How To Spend First Internship Salary

Any tips or advice on how I should spend my first ever real salary this summer?

Fortunate to be working at a top-BB this summer and am looking to take home a good chunk of change (in my eyes) for the first time in my life. Have never really had much, so do not need to spend anything crazily.

Other than buying a new suit and tie or two I will not have any other major expenses (rent and school taken care of). As I enter the summer before my senior year of undergrad, I would love to set myself up to be in a position where I can have financial stability right out of college. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

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In other words — I’m finally making money, but my parents still pay for my rent and food/incidentals. Please wso tell me how to spent my allowance.

 
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“I’ve never really had much”

”my parents will still pay for rent”

 
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Hello, I'm kinda drunk rn so I only read the title, but I put half of my salary into bonds and the other half into whatever the fuck i wanted to spend it on 

 

No worries, I don't remember when I wrote that but I remember writing that.

 

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