What was your first BIG purchase?

[Rush]

What was your first BIG purchase that you made by yourself?

Probably either my $1,700 iMac or the time I paid $1,800 to break out of an apartment lease. Both were probably my first big purchases of that magnitude in terms of spending it all at once.

 

[inactiveuser1]

Haven't made any big purchases yet :tiptoe:

 

[Uman85]

Hookers and blow.

 

[85Bears4life]

$1000 HP laptop/printer combo in 2003/2004...

Both still work to this day just fine

 

[nwfisch]

$1.64 bottle of Coca Cola at work today

 

[R_Mac_1]

Summer after high school (2003) I bought my own car. Before that I used family vehicles. It was a 1990 Cadillac Eldorado. Paid $1200. Drove it for...about two years I guess. During that time I replaced a control arm, fuel pump, alternator and plug wires I think. Maybe $5-700 worth of stuff. Got into an accident with minor quarter panel damage and pocketed the $900. Turned around and sold it a few months later for like $900. Basically broke even. Gotta love cheap cars sometimes.

 

[Rush]

This is a good topic, don't ruin it with nonsense.

 

[BNB]

I bought myself a $600 computer when I was 16 [mostly birthday money]. Then I paid $7,000 dollars for my car when I was 18. My parents pitched in $4,000 [so 11K total on the car] I've been pretty broke since then... should have saved that and just bought a shitty ass car instead.

 

[Uman85]

$10K on a car.

 

[Shawon0Meter]

I bought a $2000 car when I was 17 or 18

 

[GaelicSoxFan]

$10K for a 2000 Chevy Cavalier at Pete Georges (now Webb) Chevrolet in Oak Lawn.

 

[Capt. Serious]

$50 on a Sidney Crosby jersey

 

[GaelicSoxFan]

$50 on a Stalgod jersey

fixed

 

[Uman85]

fixed

Only $50? What a steal.

 

[X]

Bought a $700 Dell laptop when I was 17. used it about 8 years.

My wife and I bought a car new off the lot a cpl years ago...got a helluva deal on it. Total cost was $13,000...paid it off in 15 months.

College. fack.

 

[Mr. Cub]

Was a car. Twice. Rolled the first one and my ex sold the second one. Now I have an $80 pair of kicks to get me around.

 

[Crystallas]

I don't know what is considered a big purchase. I don't spend my money on small things often, so nearly all of my purchases are the same cycle, even as a kid. Save for something big, buy, save again...

I put a good down payment on my first house at 18. No first time homebuyer grants. But I also spent $8k on a 1 year old, smashed up 240SX to restore when I was 15, and $1k on my first non-pass me down/dumpster-find component set for a computer(amiga parts including an expansion board that allowed you to put ram chips on, in parallel (not memory sticks, the actual chips that had to be installed with extreme precision) and I think I had 8 128kb chips for a whopping 1mb of slow ram, a sound magic sampler, and some VGA converter(which were pricey back then) .

 

[The Bandit]

College loans but I haven't paid for those yet still going
500 to pay off a guy that i fender bendered
500 for car insurance
200 for a PSP a few years ago
if I did the math probably 3-4 hundred on hats over the last 5 years
Sheetz
gas
and booze just spent 60 bucks last week on 3 bottles of liquor

 

[inactiveuser1]

College loans but I haven't paid for those yet still going
500 to pay off a guy that i fender bendered 500 for car insurance
200 for a PSP a few years ago
if I did the math probably 3-4 hundred on hats over the last 5 years
Sheetz
gas
and booze just spent 60 bucks last week on 3 bottles of liquor

if were counting that, i payed 1200 dollars to fix a parked car i hit and guess what fisch, kathy was with me :smh:

 

[Crystallas]

i payed 1200 dollars to fix a parked car i hit

Congrats, now you gotta hit a moving target. According to old GTA rules, you'll net $100.