The Daily Question
What was the first thing
you ever saved up for?
Before cards and contactless, there was a jar. Or a tin, or a sock at the back of a drawer, or a post office book with the stamps added one at a time.
Pocket money, a paper round, birthday money from an aunt. You counted it more often than it needed counting. You knew to the penny how far there still was to go.
Some of us got there and it was everything we had hoped. Some of us got there and found the wanting had been the best part. Either way, it was probably the first time you learned to wait for something.
So — what was the first thing you ever saved up for, and was it worth it?
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This one is on the things we keep. There are five others.