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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A Mars bar was 25p I think, that, and prawn cocktail walkers crisps were my favourites. Opal fruits, smarties and monster munches were great too. My pocket money was 20p with a rise to 50p in 1992!

My DDs are a bit young for pocket money yet, but will start with a pound a week I think.

I vaguely remember buying 4 sweets for 1d or 4 farthings.

I used to buy pickled onion flavour Tudor Crisps and a can of pepsi.

I'd climb a mountain for a canny bag of Tudor

I used to save my money and often my older brother would 'borrow' it when he'd sneak out to nightclubs. Never thought I'd see it again but about a decade later he bought me an expensive pair of hair straighteners to make up for it!

Pocket money was in line with the price of a packet of crisps. Around the same price as a packet of polos I remember but we were not allowed sweets..

A single was 99p when my pocket money was 10p. I had to wait 10 WEEKS!!

I started out on £2.50 a week which increased as I grew into my teens- I used to spend it on a magazine, usually top of the pops or mizz, some sweets and getting a cheesburger from mcdonalds when it was 59p was the height of excitement! DS is only 2 so haven't got to pocket money yet, but I know that I definitely want him to learn the benefit of saving, I never did and still really struggle to keep hold of money now.

I didn't get pocket money, but I always had a good amount for my birthday/Christmas. My DM was massively anti-sweets so of course I was like a deprived addict, sneaking off to the local garage to spend my loot.

Sweet Cigarettes, Space Dust, Toffos, Sherbet Dib Dabs, Spangles....ah, happy days.

Crisps were 4p.

I didn't like spending pocket money, I was always a saver! I used to spend it on holiday though buying some trinkets and an Icecream

Sweets!! 10p mix-ups & quarters of things like Bon-bons & wine gums. The giant strawberries were 3p & huge! Highland Toffees were 10p

Sweets!! 10p mix-ups & quarters of things like Bon-bons & wine gums. The giant strawberries were 3p & huge! Highland Toffees were 10p

Never had any regular pocket money, but any money I did get I used to hoard, I think I'd picked up the SAVING IS GOOD message somewhere and just kept on putting it in my money box.

My DD is a bit young yet for pocket money, but she does have a owl money box, into which I put a few quid every now and then.

We did get pocket money as children but it was never very regular as it was expensive enough feeding and clothing four children! When we did get it we used to traipse down to the local small newsagents where there was a whole shelf full of penny sweets - it really was quite good value - fish and chip chocolates, shrimps (which just don't taste the same now), flying saucers, penny chews, chocolate mice and perhaps we'd even splurge on things like chocolate cigarettes!

Artex - Oh highland toffees!! I'd forgotten those!!

Never got a regular pocket money but I'd collect the pop bottles and return them for the deposit. Generally I'd spend any money on Misty magazine and mix ups. We used to live across the road from an elderly lady who would give us 5p to get the evening paper for her. The paper was 4p and then we could spend the penny on a couple of halfpenny chews. My brother saved up his money and bought these horrible rubber spiders which he would hide in my bath. It got to the stage where I wouldn't get into the bath unless one of my parents checked it first. I blame my fear of spiders on that

Mr Whippy ice cream from the van after school. A cup of orange squash and Fruit Salad, Black Jack and Refresher sweets from tuck shop at after school club on evenings I stayed. Comics. :)

I used to get 10p sweet money every Friday after school. That usually bought me 20 'little sweets' from the sweet counter in the newsagent, a mix of white mice, fruit salad and blackjack chews, red licorice sticks and hard-shelled bubblegums. Sadly, I had no restraint and would usually polish the lot off that same day and that was my lot until next Friday!

I mostly used to save it, so I would have enough to buy small birthday and Christmas presents for my parents and sisters, and so I would have some extra to spend on holiday. We used to go to the Kent coast every summer. I always used to buy a paperback book (which were about 4/- back then, 20p in today's money). My pocket money was sixpence a week at the time, so I had to save hard for anything I wanted.
When I was 14, my first job was strawberry picking in the summer holidays, for which I earned about £1 a day. After 2 weeks hard work I had £14, which was more money than I had ever seen in my life! I felt as rich as Cresus! That was in 1972.

I didn't get pocket money when I was a kid, we were too poor living off my nan's pension, which with 5 people in the house didn't go very far.

Instead, my nan took us to all the free museums/galleries/parks in London at the weekend, and once a month or so she would have saved up enough to take us for fish and chips or pie and mash.

I only have good memories of those days, even though there was a huge amount of sadness in there as my brother was very ill.

Sundays were the best, when all my aunts and uncles and cousins would come for lunch and we'd play and eat ourselves sick (the family would all bring a dish and a pudding).

My dcs don't get money as such, but occasionally get a sweetie or something for a treat. I wish though that I could give them the same experiences I had as a child, with the culture and the family. I don't live in London anymore (couldn't afford to move back, as much as I'd love to) so we're stuck with what little cultural activities there are near us.

I have a lot more money now than my nan ever did and as such my dcs have a lot more than I did as a child. Maybe once their older they will get proper pocket money

We didn't get regular pocket money for a long time because there were 5 of us. We used to get 10p to get penny sweets with.

We used to go to our nanny's house for lunch sometimes and she would give us 10p to get sweets with if we ate all our spaghetti on toast and semolina or ground rice!!

My eldest has left home and my other two are only little (6&1) so don't get regular pocket money yet, they just get bought little bits when we have the money or for a treat.

The earliest pocket money I remember getting was 15p a week, this would have been mid 70s so I'm not sure if it was a good amount or not.

Still, I would buy those rectangular Refresher chews, the ones with the fizzy bit in the middle.

Or sometimes some toffee logs. Really hard toffee covered in chocolate.

One day I began to chew one on the way home. Felt a hard bit and took the toffee out of my mouth (well, I was only 7 or 8 at the time) and found a tooth was embedded in it. My tooth, so no real Eww about it. I knew I'd got a tooth a bit wobbly, just hadn't realised it was that wobbly.

As I grew up, my pocket money increased, and I'd buy some magazines. Smash Hits, yes, like many friends, but I did like the spooky Misty magazine, and Mum liked it too; she'd read it after I did!

I don't remember receiving pocket money as such, but I do remember being given 10p to spends on sweets and I used to get a bag full!

Snaps crisps were 2p, black jacks and fruit salad I think were 2 for 1/2p, Anglo bubblegum 1p, those UFO looking sweets that tasted like polystyrene with fizz inside it, white mice, chocolate buttons with hundreds and thousands on.

I remember going to the local sweet shops, where they had jars of sweets and you could buy a 1/4 of sweets too.

I used to get some loose change from my nan when she visited and I always got penny sweets and a Flump! I would always get a beano magazine too x

My grandad gave us 25p a week when we were kids (70's) and me and my sister used to pool our resources to make it go further, so rather than one bar of chocolate each, we would buy a multipack and get 2 or 3 each, the same with ice lollies. Thinking back I am quite impressed with our fiscal planning to get the absolute most out of our money, we would only have been about 6 and 8 at the time!

When I had my paper round I used to save half and spend half as I was going on holiday to France with school and that was my spending money. Apart from that I was never really a saver, money has always burned a hole in my pocket!

I used to save up my pocket money and then use if for when we had sleepovers or if I wanted to buy something myself. I wish pretty boring with my money. I have always been quite responsible.

When I can first remember, my pocket money was a thrupeeny bit. It was the most wonderful shape, and I still have one. I don't remember spending it though. I was 4 when decimalization came in, and remember thinking how easy it was to count the pennies.

You could get 4 chews for a penny (it may actually have been more initially, but I remember buying them at 4 for a penny. They were rhubarb and custard and black jacks.

I remember a family meeting about pocket money, we decided that we should have 1/2p for every year old we were. I was 5 (and youngest) and so got 2.5p per week, and that was enough for sweets. At some future point I know it was 2p per year old, so that was then about 14p per week. I see to remember that was enough for a magazine and a packet of sweets (but may be wrong on that one) I always bought a Bounty magazine. (or the amazing spooky Misty when it ran for a few months)

I remember crisps were 4p then 5p, and I was given 5p to buy a snack for playtime on the way to school (junior school). Then they went up to 6p, and mum wouldn't give me any more money, so I couldn't have a pack a day.

That wasn't pocket money though, that was snack for school money. I saved my pocket money and bought a plastic wombles tea set from the local newsagents. It cost £1,25. I know that, because the box is still at my mum's house and the set still used by the grandchildren who come to visit her.

My kids get 10p per year, so 60p, 90p and £1.10. They usually don't spend it, as we don't really 'go shopping' as a leisure activity. They save it, and then when they have £5 or £10 they want to go to toy shop and spend it. The oldest has just started secondary and will soon switch to more, so he can go out once a month with friends (cinema/swimming etc)