I found a shopping reciept from 1996

[KindergartenKop]

Ok, so it's not quite a badly written shopping list but close. So retro! I found it in a book I bought from Amazon.

Interestingly, the date is the day I started my periods!

What were you up to in 1996? What is Mexicorn?

@wellthatsunusual

I think food is much cheaper now in comparison to income than it was in 1996. I was a student then and I remember a pint of milk being 45p. It's only 50p now almost 25 years later. Same with bread, a loaf cost around 80p and now I can buy a cheap one in Tesco for around the same price or a nicer one for around £1.

Yes its true. The spaghetti is 22p but is still about 30p for the value range. Also there was such a stigma around using budget supermarkets...my mum wouldn't have set foot in kwiksave...her friend went but it was whispered about in hushed tones. Now we all shop in lidl and aldi and there's zero shame.

Clothing too is comparatively much cheaper now.

I also started my period in 1996😂can’t remember exact date but it was sometime in September!

I’m amazed that the ink lasted so long! I have receipts from few years back stored in a dark box and the ink is completely gone in most places!

OMG Beanfeast. My vegetarian mother used to make it a lot and I remember begging her not to make it when I had friends round as it was vile. The only other thing she could do reliably was jacket potatoes or macaroni cheese...

OMG 😮
I am from Colchester I was only 11 in 1996 but have been to that co op many times! The phone number is still the same!!!

I'm staggered you can remember the date you started your periods!! I remember where I was and that's about it

How cheap was food back then?!

Parisian bagutte. Would they even bother to put baguette on there now? It would just be bakery item. And the manager's name makes it so personal.
In October '96, I was eating Parisian bagutte in Paris, where I lived at the time.

beanfeast and weightwatchers cheese! were you on a diet?

Oo what I would give for a Jacob's fig roll. Supermarket own are rubbish!!
Ds 16 was horrified to learn they had fruit in!!

I wasn’t even born then!

That was the year I got married - so young, and naive! Divorced now..

Fig rolls are 49p in Tesco (own brand which is the best) now. Go figure!

I remember being able to do a weeks shop for 5 for around £70-80 including toiletries & cleaning stuff in the early 2000’s. I pay more than double that now and the weight/volume of most stuff has massively been reduced.

Haha I love that about your period, life always does funny coincidences like that. I love it. In 1996 I was 6 and so was probably dressing up and making dance routines up with my sister while my mum worked a Saturday job at Sainsbury’s and shopped at KwikSave, which my dad watched the rugby on telly.

1996 - i was in my early 20s with 2 little DCs and preg with 3rd

I used to go round Tesco for the weekly shop for me, DH and two toddlers with a calculator adding up the shopping as i went and when it got to £20 i would have to stop. I remember getting nervous as i got to the £18 mark and start having to think about what to put back because i hadn't got to the loo roll aisle yet.

We were fine though. Never actually hungry. Just had to eat boring meals with no frills. Loads of the blue and white stripey stuff in our house Tesco's Value range. Remember that? £20 these days wouldn't go as far by any means!

I like that it has the store manager’s name on, I don’t think they do that now? Nice and personal.

I got married in 1996.

What were you up to in 1996?

Getting married! It'll be our silver wedding anniversary next year. Silver - to match my hair, ha!

Sainsbury's own brand Rich Tea biscuits are just 45p now and I reckon they're better than McVitie's.

I qualified as a nurse in September 96 ,my wage was about £850-900 / month but I had moved back home so had loads of money.

I was on holiday on that date in Ibiza for the last week of the season. First time on a plane!

1996 I was at primary school

I got married in 1994. We used to budget £20 per week for our weekly shop at Kwik Save !

In 1996 I was 15, but three years later I was a student at Essex uni and living in Wivenhoe, so I probably shopped in that Co-op many times.

I remember when my periods started because it was a family member's birthday?

The sausage rolls and country pie look quite cheap.

What's Wivenhoe like? I've never been.