The Friday Five.
Jun. 13th, 2008 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
linda_joyce1. Did you get an allowance as a kid, and if so, how much was it?
We call it pocket money in the UK and yes I did. It varied with age starting with thrupence (three old pence usually as a single coin a thrupeny bit) at age 5 with an extra penny when I went to Sunday School for the collection plate. Some of that money had to be saved for holiday spending money, I would give a penny a week to my Grandmother who saved it for me until I had half a crown(2/6d, 25p new money). As I got older the pocket money got more and the more I had to save.I went up to a maximum of Ten Shillings ( a brown note IIRC) 50 pence, by the time I was 18, out of which I had to pay my bus fair to and from school, that would have been a shilling a day(10 pence) but I used to walk to school in the morning bus home at lunch, walk back to school and walk home after school thus reducing the bus fairs to 1/3d per week. 50 pence was about average with the same proviso but since I lived close enough to walk I was a bit better off than most of my classmates.
2. How old were you when you had your first job, and what was it?
I was 16 and I got a summer job in Woolworth's in Newport to get together money for my first holiday without parents. My cousin and I went to Perenporth for a week to a B& B that she and her parents had been going to for years. I worked on the glass counter in Woollies, we are talking about the days before bar codes and computerised tills when the shop had oblong counters with a hole in the middle for at least 2 staff dedicated to different things and we stood there all day and actually interacted with the customers and had to do the adding up of prices ourselves and work out change. I was much better at that sort of thing when I was young, practice I suppose.
3. Which do you do better: save money or spend money?
Spending, I can save for special occasions but I'm so much better at spending.
4. Are people more likely to borrow money from you, or are you more likely to borrow from them?
Neither a borrower nor a lender be was the axiom I was brought up with and I still try to abide by it, even official borrowing, like my mortgage when I had one, seemed wrong but I do borrow from family, always paid back ASAP and will lend to the same but that sort of borrowing happens for example when I had picked out the paint and accessories I wanted for the spare bedroom and was stood in the queue at Focus when I discovered I had left my cheque card(Switch) in my other handbag. My cousin paid and she got the money back the next day.
5. What's the most expensive thing you've ever bought?
In one huge lump sum, my car, as a loan, the mortgage I had for my house in Newport.
We call it pocket money in the UK and yes I did. It varied with age starting with thrupence (three old pence usually as a single coin a thrupeny bit) at age 5 with an extra penny when I went to Sunday School for the collection plate. Some of that money had to be saved for holiday spending money, I would give a penny a week to my Grandmother who saved it for me until I had half a crown(2/6d, 25p new money). As I got older the pocket money got more and the more I had to save.I went up to a maximum of Ten Shillings ( a brown note IIRC) 50 pence, by the time I was 18, out of which I had to pay my bus fair to and from school, that would have been a shilling a day(10 pence) but I used to walk to school in the morning bus home at lunch, walk back to school and walk home after school thus reducing the bus fairs to 1/3d per week. 50 pence was about average with the same proviso but since I lived close enough to walk I was a bit better off than most of my classmates.
2. How old were you when you had your first job, and what was it?
I was 16 and I got a summer job in Woolworth's in Newport to get together money for my first holiday without parents. My cousin and I went to Perenporth for a week to a B& B that she and her parents had been going to for years. I worked on the glass counter in Woollies, we are talking about the days before bar codes and computerised tills when the shop had oblong counters with a hole in the middle for at least 2 staff dedicated to different things and we stood there all day and actually interacted with the customers and had to do the adding up of prices ourselves and work out change. I was much better at that sort of thing when I was young, practice I suppose.
3. Which do you do better: save money or spend money?
Spending, I can save for special occasions but I'm so much better at spending.
4. Are people more likely to borrow money from you, or are you more likely to borrow from them?
Neither a borrower nor a lender be was the axiom I was brought up with and I still try to abide by it, even official borrowing, like my mortgage when I had one, seemed wrong but I do borrow from family, always paid back ASAP and will lend to the same but that sort of borrowing happens for example when I had picked out the paint and accessories I wanted for the spare bedroom and was stood in the queue at Focus when I discovered I had left my cheque card(Switch) in my other handbag. My cousin paid and she got the money back the next day.
5. What's the most expensive thing you've ever bought?
In one huge lump sum, my car, as a loan, the mortgage I had for my house in Newport.
