Old Finances (back in the day)

Uniscots97

notatvstar wrote: »

... OH NO! not the crochet. I had to wear a crochet skirt to school. I have never forgiven my Mum. It was a 'woman's weekly' special.

The horror.

<starts crying>

mine was the crochet skip cap in yellow and white from women's weekly! ....and I was made to wear it to school :eek::rotfl:

Uniscots97

ani_26 wrote: »

This just reminded me of cremola foam

oooh Cremola foam.... can you still get it?


also:-

Vesta curries
Salt and Shake crisps
and the once a week treat of a bag of sweets (and all the jars of sweets to choose from!)


now fast food for many is the norm not a treat, kids 'expect' sweets and crisps on a regular basis

notatvstar

Also my Mum used to make my bedding from off cuts of material she got cheap off the market. Sleeping on pillows and a duvet cover made out of curtain material was interesting, but well coordinated. But still - warm in the winter. The year I left for uni my parents put a radiator in my room. They also got a dishwasher and a TV with a remote control. You cannot my my life up.

ani_26

unixgirluk wrote: »

oooh Cremola foam.... can you still get it?


also:-

Vesta curries
Salt and Shake crisps
and the once a week treat of a bag of sweets (and all the jars of sweets to choose from!)


now fast food for many is the norm not a treat, kids 'expect' sweets and crisps on a regular basis

How about lucky bags? the paper bag variety. I can still remember staying in a caravan at skeggie and the lucky bag treat.

Butterfly_Brain

valentina wrote: »

Oh yes, I had a bed jacket, it was green and I think it was crochet...
I also had a crocheted poncho!!!!!!!

I remember my Mum crocheting me a dress once and I had to wear a pinny underneath because of all the holes :eek: She also had an idea of making a tennis dress for school from a white pillowcase - I wanted to crawl under a rock and hide :eek:

notatvstar

... I look forward to having my own children one day so I can get my revenge.

Ida_Notion

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I remember my Mum crocheting me a dress once and I had to wear a pinny underneath because of all the holes :eek: She also had an idea of making a tennis dress for school from a white pillowcase - I wanted to crawl under a rock and hide :eek:

My mum decided that she'd do a patchwork effect on my bedroom walls using the pages from wallpaper books. Unfortunately she got fed up a third of the way round and it never did get finished. Even more unfortunately, the bedroom window was in the third that she did manage to complete. My fourteen year-old self was up at the window one day, chatting to a lad from the next street as he stood by the garden gate and making great progress, or so I thought. Suddenly he paused mid-sentence and said with a mixture of astonishment and horror 'Have you got... patchwork wallpaper?'. I hurriedly made my excuses and left - a beautiful romance, finished before it had even got started :rotfl:

GeorgieFTB

notatvstar wrote: »

... I look forward to having my own children one day so I can get my revenge.

:rotfl::rotfl:

This thread is making me realise I'm not nearly evil enough to my two!

You can still get salt n shake crisps, DS1s favourite as he can put exactly the right amount of salt in! They're in our local Mr T...

Everyone likes lucky bags... last crimbo I got one for everyone, you should have seen all the grown ups, the kids were watching them open these packets... they thought we were all mad!:rotfl:

Gx

Ida_Notion

notatvstar wrote: »

... I look forward to having my own children one day so I can get my revenge.

When my eldest was about six, I cut his hair myself in an attempt to save money (couldn't afford clippers). I accidentally cut his fringe so far across his face that it ended over his ear, and the more I tried to make what I'd done look inconspicuous the worse it got. He looked like he'd had part of the side of his head shaved in preparation for brain surgery by the time I was done. I'm fully expecting him to make an appearance on a similar thread to this one a few years down the line - 'Our Primitive Nineties' Childhoods And How We Could Never Afford Every Power Ranger In The Argos Catalogue'

luxor4t

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I remember my Mum crocheting me a dress once and I had to wear a pinny underneath because of all the holes :eek: She also had an idea of making a tennis dress for school from a white pillowcase - I wanted to crawl under a rock and hide :eek:

My mother knitted me vests to wear under my school uniform for secondary school - oh the shame of it, they were huge and knee length _pale_
The warm-up before PE was laughing at me as I tried to adjust my vest so that it didn't show under my PE skirt. When I told her about it, she laughed too - she was the type that thought bullying was good for you.