What Did You Waste Your Pocket Money On When You Were A Child?

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Will anyone own up to buying those X-Ray glasses that were always advertised in comics? Did you collect stamps by mail order? Did you raise a family of Sea Monkeys? (another one to be seen in comic book ads) or just blow your pennies on Black Jacks and Fruit Salads?
 
I was boring and saved every penny as I've always been car mad and when in a car or more likely on a bus I'd watch what the driver and dream of the day I got to drive. So, I saved every penny and put it in the building society until I was 17 and able to learn and buy my first car... a white Mini 1000 :D
 
Black jacks yep, sea monkey's yep, stink bombs yep ( until I discovered how to make my own) and of course indoor fireworks :thumbs:
 
I remember having to save for a tortoise!!
It took me a few weeks and cost me the princely sum of twenty pence!
Have you seen the price of a tortoise these days? :jawdrop:
 
viv1969 said:
I remember having to save for a tortoise!!
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I bet that was a slow job!
( and having to shell out your own money too! ) :D

viv1969 said:
Have you seen the price of a tortoise these days? :jawdrop:
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Its because they are protected species, but you can buy captive bred ones, and of course that'll hike the price,
its not easy and seems to also be a slow process :D
 
Black jacks and fruit salads yum!!

Comics then girlie teen mags.. for posters alternated with car posters too :D

Aprt from that i'm gettng old and can't remember, i'm sure my memory will be jogged in here lol
 
Cobra said:
I bet that was a slow job :D


Its because they are protected species, but you can buy captive bred ones, and of course that'll hike the price,
its not easy and seems to also be a slow process :D
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Yep, this was back in the day that pet shops had them crawling over each other in tanks....and also sold puppies n kittens from pens in the windows....in the days where you couldn't give away cockapoos...or as they were known then...mongrels lol
 
Cassettes for my CPC464
Music cassettes
Black jacks and fruit salads, can't forget the flying saucers :D
Premier league sticker albums
 
Travel, 25p anywhere in London for a days travel card. Watching the Spurs at White Hart Lane, films for a camera. Then when I got a paper round at 13 I saved for a motorbike.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
I used to like the problem page of Jackie!
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Its a bit like voyeurism isn't it? :D
But I do know what you mean, its research, even at a young tender age we were starting to trying to figure out, how the female mind works,
many years later we still haven't cracked it :D
 
Model aeroplanes, model aeroplane magazines, dope (no not that sort) dope for model aeroplanes!
 
viv1969 said:
.in the days where you couldn't give away cockapoos...or as they were known then...mongrels lol
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We Bred a Litter of Top Quality GSD`s last year, struggled to sell at £600 including all Kennel Club Papers, MicroChipped, Full Pedigree, Food, etc, its History/Parentage can be checked back Generations.

And the Local Paper advertises these "Designer Dogs" for £800+
and it`s after all a Mongrel!!
 
I used to save for either my first proper 'drop handle' bike or saving up for C64 games.
 
Sweets were still on ration so that saved some money. My dad worked for a fizzy drinks maker. That saved some more money. Them some one gave me a Box Browny after that i spent my money on films and D and P
 
stryvya said:
We Bred a Litter of Top Quality GSD`s last year, struggled to sell at £600 including all Kennel Club Papers, MicroChipped, Full Pedigree, Food, etc, its History/Parentage can be checked back Generations.
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Very sad :(
stryvya said:
and it`s after all a Mongrel!!
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I've been saying that ever since they started appearing, it made me quite unpopular in some peoples eyes :D
 
Cigarettes and whisky and wild, wild women!
 
Didn't ever get any :-(
 
Records, Motor then Autocar magazines.
 
Cobra said:
Its a bit like voyeurism isn't it? :D
But I do know what you mean, its research, even at a young tender age we were starting to trying to figure out, how the female mind works,
many years later we still haven't cracked it :D
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That's because they don't work!
 
Yes black jacks and fruit salads were 4 for 1d. Sea monkeys and stamps too.

Airfix model planes. Battle picture library and Commando war comics. War was great back then!

Then later I saved up nearly half the value of a Praktika LB2 with 50mm lens, my parents chipping in the rest. Another kid had a Zenith E which also had a selenium light meter cell on the front but not the amazing 1/1000th second shutter of the Praktika!
 
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stryvya said:
We Bred a Litter of Top Quality GSD`s last year, struggled to sell at £600 including all Kennel Club Papers, MicroChipped, Full Pedigree, Food, etc, its History/Parentage can be checked back Generations.

And the Local Paper advertises these "Designer Dogs" for £800+
and it`s after all a Mongrel!!
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Daft ain't it!
 
It was a while back now......

Model guns of various kinds, preferably those that used caps to fire small triangular sections of potato for when we re-enacted 'The War' with the other kids in the street (this was the 1960s).

Later, Airfix kits for a long time, or Revell if I could find them for a good price and Tamiya motorised models were even better.

Teenage years, bicycles and racing bike bits, culminating in my first 6 months wages (like pocketmoney) going on a Reg Barnett from the shop in Anerly that I gradually built up myself.

Pocketmoney eventually stopped when I got married at 20, though I consider the investment to have been good ever since. ;) She brought about £1100 of savings to the partnership, and I brought a motorcycle, guitars and amps, and a pile of related fun stuff. Balance is always important. :D
 
Mostly on cameras, film, paper and chemicals...but I was able to scrounge some from the film studios. (that was from age 10+)
Any left over went mostly on food...
That continued to this day.
 
Terrywoodenpic said:
Mostly on cameras, film, paper and chemicals...but I was able to scrounge some from the film studios.
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That remids me, I would scrounge end of roll, off cuts of colour paper, the local pro lab would put by for me. An endless supply of 'curly' colour print paper. I just had to afford the chemicals.
 
mark richards said:
airfix models ,records, airguns, the toyshop that was in our town, you could buy a airfix model or a pump action shotgun from the same counter.
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Ah yes we had one of those too, a proper little Aladdin's cave, hours of browsing fun :thumbs:
 
I was always pretty good at saving my pennies (the big old brown ones :) ) so apart from the odd sweets, used to save for a few weeks till I had enough for a Dinky toy car.
Also just remembered collecting Indian (native American) figures, some on horseback. They were plastic & really detailed? Wish I could remember their name now. (during the early-mid 60's)

We were also lucky as kids, my Dad got a job as a `rep` for WH Smiths & got LOADS of toys. Then when I was 9 yrs old my parents bought a newsagents shop, so never had to buy sweets or pop. :cool:
I also had a couple of paper rounds too when I was 12, so got paid as well. :D
 
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What Pocket Money :(
 
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