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[ThatDenimExpert]

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've been paying more attention to the bags of 4 jacket sized potatoes recently. They all used to be around 90p - £1 but the supermarkets vary much more now, mostly over the £1. In the Co-Op I noted they were still 89p so thought that was good.

A pound now is probably like a penny was 100 years ago

I remember my school tuck shop circa 1993, getting a can of Fanta for 30p and a Mars bar for 25p!

I remember getting about £3.00 a week pocket money, buying fish and chips on a Friday night with plenty left over for sweets and Smash Hits magazine.

My first job was working at Woolies on the weekend. I earned £3.75 an hour and felt like a millionaire when I was paid at the end of the month. I was able to pay for my own driving lessons, clothes, records etc. A pound went a loooong way.

I was chatting to one of my friends the other day and her 18 year old has just started driving lessons…cheapest she found was £40 an hour😮

To be fair on the driving lessons thing, I remember paying £20 an hour in 2000 and that means a doubling over 25 years which seems about right according to inflation.

Yeah fair enough. I think I paid £12 a hour as a teenager and I’m mid forties now. The other new issue though is the 6 month wait for a test these days?! Average of about 24 weeks in London now which means learner drivers need to keep up with additional lessons unless they have access to a car and a parent willing to take them out and practice. Alternatively buy a slot from a ‘broker’. My friend had to buy one from her DC’s driving instructor and it cost £££. So the poor DC has the additional pressure of needing to pass as friend cannot afford that cost again anytime soon.

18 years ago I could do a weekly shop for two adults and a baby including formula and nappies for £70.

Oh I remember those days. We used to load up on 50p Malibu and cokes before the 11pm cut-off (when the price went up to £4) or £1 for 3 shots of apple sourz. Obviously we'd have pre-drinks voddy and coke in a cola bottle on the bus there, too, when the bus used to cost 60p. Good old days!

when I was 13/14 so 32 years ago 😳, we used to get £5 pocket money.

That paid for a happy meal at McDonald's £2, cinema entry £2, and with popcorn and a drink from the local newsagent £1

Mine were £10ph in 1990

My mum says £1.25 is the new £1.

I was in Morrisons earlier buying biscuits for the biscuit tin. I only buy biscuits that are £1 I don’t care what they are they’re just for visitors and the kids. In the whole supermarket the only biscuits I could get were Penguins - £1 with a Morrisons more card.

even the jammy dodgers were £1.45

what a world

That’s inflation for you. I can remember when you could have got a couple of gallons of petrol for a pound and had change.

I'm old but when I was a kid pre decimal money Mum gave me and my sister an old sixpence a day for sweets. For this we could choose fruit pastels, a tube of smarties, rolo's, a bar of Aero etc. We were poor but Mum always gave us the sixpenny piece each day if we made our bed and helped set the table for dinner. Now the same sweets would be about 50p a day.

50p? Where do you live? They're more like 80-90p here!

Heinz! Imagine the luxury, oh how I long for anything branded 😂 I'm not even joking.

More. Sure smarties are 89p or even £1.19 in garage

I've not bought any for ages.

I remember c age 10 so 1973 or so a packet of crisps was 2 and a half pence!

I used to borrow my parents’ car when I was a teenager. £1 worth of petrol would last me all weekend.

20 years ago I was earring £5.50 an hour, so a pound might have gone further but it’s all relative really as wages were less.