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Old 4th July 2017, 08:23
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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.


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Something a bit fishy about 'carp wages.'

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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.
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Something a bit fishy about 'carp wages.'

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


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