What can you buy with 50p today?

[billsstamps]

I started work in 1969. £5.15.00 plus 15/- luncheon vouchers p.w.!

£4 a week in 1964 as a laboratory assistant before going to university.

[suesjools]

We have a dollar store that sells items for around a dollar, mostly shampoos and bath items. Local thrift store sells books for 25 cents each, now there's a bargain.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[tonyreddevil]

I can remember when you could buy 8 pints of beer for £1.
And frequently did.

I DID AS WELL.big rounds

[Tropical_Trish]

You did well. I started in 1966 @ £4.7s 6d, and out of that I had to pay my bus fares to work - 2 buses each way!

I used to give Mother 10 shillings a week (50p) for my keep. If I was hard up, she would give it back to me, and I could have a couple of nights out on it.
Imagine paying 50p for your keep at home these days!
I was wild a year or so later when my sister got a job at Lloyds bank on £7.00 a week

Wow - you got off cheap!
My first job after leaving school was with Simplex G.E. - I got £4 pounds and 15 shillings for 5 days and £6 for a Saturday morning as well.
My mother had £3 board from me, I had to pay my own way to work as well.
I didn't mind giving mum most of my wage, as she had my sisters to look after, and times were really hard then.


Even though I had a grammar school education with good grades, I couldn't wait for the right job to come to me, so I joined up as a milkmaid on Clover Dairies. My earnings shot up to almost £18.00 a week. I was so rich, I didn't know how to spend this fortune - but I did ... on clothes!
Also was saving for a motorbike - but I met a complete idiot that I fell for - he was 28 and I was barely 18 and I married him!
The motorbike fund was spent on our wedding in 1966.
We were divorced 14 years later .......