Old Finances (back in the day)

Nargleblast

Yes, and they are films, not movies - that's the American term!

I think this nostalgia-fest we are having harks back to the days before credit was available to every man and his dog. In those days if you could not afford it you either went without or saved up for it or got it on "tick", paying so much to a man who came to the door every week. Then credit cards took off big time and the whole world seemed to change.

Life was certainly simpler then, and you had to "make your own entertainment" - oh Gawd! I have just realised - I open my mouth and my mother starts talking!

Memory_Girl

This thread has had me hooting with laughter.

Lets see - best pressie? - A stylophone!!! Yup!!! was fabbie. Rolf and Me - mates forever. :eek:

Proudest moment? - got one of my paintings on "The Gallery" with Tony Hart :T

Claim to fame? Went ot college with Brian Cant's son (Playaway anyone??) He would come to see his son in productions - and us all being star struck 'cos he was seriously famous because he'd been on the telly when we were kids :rotfl::rotfl:. I mean we had some seriously famous Directors come and work with us - but we always remember that!!

MG

Nargleblast

Well that certainly beats my Romper Room appearance!

Justamum

Nargleblast wrote: »

I think this nostalgia-fest we are having harks back to the days before credit was available to every man and his dog. In those days if you could not afford it you either went without or saved up for it or got it on "tick", paying so much to a man who came to the door every week.

My parents never bought anything on 'tick' - we used to rent a tv like most people on here. Since the advent of credit though my dad has been terrible and had three or four credit cards spent right up to the hilt :eek:. He's always been bad with money - paying bills on the red one etc, and I've told him to think of credit cards as debt cards. He's improving now. I did have one about 20 years ago, and realised just how bad they were, so haven't had one for years and don't want one.

My adage is "pay as you go, and if you can't pay, don't go". Money is very tight, but I know that I can sleep well at night knowing that we don't owe thousands of pounds.

My parents both grew up during the war and had to live on rations, and when we were younger money was very tight too, but I've seen my mum throw out perfectly good food because it was on its sell-by date - stuff I'd happily eat. She's been suckered in to abiding by dates which have only been around for a fraction of her life.

Justamum

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Claim to fame?

My school was on the programme We Want to Sing. I remember we practised all the songs for weeks and weeks. The host for that particular episode was Ken Dodd, and the group which appeared was Middle of the Road, and they sang Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep . When we watched in on tv I saw the back of my head :rotfl::rotfl:

paulus_the_woodland_gnome

Nargleblast wrote: »

Well that certainly beats my Romper Room appearance!

I remember Romper Room well. I used to hide when Miss Roslyn used to call out the names of the children she could see through her un-strung tennis racquet. I did not want to be spotted . my brother on the other hand plonked himself right in the way so she could not miss him

nb I think Romper Room was a regional programme (eastern counties) not sure if it was shown nationwide...... Nationwide , don't start me on that

culpepper

Does anyone remember Tinker and Tucker with Auntie Jean? They were Koala puppets a bit like pinky and perky but cuter.
Also Rolf Harris had a TV series with a Koala puppet called Coochie bear.
Pogles Wood with the squirrel called Tog or was that just part of the wooden tops?
We used to watch Captain Scarlet at the weekend and thunderbirds then straight out into the garden to re-enact it all.
All those TV progs did have toys associated with them so I suppose we were still quite materialistic even then.

ani_26

paulus_the_woodland_gnome wrote: »

I remember Romper Room well. I used to hide when Miss Roslyn used to call out the names of the children she could see through her un-strung tennis racquet. I did not want to be spotted . my brother on the other hand plonked himself right in the way so she could not miss him

nb I think Romper Room was a regional programme (eastern counties) not sure if it was shown nationwide...... Nationwide , don't start me on that

Thats right, wasn't it as was then Anglia tv? i think. Also starring was Nicholas Parsons with quail of the century I'm sure there was another famous programme but i can't quite bring it to mind, right now.

maganan

Memory_Girl wrote: »

This thread has had me hooting with laughter.

Lets see - best pressie? - A stylophone!!! Yup!!! was fabbie. Rolf and Me - mates forever. :eek:

Proudest moment? - got one of my paintings on "The Gallery" with Tony Hart :T

Claim to fame? Went ot college with Brian Cant's son (Playaway anyone??) He would come to see his son in productions - and us all being star struck 'cos he was seriously famous because he'd been on the telly when we were kids :rotfl::rotfl:. I mean we had some seriously famous Directors come and work with us - but we always remember that!!

MG

Oh god I'd forgotten about playaway reminds me of rainy saturday afternoons with my mum while my dad was at the football

I had a painting on the gallery on take hart it was only a few years ago that I found out the program was devised for deaf children, we loved it

You must have been posh having a real stylophone!

Ida_Notion

ani_26 wrote: »

I wonder what they taught at posh schools? Don't question marks go on the outside of brackets?

I was told that at posh schools they tried to teach the kids to speak proppa, like the rest of us do - 'It ain't the 'unting on the 'ills that 'urts the 'orses 'ooves, it's the 'ammer, 'ammer on the 'ard 'igh roads' - and that since you only had to listen to posh kids speak to realise what a complete waste of money it had been, we were never going to be sent to one :rotfl: