Now we all like a survey....dont we?

This thread has made me laugh lots!

But as for young people not knowing what it is to struggle..... some of my kids at school have part time jobs, which they give all the money of to their parents, because without it the rent would not be paid - I think there are many who know just how much of a struggle life is!

With regards to fish and chips, the nice chippy here is £1.20 for chips and £3/4 for fish depending on what it is. Super tasty crispy chips and lovely flaky fish - mmmmm

 

We knew how to add up at a very young age as money for sweets was very rare. We used to buy sweets from the penny tray at the corner shop. 8 black jacks or 8 fruit salads for a penny. :gnthb:
I love going into a shop now and asking how much their penny lollys are its great to see the look on their faces:lollol: 02

 

Inflation is dreadful, when I was growing up in the 7os they were ha'penny each. You could get 5 flying saucers for a penny. Those shrimps were the expensive ones-2p each-what a swizz. Bazooka bubble gum-you used to get a little cartoon in the wrapper and a transfer tattoo were a penny each.

Probably blow all your budgets buying a 10p bag lol.


I haven't a clue about money pre-decimilisation, it's always been that way for me. When was it?

 

Yep! -mztrouble, it is good that there are still lots of young people who contribute to the household budget in one way or another just sad that some do not.


:hehe:takemore02withit - you remember how to convert from £.s.d

98½p wouldn't even buy one portion of chips today would it


Shiney - must confess I started smoking when I was about 13
but glad to say I gave up many years ago.

Your remark about Eggheads reminds me of when I was once helping at a Charity jumble sale. Young girl about 8 asked how much an item was and I told her "20 pence". She turned to hr mother with a very puzzled expession and said "what does she mean?" Mother replied "she means 20 'p' " Well, that made me feel rather ancient :D

 

Amazes me how these threads start off with the simplest of subjects and developes into the must incredible knowledge base.
We have the makings of a book amonst us, and think it all started with a question about the price of fish n chips!

Awhile ago I spent some time with Celia next door (now 102 years old)
We spoke for ages about her life which I recorded on my digi recorder and its something I keep meaning to get on paper but not quite sure how to do it.
She is a living history machine.

Heres a question that foxes quite a few people.
Now be honest and only give me your very first thought.

How many pennies in the old pound?

 

240 pennies in an old pound Robert:gnthb:

Decimilation{sp} came into being on February 15th? 1971 and I left school July of that year and we had not been prepared at school for it:(

 

Good thread here Robert and it would be nice for more people to spill the beans so to speak as to how things were wage and family wise in their younger days.{Better than this is your life:D}

Shiney I am surprised you never did a paper round?At least I know now why you hate washing your car so much:D I won't bore you with getting up early {5.30am} to run up to the paper shop to get the newspapers and torch to go off delivering in all weathers.I hated the winter mornings in the 60's with all that snow and kept slipping and sliding up to peoples letterboxes:p or the same time years later to go and open up the premises where I used to work so that we could do our twelve hour day:D

It seems like there were a few generations of us that had it hard when we were youngters,not like the youngsters of today.They would all die if they didn't have their Plasma Screens, X Boxes and Blue Ray DVD's.It is going to be interesting to see how the kids of today turn out:D

Another question.How many newspapers were in a Quoire or was it Quire?

 

I must have done something right with my middle child then. She had a baby in May, and has only had a handful of brand new things. Everything else was either given to her (as other peoples babies outgrew them), her little brothers' things, came from car boot sales or charity shops. She's not too proud to say 'yes' to things offered to her for the little one and regularly goes into the charity shops looking for a bargain. She doesn't do designer clothes, prefers being warm than fashionable, and when the baby has outgrown things she's offered them to others that might need them.

Yes, we were hard up for quite a few years when she was a little one, I make do and mend, cut my little boys hair (£5 just to get it cut! ), knit, cook from scratch, and obviously grow my own veg now I've got the allotment. My 3 year old loves nothing more than going into the pound shop as it means he might get a toy, he was over the moon with his 10p seeds - perhaps another bargain spotter in the making.

"newspapers were in a Quoire" - 4 sheets of paper or parchment folded over and sewn to make 8 leaves, but, paper is thinner now so the metric quire has 25 sheets, imperial quire is 24 sheets. 24 sheets = 1 quire, and 20 quires = 1 ream.

 

I can remember the big digger that trundled across mums daffs to lay a mains water supply to the house where the family lived at that time.
She was fuming..
Before then our water came from a deep well in the garden and the first one up in the morning would prime the hand pump in the kitchen to lift the water from the well.
The large coal/wood fired "copper" in the corner. Filled with buckets of well water from the pump over the sink. Fire stoked up and that was the hot water for the family.
Bathtime was interesting. A large tin tub in front of the fire topped up with hot and cold bucketed from the pre mentioned.
The cleanest went first with possible two in the tub.
last one came out just as dirty as you went in !
Windows iced up on the inside..
Oh yes, the mice chewing away the woodwork of the house at night was very musical.
Theres more later..
Now its time to watch the Edinburgh tattoo on my 8 foot plasma screen TV with the 22 channel sound system while setting on my favorite massage chair controlling the moody lights and climate control.
Happy days
robert

 

my dads wage was (IN OLD MONEY, 19 SHILLINGS AND 7 D.THAT MAKES IT 3 POINTS SHORT OF A HUNDRED ,TO MAKE A POUND! WE ARE TALKING OLD MONEY.100D = £1.00 POUND. MUSIC.

 

Funnily enough I've just done a project with some year 9's (13/14yrs old) about this. They had to interview people in their local community and they loved it. They went to the elderly in the streets and the old peoples home, teachers, community workers, gardeners etc and asked them the same set of questions. They love that when they now walk to school there are people who recognise them and say hello! Its totally unheard of where my school is :-)

Old people are a wealth of local knowledge :-)

 

HI WISEOLDOWL. I REMEMBER THE OUTSIDE TOILETS,AND THE NEWSPRINT ON OUR A**** ,IT WAS EVEN WORSE WHEN THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR USED UP ALL OF OUR DAILY RECORD!!!.WE USED TO COLLECT THE COAL FROM THE LOCAL RAILWAY SIDINGS (RICH PICKINGS!)EMPTY BOTTLES>WE WOULD HAND THEM OVER THE COUNTER,THE SHOP WAS SO FULL THE OWNER WOULD PUT THEM ROUND THE BACK WHERE WE COULD PICK THEM UP AND (GO ROUND AGAIN!).
THE ONLY THING I FEEL NOW (THE KIDS DO NOT HAVE THE SAME FREEDOM )AS WE HAD .WE WOULD LEAVE THE HOUSE AT 9 IN THE MORNING AND OUR PARENTS WOULD NOT SEE US TILL ,9 O CLOCK IN THE EVENING.THIS WAS THE DAYS OF PLENTY OF FIELDS OF POTATOES, APPLE TREES,PEAR TREES,NEEPS,YOU NAME IT, SADLY IT IS EXTREME CHANGED DAYS. AS TO YOUR COAL IT WAS ALLWAYS SAID> MY GRANDMOTHER COULD PAWN A BRICK??????).:yho::thmb::gnthb: