| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? 11:57 - Jun 3 with 2629 views | baxterbasics |
This thought train got triggered by a discussion earlier in a GenX FB group.
You can probably tell what era anyone grew up in by the answers here.
These were my key go-to's whenever I had cash to spend:
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| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 15:15 - Jun 4 with 288 views | baxterbasics |
| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 10:02 - Jun 4 by MVBlue |
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Oh yes, once I decided I was too old for the Beano I moved on to 2000AD. | |
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| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 19:26 - Jun 4 with 227 views | DJR |
Apart from a few pennies for sweets, I didn't get pocket money.
Instead, magazines such as Look and Learn and Shoot came as part of the paper delivery.
And my dad would have given me enough momey for the entrance fee and bus fare for attending games at Ipswich on my own.
But he did hold the purse strings, and never really liked me going to the speedway, so rarely gave me the money to attend along with a couple of friends.
As regards, things like Lego and toy cars that would have been something that I only got at my birthday or Christmas.
Indeed, it didn't cost anything to be outdoors all days during holidays playing football and the like.
I was, however, an only child, so maybe things would have been different if I had had a sibling. [Post edited 4 Jun 19:39]
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| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 22:11 - Jun 4 with 189 views | MVBlue |
| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 19:26 - Jun 4 by DJR |
Apart from a few pennies for sweets, I didn't get pocket money.
Instead, magazines such as Look and Learn and Shoot came as part of the paper delivery.
And my dad would have given me enough momey for the entrance fee and bus fare for attending games at Ipswich on my own.
But he did hold the purse strings, and never really liked me going to the speedway, so rarely gave me the money to attend along with a couple of friends.
As regards, things like Lego and toy cars that would have been something that I only got at my birthday or Christmas.
Indeed, it didn't cost anything to be outdoors all days during holidays playing football and the like.
I was, however, an only child, so maybe things would have been different if I had had a sibling. [Post edited 4 Jun 19:39]
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Not a bad lot having Ipswich Town match tickets in place of pocket money. But I feel your pain a bit. The way my son spends on digital fortnite extras I do wonder if he doesn't need to have the same treatment, but he does use it elsewhere too |  |
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| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 00:34 - Jun 5 with 159 views | Epiphone |
Anyone else remember Nightingales on the corner of Norwich Road and Granville Street?An Aladdin’s Cave of Airfix kits and Hornby OO. |  | | |
| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 10:14 - Jun 5 with 100 views | gainsboroughblue |
Panini stickers.
A single from Out of Time Records or Parrot/Rex.
Pic n Mix
I got Roy of the Rovers delivered weekly with the Evening Star but I think my dad covered that when he paid the papers on a Sunday (do people still do that?) |  |
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| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 11:29 - Jun 5 with 61 views | Rocky |
Flying Saucers [with sherbet in them]
sweet cigarettes
Jamboree Bags
Palm Toffee
I go back a bit.
It's a wonder I have any teeth left. |  | | |
| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 11:46 - Jun 5 with 52 views | OldFart71 |
| Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 11:29 - Jun 5 by Rocky |
Flying Saucers [with sherbet in them]
sweet cigarettes
Jamboree Bags
Palm Toffee
I go back a bit.
It's a wonder I have any teeth left. |
I was the same as you with sweets. All of those you mention plus Black Jacks, liquorice pipes,pineapple chunks, sherbet lemons that stuck to the paper bag so you often had to spit a bit of paper out. Those squares of chewing gum with cards in the packet,8 chews for 1d. |  | | |
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