Let's return to the old money.

[marknotgeorge]

Sorry to burst your bubble.
15 pints took you a day and a quarter to earn.

Now even on a basic £8 per hour you will earn £70 in a day and a quarter. My local is on about £3.20 for a pint so you can now get 22 pints instead of 15. for the same amount of work.

I seem to remember everything being very basic and not a vast amount of it.

Even 30 years ago a 23 inch tv was £400 and a video recorder about £500 Now they are half that price and wages are vastly more.


A sob story from a lawyer-
A couple of years ago an old client from the firm I worked for came in. He had sold his house for £200,000 and I quoted him the going rate of £600 to handle the legal side. He gave me a bundle of papers from when he bought the house exactly 20 years earlier which was for £20,000.

In the bundle was the bill from the same law firm for acting in his purchase back then.
£600.

In the early 70s, an electronic calculator would cost an engineer a month's wages. Nowadays, you can buy a calculator with similar functionality for less than a pound, which would take less than 10 minutes to earn, even at minimum wage.

 

[sight-pin]

In the early 70s, an electronic calculator would cost an engineer a month's wages. Nowadays, you can buy a calculator with similar functionality for less than a pound, which would take less than 10 minutes to earn, even at minimum wage.

True!, Killjoys

 

[rb58]

Mercian Track Frame - bought in 1968 2nd hand for £8
Was still being used 30 years later and still in the shed waiting for another re-build.
Keith

I'll give you £10 for it - that'll be a nice profit for you and a little more room in your shed.....

 

[vernon]

In the early 70s, an electronic calculator would cost an engineer a month's wages. Nowadays, you can buy a calculator with similar functionality for less than a pound, which would take less than 10 minutes to earn, even at minimum wage.

Yebbut the modern calculators don't have nervous breakdowns and start counting down from 99999999 when asked to compute zero divided by minus one. The old ones were far more entertaining even if they were the size of a house brick yet were described as pocket calculators.

Then there was the calculation of trig functions using Taylor Series on a 'four rules' calculator - as a sixth former I used to race classmates in determining trig function values without the use of tables. Oh what fun we had in the absence of alcohol and narcotics.

 

[gbb]

Burtons Potato Puffs....plain...red and white bag IIRC.
If I could bring one thing back, it'd be them.

 

[Archie_tect]

Ben Shaw's Cream Soda.... and sixpence back on the bottle.

 

[EltonFrog]

A couple of weeks ago I bought 4 Crowns on eBay, for a trick I'm learning, five shillings I think back in the day, I used to get half a crown pocket money, until I got caught nicking from Woolies, never got pocket money again!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Yebbut the modern calculators don't have nervous breakdowns and start counting down from 99999999 when asked to compute zero divided by minus one. The old ones were far more entertaining even if they were the size of a house brick yet were described as pocket calculators.

Then there was the calculation of trig functions using Taylor Series on a 'four rules' calculator - as a sixth former I used to race classmates in determining trig function values without the use of tables. Oh what fun we had in the absence of alcohol and narcotics.

My first calculator was a mechanical one like this one

http://sliderulemuseum.com/Adders/A10_Chadwick_Magic_Brain_Calculator.jpg

 

[vernon]

I had something more primitive - an Irish calculator

OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

1. Insert four fingers and one thumb of either left or right hand into holes.
2. Calculator is now ready for use.
3. Memory cord may wound round any finger if memory is required.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Back when i just left school , petrol was a tad cheaper then
65 1/2 per GALLON , not this Litre thing we have now

 

[DiddlyDodds]

I was earning £4 a week mid sixties, when a pint of 'IPA' was 1/5p or a pint of 'Red Barrel' was 1/7p. That's around 15 pints for quid, Hate to think how much 15 pints is in a disco now lol

I still have my Half pint Watneys Red Barrel glass ,,,