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Remember when?
On 16/08/2013 19:28, sacha wrote:
On 2013-08-16 12:14:57 +0000, David Hill said: Do you remember when veg [plants were sensibly priced. I remember when cabbage plants would be less than 10 bob a hundred (For the youngsters 10/- or in todays money 50p) saw this special offer today Autumn & Winter Brassica Collection-Plants x 64 Tasty & Healthy Winter Crops ... More Pack Quantity: 64 Plants, 16 of each variety Items Total £16.95 Postage & Packing £4.95 Total £21.90 I remember when a lot of things were sensibly priced but unfortunately, wages were very low and so were expectations. Young people marrying didn't *expect* to buy a house immediately but certainly expected to rent for quite a while. Nor did they 'put off' having a baby until they'd bought a house and furnished it completely, as some do now. Did employers pay social security stamps back in e.g. the 50s? I just don't know but they have to pay all those things now and, imo, it's essential but of course, there's a knock-on effect. Now, things have gone full circle and I know some young living and working in this area who never expect to own their own homes because property here is just so expensive. Food prices have roared upwards and e.g their own cooked, sliced ham is £17 per kg from our local butcher because the price of pig food has gone up, for example. There's a famous gardener whose prices for absolutely everything leave us simply breathless and we can guarantee that a large amount of that goes in advertising and glossy catalogues. The power of telly…! Yes National Insurance "Stamp" was paid by both employer and employee, but in those days you got no benefit till you had 26 stamps on your card. Also you bought most plants at the right time and bare rooted, it was introducing so much container grown, and much of it from outside the UK that both pushed up prices and brought a lot of pests and diseases into this country and spread to so many domestic gardens. Though you did grow a range of rockery and herbaceous plants "Pot Grown", and you bought them from Nurseries. |
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