General Chat

were 2 ,1/2 pence a quarter what can you remember that was so cheap compared to todays prices for fun xxx

Yes, and once I bought 2oz of Cherry Lips (remember them?) and salted peanuts had been on the scale before and they tasted horrid!!! Shopkeeper wouldn't change them or refund money...like to see that happen today..what a disappointment as it was my pocket money and so looking forward to them lol

Linda x

When I started work a sunblessed bread loaf was 14 ,1/2 Pence
that was 1976.

Paying 1 shilling old money, at the pictures best seats too! Jean x

When I first lived in a rented flat alone (1975) the rent was less than a quarter of my pay

maggie

Bacon at 2/6d per lb( sixties) and Mars bar 3d (forties)!

My first Saturday job was in a bakery shop - unsliced bread 11d - old money - fancy cakes 6d each - doughnuts 3d each - oh dear I am showing my age !!!
Love Mary xx

my first wage was £2 10 shillings, tradition was you kept your first pay bought a pair of grey wedgie shoes from Timpsons,

1/6d for a pound of best mince

When I first married had £8 a week house keeping money paid rent and saved for gas and electricity bills out of it paid coalman milkman and window cleaner and newspapers too. We ate quite well too!

Linda x

I went on a school trip to Normandy France, and we were only allowed to take £10.00 spending money for a week. 1975

funny that bread its as cheap as in late 70s, like tesco's stale sliced lol.

I remember my nan giving me 3d old money to go to the shop on a Sunday morning and you could get 2oz of sweets - acid drops, sherbet lemons, toffee crunch or pineapple chunks - or some black jacks and fruit salads that were four for a penny
(Took ages to choose, then we went back to nan's and she took them away, put them on a high shelf till we ate all our dinner - even the cabbage!)

Lol - oh I had forgotten that bright yellow sherbet powder - lick ya finger and then dip it in - then let a friend have a few dips in exchange for a sweet. How did we survive all those shared germs lol.

loved the sherbit too
and those jars of sweets up north we had sarsparella sweets when we moved south they never heard of them xx, used to have chips in newspaper too

We have a big sweet shop in our underground market where they sell all the old sweets. My 8 yr old takes ages to choose. I still love sherbert pips and tom thumb drops.

i do maz wernt they quite hot but you just had to have one

I remember those little black sweets but if my memory serves me right I didn't like them!
Did anyone used to go to chippie and get the crispy scraps for nowt?

Walkers crisps for 10p and a mars bar for 15p in the mid 80s.

i did lynda tasted better than the chips some times
with loads of salt and vinegar on.
ss i can rememeber crisps at 2p then 5p x

Ohh speaking of chips... I remember FREE scraps from the chipshop.

Used to go in and ask, "Have you got any scraps?" Had to time it just right to get there before the other kids but left long enough that they would have built up plenty. bit of salt and vinegar and you were good to go. :-)