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

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Oh yes, how could I forget the Beano? I still have some of the annuals from back then too.

Gosh it's so long ago I can hardly remember! Books, penny sweets and chocolate bars always featured high on the agenda. Then when I was a teenager, single records (45s!) - that really dates me .

Dd is too young for pocket money at the moment but loves to responsablility of handing over pennies when we're shopping. She loves money boxes and will help herself to the contence of my purse if it's left within reach! When she's older she'll get money for jobs around the house.

Growing up birthday or prize money had to be saved for bigger things I wanted. I'll always remeber saving 5ps on a tray to top up the money I won to buy a bike. I was given 50p a week from about 5 years old which was spent in Wollies on bubbles, felt tips and statorary. Grandma gave me the money for the Beno every week. As a teenager I was given £20 a month and expected to buy none school clothes out of that. A quater of my wages from 12 would go on cds the rest saved for 'paying my way' on holidays. I always felt grown up paying for us to visit london, bath, edingburgh or paris for the weekend althoug I now know I was only covering the cheep hotel room not food and drink, activities or travel!

Gel pens!!!

Oh, the mighty coveted gel pens! Sparkly hair clips. Clip on earrings. Body glitter. Glittery hair mascara. 'Mizz' etc magazines that came with some plastic-y free thingymebob and pages you could cut out and put on your wall. I was such a girl back then! Ha!

Pick and mix!

Ah, they were the good ol' days! I can't remember exactly how much I got and when but I can still remember walking down the road to the stationary shop for my new gel pens to add to my vast collection!

My son is not yet two so doesn't get any pocket money just yet!

I got 10p a week for sweets when I was around 7 in the early 80s. I used to splurge it on a packet of sweet cigarettes (!) because I collected the cards that came in them. Later I got about 50p a week. I remember saving up to buy I Should Be So Lucky, a silver pen, and a Famous Five book.

Oh blackjacks and fruit salads, or a sherbet fountain. And I loved Caramac bars.

Saturday morning at the pictures with a curlywurly

Then it was magazines - Twinkle, then Jackie

Notebooks, pens and singles (vinyl!)

Oh yes, Famous Five books.

And Malory Towers

Anything from Puffin

Ooh posted too soon. Then I got a job when I was 13 that paid the princely sum of 10 a week, and never got pocket money again.

My children aged 4 and 6 don't get pocket money. They get plenty of sweets from party bags etc, have vast amounts of toys IMO and always have birthday money to draw on should they want to spend their own dosh.

25p every Saturday. 12 1/2 pence spent on a 'mixture' of all the jarred sweets.

When I was a bit older Whizzer and Chips and a Look In comic.

After that it was all about saving up £1.79 to buy the 12" vinyl disc from Our Price that was top of the hit parade.

My DC get their pocket money straight into their bank accounts and use their debit cards.

I used to get to go to the sweet shop on a Friday and pick those 2pm flying saucers. If I was lucky I got football cards too!

i started getting pocket money when i was 9 in 1990. i used to get 90p a week, which went up to £1.50 when i turned 10. we used to go into town on a saturday, my parents would buy us breakfast in the debenhams cafe, and i would buy sweets from the stall in the market, proper old fashioned in jars etc. i used to buy a quarter of rum truffles, i always remember because my dad always pinched one, he was too much of a grown up to buy his own, but loved them, he and i were the only ones who would eat them. that used to cost about 45p. i saved the rest for during the week. the market stall which i used to buy the sweets from is still there, and going strong. i bought some rum truffles from there a few weeks ago and they were just as good as they always used to be :)

I used to love to buy Willy Wonkas Gobstoppers!
Oh and of course the wonderful Beano - I always remember being scandalised when they raised the price by, like, two pence or so! As I got older I remember the Beano being shunned in favour of things like Mizz magazine, and vile, lardy lipsticks.
In my teens I saved so much money babysitting and remember buying my very on tv/VCR - it cost £110 and I was so proud.

I don't remember how much I got but I spent it all on Sherbet Fountains and penny chews when they still actually cost a penny.

Black jacks, ruffle bars and space invaders crisps when I was very little and then when I got to about 10 and became incredibly sophisticated I'd buy a can of Top Deck and a Jackie magazine!

Sorry, didn't read the who question. I used to get 5p per day to spend at the sweet shop after school and 50p per week pocket money.

My children get £2 per week pocket money and if we're going on holiday we put some money into their savings account for them so they've got some holiday spends. They're quite good at saving up their £2s to buy bigger items. They also like going to boot sales where their £2s buy them loads!

When under 10 I got 5p which I spent every Friday after school in corner shop on:

'Bones' crisps.
Black Jack
Fruit salad
a sherbert flying saucer
a sweet bracelet I ate round the elastic
a candy lipstick.

older/teen I got 50p.

every Friday, the latest comics- Bunty, Mandy, Judy, Tammy, Misty and the rest on sweeties.

Lemon bon bons, a quarter of chocolate peanuts, and sherbert sweets.crisps were Ringos, and Rancheros.

Miraculously my teeth haven't rotted!

DC gets £1 a week, an extra pound for chores. puts £1 in money box and £ save or spend on what she wants-usually toy related, not sweets, she doesnr have a sweet tooth, thankfully.

I didn't get pocket money, but got 'treat' money from both sets of grandparents from time to time. Can't recall how much, but used to love spending it on Bunty magazine (especially when there was the cut out dress up dolly on the back page), or those candy cigarettes and sherbet lipsticks. How sophisticated I was!

I used to get 10p per year of my life, each Saturday (e.g. When I was 9, I got 90p). I used to buy Chewits and save the rest, although I can't remember what I bought!

My DCs get 50p each per week, but they usually save it. DS (6) buys a pre-owned Skylander every couple if months. DD (almost 4) hasn't got much concept of money yet, although she usually wants to spend her money when DS does, so she tends to buy some tat every now and then.

I saved up all my pennies, went into the corner shop and asked for a 55p mix. The newsagent was raging - she had to count out 55 penny sweets!

When I got outside I counted them, just to be sure. Spot on.

My grandparents used to give me some pocket money. I used to buy cola cubes or dolly mixtures as a young child but as a teenager I'd save up to buy an album (on tape then!!). I love iTunes now but I don't think today's children will ever get the same excitement of buying an album and listening to it when you get home.
I remember once being given 50p by my grandad to spend on the pier and I dropped it through the planks into the sea. I was devastated to lose all that money!!

I used to spend ages in the corner shop choosing my 10p mix, deciding if 2 Mojos for a penny was better than 1 chocolate cup, picking between Cola Bottles and Bananas. Ahh, sweet memories.
:)

Now my kids spend their pocket money on retro sweets at a shop called Sweet Memories!

I remember the day I realised that if I saved my daily 5p sweet ration money for 8 days I could by an Enid Blyton book for 36p and have a few pennies worth of black jacks or fruit salad to go with it. Bliss.

I used to get 10p and sometimes 20p for sweets.
I remember chews 2 for half a penny.
But i used to love it when i could get a packet of chocolate cigd.
They would never be allowed these days!
A stick of chocolate wrapped in edible paper and the packets looked like proper brands.

I remember saving up for weeks to get the secret diary of adrian mole!