What they thought back in 1955!

[McJim]

Because we were being paid in NZ dollars, and Not Pounds......
Should have seen the yanks faces when we told them we were paying $8 for a gallon..... Then I am on twice the pay my equivilent is in the US of A...
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I remember nearly getting straight back on a plane when I found out how few $100,000 per yer jobs were available in New Zealand. Luckily I found one 3 weeks after landing so that was all right :

[peasea]

Because we were being paid in NZ dollars, and Not Pounds......
Should have seen the yanks faces when we told them we were paying $8 for a gallon..... Then I am on twice the pay my equivilent is in the US of A...

As for how much things cost..... Well, I remember not being allowd to buy a can of coke because 50 cents was too expencive..... Was the early 80's.

Dads 1976 XL125 cost $1200 brand new.... so did the colour TV that we got that year!!!
I think his pay was something like $300 per week?
As for mum working... Yeah, right!

She would have been at home baking cakes and the like that weren't full of preservatives and artificial colouring. They were the days when mums KNEW how to cook, not just bang a packet of something in the microwave and call it dinner.

[Ocean1]

Why is it that people celebrate their advancing age?

Dunno, 'snot like advanced antiquity is aught to be proud of.

Otherwise there'd be them’s as wot'd be goin' on about the horse an' cart that used to come collect the privy buckets twice a week.

An’ how, on discovering where said buckets were emptied some swore off strawberries for life...

Me, I’m nowhere near old enough to be reminiscing about shit like that.

[slofox]

Dunno, 'snot like advanced antiquity is aught to be proud of.
Me, I’m nowhere near old enough to be reminiscing about shit like that.

Well advancing age is not something we are all privileged to experience so maybe that is the reason for celebration. Besides, it's only the body that ages - the mind stays forever young (read immature for that. Some of us never grow up). I mean to say, I still love my toys, just as I did when I was seven years old. The toys have just got bigger and more expensive is all...

Actually, I never thought I'd live this long. If I hadda known, I mighta taken more care...but probably not.

[scumdog]

Why is it that people celebrate their advancing age?

Cos we can.

Those in the cemetery cannot.


So it's in kind of celebration/appreciation of getting thus far.

[MotoKuzzi]

.......We used to find them in the Christmas puddings........good on ya mum.

Bloody good chance you'd also be looking for them in the bottom of the toilet bowl too!!

[Genie]

Have a look in the attic or basement, I'm sure you'll find some there.

surely you know what a spider is...in fact I know you know.

[Ixion]

You used to buy a big bag of lollies for 5 cents...........

Those were the days you had milk delivered by the milk boys, you never locked your house at night, and I know somepoeple even had the bread man come inside and leave bread on their kitchen bench

...............oh, those were the days

Well, where was he supposed to leave it?

When I was 15 we moved out of the house we'd lived in for about the last 8 years. When all was signed up, the land agent called round and said (inter alia), "Will you drop the keys off or shall I call and collect them". Well, Mum looked at the land agent , Gran looked at Mum, Mum said "Uh, keys .....". Gran said "I'm sure we got some when we bought the place . They must be somewhere.". In all the time we'd lived there, they'd never locked the door.

Well, I mean why would you? What if someone called by while you were out, they wouldn't be able to get in , would they? Neighbourly courtesy said that if you called on someone and they were out, you went on in and made a cup of tea ready for the return of the travellers.

[Motu]

Everything was delivered because Mum's didn't have cars.....and even some fathers didn't.Some fathers in our street only had pushbikes to go to work on....a couple had BSA Bantams,we were pretty flash in having an A30...in 1955 we had a Fiat Topolino.We didn't have phones either - Mum would walk through ''The Creek'' to the local shops,and later that day the grocer,the greengrocer and the butcher would send a kid down in their vans to deliver.That had to be done every couple of days because we didn't have a fridge.In 1955 we got milk in a ''billy''.Open door policy in NZ right through to the early '70's....and for us in the '80's and 90's on Waiheke Island.

[MotoKuzzi]

Cream supplied to the dairy factory in cans, take a jug to the cowshed and fill it direct from the separator with fresh cream for our weet bix, even hand milked the cows if the power failed as it ofen did in those days. Party line telephone, ferguson tractors, Vanguards, '39 fords, Commer trucks. Petrol in 44 gal drums, which you just tipped over into a bucket or siphoned if you needed a bit for the lawn mower. Those were the days.

[Motu]

Milk and cream straight out of the cowshed was great,nothing like milk these days.But we have a young guy at work whose parents own one of the biggest dairy herds in the district won't drink milk straight from the cow - it's dirty and yucky,but drinks heaps of blue top.He's been hoodwinked into believing he'll die if he drinks fresh milk.

[peasea]

Bloody good chance you'd also be looking for them in the bottom of the toilet bowl too!!

Slightly off topic but that reminds me of a song written by some buddies of mine who had a thrash metal band. The song, called 'Peanuts', has a chorus line that goes; "I know you stole my peanuts coz I saw them in your shit."

[peasea]

surely you know what a spider is...in fact I know you know.

Of course I do, my parents had a milk bar in Newtown, Wellington, for many years. I can recall them being available over the counter and Tip Top was the best ice cream to make them back then, as it is now!

I have a sneaking suspicion you're off to the 4Square to buy some coka cola and vanilla ice cream.

[FROSTY:Me]

you'll guess when I arrivedin godzone. Three winegums for one cent, fruju's had just come out and had chunks of acttual fruit in em. bread was delivered on a sunday hot and unsliced.

[Gareth51]

Milk and cream straight out of the cowshed was great,nothing like milk these days.But we have a young guy at work whose parents own one of the biggest dairy herds in the district won't drink milk straight from the cow - it's dirty and yucky,but drinks heaps of blue top.He's been hoodwinked into believing he'll die if he drinks fresh milk.

We would go up to the family farm in Mauriceville back in the 50s,I remember dad giving a glass of warm milk as it went into the separator...yuk.but the jug of fresh cream (as much as you wanted)on your porridge...yum.