View Full Version : How much have things gone up in price?
I know things have shot up in price but some things just stick out more than others!
A very small bar of chocolate for little ones cost about 65 pence these days, polos are now 50 pence a packet, i used to buy them all the time for 10 pence a packet?
I know these are just a couple of things i noticed yesterday walking into my local shop.
Has anyone else noticed a massive hike in price for certain products? :eek:
Yep, Bovril beef spread ...£2.15p in Tesco until a month ago....now a whopping £3.25p...I love it but will not buy it now until I know the reason it went up by over £1 in a week!! I shall revert to marmalade on my toast...(both just as fattening but Hey Ho!!).
C3...
I think these particular price rises have happened over the last 20 years. I remember when it was 50p a pint for beer and 50p a gallon for petrol :eek:
The commodities market (yes- bankers again) has hiked up the price of raw materials- and thus the price of virtually everything is to rise considerably- just at the point when ordinary people are being put out of work or having their pay frozen or cut. Add the rising price of oil- and of course the hike in VAT and you have a recipe for inflation.
Tighten your belts
I think these particular price rises have happened over the last 20 years. I remember when it was 50p a pint for beer and 50p a gallon for petrol :eek:
Ahh! Memories........I also remember Polo Mints at 4d a Packet, Beer at 2/- a Pint and Petrol at 5/6 a Gallon. Everything goes up in price and in reality it is quite pointless looking back as it is just too depressing.
Just thought it was something to chat about!
I know things go up in price year on year but it was amazing to notice the hike on products i don't buy and think my god how much?
If you could get a pint of beer in a pub 20 years ago for 50p you were very lucky as a barmaid 20 years ago it was well over £1 then!
Thanks for that it is the sort of response i was looking for!! cheers
Just thought it was something to chat about!
I know things go up in price year on year but it was amazing to notice the hike on products i don't buy and think my god how much?
If you could get a pint of beer in a pub 20 years ago for 50p you were very lucky as a barmaid 20 years ago it was well over £1 then!
Damn! I'm older than I thought :lol:
ShelleyCowie
15-Jan-11, 23:38
I only remember as far back that cans of juice was like 25p lol
My granny would spin in her grave at the price of a loaf.
This Tunisian crisis was sparked off by higher food prices. Apparently it's not the only country in the region smouldering with anger.
I have to watch because when I start thinking about the possibilities my doom and gloom gene kicks in and I eat too much chocolate. Tins of Cadburys Roses were going for as little as £4.50 a hit over Christmas so ive stored enough calories to do me til Easter.
northener
15-Jan-11, 23:56
I can remember when a pound note was only a shilling.....
Kevin Milkins
16-Jan-11, 02:33
polos are now 50 pence a packet, i used to buy them all the time for 10 pence a packet?
To be fair though, they have made the holes slightly bigger.
I think these particular price rises have happened over the last 20 years. I remember when it was 50p a pint for beer and 50p a gallon for petrol :eek:
I reckon you would need to go back to the 70s to see petrol at ten bob a gallon!!
1991 average pint of beer was £1.40 (now £2.80) but as a proportion of the average wage now, it is exactly the same as it was then.
1991 average gallon of petrol was £1.80
(Both stats from the Telegraph website)
I reckon you would need to go back to the 70s to see petrol at ten bob a gallon!!
1991 average pint of beer was £1.40 (now £2.80) but as a proportion of the average wage now, it is exactly the same as it was then.
1991 average gallon of petrol was £1.80
(Both stats from the Telegraph website)
I can remember that was the price when I got my first moped, a Honda PC 50. Would have been 1976.
Here is one on ebay for £700 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1973-HONDA-PC50-CLASSIC-VINTAGE-VETERAN-MOPED-WOW-/130466441852?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item1e6067ea7c :eek:
thebigman
17-Jan-11, 09:35
Strathclyde Uni union bar - lager 20p cider 10p snakebite 15p circa 1973
My first entry! In answer to yours re the Honda 50. In those days, the proud Japanese eschewed the idea of using real translators, and thus carried out the task themselves. Hence this, from memory, at the beginning of the users' manual accompanying my Honda 50 bought in 1970 -
"With the expectation of providing you with a good assistant to contribute you with her excellent performance forever, the Honda 50 is designed"
And, from the "Faults and Remedies" section -
"Wasted out of fuel?"
"Fill fuel in the tank."
Walter Ego
17-Jan-11, 10:47
Loaf of bread - half a groat.
(Stirling Castle 1547)
Stack Rock
17-Jan-11, 12:41
Bag of chips from John Cormacks 3p - circa late 50s. Cooked on a coal fired fryer !!!!
My first entry! In answer to yours re the Honda 50. In those days, the proud Japanese eschewed the idea of using real translators, and thus carried out the task themselves. Hence this, from memory, at the beginning of the users' manual accompanying my Honda 50 bought in 1970 -
"With the expectation of providing you with a good assistant to contribute you with her excellent performance forever, the Honda 50 is designed"
And, from the "Faults and Remedies" section -
"Wasted out of fuel?"
"Fill fuel in the tank."
Oh wow that brings back memories. I can recall the instructions for re-configuring from pedal power to engine drive were quite complex and highly dubious.:lol:
Kevin Milkins
17-Jan-11, 14:44
I can remember that was the price when I got my first moped, a Honda PC 50. Would have been 1976.
Here is one on ebay for £700 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1973-HONDA-PC50-CLASSIC-VINTAGE-VETERAN-MOPED-WOW-/130466441852?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item1e6067ea7c
This reminds me of my first bike in 1973, (Yamaha FS1E).
If my memory serves me right, £173-00 sticks in my head.
I have just found one on ebay the same as the one below and the bidding is at £2555-00:eek:
Happy days.:Razz
http://motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/Custom/candy-orange-ss.JPG
Thruppence for a single fag,five woodbine for a shilling.As an ex 40 a day smoker I would need a bank loan nowadays.Gobsmacked these days to see youngsters throwing £5 + over the counter for a packet without a second thought.:eek:
According to my diary it cost me £2 and 5 shillings for a ferry Dover to Ostend (1967) and a Taxi from Liverpool Street to Victoria was 8 shillings (what's that? 40p) - mind you that was in 1968!
In 1963 petrol was 4 gallons for less than a pound and and milk was 4/8d a week for a pint delivered each day
[QUOTE=Scunner;810096]In 1963 petrol was 4 gallons for less than a pound and and milk was 4/8d a week for a pint delivered each day[/QUOTE
The tax has increased more than the product/ much more.
We have to support all sorts of things nowadays
This reminds me of my first bike in 1973, (Yamaha FS1E).
If my memory serves me right, £173-00 sticks in my head.
I have just found one on ebay the same as the one below and the bidding is at £2555-00:eek:
Happy days.:Razz
http://motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/Custom/candy-orange-ss.JPG
Had a Honda the same....50cc...../then got into the big time and had a 125cc. Them were the days! circa 1968.....
10p crisps... now 15p.
I'm outraged.
lindsaymcc
17-Jan-11, 19:32
A curly wurly is like 37p now! I remember when they were 15p! (And i was BORN in 1982!)
popped into asda today and was looking at sandwich meat! a larger pre-packed pack of corned beef was £3 a few months ago!! Today £4.50, they're avin a larf!!!!!!
A curly wurly is like 37p now! I remember when they were 15p! (And i was BORN in 1982!)
Crikey! I have socks older than you lindsaymcc :eek::lol:
Crikey! I have socks older than you lindsaymcc :eek::lol:
oh my days buzzing!!! ha ha :lol:
How much is a Chomp these days? I mind them being 10p.
lindsaymcc
17-Jan-11, 23:13
Crikey! I have socks older than you lindsaymcc :eek::lol:
hehehehe best buy some new ones then! 28yrs is TOO long to own a pair of socks!
How much is a Chomp these days? I mind them being 10p.
17p apparently shocking!!!! :eek:
10p crisps... now 15p.
I'm outraged.
I remember them being 5p! Remember Meanies and Transformers??
SunnyChick
18-Jan-11, 11:59
I remember when it used to cost "twenty-Six & a half pence" to go swimming!
SunnyChick
18-Jan-11, 12:01
I also remember going into a chip shop and getting 17p worth of chips because I didn't have enough for a cone!
I remember them being 5p! Remember Meanies and Transformers??
Tangy Toms used to be 5p, I remember that :)
oldmarine
18-Jan-11, 16:10
It's called "inflation." I have seen a lot of it during my 85 years. There are periods when prices increase more rapidly than at other times. No one appears to find a solution to controlling it. I personally believe that "greed" has a lot to do with it.
It's called "inflation." I have seen a lot of it during my 85 years. There are periods when prices increase more rapidly than at other times. No one appears to find a solution to controlling it. I personally believe that "greed" has a lot to do with it.
I agree. If you go to a supermarket the amount of different cereals alone is amazing and i think unnecessary!
I think sometimes we have too much choice!! :confused
I can remember that was the price when I got my first moped, a Honda PC 50. Would have been 1976.
Yes, I recall Phil Ward, the Art teacher in Wick High School at that time, telling us about a wager he had with his mate about whether petrol would be £2 per gallon by the year 2000. I think Mr Ward collected on that one!!
teddybear1873
18-Jan-11, 19:30
Crikey! I have socks older than you lindsaymcc :eek::lol:
Lucky you ducati, I'm still wearing those brown, mustard coloured Y-fronts that came out in the 70's [evil]
Lucky you ducati, I'm still wearing those brown, mustard coloured Y-fronts that came out in the 70's [evil]
Were they brown and mustard when you bought them?
northener
19-Jan-11, 09:02
The nylon ones?
I remember them, gawd they were bloody awful.
I remember when driving lessons were 15 shillings (75p) an hour and it was a £1 to take your driving test!!.......and a new car was around £475.....and 3 gallons of petrol for a £1....and my wages were £9 for 40hours hard graft!!!
Oh the good old days....lol...
C3...
Anyone got a horse and cart for sale??
The way petrol prices are going up i'll be needing one!!! :lol:
Green_not_greed
19-Jan-11, 13:43
I think these particular price rises have happened over the last 20 years. I remember when it was 50p a pint for beer and 50p a gallon for petrol :eek:
I'm not so sure that was at the same time. I remember my dad hitting the roof about petrol prices when it hit 10/- (50p) a gallon in the early seventies. When I was a student in the late seventies you could live quite comfortably on a tenner a week! I remember beer was 20-25p a pint then.
As a schoolkid in the late sixties I remember crisps were 3d a bag and airfix models 1/11.
GNG
Petrol was 34p a gallon when i had my first bike on the road.....the other day a cadburys cream egg was fifty pence in tescos!!!!!
teddybear1873
19-Jan-11, 15:56
May 1983 I left school and started full time work. A whopping 92p per hr I earned. £35 per week, gave my mither most of it and had £5 to myself.
I was delighted to lol.
Iremember when a litre petrol was 49.9 pence and that was about 11 years ago
I'm not so sure that was at the same time. I remember my dad hitting the roof about petrol prices when it hit 10/- (50p) a gallon in the early seventies. When I was a student in the late seventies you could live quite comfortably on a tenner a week! I remember beer was 20-25p a pint then.
As a schoolkid in the late sixties I remember crisps were 3d a bag and airfix models 1/11.
GNG
Now you mention it. At the same time as petrol 50p a gallon it was 19p for a pint of Mild in Wilmslow where it is posh :lol:
Now you mention it. At the same time as petrol 50p a gallon it was 19p for a pint of Mild in Wilmslow where it is posh :lol:
Nah Wilmslow isn't posh - it just wants to be posh lol
onecalledk
19-Jan-11, 18:21
I remember filling up with petrol for the first time just 4 and a half years ago and paying just under 80p a litre and think wow this is not bad at all, a full tank of fuel cost me about £25....... the same £25 got me just over half a tank the other day and yes its the same car...
just nipped into tesco this afternoon for some bread, milk and a few bits and pieces and now think that it will be my last jaunt to tesco in a while, nearly fainted when the girl told me the total, I remember when my whole weeks shopping cost that amount.
Its not the odd 2p or 5p that is being put on food, its a lot more. They may well tempt you with better than half price in the cereals offer but by god they are hammering it on everything outside of this.
Had to reduce the size of jar of nutella bought, a couple of weeks ago the large jar was about £2.70, I refuse to pay the £3.50 odd they were asking for it ......
single creme eggs 50 PENCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I THINK NOT MR TESCO .........
sigh .....
K
I remember when we bought our first house in 1986 it was £17750 and I was earning £5500 per year and my then fiancé was earning £5552. I also remember a time when crisps were 3d a pack in the late 60s and I remember being able to get 8 black jacks or fruit salads for 1new pence after decimalisation.
My wedding dress was made to measure in Leeds in 1986 for £350 and it was beautiful.
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