Inflation: The ‘natural progression’ of matters?

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I found these recently while clearing an old filing cabinet - no association with the establishment - and I thought it may either amuse or bemuse, depending on one’s outlook.

Inevitably, though an inexact science, it seems that inexhaustible, inexorable, though both inexplicable and infernal, the infinite and inflammatory curse of inflation is the infliction we must suffer, however infuriating and inherently injurious to the innocent inquirer in this inscription; inside insights insinuate eventual insolvency, however insouciant or inspired one’s instant instincts instruct us.

It’s insufferable, yet insurmountable (without insurrection!), yet seems integral to our interdependence….


I remember as a child both Golden Winder crisps (imperial bag) were 3d a bag (1968 ish) . Any similar observations from the more senior statesmen?

As for interest…. I fear we are already lost!
 
Taking my old 2d pocket money and emerging from the small shop at the end of the street with a whole bag of sweets - in those day's a 1p "black" was something like 10 for a 1d 🙇‍♂️
 
Mungo said:
According to the Bank of England inflation calculator, £30 in 1999 equates to £58.56 today.

I really can’t imagine getting full room and board anywhere for that now!
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I'd say 30 quid was actually worth more.

In that era u could literally go out with 30 quid get absolutely hammered, take away and stagger home and still have change.

The days of pints in around the 1 - 1.20, in those days cans were not n awful lot cheaper in carry out shops ( vicky wine) so u were just as cheap drinking in the pub.

And 99 wasn't that long ago.
Things have changed a he'll off a lot in 25 yrs.
 
countrryboy said:
I'd say 30 quid was actually worth more.

In that era u could literally go out with 30 quid get absolutely hammered, take away and stagger home and still have change.

The days of pints in around the 1 - 1.20, in those days cans were not n awful lot cheaper in carry out shops ( vicky wine) so u were just as cheap drinking in the pub.

And 99 wasn't that long ago.
Things have changed a he'll off a lot in 25 yrs.
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I’m trying to remember what a pint cost during my student days (the memory is hazy for obvious reasons).

In my memory, you could expect change from a fiver for two pints. Even in Cambridge. A curry was £15 or so.
 
Mungo said:
I’m trying to remember what a pint cost during my student days (the memory is hazy for obvious reasons).

In my memory, you could expect change from a fiver for two pints. Even in Cambridge. A curry was £15 or so.
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To be fair drink wasn't massively cheaper at uni compared to my home village in those days.

I graduated 96 ish.
1 quid a pint was quite normal but only 1.50ish in normal pubs.
Althou some pubs would do 2 for 1 for students ( which is never really fair to boys working hard on sites or factories)

I can mind the meadowpark hotel at main gate to uni done 50p gin and vodka nights every mon and tues and using hooch or MD20/20 as ur mixer.
Rocket fuel
Happy days!!!

How my liver is not rotted away i'll never know.

I can vaguely mind both drinking and working behind the bar at the local wedding/party hotel and even in function room back in late 90s u'd get a hauf ( bells, grouse, smirnoff) for under a quid.

That was in the days ud often just buy folk u hadnae seen for a while a cheeky wee hauf while u were up getting the round in.
To expensive to do that nowadays.
 
My Grandson was somewhat bemused recently when I told him that when I moved to my new, and far better paid, job in 1965, my starting salary was £20 a week. I was married, with two children and had a mortgage. Hard to believe now.

As a matter of interest, his first job had a starting salary of £35, 000!
 
old keeper said:
My Grandson was somewhat bemused recently when I told him that when I moved to my new, and far better paid, job in 1965, my starting salary was £20 a week. I was married, with two children and had a mortgage. Hard to believe now.

As a matter of interest, his first job had a starting salary of £35, 000!
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House cost £150 🤣
 
old keeper said:
My Grandson was somewhat bemused recently when I told him that when I moved to my new, and far better paid, job in 1965, my starting salary was £20 a week. I was married, with two children and had a mortgage. Hard to believe now.

As a matter of interest, his first job had a starting salary of £35, 000!
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My 1st job was £29.50 a week and pay rise to £35 when I turned 17.
Yts gamekeeper and that was only 91.

And 15 quid + can of beer beating money when shooting started.
 
When I started work in 1976, my starting pay was £952 per year. I got the job in February, but by the time I started in May, it had risen to £1008 per year. Twice yearly pay rises to keep with inflation.....
 
Inflation is, The Thief in The Night.
Edit: We used to take the mother-in-law to her favourite pub, it's called the "Twenty Church Wardens" we stopped going about 10 years ago when she passed, you could get a homemade pie from the specials board, like chicken & leek, steak & mushroom or the classic Church Warden pie, with chips & veg for £6.95... cheap old night out, the beer was decent as well.
 
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My first pint at age 17 in 1975 I seem to recall was 19p. Staggering you could get 5 pints for a £1. Cost of a pint now would have bought you 35 then!

S
 
i started work at 14, 42 hour week, wages £4.19 shillings and 6 pence, then tipped up £2. 10 shillings to my mum, i stopped drinking when they asked for £1 for my pint, fish &chips were 1 shilling and 6 pence or fish bits and scratchings were a tanner, i bought a austin mini cooper for £380 it was less than two years old, a gallon of petrol was 5 shillings and 6 pence, and i paid £17.50 for a thousand cci srp,s i went to the war museum on the train from warrington to euston £3. 6 shillings return bs
 
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