General Chat

Never got any pocket money off mum and dad but every Friday dad would get us a bar of choccy and a packet of Opal Fruits and an Arrow Bar.

Nan and granddad bought us a comic and 3d every Friday as well.

Best treat was from my gr. nan on Saturday afternoon.... we got a twist of sweets and 2d plus a chocolate biscuit and a glass of home made lemonade, she said it was home made any way.

I had 2/6 off Mum and Dad, the same off my Nan & Grandad and Auntie Glad gave me 6d every Saturday on her way to balloroom dancing...the money lasted me for ages as I didnt like sweets or chocolate...strange child!

Allan remember listening to a transistor under bed covers kept fading out ( radio luxembourg ) I got in trouble if I was caught it was when all the Liverpool groups started yes 1964 I was 16 too . Anne.

I used to get 20p a week back in 1972 and I used to do a graph showing how much money i had in my money box!

I used to get a penny per year so got a pay rise every birthday!! But I also had a comic bought for me every week, and, sometimes sweets too. (after rationing (I am a child of the 40s!)

Ann
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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.

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can you cook yet

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pmsl Kitty

A tiara Keith:))

what is half a crown ?

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.

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

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

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

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

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))))

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

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.....

We are talking 1960 and before that x