What did you spend your pocket money on?
I used to buy comics and sweets.
Oddly enough the comic I recall buying the most clearly is SHOOT, which was a football comic back in the early Seventies [maybe the late Sixties too].
I was a soccer fan in those days, something I'm not keen on at all anymore.
What did your pocket money go on readers?
How much did you get?
I was a sucker for the little plastic toys at Our local 5 and 10 cent store.The toys were in glass bins on a wooden shelf.rubber spiders, bats,snakes, lizards,bugs,I snapped them all up.I usually ate candy only on holidays,but I would buy little packs of crackers or chips all year round.If I saved for a few weeks,I could could afford a Famous Monsters magazine or a couple slices of pizza at my hometown's almost infinite number of Pizzeria's.
ReplyDeleteComics, toys, and sweets - same as most kids, I'd imagine. As a teenager in the '70s I got 50p a week pocket money. I probably got around 1/6d as a kid in the '60s.
ReplyDeleteComics toys and sweets - the fuel of childhood eh Kid! I miss pocket money. There was something precious about being given a small amount of dosh every week.
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