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19 Sep 20, 09:56 PM |
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A friend had the similar 50yrs ago. they had orange boxes set out like chairs and a sofa and covered the whole lot and the floor with very cheap cord carpet. It actually looked quite good!
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19 Sep 20, 10:10 PM |
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19 Sep 20, 10:48 PM |
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Excited about Disney
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3d for a single Embassy tipped, & 1d for a book of matches when I was at school.
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19 Sep 20, 10:55 PM |
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19 Sep 20, 10:55 PM |
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For the first year of marriage we didn't have a washing machine, so used to scrub Melvin's BT overalls at the sink, then was offered a second hand washing machine by a friend at work who was getting a new one.
First time the coal man came to delivery coal after moving in, we asked for two bags but as it was May the cheap month for coal he filled our bunker and told us to pay him when we had the money When our children were born we taught them to appreciate the nature around us and to be polite, and always taught them to ask when they wanted to leave the table. Must say that they have grown up to be brilliant kids Remember chocolate cake and chocolate custard at school, Teachers throwing board rubbers if you misbehaved. And having to get two tube trains in the rush hour to school All Fun Lesley and Melvin
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19 Sep 20, 11:02 PM |
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20 Sep 20, 08:01 AM |
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We kind of did though. My wage was just under one third of the price of my first pretty average hovel of a starter home at the time.
My daughter's is around one seventh to one eighth of the price of a hovel round here. Though not many fixer uppers are available any more due to buy to let, so that first rung up has all but gone. Hence 2 wages are needed nowadays to even buy a place. They also need 15 to 25 percent deposit. A couple of YEARS wages. |
20 Sep 20, 09:19 AM |
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Dibbing with Tink
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20 Sep 20, 09:23 AM |
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Dibbing with Tink
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Right, you can't get a good glass of Chateau du Chasseur, ey, Josiah?
Hey- Right there ya', Hobodeiah. Who'd a' thought 40 years ago we' be sitting here drinking chateau du chasseur? Aye. Them's days you'd be glad to have the prize of a cup o'tea. Aye. A cuppa' cold tea. Not milk or sugar! Or tea... in a cracked cup and all. We never had a cup. We used to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. Best we could manage was to suck on a piece o'damp cloth. But you now we were happy those days, but we were poor. Because we were poor. My old dad used to say to me: "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son." He was right! I was happier then. We had nothing-- use to live in a tiny old, tumbled down house with great holes in' err roof. A house? You were lucky to have a house! We used to sleep in one room, 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling. You were lucky to have a room. We used to live in corridors. Oh...We used to dream 'a livin' in a corridor. Woulda' been a palace for us. We used to live in an old watertank on top of a rubbish tip. Got Woked up every mornin by havin the lot of the rotten fish dumped all over us. House? Why woulda say house? It were only a hole in the ground, covered by a couple foot o torn canvas. But they were house to us! We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We had to go livin in lake. You were lucky to have a lake.There were 150 of us, livin in shoebox at middle o' motorway. Cardboard box? Nay. You're lucky. We lived for three months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank. We used to hadta get up a'six in the morning, clean da newspaper, eat a crusta stale bread, go to work down the mill, for a 14 hour day, week in week out for 6 cents a month, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt. Luxury. We used to hafta get 'out the lake, 3 am, clean the lake, eat a handful 'o hot gravel, work 20 hours a day at mill, for a penny a month, and dad would beat us about the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were lucky. Well o course we had it tough. We used to have to get up outta shoebox, in middle of night, and lick the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked at mill for 24 hours for a penny a year, When we got home, our dad would slash it in two with bread-knife. Right.. I used to get up in the morning at night at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day at mill, and pay da mill owner to let us work there. And when I went home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah. Yah, you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you... |
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20 Sep 20, 09:25 AM |
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Were I live we always needed two wages. No holidays, new clothes, going out - no car either. I don’t think we had it easier but maybe you did.
Edit: it’s easy to scoff as in above posts (I know they are a joke) but I do get annoyed when it’s implied we all had it easy. Edited at 09:28 AM. |
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