Penny chew? Bag of crisps for 5p? What did you splurge your pocket money on when you were a DC? Share your memories of all things pocket money with Santander - you could win £250*! DRAW NOW CLOSED

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Santander have asked us to find out from Mumsnetters what you spent your precious pocket money on back when they were a kid. They'd also like to know how much you used to get versus how much you give your DC now.

Cast your minds back to the time when a packet of crisps was 5p/ 10p/ 20p/ cheaper than they are now and you could buy all manner of teeth-rotting sweets with a fraction of what your children are getting each week.

So indulge us - let us know what you used to love to spend your pocket money on. And tell us how much you got when you were a child, and how much you're now giving your children. Where did you prefer to spend the money? Or were you a saver?

Everyone who adds their thoughts to the thread will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £250 shopping voucher*.

Please note that any comments posted on this thread may be used by Santander in further marketing material (anonymously, of course).

Thanks and good luck!
MNHQ

• NB Standard MN terms and conditions apply - see here. Closing date 8 October 2014 10am

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I remember crisps going up from 2p to 3p. That would have been in about 1974 I think. I has an argument with another child in the queue who told me that I didn't have enough as I only had two coins. I happily put him right by explaining that one of my coins was a 2p piece. -I was an awful child-

Also remember getting 2 black jacks / fruit salads for a 1/2 penny. But also that I wasn't allowed to spend my 10p a week pocket money on sweets or comics as it had to saved.

20p got me a bag of Chipsticks and a Texan bar in the 70s. I miss Texan bars.

I got the 20p pocket money on a Sunday morning, when I'd to go to the shop for the News of the World and a packet of Condor Ready Rubbed (tobacco).

No pocket money here. Granny would bring a big bag of pick & mix boiled sweets on a saturday which we would divvy up between the five of us. Dad would give us the odd 50p to spend on penny sweets (mostly candy cigarettes and pink shrimps.

I was a child of the 60s, so pre decimalisation. Our local shop had trays with sweets on them. Ha'penny, penny, tuppence etc. I don't remember what pocket money I got but never more than three pennies (thruppence?) at once. I used to buy fruit salad, blackjacks, refreshers, flying saucers, MB bars and puff candy. My brother and I used to have a comic delivered. I got the Beano and I think he got the Hornet. Later I got Jackie.

We must have had actual pocket money at some point because I know I was expected to save up for holiday spending money.

I was a saver, my sister was a spender. She still can't keep money in her pocket, but I sit somewhere in the middle now.
I was cunning as she used to buy comics and magazines but I did not as I'd just read hers. I used to buy Swizzle Double Lollies, which I remember as 2p, then 5p. I want one now but I suspect they've gone up a bit in price!
My first job aged 13 was a paper round - the local weekly. I got £3.18 per week.

I remember getting 10p a week on Saturday mornings. Used to spend it all on sweets within the hour! When I was a bit older I would buy Look-In and Smash Hits.

I don't give my DC pocket money as such. They get £3 each whenever we see MIL which is at least once a fortnight so that's plenty!

I used to walk into the town with my older sister on a Saturday morning. She would get a 1/4lb of pear drops and Jackie magazine and I got a 1/4lb of sherbet pips and Twinkle. It never occurred to either one of us to try something different. It was just what we did.

I used to get 20p a week which I went to the corner shop to buy penny sweets with. Those sweets had to last me as I was only allowed sweets once a week.
I saved money from birthdays and Christmas but never actually used it to big anything until I was a teenager when it went on a horse!
My pocket money went up to 50p then a pound as I got older.
I think by the time I was a teen my parents had split up so my dad paid the maintenance to me instead of mum and I bought all my own clothes.

I would get 50p off my nan, this was usually splurged on a can of coke (( which I absolutely was NOT allowed )) and the rest would go on a bag of fruit salads and black jacks.

At Christmas my 50p would be pooled with my sisters so we could buy our mum a present, those six weeks or so seemed to last a lifetime. It would go on a bag of her favorite sweets on her birthdays, maybe a cheap plant or mug for mothers day.

I remember vividly the day dbro and I went to the sweet shop to buy crisps, and they had gone up from 3p a packet to 3 1/2 p. We stood there counting on our fingers, trying to work out whether we had enough money. Trouble was, neither of us knew how to do fractions yet!

I can remember getting 10p a week to spend on sweets, back when we still had half pennies. I used to get 20 sweets for 10p, flying saucers, "fish and chips" chocolate, foam bananas, and the like. It seemed like great value for money! For a while they were 2 for 1p when half pennies stopped. Then 1 for 1p. Then the inevitable creep ever upwards...

Ah, i had fun when a child, my parents didnt have a lot and gave what they could. We used to get occasional money when we were under 11, enough buy chewits and polo mints when they were 10p a roll. We were also in a school saving club organised by a bank and took in £1 per week. I was very happy with my t shirt given as an incentive!!! When I left primary school my mum and dad put it into a NSI account which earned some interest. I earned a few hundred in interest and i cashed it in when i was 18 going off to uni. it was 1.5 k, not a lot but helped with living cost (just missed out on free uni fees).

At secondary school in the early 90s my two other siblings and I were given £12 a week for lunch and spending. I remember buying a lot of bread rolls, apples and chocolate so i could use the rest to buy Rimmel make up.

Now, when we opened our 2 DCs accounts, we put £1k in and we are saving them £10 each per month. not a lot but hope it should help. DC1 is 3 years old and doesn't get pocket money but will get 20p here and there if they help tidy up. I think we will when they are older and will get coins for helping with putting laundry away, loading dishwasher etc.

I used to get 50p which increased to £1 when I got older.

I used to buy mostly sweets, although I would occasionally save up for a toy I wanted.

I used to be able to get tons of sweets and crisps for 50p! They had 1p, 2p and 5p sweets under the counter (behind glass) at the local newsagents and you could pick what you wanted or have one of the ready made bags for either 10p or 20p.

Crisps were so much cheaper then too! Im sure I used to buy Monster Munch and the like for 30 something pence.

My DCs are toddlers so they don't get pocket money yet.

Till I was 10 I got 50p as long as I put 45p into the bank, if I didn't I got 5p !

When I got to 10 I was allowed all the 50p. I never liked sweets/ choc (making up for it know though !) so I used to buy a small tin of ambrosia rice pudding and a small tin of Devon custard And the rest was spent at the cheese counter on a small piece of cheddar.

10p mix, chosen from the big yellow tray with lots of indentations. 2p sweets were on the back row, and I didn't even bother looking at them.

Scented rubbers. I think they had something unwholesome in them. I couldn't stop sniffing them for a good three years of my childhood.

Handful of fruit salads and black jacks or a tube of Spangles or a Caramac bar. Enid Blyton Book. So long ago I cant remember how much. All bought at the military ´NAFFI´. DD14 gets £40 a month mainly spent on make up, scarves and music downloads

I didn't get packet money.

I remember crisps being two and a half pence at the school tuck shop, and I remember black jacks/fruit salads being two for a half, and four for a penny. Chocolate logs were a penny each.

I used to buy Hubba Bubba, it was 10p a pack and I used to sell my sister pieces for the 2p they were worth rather than give her any I wasn't really given sweets at home so on the off chance I got to spent 10/20p whatever in the village shop it was a real treat. We had the 1/2p still then.

I also used to buy Smash Hits magazine, I'm not sure how much that was but that used to be a weekend treat.

I don't know how much pocket money I got actually! I know I got £10 a week when I was 15 ish which went a long way then.

I used to get 50p a week. I used to buy a copy of Disco 45 magazine. It was fab, it had all the words to thw current chart hits inside!

Another receiver of 50p a week.

I used to love the Beano, back when it was still printed on "proper" comic paper rather than today's glossy paper.

Not quite on topic but I remember as a teenager saving the coppers from the change for my bus fair which was cheaper if I waited for the later bus with the different company.

Always used to get a twix for 24p on the basis I got two bars rather than one!

I remember Lucky Bags containing a few sweets and a party bag type toy. They cost 3d in old money. Also aniseed balls. I recently discovered Coltsfoot rock which is the tastiest sweet ever. If it had been available where I lived I wouldn't have bought any other sweets ever.
But I always wonder on these sort of threads, why on earth do Santander want to know? Will there be a nostalgic ad with a load of middle aged people reminiscing about sweets? Can I be in it?

Football cards. My older brother conned me into collecting them along with him so he could check my packets and talk me into swapping the ones he wanted. I was about 8 so I thought it was grand to have 10 of the same card whereas he had all the best, unique ones.

I don't remember getting regular pocket money as such, but I must have been getting some money as I have fond memories of going to the local shop clutching my 10p.
It was a great shop, one of those with old fashioned weighing scales and till, and a heavy set drawer that pinged out.
The wall behind the counter housed all the jars of sweets - sherbet lemons, pear drops, cola cubes, cherry lips etc.
There were also all the penny chews (ACTUAL penny chews!) such as foam bananas, flying saucers and white mice.
You'd come out with a lovely bag of sweets for 10p!
I also LOVED comics, and my favourites were Twinkle, The Beano and the Dandy. When older, it was Look In!, Patches, Blue Jeans and Just Seventeen.
Ah, those were the days.