Jack Monroe #100 Jack Monroe and The Jimmy Nail Experience - she’s still lying

[ChickenPorridge]

I bought a black/red striped Kurt Cobain style jumper and a pair of red converse because I was not like other girls I was a very very cool, alt and emo girl okay! My first paycheck was a huge amount of dough (for me) after working almost full time at a pharmacy during the summer, I was 16!

ETA: I was in charge of the soaps, sunscreen, and anything else you would find in a pharmacy EXCEPT for the prescription counter which I never had any reason to be anywhere near as obviously you have to be trained and qualified for that. Hear that, Jack?

 

[Miss Anne Thrope]

And too much pepper!

Where’s the damn salmon? Just that one tiny fragment?

 

[Veronicaaa]

I think my first ever wage went on trainers - can’t say for sure. As a Saturday girl I earned £1.36 per hour FANCY
I once babysat for a quite middle class couple, earning £10. They came home about 2 in the morning and called me a cab. A black cab, not a mini cab. Cost me £7.50 to get home. And to be fair I would have walked if I could have given them the slip. I was buying my own school shoes cOz wE wOz PoOr pls send cash (rattles tin)

Wow that's awful, they should have paid for your taxi!

 

[nightfeedz]

With my first pay I bought Shaun of the Dead on DVD and a load of clothes from New Look. For some reason I was really into Trinny & Susannah’s book at the time and 16 year old me followed their tips on dressing 50 years older than I was. I distinctly remember a knee length brown skirt and green jumper combo than I wouldn’t be seen dead in now. My emo phase started a year later and hasn’t ended.

Hahaaa my mum had their book and I remember being about 14 struggling to apply their advice to my own wardrobe of converse and vest tops.

I can’t recall what my first pay bought but I would be very surprised to find out it was anything but drinks and cigarettes. Sadly, much more likely to be a can of Tennents than a Wedgewood tea cup.

 

[Veronicaaa]

It's 4pm guys are we ready for some #toptips

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

 

[Veronicaaa]

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

I’m pretty sure my first wage went on cigarettes and a go halves on vodka. We had a dodgy newsagents that sold to underage 16/17 year olds. Forever bringing this class to the cabal aren’t I?

 

[MancBee]

Still no sign? Ever the professional.

 

[Tabitha D]

I could only see a couple of Lockdown Larder requests on Twitter today, so that petered out pretty quickly didn’t it.

 

[blurstoftimes]

I’m pretty sure my first wage went on cigarettes and a go halves on vodka. We had a dodgy newsagents that sold to underage 16/17 year olds. Forever bringing this class to the cabal aren’t I?

yeah i can't remember what mine went on but i'm willing to bet it was probably vodka and a pack of camel blues because *fancy*

 

[Veronicaaa]

I could only see a couple of Lockdown Larder requests on Twitter today, so that petered out pretty quickly didn’t it.

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday but says she's just going to @ people from now on
Thursday - 'loses track of time', is late, continues to quote tweet
Friday

Total followers lost - 450+ in 4 days.

 

[MancBee]

Wish I were on Twitter, I could ask her what to do with the tinned Fray Bentos pie and tin of lychees I found at the back of the cupboard.

 

[Aquamarina]

My first pay packet from working at a local butchers went on a Chinese takeaway, a bottle of Malibu and 20 B&H (classy!) I vaguely remember giving £20 to my mum to go towards the bills. I also think I went up to Oxford Street to buy new shoes at Shelleys (if any of you older frauen remember their wonderful store with all the trendy shoes.)

 

[MancBee]

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday but says she's just going to @ people from now on
Thursday - 'loses track of time', is late, continues to quote tweet
Friday

Total followers lost - 450+ in 4 days.

As I say, the attention span of a gnat.

 

[TurnedUpInTipp]

Wish I were on Twitter, I could ask her what to do with the tinned Fray Bentos pie and tin of lychees I found at the back of the cupboard.

In your heart of hearts you already know the answer...

 

[Veronicaaa]

As I say, the attention span of a gnat.

She's *exhausted*, MacBee #burnout

 

[ChickenPorridge]

Wish I were on Twitter, I could ask her what to do with the tinned Fray Bentos pie and tin of lychees I found at the back of the cupboard.

Blend it all up and bung some curry powder in x. Don't forget you can make yourself a hat from the Fray Bentos tin, bit of tinsel will have it nice and festive x

 

[MancBee]

In your heart of hearts you already know the answer...

I can't for the life of me think how they got there!

 

[SarcasticEllis]

My first pay packet was so long ago I have no recollection of what I bought. It was no doubt some frivolousness, I remember loads of those sorts of purchases in my youth, so could have been one of many. A full length brown pvc maxi trench raincoat was one that stands out.

One of my first jobs was a Saturday 5-10pm shift. I still made it out clubbing but due to not having time for the pubs beforehand I saved money and bought one of those ridiculously ugly silver hifi sets with a 3 cd changer and multi coloured flashing display. I loved it!!