I'll tell you one thing, if thingskeep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $10.00
Have you seen the new carscoming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.
Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter.
If they raise the minimum wageto $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
If cigarettes keep going up inprice, I'm going to quit; 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.
I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it
I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas ..
I never thought I'd see the day that all our kitchen appliances wouldbe electric.They're even making electric typewriters now.
When I first started driving, whowould have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage
Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President
It's too bad things are so tough nowadays.I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.
It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work
I'm afraid the Volkswagen caris going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.
Thank goodness I won't live tosee the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes.I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government.
The fast food restaurant is convenient for a quickmeal,but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on
There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend.It costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel
No one can afford to be sickanymore. At $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.
If they think I'll pay 30 centsfor a haircut, forget it
Know any friendswho would get akick out of these,pass this on. Besure and send itto your kids and grand kids, too
I don't know what's happened. I did a a preview of post and the piccys were there. I even went in and had a look after I submitted it and the piccys were there.....AND NOW THEY AREN'T......
Can related to a few of these. My first teenage allowance was $1 a week and for this I could either by a record or go to the local dance (with change). My first full time job paid $20 a week (60s). I can remember filling my petrol tank for $5 in the 70s (from empty). Hair cuts were a bit more than 30c for a trim, but a hell of lot less than I pay now!!
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Esmeralda
It aint over until the fat lady sings, and I dont feel like singing just yet!
Can related to a few of these. My first teenage allowance was $1 a week and for this I could either by a record or go to the local dance (with change). My first full time job paid $20 a week (60s). I can remember filling my petrol tank for $5 in the 70s (from empty). Hair cuts were a bit more than 30c for a trim, but a hell of lot less than I pay now!!
Gee you had a well paid job Ez. My first job paid $14.80 for a 40 hour week.
I don't know what's happened. I did a a preview of post and the piccys were there. I even went in and had a look after I submitted it and the piccys were there.....AND NOW THEY AREN'T......
MA, due to the decline in the economy we cant afford to print the pics.
Same as in ;; due to the decline in the economy the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off till further notice.
JC.
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Can related to a few of these. My first teenage allowance was $1 a week and for this I could either by a record or go to the local dance (with change). My first full time job paid $20 a week (60s). I can remember filling my petrol tank for $5 in the 70s (from empty). Hair cuts were a bit more than 30c for a trim, but a hell of lot less than I pay now!!
Gee you had a well paid job Ez. My first job paid $14.80 for a 40 hour week.
Can related to a few of these. My first teenage allowance was $1 a week and for this I could either by a record or go to the local dance (with change). My first full time job paid $20 a week (60s). I can remember filling my petrol tank for $5 in the 70s (from empty). Hair cuts were a bit more than 30c for a trim, but a hell of lot less than I pay now!!
Speaking of petrol, one of my first jobs was working at a servo.
I don't know about other states, but here in Qld, servo's weren't open on the weekend, or maybe it was just some.
Anyway this one had the old coin operated pumps, 20 cent pieces.
20 cent pieces...for petrol!!!
So one of my jobs was to wrap all those 20 cent pieces into their paper rolls.
My boyfriend of the time used to put $2 worth of petrol in the car!
I could go a long way for $2 worth of juice in my Austin Lancer. I was earning $20 a week for 40 hours, paid my dad $5 a week board and did the cooking and housework etc. When I got a job for $1 an hour I thought I was on good money and that was a the Eudunda cafe / roadhouse in 1971-72. Now we won't work for less than $20 an hour although there are still some jobs paying less than $18 an hour. For my job the rate is $40 an hour, minimum of 3 hours. Those exhorbitant executive salaries were unheard of, and I wish is was that way again. They rip off the companies that feed them.
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20ft Roma caravan - Mercedes Benz Sprinter - SA-based at the moment. Transport has no borders.
Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
My first job payed Four Pounds Ten Shillings [$9.00] for a 44 hour week, and I payed Three Pounds Ten Shillings [$7.00] a week board at a Hostel. Walked to work, taking lunch with me.
Cheers,
Sheba.
-- Edited by Sheba on Friday 24th of February 2012 10:45:44 AM
I arrived in this great country in 1973 so I remember the prices clearly wages for 40 hours $100 rent $17 shopping for family of 4 $22 visit to the doctor $8 A card at the chemist to claim back all medicine at the end of the year A tax rebate every year
Car repayment $30 for month Holden H.R $5 dollars filled the tank A month after we arrived the fuel went up by 5 cents a gallon and every body complained about the rip off Most important a pot of beer was only 20 cents I could be very happy for a dollar No credit cards were around in those days so we only bought what we could afford At the end of the week we had almost half our wages to enjoy life with now we spend most of our time chasing debt They were really the good old days
I arrived in this great country in 1973 so I remember the prices clearly wages for 40 hours $100 rent $17 shopping for family of 4 $22 visit to the doctor $8 A card at the chemist to claim back all medicine at the end of the year A tax rebate every year
Car repayment $30 for month Holden H.R $5 dollars filled the tank A month after we arrived the fuel went up by 5 cents a gallon and every body complained about the rip off Most important a pot of beer was only 20 cents I could be very happy for a dollar No credit cards were around in those days so we only bought what we could afford At the end of the week we had almost half our wages to enjoy life with now we spend most of our time chasing debt They were really the good old days
There were no credit cards, but peope could 'charge' to an account at department stores. I worked at McDonnell & East in Brisbane in 1971 and my pay was around $18 from memory.
I left a job at a grocery store, where I was getting 'male rates' on the checkout, to go the Mac & East which was so much 'posher' but less money. Mum thought I was mad!
We arrived in Adelaide in 1966 and my wages as an Electroplater were $40.00 gross for a 40 hour week, rents varied from $14.00 - $15.50 per week and I could buy a 750 ml bottle of beer for $0.40. If Irona spent more than $10.00 for a weeks food shopping she considered she had been extravagant.
Bought my first brand new car in 1971 for $3,200.00 a Valiant Charger.
-- Edited by JRH on Friday 24th of February 2012 06:39:27 PM
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John & Irona..........Rockingham Western Australia
Remember when the operator used to say 'Are you extending?' I was living in the back country behind Macksville NSW in late 60s and trying to ring my fiance in Sydney. The postmaster knew who I was talkinjg to so after a few 'Are you extending?'s he'd forget to come back and ask me and let me talk on. Nice bloke - he could do that in those days. Not now.
I had a friend who lived in a small country town (70s) and I rang her one day and the telephone operator told me that she had gone out for the day but would let her know that I had called!!! My friends lived over the road from the exchange.
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Esmeralda
It aint over until the fat lady sings, and I dont feel like singing just yet!
I had a friend who lived in a small country town (70s) and I rang her one day and the telephone operator told me that she had gone out for the day but would let her know that I had called!!! My friends lived over the road from the exchange.
Yep give me the country anytime, the people are always so friendly and helpful, they always seem to have the time to say G'day and chat a while.
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If I don't get there today, I'll get there tomorrow or the day after.
John & Irona..........Rockingham Western Australia
Living in a larger country town is ok. It's easier to maintain a little anonymity rather than in a little town where everybody knows everything about everyone, and if they don't they make it up. The norrow judgemental minds are the trouble makers, turning Chinese whispers into vicious, destructive gossip.
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20ft Roma caravan - Mercedes Benz Sprinter - SA-based at the moment. Transport has no borders.
Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
I arrived in this great country in 1973 so I remember the prices clearly wages for 40 hours $100 rent $17 shopping for family of 4 $22 visit to the doctor $8 A card at the chemist to claim back all medicine at the end of the year A tax rebate every year
Car repayment $30 for month Holden H.R $5 dollars filled the tank A month after we arrived the fuel went up by 5 cents a gallon and every body complained about the rip off Most important a pot of beer was only 20 cents I could be very happy for a dollar No credit cards were around in those days so we only bought what we could afford At the end of the week we had almost half our wages to enjoy life with now we spend most of our time chasing debt They were really the good old days
There were no credit cards, but peope could 'charge' to an account at department stores. I worked at McDonnell & East in Brisbane in 1971 and my pay was around $18 from memory.
I left a job at a grocery store, where I was getting 'male rates' on the checkout, to go the Mac & East which was so much 'posher' but less money. Mum thought I was mad!
We had an account at Waltons and the " Tally man" would call every week to pick up the payment. One thing that has got cheaper over the years is oversea calls in 1973 in cost $2 a minute to call the U.K now I can talk for 30 min for around $5, and we keep knocking Telstra
We had an account at Waltons and the " Tally man" would call every week to pick up the payment. One thing that has got cheaper over the years is oversea calls in 1973 in cost $2 a minute to call the U.K now I can talk for 30 min for around $5, and we keep knocking Telstra
Oh yes, we called him the Waltons man. My sister worked there for awhile, until they closed down.
