Old Finances (back in the day)

paulus_the_woodland_gnome

ani_26 wrote: »

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.

Survival was another out of the Anglia TV stable. I seem to recall the title sequence was of a herd of wilder-beast ,or similar, stampeding across the plains

JillS_2

jackieb wrote: »

I like me a bit of retro. This is my house phone.

OMG! That's the phone* I had when we moved into our flat in 1969.

*well it looks the same.

sophsnan

culpepper wrote: »

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.

Thank god someone has remembed Tinker and Tucker I used to have these pupperts as a kid and when I was telling the OH he looks at me as if i've gone mad he does'nt remember them hes only 6 months older then me. What about lampchop?

Justamum

sophsnan wrote: »

Thank god someone has remembed Tinker and Tucker I used to have these pupperts as a kid and when I was telling the OH he looks at me as if i've gone mad he does'nt remember them hes only 6 months older then me. What about lampchop?

I don't remember Tinker and Tucker (or The Romper Room either - it probably wasn't shown up north!), but I do remember Titch and Quackers. My dear brothers nicknamed my sister and I Titch and Quackers. My little sister was Titch :cool: I also remember Lambchop too.

Butterfly_Brain

I have a VHS of pogles wood I used to love it

Butterfly_Brain

maganan wrote: »

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!

Wasn't that the sequel to Vision On?

sleepy-lady

Delurking to say: I was in the north east and remember Tinger and Tucker - I even joined the club. And I could still sing the song if anyone asked me to! Woomerang, boomerang this is our song, Merrily, merrily we sing along. And that will be my earworm of the week.

Justamum

I know it wasn't the norm in the 60s and 70s to have central heating, but my dad was very good at diy and put in central heating in every house we lived in for as long as I can remember. My parents bought a hotel in the mid 70s and he rewired the whole place too!

maganan

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Wasn't that the sequel to Vision On?

yeah thats right, actually I think my painting was on vision on must ask my mum:o

Janeryan

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

As this is my 40th year :eek:. I was a kid in the 70's, but I remember how mum and dad lived.
I remember an enormous victorian suite they got second hand. It was solid as a rock and had massive padded arms that made brilliant "horses" for me and my sister lol. They finally bought a brand new suite when we moved to a bigger house and Dad's wage jumped up at the start of the 80's and the suite went to the local scouts/cubs who used it for years afterwards.

Mum still says she wishes she had just had the old one recovered and restuffed professionally and kept it, but at the time it was the thing to have new and of course there were fire issues.

To save costs instead of getting the gap under the stairs blocked in with a wall, and so she could use it as a cupboard and hide things away lol. Mum used her sewing skills to put up a set of curtains across. Of course for us kids it was like a stage with curtains-brilliant!

Tv wise I remember a few second hand ones going bang, literally. Dad was an electrical engineer so plenty of stuff came in cheap cos it was second hand and/or needed fixing so Dad could sort that.

I thought push starting cars was a normal family activity rofl. We had a fab vauxhall veva (sp) which was a big estate car and us kids loved it as he would let us play house in it and it seemed massive inside. It was hand painted (yes really) and you could see the brush marks in the paint, it was always breaking down as well, all good fun (I think).

No videos, no games consoles, no computers, no mobiles. If you went out you told your parents who you would be with and where you were going and had to be back at a pre arranged time.

I remeber a load of us piling around to a mate who was the first to get an atari. I remember brownies teaching us how to use a phonebox for emergencies. No debit cards it was all cash from the atm at the start of the week and it had to last.

When parents got their first credit card (a flexible friend) and she worried sick about using it, it was kept locked up at home for emergencies or large purchases so they could spread the cost over a few months.

My Dad had a reasonable good job, he would be classed as white collar, a professional. But we certainly didn't live the lifestyle presented as what you should "aim" for now. Mum didn't go back to work after having us until I was about 10 (sister was 6 ish) and even then it was part time at our school lol (a dinner lady).

Our food was cooked from scratch and Dad's tea was on the table every night when he walked through the door. Cola/pop etc only came in at christmas or occasionally as a treat.

My mum would include as chrissie pressies a pair of slippers, a new nighty/pj's, clothes etc as presents. One year I got an umbrella (I kid you not), advent callenders were full of glitter and pictures-never chocolate. When I went up to high school we had to have a calculator that did trig calcs for year 3 I think, so christmas the year before that was one of my presents.

I can't recall going out to eat or a takeaway for anything other than a birthday/wedding/christening etc until I was about 10, and then we used to go to a local pub/restaurant who did an early bird set menu.

They had one bank account (joint of course) and an abbey saver 9running along side the abbey mortgage).

Ali x

I was 18 in 1981 and I got an umbrella as an 18th birthday present from a friend! My Dad was paid weekly in cash and on pay day Mum & Dad sat down together at the table and divided the money up into jars and various other receptacles to pay the bills- Dad worked shift work so we had a better wage coming in than others. Our house was privately rented and the landlord called every Monday morning at 8am to collect it. Out colour TV was rented and we had a home phone but we didn't have a plumbed in washing machine until both my sister and I were at work-Mum pulled out the twin tub and the mangle every week and attached it to the kitchen sink taps.

My sister and I still joke about the jars but when my Mum died she had enough in them to pay the bills until we had moved out of the house!