Take care of the pennies
Paying our way.
Do you remember when your wages came in a pay packet on Friday?
The wage packet contained £2 (pounds) 15s (shillings) and 9d (nine pence)
Certainly do about the same wage shown as well.
Got that until I was 19….apprentice on £35 a week.
My paper round money came in a packet similar to that from Dixon’s paper shop. £18 had a Sunday round as well.
My first wages £17 a week.
I remember my dad’s pay packet in the 50s which he handed over unopened when he came in from work on a Friday. I also remember that she would say, on a Thursday night, that she didn’t have even a three penny bit left in her purse.
My first wage in 1969, 6 pounds ten shillings.
Certainly do. I used to put the wages in the envelopes…took most of one day and if there was just a £1 left over at the end I had to check everyone again … happy days …
Certainly do, first wage packer, £5 a week. Remember my boss telling me he was giving me a a whole 10 shillings a week (50p) pay rise on my 17th birthday.
Where’s the brown notes at …
I think my first one was £25 for an apprenticeship.
Was it usually the woman of the house who managed the money.
Yes, very much so in the 40s and 50s.
Certainly do and my dad handing the packet to my man on a Friday night just before the insurance man arrived to collect cash weekly payments … we lived in different times…as a child they were good though!
That’s how it worked at my nanas. I wish I had my nana’s money management skills. Nana had different jars for different outgoings. I don’t think she had a cheque book.
I can remember people talking wistfully about big white five pound notes. I don’t remember ever seeing one.
I earned £5 a week when I left school paid 10 shillings (50p) income tax and £1.10 shillings (£1.50) board. The rest was mine to do as I liked. As Mary Hopkins used to say …
