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Can anyone remember pocket money years ago I got 2shillings and six pence. a fortune then you could buy a comic for a few pence bag of chips for sixpence. My treat was Dad bought me a crunchie once a week. Anne.

I wonder if we are about the same age Anne.......I too used to get half a crown........and would go up to the shops and buy a Bunty comic and loads of sweets.........its a wonder I still have my own teeth......lol....

sally

Anne & Moonchild.

How many years ago are you talking about ?


I got ........ZERO.....!!

I think I had about half a crown also. But I can remember vividly when I first started work and earned £2-10 shillings. I gave mum the two pound for my 'keep', and kept the 10 shillings. Mum would then put half what I gave her away, to save for a pair of winter shoes, and a winter coat for me. The coat was always made, never bought. I never had a bought coat all my childhood, even though my parents were not very well off. It was the custom, well at least in my family, that you always had your winter coat made. Memories, memories
Julia in Derbyshire

Well moonchild Im 61 so we could be the same age both children of the sixties the best age ever. My first job earned £5 a week and Mum had £2 Anne.

We are talking 1960 and before that x

Oh Marilyn.......many moons ago....... :0),,,,

I will be 63 tomorrow, where have all those years gone......it was early 60's and my Dad had not long come out of convalesence, so both parents working and my Sis and I got pocket money........boy we thought we were soooo rich....and lucky.....

First job - like you Julia, I was 15 in 1961 and was paid £3 2s 6d.......and £2 went for my 'keep'........mind you we could buy a lot for the £1 2/6 left......weeks bus fares, weeks canteen lunches, stockings (too early for tights )..... and my Stuyvesants.......lol.....

simple days.....

sally

must have got my dates wrong, must have been late 50's for pocket money.....

Hi Sally,

I'm 65 and I still never got pocket money....boy you were rich !!LOL

I wanted an ice lolly off of the ice cream man for a penny and I used to go and ask my mum .she in turn would say. go ask your dad by the time I went to & throw the ice cream Van had GONE .!!

We must have been poor ...

But I can always remember that when I started work I had to pay 50 pence towards the rental of the TV. !!

*Happy birthday for tomorrow*...enjoy yourself.. X

Rich, yes........looking back I think we must have been, not in monetory terms, but in the way life was then.......with both parents working after only Mums wage coming in for over 18 months, and wages and jobs plenty.......working it out properly I would have been 10 1/2 so it was 1956/7........Macmillen I think......we've never had it so good......

.....but as you say Marilyn, it was not so good for us all it seems, and some must have had harsher times and not looked back through rose coloured spectacles, like I seem to be doing.....

Hope you get plenty of ice creams now.......you deserve them..... :0))))

Moonchild, how I remmber it well. Yes it was stockings in those days. I worked in the Accounts Dept of a well known hosiery manufacturer. We were allowed an allowence of stocking per month at a discount. It was the occassional Benson and Hedges for me, and my 63rd comes up in October.
Following on from my previous posting, whilst I was out watering just now, I remembered that my sister, six years older than myself, went to be a nurse at Nottingham General Hospital when she ws 18 yrs. Before she went, dad, a carpenter, made her a small wooden box, to lock her valuables up in, and stained it. It was beautiful. But in the year preceeding her leaving home, mum saved for her to have 2 winter coats made, and have two pairs of winter shoes, as well as a pair of sensible 'ward' shoes.
How times have changed
Julia in Derbyshire

I can remember getting a 3d piece - later increased to 6d
Happy birthday to Sally
Liz

Hello Anne.. Julia, RB Marilyn and Allen..........I think we are a lucky generation.......end of the war and post war baby boom........we were the hope for the future, the bonny cherub faced kids on the National Dried Milk tins......

.......and now the dear young silver 'foxes' collecting our pensions......lol

sally

Sorry Liz.....just spotted you......thanks for the birthday wishes for tomorrow.........I will leave the thread now.........this supergob seems to have hi-jacked Anne's thread........sorry Anne.....

x sally

I didn't get pocket money either, we used to work to get any cash.............either helping with jobs around the farm or babysitting the farmers children.

We used to get one comic a week and a bag of sweets between us on a friday............anything else had to be worked for.

what is half a crown ?

A tiara Keith:))

pmsl Kitty

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xx

behave kitty lol



can you cook yet

I had a thruppeny bit every saturday,and went to Mrs. Trudgens shop to buy 3 sticks of barley sugar that had chocolate that went down through the middle.It was a twisted barley sugar.I think I was about 5 or 6 so 1959 /60.I then had sixpence,and then I remember as a teen having half a crown. Oh those were the days lol.