When I Was A Kid We Were So Poor My Mother Took Up Knitting To Make A Few Quid...

[sandyRoe]

But there's not many shops will take woolly fivers. :-)

[andy-hughes]

Tell your friends - he's here all week!

[Nibble]

Fivers? Blimey, we were rich if we had half a crown! (Those were the days of the ten shilling note....)

[elliemay1]

Shouldn't this be in Jokes?? (nearly!)

[sandyRoe]

I think it's a reject from a Xmas cracker

[nungate]

made me smile Sandy

[Sam1960]

and me :)

[pixie373]

Lol. Our Newsagent will...

[New Judge]

When I were a lad you could get a tram down into t'town, buy three new suits an' an ovvercoat, four pair o' good boots, go an' see Frank Randall at t'Palace Theatre, get blind drunk, 'ave some steak an' chips, bunch o' bananas an' three stone o' monkey nuts an' still 'ave change out of a farthing.

We'd lots o' things in them days they 'aven't got today - rickets, diptheria, Hitler and my, we did look well goin' to school wi' no backside in us trousers an' all us little 'eads painted purple because we 'ad ringworm.

They don't know they're born today!!!

(With thanks to the late Tony Capstick)

[Nibble]

She'd have been knitting one of these, these days, sandy :-)

http://randommization.com/2012/04/26/mint-all-your-money-with-knit-credit-cards/

[anneasquith]

we were so poor my mum didn't have knitting needles.

[weecalf]

We were so poor that the charities did not send us begging letters for two weeks

[lady-janine]

aye ann i know what is was like but lucky i had thin legs so she used them.

[anneasquith]

well lj at least your mum had wool, I do wonder how she cast off when she used your legs to knit :)

[lady-janine]

she didn't wool she used grass growing on the bombsites.

[Ivorlittlein]

We couldn't afford Laxatives so Dad sat us on the toilet and told us Ghost stories.My Mam used to take the bones out of her corsets to make a pan of soup as well.!!

[anneasquith]

we lived in such a poor area, it wasn't worth bombing,

[anneasquith]

LOL ' ivor.......

[Sam1960]

you had soup !!!

[sandyRoe]

Hard times, indeed. And I thought we had it rough :-)

[Blackiequine]

We were so poor that when my mother ate a pandrop we used to warm our hands on her breath!