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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? 11:57 - Jun 3 with 3763 viewsbaxterbasics

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 11:59 - Jun 3 with 1889 viewswkj

Johnnies

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:06 - Jun 3 with 1870 viewsbsw72

Arcades on a Saturday morning (pocket money and paper round money).

A lot of money went on Tekhan World Cup.

Happy days.
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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:09 - Jun 3 with 1844 viewsbluelagos

I migrated from the Beano to...


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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:12 - Jun 3 with 1835 viewsbaxterbasics

Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:09 - Jun 3 by bluelagos

I migrated from the Beano to...



Yeah I get that too - I'm thinking more between the ages of 6 and 13 here! Similar reply to the other answers.

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:13 - Jun 3 with 1824 viewswkj

Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:12 - Jun 3 by baxterbasics

Yeah I get that too - I'm thinking more between the ages of 6 and 13 here! Similar reply to the other answers.


If that is the range , my answer stands. I was an early bloomer

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:18 - Jun 3 with 1803 viewsbluelagos

Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:12 - Jun 3 by baxterbasics

Yeah I get that too - I'm thinking more between the ages of 6 and 13 here! Similar reply to the other answers.


Yeah, answer still stands :-)

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:28 - Jun 3 with 1773 viewsGuthrum

Never got that much pocket money (tho was bought The Beano). It mostly went on books or sweets.

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:55 - Jun 3 with 1733 viewshomer_123

Refreshers
Black Jacks
Comics
Coke
Hookers

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:01 - Jun 3 with 1715 viewsDubtractor

Britain's farm toys.

Star Wars toys.

Then when a little older (12 onwards) most went on fishing gear.

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:03 - Jun 3 with 1712 viewsIllinoisblue

Match and Shoot magazines. Occasional small Lego set. Then the glory days of Codemaster video games - on cassette tape, kids! - from WH Smith on a Saturday morning.

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:07 - Jun 3 with 1678 viewsleitrimblue

Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 12:12 - Jun 3 by baxterbasics

Yeah I get that too - I'm thinking more between the ages of 6 and 13 here! Similar reply to the other answers.


Shoot
Sweets
Pen knives
Matches ( kids need to make fires)

I'd mastered the art of helping yerself to Subbuteo teams from the Jim's Tackle and Sports on Haverhill High Street by this point, saving me a fortune

Sorry Jim
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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:11 - Jun 3 with 1661 viewsDubtractor

Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:07 - Jun 3 by leitrimblue

Shoot
Sweets
Pen knives
Matches ( kids need to make fires)

I'd mastered the art of helping yerself to Subbuteo teams from the Jim's Tackle and Sports on Haverhill High Street by this point, saving me a fortune

Sorry Jim


Oh yeah, i bought Shoot too.

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:13 - Jun 3 with 1657 viewsleitrimblue

Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:11 - Jun 3 by Dubtractor

Oh yeah, i bought Shoot too.


For a second thought you were gonna say you also helped yerself to Subbuteo teams from Jim's Tackle and Sports
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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:18 - Jun 3 with 1621 viewsgiant_stow

yes to the bouncy balls and polystyrene planes.

Just to add, loose half-penny sweets.

(yes kids, we used to have half pennies)
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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:36 - Jun 3 with 1546 viewsDJR

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:36 - Jun 3 with 1545 viewsTIB

Those rubber popping things at the bottom are a proper throwback.

Back in the day, I’d get my £1 pocket money on a Saturday and go to ForeBoys (think that was name) in Martlesham near the Bader Pub. Chocolate and some toy soldiers purchased normally.


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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:40 - Jun 3 with 1508 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

Fruit salads
Black Jack's
Battle and Victor

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:40 - Jun 3 with 1516 viewsDubtractor

Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:13 - Jun 3 by leitrimblue

For a second thought you were gonna say you also helped yerself to Subbuteo teams from Jim's Tackle and Sports


My brother was the kleptomaniac in our family. My mum found a box full of random tat that he had stolen from the village shop. Almost all stolen for stealings sake.

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:42 - Jun 3 with 1510 viewsSwansea_Blue

No
No
Yes
Yes
No (Roy of the Rovers for me)
Yes
Yes!
Yes
No
No

Scalextric
Subbuteo
(A little bit of Hornby, but not much - too expensive for pocket money!)

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:43 - Jun 3 with 1504 viewsKropotkin123

Some that I remember











People have mentioned Shoot. I'd also get Match.

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:43 - Jun 3 with 1501 viewsleitrimblue

Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:40 - Jun 3 by Dubtractor

My brother was the kleptomaniac in our family. My mum found a box full of random tat that he had stolen from the village shop. Almost all stolen for stealings sake.


My kleptomania began and ended in Jim's luckily.
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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:45 - Jun 3 with 1490 viewsleitrimblue

Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:07 - Jun 3 by leitrimblue

Shoot
Sweets
Pen knives
Matches ( kids need to make fires)

I'd mastered the art of helping yerself to Subbuteo teams from the Jim's Tackle and Sports on Haverhill High Street by this point, saving me a fortune

Sorry Jim


Argh, and Panini stickers of course
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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 13:52 - Jun 3 with 1467 viewsGlasgowBlue





















edit. Thanks to Kropotkin123. i'd forgotten about these.

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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 14:03 - Jun 3 with 1409 viewsboysof1981

Beano and Dandy
Star Wars toys (of which they’re in the loft, some in boxes)
Matchbox and Corgi cars
Panini stickers
Penny sweets
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Nostalgia thread - what did you spend your pocket money on? on 14:17 - Jun 3 with 1359 viewsFBI

Airfix kits and Warlord comics from the big newsagent's in Clare and, on one hilarious occasion, a tin of snuff from the little tobacconist opposite the Priory: that's a short, messy story involving four idiot 8-year-olds and a shopkeeper with a puckish sense of fun.

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