Historic Cost of living app
 

An interesting app to see what things were worth then and now.
Wages comparison is a good one, as is the cost of a house, or whatever you want to convert from £ s d in the year of your choice to the current cost.
My first trip wage in 1964 was £14.0s.0d per month, now worth £255.00 Per month. So would still be carp wages, even today.


http://thedesignlab.co.uk/costoflivi...ate.php?uid=65#

Something a bit fishy about 'carp wages.'

(Sorry Richard ... couldn't resist it ... :jester:)

My dad always reduced things to a "cost of a bottle of whisky" scale, not because he drank much of it but because it seemed to retain a feeling of moderate luxury. On that scale, most things seem fairly cheap. Only think though of the huge pile of empties when you sell your house.

An anagram that gets through the censor :)

I would have to have moved many times had weekly recycling not provided me with a way to maintain an access to the highway.

posted by Farmer John
Only think though of the huge pile of empties when you sell your house.

When I was 12 my parents bought a market-garden in a small town in Devon. The previous owner had not been very successful at the business but had written a thriller which had been turned into a feature film. He and his wife sold up and moved to Bermuda.
Every shed and greenhouse was stuffed with empty beer bottles; presumably the couple had been too embarrassed to put them out for the dustman. I don't actually remember how my father got rid of them, but they did disappear over a couple of days. In one shed there was a wooden trunk full of phials of injectable vitamins as well.


Obviously I dare not name the one-hit writer, but if you look for a novel about a security van robbery that goes wrong, you may find it.