Rip-Off

My parents have recently passed, however, my Dad always kept a drawer full of 1penny, thruppence. sixpence etc...... I have these coins and have tried to show my son what we had........ he thinks I'm mad and how could we have worked all that out !!!
 
A while ago I was at one of the ‘living museums’ in a classroom with a blackboard and chalk
Someone had put up a few simple additions in £,s,d - the sort of thing folks in brown shop coats did in their head whilst serving you
Everyone was stumped
(sorry OP, I have hijacked your post)
 
Kirsten said:
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Andrews field Worcestershire ccc site no facilities apart from water and black waste-river for swimming and kayaking-lovely people here kids having fun and £11 a night . Seek and you shall find!
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Intrigued as to what the orange spiky thing is?
 
Wack said:
I remember the stress of waiting for the gents to be empty so I could get my 50p in the durex machine so I could get my cockles attended to

Is that what you mean
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No seriously there used to be a bloke who came round uttoxeter on a Saturday night with a large wicker basket, selling cockles and mussels around the pubs, and they were one and three as was pints and durex were three and nine for three.

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Unfortunately we appear to accept robbery. Some insurance companies are charging £15 for a green card.but most are free. Doesn't matter now so that'll upset them.
 
Lenny HB said:
Us Southerners had to pay 1s 6d for mild & 1s 9p for bitter you lot must have been well off up norf.
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When I could drink legally those were pub prices but still a couple of d cheaper in the club.

We were all poor up norf, could only afford clogs......?????you wpuld need tobe rich nowto buy a pair of clogs :Smile:
 
I spent two nights in west bay a couple of weeks ago and used HiveBeach daytime for parking (free for nt members) If you need to be in west bay dedicated mh parking in station car park ist £8 for the day and I overnight in the picnic area on the entrance to Highlands end camp site.cafe opens early for breakfast tv reception is crap but phone signal is good for the fire stick😎
 
matamoros said:
I feel old but my head isn't, I was 16 then, 1965 so not that old.
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Any of us, older than the typical parents of teenagers today, are 'old'
Which means if you were born in the 1980's, you are now 'old'

If you were born in earlier decades, we are simply 'ancient'

I was born in the 1950's (just), as a kid a few of my friends had older parents who had actually fought in WWII (as opposed to remembering WWII, which many did)

Todays teenagers, will have 'older' parents, which means they may remember, as very young children, Live Aid, Chernobyl, Thatcher, Tiananmen Square. They would be the first generation to have been bought up with a computer, Windows 95 onwards.
 
If I could rent our place all year at a reasonable rate, I would. Unfortunately I can’t, so we have four seasons. Low, medium, high and out-of-season. High being school summer holidays.

It’s the reverse for a lot of winter resorts.

It’s just how the seasonal system works.

Same for:

Flights
Ferries
Hotels
Ski resorts
Car Sales (soft tops sell in summer, 4x4’s winter).

But consider that the people who are able, willing or prefer to holiday in the higher seasons, often make it pay for companies to continue all-year.

Remember, Brittany Ferries only used to operate their Spanish routes for 6-7 months of the year.

It’s the baby boomers, van lifers, grey top, winter birds etc. That are A, extending the seasons and B, benefitting from the high season spenders .

at least that’s the way I see it !
 
Alan said:
In my working days when I told young customers that’l be 50bob they thought I was speaking a foreign language 😎
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I used to introduce people to new systems or processes by saying "Right guys this is the 50 /- (bob) tour of ......Startled looks and nudges of 'old buftie, what do you expect' followed. They got the message though.
 
Puddleduck said:
They charge what the market will stand......... School holidays always meant a hike in prices.
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Otter Spotter said:
Just like Thompson’s /Tui and Jet2.com do for the school holidays.😈
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A hike in prices at school holiday times or discounts at other times to bring in business?
One might as well complain that the price of wrapping paper is higher in December than January or that the price of chocolate eggs is higher before Easter than after.
 
Two of usI said:
My parents have recently passed, however, my Dad always kept a drawer full of 1penny, thruppence. sixpence etc...... I have these coins and have tried to show my son what we had........ he thinks I'm mad and how could we have worked all that out !!!
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I remember, as a kid, seeing a "ready reckoner" in our house, it looked as fat as War and Peace and was just full of rows and rows of numbers in £.S.d !
 
When I started work with our local builder as a carpenter & joiner apprentice the hourly rate was
1s 10d an hour £2 3s 6d per week used to give mum half and borrow it back by end of the week🙄

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Kids like dogs are expensive, serious consideration should be taken before having either :rofl: :eek:
 
Brains said:
1s 10d = £0.07.5p (decimal) per hour
x 40 hour week would be £3

Tax deducted at source then ?
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See post#54 can’t remember paying tax then🤔 couldn’t have been much with NI?
talk about slave labour 7.5p an hour 😊 if memory serves me right tradesmen only got just over a tenner a week then?

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Do camp sites still get a VAT reduction? Passing it on to customer? Who's paying for it ? YOU HA HA
 

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