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What it was like to have nothing. To be waiting for pay day when you could have a pint or a smoke. When only the posh people owned their house. When school uniforms for the kids had to be saved for. When credit cards didn't exist.
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Wow remember the days before credit cards, where everyone had to save up for what they wanted.
i was only saying this recently when we decided to go out and buy a new tele and did so that afternoon, I remember when you had to either save up for months on end or rent one from rumbelows or radio rentals, now you can go out and get most things instantly....not sure if thats a good thing or not!
i was only saying this recently when we decided to go out and buy a new tele and did so that afternoon, I remember when you had to either save up for months on end or rent one from rumbelows or radio rentals, now you can go out and get most things instantly....not sure if thats a good thing or not!
I don't have to remember that far back. Within the past few years there have been times when I've only had a few pounds to buy food for a week. (There was one week when I survived on a packet of 'value' muesli and two pints of milk).
But I can also remember when only VERY posh people owned their own house. People who were just 'posh' rented in the private sector, rather than living on council estates like us 'normal' people. (I never thought of our family as 'poor' and my mother would have suffered apoplexy if anyone had dared to refer to us as 'working class').
I'm sure that my parents had to save for my school uniform, but I was never aware of it at the time.
Also, when I was young, there were only 'charge cards' (rather than 'credit cards') where the full balance had to paid at the end of each month. Only the very rich had such cards.
But I can also remember when only VERY posh people owned their own house. People who were just 'posh' rented in the private sector, rather than living on council estates like us 'normal' people. (I never thought of our family as 'poor' and my mother would have suffered apoplexy if anyone had dared to refer to us as 'working class').
I'm sure that my parents had to save for my school uniform, but I was never aware of it at the time.
Also, when I was young, there were only 'charge cards' (rather than 'credit cards') where the full balance had to paid at the end of each month. Only the very rich had such cards.
I don't know the age of you two. I am 60 next month ( and am not looking forward to it) but when I was young we would wake up to ice on the inside of the windows. The only heating was a coal fire. I realise today can be tough for the young. Is that not because they have had it different to us older ones. Parents want better for their kids but has it not gone too far?
OH YES, I certainly can remember those times.
As children we knew if my mother had no money for a packet of 5 Weights she was soo bad tempered we'd get a clout round the ear for nothing and we'd get together and collect all the lemonade bottles and jam jars until we had enough for those 5 fags.
We'd have bread & marge with boiled beetroot (from the allotment) for tea & rice boiled in water & sugar for afters. My Dad was on the panel for weeks because of bronchitis.
jem
As children we knew if my mother had no money for a packet of 5 Weights she was soo bad tempered we'd get a clout round the ear for nothing and we'd get together and collect all the lemonade bottles and jam jars until we had enough for those 5 fags.
We'd have bread & marge with boiled beetroot (from the allotment) for tea & rice boiled in water & sugar for afters. My Dad was on the panel for weeks because of bronchitis.
jem
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