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How cheap can you remember things

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.

What else do you guys remember?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I can remember 10 ciggies being less than a pound

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By *uriouscouple83Couple over a year ago

Worcester

I can remember when two penny sweets only cost one penny

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Chocolate Freddos being 10p

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.

What else do you guys remember?

Must be old, can remember that time chips went from 10 to 11p, it was up north

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By *eardybobMan over a year ago

the Goldilocks Zone

37p per litre for 4 star...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I can remember it costing threepence for the bus. In pre decimal coins. X

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By *inky_couple2020Couple over a year ago

North West

20p for the bus......

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By *uriouscouple83Couple over a year ago

Worcester

"Chocolate Freddos being 10p"

How much are they now?

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By *uriouscouple83Couple over a year ago

Worcester

"20p for the bus......"

The buses were cheap up norf, I can’t remember them ever being below a pound round these parts.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Chocolate Freddos being 10p

How much are they now? "

Just checked Tesco website - 26p

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By *uriouscouple83Couple over a year ago

Worcester

"Chocolate Freddos being 10p

How much are they now?

Just checked Tesco website - 26p

Bugger

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man over a year ago

BRIDPORT

"37p per litre for 4 star...

I can just about remember when it was 40 pence a GALLON!!

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By *hloetTV/TS over a year ago

Nottingham

Unleaded 85p a litre

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

I can remember 20p game of pool 35p portion of chips can of pop 25p single cigarette 7p I used to go as my pal was barred 1/2p mojo be bus travel costing 46p and a prostitute £5 whole night as my friend told me

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By *wosWoman over a year ago

east london

I have a 2p kids bus ticket somewhere..

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By *emma HoldenTV/TS over a year ago

Ramsey

Polo mints 10p a roll. There's proof online of packet images so my initial instinct was right!

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By *tue555Man over a year ago

Passed Beyond Reach

When you could buy a brand new 4 bedroom detached house a rural neighbourhood for £4000

£2000 per year was a good salary

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By *9alMan over a year ago

Bridgend

I can remember when things were priced in £ S D everything was much cheaper

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By *inky_couple2020Couple over a year ago

North West

"20p for the bus......

The buses were cheap up norf, I can’t remember them ever being below a pound round these parts. "

It was 28p for a single when I started secondary school! I remember it being 20p at primary school though. Was still only 50p when I left secondary school over here!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I remember snaps crisps being 8p and the price was on the packet. And I remember 1/2p chews (mojos) I think they were calked

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

When you could buy a house for £500

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By *bcums3Couple over a year ago

lanarkshire

45p return on the bus

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By *asmeenTV/TS over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Milk 20p

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By *uddy laneMan over a year ago

dudley

Taking a piss cost a penny

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By *inkylipsWoman over a year ago

Debauchery

A mojo sweets were half a penny each

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

Can remember the things were cheaper and you definitely Got value for money because the size or portions were huge and better quality compared years later

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By *uriouscouple83Couple over a year ago

Worcester

"20p for the bus......

The buses were cheap up norf, I can’t remember them ever being below a pound round these parts.

It was 28p for a single when I started secondary school! I remember it being 20p at primary school though. Was still only 50p when I left secondary school over here! "

I think 20p would have got you about 100m down the road. At high school it was £1.20 to get from one side of the city to the other and we don’t have a whole lot of city.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple over a year ago

North West

"20p for the bus......

The buses were cheap up norf, I can’t remember them ever being below a pound round these parts.

It was 28p for a single when I started secondary school! I remember it being 20p at primary school though. Was still only 50p when I left secondary school over here!

I think 20p would have got you about 100m down the road. At high school it was £1.20 to get from one side of the city to the other and we don’t have a whole lot of city. "

£1.20?! It was still only a quid for a single when I was at uni! There was outrage when it went to £1.20

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

Cinema tickets less than £3

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I got 50p dinner money and would go to the Chinese and get a chip butting with curry sauce and a can of pop for 45p…

I remember bus fares being 2p for kids then 5p and the swimming pool being 32 p to get into xx

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By *inky_couple2020Couple over a year ago

North West

Small Margherita pizza on a Saturday in town was a quid.....

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Portion of chips when I was first allowed to go on my own was 15p, same price as a Mars bar. First litre of petrol I bought was 49.9p

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By *urls and DressesWoman over a year ago

Somewhere near here

70/80p a litre for diesel when I first got a car. Actual 1p sweets

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

It was cheaper lying then telling the truth which cost a lot more

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By *JB1954Man over a year ago

Reading

Wagon wheels. One used to cost about in old money the old pence

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

A half dozen of eggs 35p

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

It was cheaper walking to school so you had money for alcohol 4 cans for £1:99

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I can remember 10 ciggies being less than a pound"

Yeah I was a late starter

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.

What else do you guys remember?

Must be old, can remember that time chips went from 10 to 11p, it was up north"

I've noticed food is cheaper up north but wow

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"When you could buy a house for £500"

I was talking about this the other day.. You can't even buy a door for that now.

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By *alldarkandharmlessMan over a year ago

Ross on Wye

School dinners 15p per day so 75p for the week. This was 1975 and the food was great.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS over a year ago

Cheshire

£0.50p

Bottle of pop

1/4 pound of sweets and a toy car.

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
Forum Mod

East Sussex

School dinners a shilling a day, five shillings a week (25p). My parents bought a four bed, detached house with about 3/4 acre for £3,800. The payments were £60 a quarter. When I went to college I rented a bedsit for £8 a week and that included a weekly cleaner

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By *quaman87Man over a year ago

Colchester

10 fags £1.80.

Feul 80p a litre

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By *asmeenTV/TS over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Chews 1 p

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

"When you could buy a house for £500

I was talking about this the other day.. You can't even buy a door for that now.

Exactly only those who know the meaning of good old days know

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

10 senior service for 35p from vending machine OUTSIDE newsagents.

Petrol for 87p gallon

Mars bar 10p

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

14p a packet of walkers crisp 20p a quarter of sweets wham bars 10p sugar paper 5p

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I remember when the bus was 2 1/2p. 10 cigs 17 1/2p...I'm going way back to my childhood...not that I smoked...I've a memory like an elephant

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I remember my dad sending me to the corner shop to get his fags, ten No6 they were 10p a packet, my first pint of beer was 34p , my dad coming home on a Friday giving my mum his pay packet and saying “ I’ve put a pound of petrol in the car “ and that got him to work all week kidsgrove to crewe

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By *isAdventure69Woman over a year ago

Hampshire

When I started smoking a pack of Marlboro was about 45p ( age 15 ) and a baguette was 7pence ( age about 8 when I started going to the shop alone) . I do remember my friend’s dad earning £800 a month around 1980 and thinking how poor they were , I’m not British …so when I moved to the U.K in the mid 80’s , it was a chock to see that earning £70 a week was considered quite a good wage , in Wales .

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By *uke olovingmanMan over a year ago

Gravesend

Petrol. 7/6 per gallon (37.5p)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Wouldn’t get a budgie going .. cheap these days

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By *oastal1968Man over a year ago

London

I remember when Nelson Mandela was free.

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By *ean counterMan over a year ago

Market Harborough / Kettering

When I started going to the pub in around 1986 a pint of lager was 74p. You could definitely go out with £5 and have a decent night but then I was earning £58.50 / week

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

35p for the bus

10p for a finger of fudge

50p cone of chips

35p Mars bar

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By *os19Man over a year ago

Edmonton

One of my earliest memories is my mum picking up me and my sister from school and giving me 10 pence or 2 shillings as most people would still say back then to buy 2 packets of crisps would have been 1974 - 1975

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By *ools and the brainCouple over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

I remember a packet of walkers crisps for 7p and the cheap bastard's would have a sale on !

(See who gets the reference?)

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By *ools and the brainCouple over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

I remember you could get on the bus(proper old school London routmaster one's)

Get on at Uxbridge all the way to Shepard's Bush for 2p

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By *ltrMan over a year ago

sheffield

£1..09 a gallon of petrol 97 quid to insure my mini clubman for the year

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By *aughtywifeandhimCouple over a year ago

luton

Must be older a pint was 37 p fags 25p for 10 and a packet of polos 2 p

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By *ribsaMan over a year ago

A box at end of your bed

Beer at 62p a pint, petrol at 75p a gallon and my weekly wage of £32 a week.

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By *unloversCouple over a year ago

rotherham

Bloody hell doesn’t all this make you feel,old

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Packet of Polos for 7p

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Pint of lager £1.30. Could have a good night on £20

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By *edsmudgeMan over a year ago

oxford

I remember chips for 16p scraps were free and half penny mojos

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By *moothshaftMan over a year ago

Coventry

We were that poor we used to live under a stone.

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By *moothshaftMan over a year ago

Coventry

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you

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By *mazon750Couple over a year ago

Perth

Petrol, 45p a gallon

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By *edsmudgeMan over a year ago

oxford

"We were that poor we used to live under a stone. "

You had a stone !!? We dreamed of a stone

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The Tyne tunnel 40p and you could pay using any coins !!!

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By *ltrMan over a year ago

sheffield

The forum folk from Sheffield should remember 2p bus rides for under 16s anywhere in Sheffield

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By *arkus1812Man over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

4 gallons of petrol for £1 1962

1 pint bitter 1 shilling and 3 pence (6p) 1961

My first new mini under £600, 1960 can't remember exact amount.

Newbuild 2 bed semi detatched bungalow £1800 1965

Newbuild 3 bed semi detatched house with garage and central heating £3995 1971

Brand new BMW 520 £1995 1972

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By *ribsaMan over a year ago

A box at end of your bed

I can remember 2 star petrol and the two stroke oil pump on the forecourts. O those where the days.

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By *ermite12ukMan over a year ago

Solihull and Brentwood

I can remember monster munch pickled onion flavour....Other flavours were available...being 10p but there was probably twice as much in the packet then, as there is now.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Paying 2p for a call in a public phone box

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By *moothshaftMan over a year ago

Coventry

"We were that poor we used to live under a stone.

You had a stone !!? We dreamed of a stone"

we got evicted from our stone, into a cardboard box at side of t' road, all 26 of us.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple over a year ago

North West

"I can remember 2 star petrol and the two stroke oil pump on the forecourts. O those where the days.

I remember 4-star leaded petrol with the red pump

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By *orny-chubbyMan over a year ago

East London

"I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.

What else do you guys remember?

Paying 25p for a bag of chips at the local chip shop

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By *ealitybitesMan over a year ago

Belfast

Beano and Dandy were 2p in early 70s.

My first job in 1984 a pack of 18 cigs in a vending machine were £1. No pound coins in those days so coin mechs were set for 2x50ps.

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By *ribsaMan over a year ago

A box at end of your bed

2p for packet of chipmunk crisps 5p for hedgehog crisps and a king size Mars bar for 45p in the days before to much sugar was bad for you.

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By *innie The MinxWoman over a year ago

Under the Duvet

There used to be a 50 pence shop in Liverpool!

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By *asmeenTV/TS over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Snaps 10p

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By *hat BlokeMan over a year ago

Harrogate

I can remember 20 Embassy Regal cigarettes costing 26p. It cost 2p to get the bus into town and When I was a bit older petrol cost 35p per litre.

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By *reasyMan over a year ago

Caerphilly

"37p per litre for 4 star...

I can just about remember when it was 40 pence a GALLON!!"

4 gallons of 4 star was £2.92 when I worked the pumps

God that must have been a long time ago !!!

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By * and M lookingCouple over a year ago

Worcester

"Snaps 10p"

I remember them when they were 2p.....gulp.

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By *isfits behaving badlyCouple over a year ago

Coventry

I remember 50p for a bag of chips and 20p for a scallop.

Although I'm pretty sure there's lots of things that have gone down in price or a least are a lot more affordable relative to earnings. For example I remember basic school uniform being a struggle for my parents. Yet now you can get like a two pack of school polo shirts from the supermarket about £3. I don't think they were actually that cheap when I was a kid, let alone in relative terms.

But then isn't that the point of progress and capitalism to bring the masses of the developed world increasing cheaper things in far bigger quantities?

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By *hunky GentMan over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

I remember beer at 80p per pint and the fury that was caused when it went up by 1p.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A Mars bar cost 30p when I was a kid I think

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By *hunky GentMan over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

"A Mars bar cost 30p when I was a kid I think"

And 50% bigger.

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By *VineMan over a year ago

The right place

A packet of crisps was 5p

Petrol was 50p a gallon and you got a free smurf!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

10p or 20p to use the phone box

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I've been reading about when Michael Knighton almost bought Man Utd for £20million in 1989. The club is now worth £3bn.

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By *opsy RogersWoman over a year ago

London

When I was 16, I could travel from Coulsdon in Surrey to central London for 20p.

I also remember when Anchor butter was 10p.

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By *l MateMan over a year ago

Sheffield Centre

"Cinema tickets less than £3"

I remember that. I think last year I paid nearly £10 a ticket.

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By *VineMan over a year ago

The right place

"Cinema tickets less than £3

I remember that. I think last year I paid nearly £10 a ticket."

Vue cinema nearest me is still under £5 a ticket

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By *l MateMan over a year ago

Sheffield Centre

"I can remember monster munch pickled onion flavour....Other flavours were available...being 10p but there was probably twice as much in the packet then, as there is now.

Did you ever try spaghetti sauce flavour? Pretty nasty tasting.

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By *ud and BryanCouple over a year ago

Boston, Lincolnshire

Bitter 49p pint

Chips 10p bag

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By *ormorantMan over a year ago

Lincolnshire

FAB lolly was a sixpence and a smash lolly was 3d

Decimal, a pint was 32p when I started drinking…..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

2p to get the bus into town, that was a lonnng time ago

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

We used to get 1/2p sweets!!

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By *l MateMan over a year ago

Sheffield Centre

"Cinema tickets less than £3

I remember that. I think last year I paid nearly £10 a ticket.

Vue cinema nearest me is still under £5 a ticket "

I shouldn't have gone to Cineworld.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"We used to get 1/2p sweets!! "

Ohh yes

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

"I remember when Nelson Mandela was free."

Was that cheap

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By *issAphroditeWoman over a year ago

Norwich

A First Class stamp being 24p

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

28p a pint of milk

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By *andsome HandMan over a year ago

roundabout

I can remember 10 Lambert and Butler being £1.28

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By *andsome HandMan over a year ago

roundabout

Fives were actually 5p

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By *ucka39Man over a year ago

Newcastle

"A First Class stamp being 24p"

You not remember when they also used the 1/2 pence on stamps

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By *angerous123Man over a year ago

Leeds

Quid for a pack of ten Embassy

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Being able to stick £5 in my metro and it lasting me a whole weeks driving!

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By *icolerobbieCouple over a year ago

walsall

I remember when it was £180 to tax my car, now it’s free.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I remember when there was a massive thing about petrol going over £1 per litre - utter chaos in fact. Now it's like no one cares lol

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By *ex HolesMan over a year ago

Up North

A 10 pence mix was 10p

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By *ussylick84Woman over a year ago

great barr

Lion bars was 9p and was massive

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days

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By *asmeenTV/TS over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days "

Go Tesco

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days

Go Tesco "

And then it costs more to park ffs see that pint in my hand?

Cost me a shilling back out of a five pound note!

You gotta earn a lot of money to save a little these days. I'm feeling financially embarrassed.

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By *ex HolesMan over a year ago

Up North

"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days "

Just do it on a lamp post

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By *asmeenTV/TS over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days

Go Tesco

And then it costs more to park ffs see that pint in my hand?

Cost me a shilling back out of a five pound note!

You gotta earn a lot of money to save a little these days. I'm feeling financially embarrassed.

Walk its free

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By *stwoCouple over a year ago

anywhere

Penny dauntless. OLD PENNY

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By *stwoCouple over a year ago

anywhere

Dainty

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days

Just do it on a lamp post

Facking right

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days

Go Tesco

And then it costs more to park ffs see that pint in my hand?

Cost me a shilling back out of a five pound note!

You gotta earn a lot of money to save a little these days. I'm feeling financially embarrassed.

Walk its free"

What 3 miles lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I can remember when a bale of hay for my horse driven cart cost two rabbits from the village poacher

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By *asmeenTV/TS over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days

Go Tesco

And then it costs more to park ffs see that pint in my hand?

Cost me a shilling back out of a five pound note!

You gotta earn a lot of money to save a little these days. I'm feeling financially embarrassed.

Walk its free

What 3 miles lol "

Lazy

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By *stoppMan over a year ago

Durham

89p for a gallon of 2stoke in my moped, happy days..

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By *urygent1Man over a year ago

North West

5p for chips when I was a kid and a 2p lucky bag which had loads of sweets and a toy or two.

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By *r TriomanMan over a year ago

Chippenham Malmesbury area

Back in 2004, when I was in the Army,it cost 50p for a single whiskey in the Mess. Best bit was, all singles were actually double measures

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

In 1968 a whole evening out with my girlfriend, cinema, drinks, bus fares would not come to to more than 15/-.

For those that do not remember that was shorthand for 15 shillings. (75p)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

50p a shot. Ended up in hospital. My body is still paying for that 25 years later!

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple over a year ago

Cumbria

"I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.

What else do you guys remember?

My first pint cost me 96p.

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By *uriousscouserWoman over a year ago

Wirral

A 10p loosey from the shop opposite school if you didn't have £1.50 for a full pack of ciggies.

Got a free match with it, too.

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By *elpful and caringMan over a year ago

Scarborough

I remember beer at 50p a pint and I was gutted when it went up to 52p.

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By *ora the explorerWoman over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

10 embassy number one and still enough for some chips from the school canteen from a pound dinner money.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS over a year ago

Cheshire

"I remember beer at 50p a pint and I was gutted when it went up to 52p. "

I remember a pint of mild £0.45, bitter £0.55 and lager £0.65.

I was a mild drinker in those days

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By *uminsiderMKMan over a year ago

St Austell

I remember taking empty R Whites lemonade bottles back to the minimart to get the thruppence deposit back on them...

....and handing over the threepenny bits at the newsagents for Beano and Dandy comics...

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By *ichaelangelaCouple over a year ago

notts

£7/2/6 (seven pounds two shillings and sixpence) was my wages before stoppages for a 42 hour week at Raleigh in Nottingham.

Petrol, 4 gallons for £1

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Chocolate Freddos being 10p"

This!

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By *asycouple1971Couple over a year ago

midlands

Bag of chips from the chippy was 17p

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By *iddlesticksMan over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

I remember buying a pint of mild for 64p.

I remember driving when petrol went over a pound a gallon.

And I can remember when all sorts of things were 99 and a half pence.

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By *hristopherd999Man over a year ago

Brentwood

"37p per litre for 4 star...

I remember when it was 37p a gallon

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Going to the cafe for dinner and having beans, sausage and chips, with a cuppa for 12&half pence, or going to the Saturday morning pictures with 25p getting a bus there into the pic's and a portion of chips afterwards

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

when i was at grammer school 2 and a half pence got a bag of crisps.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I remember buying a pint of mild for 64p.

I remember driving when petrol went over a pound a gallon.

And I can remember when all sorts of things were 99 and a half pence. "

First time I had a drink in a pub, underage, it was 9 pence for a pint of mild, bitter was 11p.

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By *ralfun500Man over a year ago

Glemsford

Petrol at 22 pence a gallon or 5p a litre.

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By *orbidden eastMan over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

30p to go on the bus

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

1/2 a penny mojo sweets !

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By *elilah999Woman over a year ago

Malton

"Chocolate Freddos being 10p"

Omg. This

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By *inkylipsWoman over a year ago

Debauchery

"1/2 a penny mojo sweets !"

The shop keeper used to hate us asking for a pounds worth ??

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By *inkylipsWoman over a year ago

Debauchery

When minimum wage was £2.55

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By *arry247Couple over a year ago

Wakefield

When chips were 4d for a small bag or 6d for a big bag

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By *oastal1968Man over a year ago

London

I remember when hooker's were 50gilders in Amsterdam.

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By *lipy123TV/TS over a year ago

Birmingham

A sixpence for a bag of chips that's in old money lol

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By *lik and PaulCouple over a year ago

Flagrante

I remember a regular bus ride that I took was thrupence (old money)

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By *ools and the brainCouple over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"I remember a packet of walkers crisps for 7p and the cheap bastard's would have a sale on !

(See who gets the reference?)"

Sorry I'm meant

" 7p? And ye no be having a sale?"

Does this help with the reference?

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By *ools and the brainCouple over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

I remember during the war, you could go to the cinema, buy a three course meal for you and your dame,buy a new suit and a new car and still have change out of a fiver!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"1/2 a penny mojo sweets !

The shop keeper used to hate us asking for a pounds worth ??"
lol on a Saturday when you had your pocket money ! Lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Im either way to old or a great memory embassy no1 48p stones bitter 42p Carling 56p chip butty 22p proper used to get pissed on a fiver

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By *LiamMan over a year ago

Midlands

Pitta bread chips and a sausage 90p

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By *icketysplitsWoman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I remember the day the bus fare went up from 2p to 2.5p. We had 5p for both fares and we used to spend the penny to get sweets.

We bought our sweets, got on the bus and didn't have enough for our fare. The driver let us get on and paid the penny. I think the sight of an 8 year old and barely 7 year old looking at him terrified we couldn't get home may have swayed it.

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By *uenevereWoman over a year ago

Scunthorpe

When I passed my test you could fill your tank from almost empty for £20... more than twice that now.

I also remember half pence and half penny chews

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By *litterbabeWoman over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

2p to use a phone box, I remember that.

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By *rs mischiefWoman over a year ago

Manchester

10p bus fare,

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By *ormorantMan over a year ago

Lincolnshire

"2p to use a phone box, I remember that.

Yep… and always stank of piss..!!

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By *ust RachelTV/TS over a year ago

Horsham

I can remember bus fare being 10p from St. Helens to Liverpool.

Petrol being 65p a litre.

Cans of drink being 25p, that included top deck lager shandy as well.

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By *icketysplitsWoman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"2p to use a phone box, I remember that.

Yep… and always stank of piss..!!"

And full of calling cards, offering all sorts of 'delights'.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

things i remember as a kid.

corona fizzy drink i use to get 10p back when i returned the bottle.

10p got me a freddo.

bubble gum sticks which cut the inside of your mouth but you wanted the star wars card.

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By *orthern StarsCouple over a year ago

Durham

A pint for 80p

20 half pence chews for 10p

Yep, we're old

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By *inkylipsWoman over a year ago

Debauchery

"2p to use a phone box, I remember that.

Yep… and always stank of piss..!!

And full of calling cards, offering all sorts of 'delights'.

With the phone book on a string

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By *ust RachelTV/TS over a year ago

Horsham

"things i remember as a kid.

corona fizzy drink i use to get 10p back when i returned the bottle.

10p got me a freddo.

bubble gum sticks which cut the inside of your mouth but you wanted the star wars card."

Who would have thought, that we actually recycled stuff years ago.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

1/2p chews and 5p deposit refund for your empties.

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By *inkylipsWoman over a year ago

Debauchery

"1/2 a penny mojo sweets !

The shop keeper used to hate us asking for a pounds worth ?? lol on a Saturday when you had your pocket money ! Lol "

Haha yes that’s right. We were also allowed to buy our mums red band cigarettes that were about 89p for 10

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"When I passed my test you could fill your tank from almost empty for £20... more than twice that now.

I also remember half pence and half penny chews

"
when I passed my test lessons were 3quid and a gallon was just over a quid cost me less than hundred quid for license lessons and test

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

12p for a pint of bitter

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