Nifty
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Post by Nifty on Dec 17, 2021 8:50:36 GMT 1
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Post by Nifty on Dec 17, 2021 17:37:49 GMT 1
Another sign of the times.
I have just emptied the post box.
Currently it costs more to send a Christmas card to France from England than the weekly wage that I received in my hand in 1970.
Bah! Humbug.
How much per line these days I wonder.
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Post by tim17 on Dec 17, 2021 17:43:35 GMT 1
Another sign of the times. I have just emptied the post box. Currently it costs more to send a Christmas card to France from England than the weekly wage that I received in my hand in 1970. Bah! Humbug. How much per line these days I wonder. That's some exaggeration given the average weekly wage in 1970 was £32. |
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Post by FFS on Dec 17, 2021 17:53:58 GMT 1
Depends on the weight of the Christmas card, Tim. And you don't know a) how old Nifty was, or b) what he was doing to earn his weekly wage in 1970. Don't forget, an average includes the lowest wage, as well as the highest.
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Post by tim17 on Dec 17, 2021 18:01:10 GMT 1
Depends on the weight of the Christmas card, Tim. And you don't know a) how old Nifty was, or b) what he was doing to earn his weekly wage in 1970. Don't forget, an average includes the lowest wage, as well as the highest. We've had several cards from the UK and the cost is £1.70 so I can't believe Nifty was taking home less than that, unless of course he was a paperboy.  |
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Post by Nifty on Dec 17, 2021 21:04:06 GMT 1
Another sign of the times. I have just emptied the post box. Currently it costs more to send a Christmas card to France from England than the weekly wage that I received in my hand in 1970. Bah! Humbug. How much per line these days I wonder. That's some exaggeration given the average weekly wage in 1970 was £32. No exaggeration at all. It was just about ‘all found’ and after tax though. |
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Post by pcpa on Dec 17, 2021 21:28:15 GMT 1
My paper round was around that time and I earned £1.25 per week for delivering 25 papers per evening 5 days a week.
But I collected £7.50 a week on a Saturday from which I had to hand over £6.25 the following Friday, I dragged my creditor days out to 13 days and used the initial £12.50 of their money and the ongoing cashflow to finance my first business.
First job as an apprentice in 1975 was £16 per week, £10 went to my father for my keep, £5 paying off court fines for driving underage leaving £1 but by then I was making as much again or more from my sideline.
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Post by Aardvark on Dec 17, 2021 21:33:52 GMT 1
I thought I was badly treated getting £12.50 a week for a five and a half day week in 1967. It didn't seem all that bad until I realised I was spending £7.50 a week to fill up the Corvette with 5-star to drive to that job.
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Post by Nifty on Dec 17, 2021 22:08:08 GMT 1
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Post by wanderer on Dec 17, 2021 23:30:02 GMT 1
My paper round was around that time and I earned £1.25 per week for delivering 25 papers per evening 5 days a week. But I collected £7.50 a week on a Saturday from which I had to hand over £6.25 the following Friday, I dragged my creditor days out to 13 days and used the initial £12.50 of their money and the ongoing cashflow to finance my first business. First job as an apprentice in 1975 was £16 per week, £10 went to my father for my keep, £5 paying off court fines for driving underage leaving £1 but by then I was making as much again or more from my sideline. The mind boggles and please don't keep us in suspense. Were you doing an Alan Sugar and selling car aerials at a quid apiece? |
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Post by Nifty on Dec 18, 2021 0:01:25 GMT 1
Sounds more like Milo Minderbender.
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Post by pcpa on Dec 18, 2021 0:39:29 GMT 1
The mind boggles and please don't keep us in suspense. Were you doing an Alan Sugar and selling car aerials at a quid apiece? Buying, doing up and reselling push bikes, loads of labour but I loved it and was learning all the time, I sold them using the small ads (staff discount) in the Evening Argus that I delivered! After a while some of the bike shops used me for their buckled wheel repairs, new spokes, new rims etc and would give me scrap bikes to cannibalise for spares, I made & sold a few Frankensteins from them.
I then moved on to repairing & welding cars hence the under-age driving conviction, I worked for free on Saturdays in a garage from an early age, being paid for anything was a novelty to me, I never had pocket money.
When I passed my test I drove a van & worked Sunday mornings for a real rough diamond charmer very much like Alan Sugar selling jeans and denim skirts at the Sunday market (he had never had a driving license), I learned a hell of a lot from him and the other market traders.
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Post by Nifty on Dec 18, 2021 6:18:31 GMT 1
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Post by Nifty on Dec 18, 2021 8:10:38 GMT 1
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Post by wanderer on Dec 18, 2021 15:17:39 GMT 1
Buying, doing up and reselling push bikes, Boiling up deer skulls, and handmaking rifle ammunition. Strangely, something I'm still doing over 50 years later! |
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