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Remember when you used to be able to buy several things with a pound. Or go into a charity shop and buy something for up to 25p. I could’ve sworn even milk was 40p, 20 years ago.

I haven’t bought baked beans in ages and fancied some recently. I was shocked at how much a tin of Heinz is. I think the last time I bought them, they were around 40-60p.
I always assumed they were a cheap food. Tescos own brand ones are pretty cheap.

I love baked beans. I was a proper beanz means Heinz back in the 90s. I’ve only bought supermarket ones for decades. M and S do the nicest ones at 50p a tin.

Mojos at 1/2p each - 10 for 5p

mint ones My fav

I was helping my elderly neighbour unload shopping and she had small size heinz beans. I managed to keep my mouth shut 😁

I definitely remember a BBC-style TV news report that a pint had hit £1 for the first time.

Early 90s, maybe?

I used to fill up my little motorbike with petrol for £1!

I've been following the coffee I buy. Over the last 2 years it's gone from £2.15 to £3.30 for a 227g bag.

The price of coffee and olive oil are surreal.

Basically you don't get much change from twenty quid for a jar of decent coffee and large bottle of olive oil.

I remember Netto- remember them? Selling Mars bars for 9 pence. Every single customer at the tills had a few random items plus several mars bars!

A pint in the west end of London in 1996 was about £2-£2.50. student bars elsewhere did drinks for a pound.
I used to buy 10p beans and 2p plastic bread from Kwik saves. A pack of ten fags (remember 10s?) was £1.30 ish.

Sainsbury have £1 offers on the website.

When my children were young, our food budget as a family of 6 was £40 a week. That would be 15 years ago.

Hahaha its the modern marker of wealth! I saw a cupboard full of branded toiletries in someone's bathroom, and knew they must be doing ok. And it wasn't even anything high end, just big bottles of Lynx, branded toothpastes etc,

Yes, I remember this! Because we still had the half penny, you could actually get more than 10 sweets.
God, I'm old.

Luxury..

In the 90s, I’d get my pocket money on a Saturday and I remember I would buy a packet of crisps and a bar of chocolate for less than 50p. I remember a portion of chips was 70p, where I am they’re now £4.50!

Wow Mojos, that’s a memory unlocked

Mojos were magic !!

I remember the baked beans war!

I paid £1 for a Warburton loaf in Iceland yesterday

I paid £4.80 for a bag of takeaway chips by the seaside today.

I mentioned this recently. My mum and SIL told me that couldn't have been the case unless I was grocery shopping in the 1970s, which is before I was born.
It was mid 2000s and we could pretty much guess how much the shop would cost based on £1 per item.
Im sure we used to buy a leg (maybe half a leg) for a couple of pounds too.

I miss those days when certain magazines would occasionally be on special offer for £1. Like Grazia. was cheap anyway but the £1 made it a bargain treat. Now it's £3.50!

I got my first 3 singles records for exactly £1.00 when I was nine,
They were 6s 8d each.