06-11-13, 09:44 PM
(06-11-13, 04:57 PM)Robbie8666 link Wrote: the same with the size of chocolate bars! I remember mars bars been at least a 1/3 bigger than they are now! and they were wrapped in paper not plastic!
4 black jack or fruit salads for 1p
other day kids found an old threpenny bit so i then tried to explain bout proper money £ s d!!! even my mrs looked at me blank!
Don't get me started! I've still not gotten over the great decimalisation rip off! :'(
For those too young to remember that traumatic period in our history, a shilling used to consist of 12 'old' pennies and there were 20 of them to the pound. When they decimalised the currency a shilling was in effect 5 new pence and an old penny was made the equivalent of 1/2 a new penny.
So overnight we went from a shilling getting you 12 penny sweets to 5ponly getting you 10!! :eek
Did I get a pocket money increase to adjust for this sudden & drastic devaluation of my sweet purchasing 5 bob? No I bloody didn't! >: