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40 years ago we changed to decimal currency - from the ten bob note to the dollar note,from a quid to a 2 dollar note,from a bob to 10 cents,from half a crown to fifty cents...from the huge penny to the tiny one cent piece.
How many of you learned to work out change in pounds shillings and pence - then threw it all out the window and moved to the ''new'' money?
Mad nagging bitch!
I'm not quite old enough to have learned to give change in the old currency, but do remember getting my "decimal currency" certificate at primary school.. I got 10 out 10 and recall trying to teach my elderly grandmother that everything hadn't doubled in price overnight... a difficult task I might add!
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I don't remember the "old money", largely because as a kid growing up on a central Taranaki dairy farm, we hardly ever saw or used cash. It wasn't as though there was a dairy at the end of the road where we could go to buy sweets or smokes.
But I do remember the kits that came around to schools, with actual-size plastic versions of the new coins but no picture of the Queen on the back, just a big number corresponding to the value of that particular coin.
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Look Ma, no hands hehehe
Oh dear, thanks Motu, a few of us are about to show our ages...
Yep I remember having to learn it all at school...... and have always remembered 10th July 1967. The young ones look at you strangely when you talk out old money, as all they have ever known is what we have today....
I still have a few coins from that era.....
Yep I have the $1 and $2 paper money and the old $5 and the $10 special note put out. Oh and heaps of 1 and 2 cents coins.
Plus I have a few coins around for when we do the next change over to the new coins.
parting of the sensory
Yup.Originally Posted by Motu
Don't miss it though, as the 'LSD' was a bugger to learn and keep track of.
I'm almost completely metricatedified, apart from (sometimes) horsepower and miles-per-gallon.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Look Ma, no hands hehehe
Give me Yards, feet and inches any time... damn hard to convert it over...
and those weight thingees.... damn it when a baby was born you were told in lbs and ozs... damn if I know what they mean when they talk in grams...
I guess some of us are happy to still stay with the old ways...
The instructions are simple...
Sure do remember that. In fact, I vaguely remember using ha'pennies AND farthings.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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how tall are you?
The instructions are simple...
The "new" notes were the same colour as the notes they replaced, as in, the 10 shilling note was brown so was the $1 etc
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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Damn stupid idea. And it was easier to work things out in pounds shillings and pence. Score rule and dozen rule, easy as.
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I still like to think in mpg and HP,although the latest metric HP is almost the same as good old HP.I also like to think in ft and inches for peoples height - I think mm is too ''exact'',where as breaking it down into two seperate measurements helps.Like 5 foot places it at ''that'' height,and then so many inches adds the rest....I don't need to know someones height to the exact mm.
In 1967 I was 13 and in my first year of highschool,and had lost my father that Xmas,so a kinda stressfull time for me.My grandmother seemed to have the most trouble converting over,and we had to help her a lot.My mother didn't seem to have much bother with decimal currency - it was small change in her life...a new solo mum working full time with two teenage boys,she just powered through crap like that.
In later years I came across a guy who picked up the old pennies - he drove all over the country in a flat top truck,the pennies in open topped 44 gal drums.He used to laugh that he'd pull up at a hotel for the night,and no one knew he was carrying thousands of dollars on his truck in open top drums.
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Ha ha....NOT! I just wished they had gone metric a decade earlier so I wouldnt have ever had to learn the imperial system.
Oh, and I was a "Dollar Scholar" - won a $1 in a BNZ bank account.
Experience......something you get just after you needed it
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You must have been born with twelve fingers and twenty toes
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Not at all.
Which is easier - 12 items at 3/8d or 12 items at 37 cents.
For Imperial, you just apply the dozen rule and instantly get £2/4/0d . For the metric one you must do a tricky mental multiplication to get $4.40. The Imperial is much easier, no multiplication at all.
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Shit! My first job when I left school - working in the Burroughs decimal conversion plant in Khyber Pass Road, converting accounting machines to decimal. Back when they were "proper" and mechanical - none of this new fangled elctronic bizzo!
I can still flick from imperial to metric in money, measurements, areas, speeds....most things really.....sometimes in the middle of a mental calculation, which can get confusing...........
100mph is still faster than 161kph!
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