Old Finances (back in the day)

ChocClare

ALSO

Can I just ask: when did black bags come in? We used to tip everything into the galvanised dustbin which was emptied into the cart. I was too young to be a swiller of bins, but I imagine they possibly got quite rank, though I do remember that we always wrapped chicken bones/potato peelings etc in newspaper before consigning them to the bin.

I would have thought it was less to break down for the landfill sites if everything wasn't wrapped to death first? Mind you, there wasn't the MASSES of packaging on everything that you get now "for freshness"... although I do remember my mum celebrating the advent of clingfilm by tipping a glass of orange squash upside down to demonstrate just how wonderful it was.

maganan

ChocClair - in car entertainment, you've reminded me of the old Ispy books me and my brother had, it was that or counting different coloured cars but i loved the Ispy books one for the journey, think it lasted years as we nevern completed it and one for the beach

taplady

Going4TheDream wrote: »

Taplady, OMG I totally forgot about the 'special bath and hairwash nights' , for me and sis it was Sunday night, ready for school Monday and Wednesday night. I even remember when my sis and I were younger we used to share, what arguments that caused, it was either too hot or too cole, then one of us would moan about having to sit at the tap end!!! then we used to have our own bath but only kinda as one day she would get in first and then the next time I would, It was only when we became older that we bathed a little more often and totally on our own!

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lol! yes - I had to share with my sister for years! nobody had showers then, our was usually Sunday too ready for school on Monday.
My sister and I shared a double bed too for a long time and I remember having a big bolster pillow which we put down the middle to make sure we both had equal space:D

drusilla

Wow this has really made me laugh with nostalgia. I have been reminding my OH abut the past. He has been laughing as well.

Here's a few.

Chef's square shaped soups- ah the power of advertising. I really begged my mum to buy those.

Going on holiday to the same caravan site every year.

Really boring Sundays because there were no shops open.

Half-day closing on Tuesdays.

3 channels on the telly - and even earlier than that the test card and the dot. The telly actually went off!!! What would kids do today?

I remember my dad getting a video recorder - he couldn't decide whether to get betamax or VHS.

The video shop.

At school doing school bank. Yes at the age of 9 I was working doing the collecting and balancing the books.

I also sold the crisps at playtime. There's healthy schools for you. I still adore seabrooks crinkle crisps.

All the kids ' Singing together' to the radio that was wheeled in every Wednesday. Wow that was great. Especially when they could not tune it in.

Serving the dinners to the other kids. Asking who wanted the skin off the custard. I was a dinner monitor and I am still proud of that. I have detested fish ever since though.

Ah the memories.

This was late 1970s.

Ida_Notion

"Chef Square-Shaped Soups Show How A Good Soup Should Be"

Anyone else remember all the public information films? Les and Petunia ("I think he's waving at us! Cooo-eeee!"), Charlie the cat etc? My favourite was the woman who found herself locked out of her own home by a burglar because she'd neglected to put the chain on the door when she answered it to him. It used to amuse me the way she said "What is he doing with those candlesticks!" as she peered in through the letter box.

My mum used to have me and my sisters bath in the same water too, one after the other. To stop us dragging our feet she used to say "Right then, bathtime - first is the luckiest, last is the muckiest!", and there would be a mad scramble to be the one who didn't have to bath in everybody else's grime

jackieb

butterflylady131 wrote: »

Just watching Carry On Doctor (my guilty secret!):D, and whilst watching it, I thought, life was really different 30+ years ago, I wonder what our finances were like back then? In particular, what was necessary, eg food, gas, electric, compared to now, eg, mobile phone, sky tv, life insurance.
Just wondered if any of you would like to post your financial lives from back then, so we can compare?

My parents always had insurance, even for us children. The insurance man would visit the house once a month for the premiums.

My parents had a money box that had different compartments for all the different bills - electric, insurance, phone, etc. Dad always got a pay packet. My husband even got pay packets up until the early 90s.

I remember he got paid on a Saturday one day in the late 80s and I didn't want the temptation of having too much money in the house. The TSB bank had an ATM where you could deposit cash. The machine would give you an envelope. You'd put your cash in the envelope, and then put that into the ATM. It was windy that day and all the money I had blew away - over £100! There were about 4 people in the queue behind me, one being my cousin. Every one of them chased my money and I got it all back. I could've kissed them all!

Everyone used to have 'tiddly's'. Someone trusted would open a bank account (in our case it was an uncle) and every week you'd give them some money for Christmas, and the person who collected it all would get to keep the interest they made over the year. I was never aware of anyone doing an Arthur Fowler with the Christmas Club (tiddly!) money.

jackieb

Ida_Notion wrote: »

"Chef Square-Shaped Soups Show How A Good Soup Should Be"

Anyone else remember all the public information films? Les and Petunia ("I think he's waving at us! Cooo-eeee!"), Charlie the cat etc? My favourite was the woman who found herself locked out of her own home by a burglar because she'd neglected to put the chain on the door when she answered it to him. It used to amuse me the way she said "What is he doing with those candlesticks!" as she peered in through the letter box.

My mum used to have me and my sisters bath in the same water too, one after the other. To stop us dragging our feet she used to say "Right then, bathtime - first is the luckiest, last is the muckiest!", and there would be a mad scramble to be the one who didn't have to bath in everybody else's grime

The man trap public information film used to scare me! Where the old lady would polish her floor and then put a rug down and you'd see a picture of a big scary looking trap, and a man skidding on the slippery floor.

jackieb

maganan wrote: »

ChocClair - in car entertainment, you've reminded me of the old Ispy books me and my brother had, it was that or counting different coloured cars but i loved the Ispy books one for the journey, think it lasted years as we nevern completed it and one for the beach

My dad had an 8 track player in our car. He only had a few tapes - Elvis, Charlie Pride, Sydney Devne and Jim Reeves are the ones I remember. I thought it was so cool being able just to press a button and get the song you wanted without having to rewind or fast forward.

I still love Jim Reeves to this day. What a voice!

Ida_Notion

jackieb wrote: »

The man trap public information film used to scare me! Where the old lady would polish her floor and then put a rug down and you'd see a picture of a big scary looking trap, and a man skidding on the slippery floor.

The one that always used to freak me out was the kids playing in the electricity sub station. There was a water safety one with a grim reaper type bloke watching kids drown, then cackling and throwing his cloak down over the spot where they'd gone under that used to scare a lot of kids too. It's not really surprising that extreme health and safety laws weren't seen as necessary then!

jackieb

Ida_Notion wrote: »

The one that always used to freak me out was the kids playing in the electricity sub station. There was a water safety one with a grim reaper type bloke watching kids drown, then cackling and throwing his cloak down over the spot where they'd gone under that used to scare a lot of kids too. It's not really surprising that extreme health and safety laws weren't seen as necessary then!

I'd forgotten about them!