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?

Oh God, Vesta Chow Mein, a late 80’s delicacy. Disgustingly good @fishykettles.

Mexicorn was what you bought when the normal tins of niblets were sold out.

@BrandyandDeath

Rich Tea biscuits. Unfathomable that anyone would pay 1p let alone 41p!

They are rather nice actually - but I am entering old lady territory now, that may have some bearing on my taste for bland biscuits!

Rich tea biscuits are great! When I buy them a pack lasts for two weeks, buy anything else and they are gone in a day 😂

@AndIquote

Fig rolls, can you still get them?

Yes! We buy FIL some for Christmas every year

I was 15, Probably snogging my boyfriend a lot

@KindergartenKop

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

The sausage rolls and country pie look quite cheap.

That’s so weird, I only remember the date I started my periods because it was my mum’s birthday - although 1993 in my case.

None of that looks especially cheap to me, but then I tend to shop Asda own brand. Plus I’ve literally just got back from doing a big shop - you’re right whoever said biscuits etc. are not more expensive. It was less than 50p per pack for them.

I was thinking that food prices are stil v.low considering how long ago.

I was in the 6th form. I spent my Saturday working in my grandma's shop. £2.50 an hour!

Isn’t the formality of “Mr J Hopkins, store manager” very interesting? Nowadays it would probably be “tweet us” or at the very least he’d be introducing himself as “Jamie Hopkins” (no title). I bet in those days a female manager would still have been called a “manageress” as well.

I was 22 with a 23" waist and a sense of optimism.

The 90s were great weren't they.

@StanfordPines

Ah beanfeast and Linda McCartney Country Pies, the sign of a 90s vegetarian. By Christ you knew you’d had beanfeast the next day!

Oh god yes..... being a veggie in the 90s was a bit dull and repetitive 😀

I have just looked in my little hand-written diary for that day, 25 October 1996. It was an odd day which I shall never forget. Driving home from work at about the same time 17:00-17:30 I followed a car weaving wildly side to side along the country lanes, the lady driver clearly very pissed. A few minutes later when driving along a ridge by some farms I came across a line of police blocking the road. Just behind them was a crowd of around 200 demonstrating against the veal trade. This was about 18 months after a lady got killed under the wheels of a lorry that was exporting live calves to Europe. I wound down my window and a policeman said "I would advise you to find an alternative route. The chances are your car will get kicked to pieces if you try to drive through. This crowd are not behaving nice."

Later I thought how lucky it was the pissed lady had turned off in a different direction. She would have been banged to rights had she taken the top road.

25 Oct 1996 - just as well i scanned my old diaries as now I can find it in a moment. I had 3 children and we were a year away from moving to this house where I currently live.. I had been running my own law firm from home for 2 years. Children were 12, nearly 10 and 8. (the twins came along in 1998 so not yet born)

On that extra day my daughter were brought back from Yorkshire by their grandfather on the train - I suspect they must have been there for October half term with grandparents. Only one was at school the following week and I write about what sort of hour I want us to move to for the rest of our life (as indeed it was - moved in 1997 and I hope to die here). I see a client for a meeting and do a lot of other work and I write about wanting to pay back more of the mortgage if I can.

This is an ace find, like finding old newspapers that have wrapped things up. Some other differences- the veg is charged in lbs and it was very normal to pay in cash (or by switch) in those days!

@NoraLuka

Beanfeast! Does that still exist? Reminds me of when I just started being vegetarian 😊

I remember this as well. My Dsis had just turned vegetarian around this time as well.

Beanfeast! I loved that when I first became veggie at 16.
How on earth can you remember the date you started your period!?

This sort of thing really fascinates me. I still have my Gran's diary from that year!

1996 - I had my 21st Birthday in the October of that year. It was 3 years before I became a Mum for the first time.
I was still living at home and working in a Residential Care Home for the elderly.

I was 14, the year where I started messing things up, the year I discovered boys, mini skirts and puffa jackets 🤣

Glad to see the cats were well fed. I’d forgotten all about Beanfeast - used to live on those!

I moved to Wivenhoe in 1996!!!! Great co-op!!!!

1996 retro?????

@Benjispruce2

1996 retro?????

Shocking to think it's 24 years ago...I always feel like twenty years ago was the 1970s

Oh I got married. It’s lasted.

It was the week of my 30th birthday. We had a massive house party with fancy dress. I was probably in the supermarket buying cheap booze.

I found a receipt from that era, recently, and was surprised how little bread and milk have gone up. Shows how much farmers are being scalped by the supermarkets, these days. That baguette on your receipt is the same. A baguette is about 90p in our little sainsburys, now.