What did you spend your pocket money on as a teenager?

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Assuming that as a teenager you had a bit of money to spend on things that weren’t strict necessities, but still didn’t have loads of cash to splash, what kind of things did you buy?

I was born 1980. My pocket money, birthday money, babysitting money went on:

Magazines (especially Just Seventeen).
Body Shop lip balms and fruity soaps.
Guitar strings and plectrums.
Stationery.
Sweets (especially sherbet stuff, kola kubes and the like).
Bus fares to town.
Cinema tickets.
Glitter or pastel nail polish.
The NME.
Cassette singles.
Wimpy burgers and milkshakes.
Body sprays.
Glow in the dark plastic stars for my bedroom ceiling.

Cinema, toiletries and snacks (the kind that would have judgy pearl-clutching aplenty nowadays) during term time - I was at boarding school so no point collecting 'stuff'. Hair salon, clothes and gelato/coffee (weather dependent) during the holidays.

I typically saved half my allowance as well.

It mostly got spent in boots or woolies!

Just 17, more, mizz, Cosmo, B, Sugar, Bliss, 19, company, look.

Tapes

Pick n mix

No 17 or collection 2000 make up

Sun in

Fizzy juice and chocolate

Posters

Friendship bracelets

Badges

Ear piercing/rings

Hair accessories

Nice pens and diaries

Didn't get much pocket money, 10p a day or £1 a week.

We would spend it at the van and get a 5p or 10p mix up (bag of mixed sweets, would get 2 or 4 for a penny!). Still had 1/2p in those days!!

Would also buy scraps for my scrap book.

Tapes/cds
Magazines
Make up/clothes
Cigarettes
Alcohol

Teenager in the 70's
Jackie
Records
Blank Tapes
Woodleigh Fields Green Apple
Eyeliner
Roller Ball Lipgloss in a glass bottle
Shaders & Toners