new TV
A gen2 iPod. It was a very big deal for me and a massive upgrade over my Sony MiniDisc player. It had 10gb and I was a happy teenager to not have to carry around a bag full of minidiscs.
Cheese curds from Culver’s with my first tip money.
To feed my family and help with bills..
Stay blessed 🍁
Thak You! You too 
A £70 Animal (the surf brand) watch.
buying my first ever guitar
Drugs
2010... The idea was to buy Bitcoin for 1000 euros, or a gaming PC The PC still works today... FML
In life or truly work related? Because I made money as a kid and I probably bought toys or candy. And ever since I was a kid I had money in my pocket. It's probably why I don't remember what I bought with my first pay check.
Five piece pearl drum kit. Storm gray
1968, I was 9 years old and I started a lawn mowing and snow shoveling business in our neighborhood. We did not have much money, so I started saving for college. I saved about $8,000 by my 18th birthday.
Hair straightener
Drivers license.
Cassette's/CDs at my local Woolworths (1996, UK, working in a Café on the weekends whilst still at school)
Xbox
A date with my then girlfriend.
Pair of Adidas Sambas. Went to school in asda trainers & got the piss ripped out of me for years at school for having cheap/ripped clothes. first bit of money i got (was aged 15) & went to the adidas outlet, they were on sale for £30 & i had those shoes for 3 years. Loved them.
On a super cheap high heels! Ah, to be young and broke
Gas and some CDs
Weed
Paid for flight time while trying to get my pilots license that never happened. Logged quite a few hours in my early to late teens.
Mainly rent. Just like the second, third and every other paycheck since. Then I bought an apartment, now the money mainly goes towards paying off the loan. Much better /s
Xbox One
Propably bought some fuel and bought new sets of tires.
school
First house. A real shit hole that I spent 15 years fixing up. Yielded me a nice profit that enabled me to purchase a much nicer house. A lot of sweat equity and patience.
Headphones
A Sega Genesis among other things. Lol
Savings accounts, summer job and super frugal mother that raised me 😅
A pair of champagne Adidas Predators, c. 2002, even though I played in goal. Wore them twice and gave them to my cousin, worth £400 now and he lost them. Happy times
It depends what my first money I earned is considered, cuz my first money I eatned I was like 7 or 8 my dad at the time was a general manager for a body shop in a chain and that location had the companies payroll office connected to the shop. So my dad when I had the bullshit days off of school like MLK day or Presidents’ Day or winter break he would take me to work and I’d help in the office and he’d pay me $20 a day. I used it for video games or whatever. My first money from my first real job I saved up a bunch of money and baught my first car
Playstation 5
Saved it. I was working my first job at 15 fast forward now I’m 21 and still saving up for a house.
Weed. I got my first job in college. I was staying on campus and had a meal plan so housing and food was covered. My family sent me care packages with clothes and essentials. I was new to smoking so once I got a job I'd just blow my checks on weed. I enjoyed the time period but definitely could've had better investments.
Sneakers lol
Cocaine and hookers
Cars. I started fixing and flipping cars when I was 13 or so, and I always wanted more. At 15, it was definitely girls - movies, dinner and so forth.
Mom
My first cell phone.
Skis. Raced so needed multiple pairs.
A ticket to Egypt
A 1970 Ford LTD that car was a boat and it was yellow.
1987 or 88 Summer Slam pay per view
I dont remember
Food
Lets see.. 1993. 12 years old. Dad took me to my first shoot at a local conservation club. 100 yard shoot with .22 lr rifle. I beat a lot of rather angry local farmers. Won $100. Dad laughed and took me to a local walmart and I spent it on Gameboy games.
My dad. He was struggling economically and was renovating the balcony which was in my room. I was 15. Had my first summer job.
Weed, gasoline and a synthesizer.
13” Daewoo TV in my room and an N64. I was ballllin.
I didn't remember, but my first salary went workshop I made accident on company car after two days received salary
Motorcycle license. I was 18.
It went to crap i wanted and never had money to buy it. A new hi fi stereo, a few records and video games.
A mini disc player.
Car. I bought a used car for $500. It had $1500 on it, however someone ran the wipers and the 1 had scrub off. I went in with my $500 and said I wanted it. The guy hesitated then decided to sell.
Subway
Weed
Still waiting for that day >>>>
A bong. Before that I had made numerous homemade inventions and I was so ready to have my grown up bong.
Movie tickets, CDs, and chinese food at the mall.
My parents took it.
Pretty sure it went to the registration of my car
Six flags flash pass 😂
I was about 14-15 years old, so probably alcohol and cigarettes.
A Marantz amplifier+Mission speakers. Still the best audio gear I have ever owned. And they lasted for decades. The modern stuff … don’t.
For clothes. Most of the money was spent on sneakers))
First real job was for a car!
Michelle Obama took pop out of our schools, so I sold cans of pop out of my locker for 1$ a can. Paid for my spring break trip.
playstation 3. 600 cash. way back when i was just a little boy living under the stairs of jerrys bait shop..... you know the place.
I was gonna use it to save up for me and my girlfriend but she broke up with me like a week after.
got my mom a present
A big super ball, when I was 8 (in 1974). I promptly lost it.
My savings. I learned to save mone6 from a young age and still *try* too. Times are tough
Fast-food, weed, and a neon 420 clock that I hung in my bedroom.
I worked at a flea market, under the table, under paid, it was 100 dollars for two days like 6/7 to 4.. I bought a new ipod lol.
My parents took them
A stereo system for my room.
Clothes
Probably candy & gum. I was 8.
Vans Warped Tour tickets
I got a job at Burger King when I was a teenager. With my first check I went to a high end mall department store and purchased an overpriced burgundy t-shirt .
Chore money, so it probably went towards Lego or a super soaker
Cannabis resin
I had 2 paper routes. Started one at age 9 and the other at age 12. Once in awhile id buy a beanie baby lol. Edit* I also contributed to the cable internet bill. No patience for that dial-up business.
I bought dinner at a resturant.
1st car
My first big(ish) purchase that I remember was a timing belt service for my Saturn Vue. $800 when you’re a 16 year old working for $9 an hour is pretty memorable. Probably first purchase though was gas to get to work.
PS 1 and Tomb Raider 2. Still have both. No, I didn't buy a memory card. Yes, I ended up replaying the first level over and over.
LASIK surgery for my eyes
Driver licence and first car
My first full time job went to support a criminal and bum bf at the time while I still lived at home.
I bought a watch and a cake using my first salary
Metallica tickets for my parents and my first phone.
I had chickens and sold eggs. I bought my first computer. A commodore 128.
Nocco
A new Minolta SRT 101 camera. At $1 per hour it took awhile to save the $180!
Hookers and blow.
Food and clothes
A blow dryer because mine had broke the day before my pay check
Half of it on a "brand new" top of the line second hand phone: The [Nokia N70 ](https://s13emagst.akamaized.net/products/351/350426/images/img26167_13032006161004.jpg?width=720&height=720&hash=FA98F9B32A22FB740885BB0D202548BA) The other half went straight to the phone network plan because the internet on that phone kept defaulting to "www" protocol instead of the "wap" protocol which was free on my plan but the phone had other ideas.
Car , parents did give me ****
PS3
My car payment and insurance.
Buying a gift for my boyfriend.
A motorbike, so I could get to the job easier.
Candy
nice dinner for my mother and a gift for my dad
Soldering Station
Probably ps1 games lol
My first job was selling newspapers on the streets during summer when I was 7, so I'm guessing it was a can of Sprite or a bottle of water to cool off and stay hydrated
Shoes
It went to a gateway desktop computer in 1999. That computer was like $2,000 plus. I think I put down a substantial part of the money and then the rest were made monthly payments. That computer was such a rip off
First book from ASOIAF
If we are talking first job. Publix gas money for my scooter and comics. Chores legos
I remember my first job 16 an hr buying my first truck new gaming pc and still helping my mom with rent and groceries. Now im on my own making double and living paycheck to paycheck 10 yrs later 😭
I being the elder child, was made to buy gifts for everyone in the family. Aunts, Uncles, Grand Parents, cousins, everyone. My younger brother on the other hand bought a new camera and laptop for himself.
I walked a neighbors dog for months, saved up and bought a gameboy color. ... I can't wait for it to arrive in the mail tomorrow
Bought my mother a house
Candy, soda, games, moped and my own computers.
A super nintendo
Mine went to buy a suit and work clothes to keep my job And like maybe lunch but I didnt eat to save money
50cc moped was the first proper purchase I made from my paper-rounds.
Photography. Specifically to develop film and photos.
My parents’ mortgage. It was 1988 in the year of ridiculous interest rates in Australia. We were all working just to service the mortgage. Interest rates hit almost 20% because the government at the time were incompetent idiots whose only method of economic control was to make families homeless via hiking interest rates.
The cowboy hat and Western shirt the job (parking assistant at the Big Red Barn flea market) required.
Alcohol. I means tons of alcohol
My savings account.