Paper boys, anyone still got one.

[williamalex1]

LOL - I do recall very clearly my pocket money being increased from 6d a week to 1s. We had just taken in two student lodgers and that would have given my parents a little bit more money. I'm thinking that would have been about 1964. With my 6d I could buy my comic (Sparky - 5d) and some Fruit Salads (4 for a 1d). And that was it for the week. With 1s I could also buy a packet of crisps.

Back in 1965 we could buy 8 big screw top bottles of Bass/Whitbread ale for a pound, Scottish/Newcastle i think . happy days.:cheers:

 

[Tashyboy]

When I was a kid, two days were big days. Sunday's and Thursday's. Thursday was Chad day. You got an extra 50p. Anyway me and Punk Ronnie we walking up Kirklington rd and Ronnie was doin a double round as a kid never turned up. He could hardly walk. I saw a box about 1 1/2" square and booted it. It rattled. We run after it but Ronnie could not move. I opened the box and inside was an 18ct gold puzzle ring. Worth a few quid. Mum was happy a couple of weeks later for Mother's Day.
happy days.

 

[Khamelion]

At the newsagent I was a paper lad, there was always one or two that didn't turn in, so I got to do double rounds, I got them as I was always there first and finished first, papers always on time to people doors, which made Christmas a nice, as I always got a load of thankyou's from the houses, normally a couple of quid and the odd fiver, which was a tidy amount 35yrs ago. I never made the jump to head paper lad, I went to working weekends behind the counter of the newsagent, few hours Saturday and Sunday mornings. I remember one auld fella coming in for his Hoze Gazzette (The News of the World) and the Grauniad (Guardian) it was always full of spelling mistakes.