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I'm too young to have spent a thrupenny bit but I'm old enough to have found plenty in the dirt as a child.
One of my cousins was a huge matchbox collector. Had hundreds in a big display cabinet. We'd stare through the glass and drool. A rapid no was coming if we tried to play with any of them.
I almost never use cash or notes these days. Paying the window cleaner's about it. My father in law who we look after keeps offering cash to make himself feel better and it piles up as we don't use it.
The younger ones in work don't even carry wallets now. It's all Apple Pay or Google wallet.
One of my cousins was a huge matchbox collector. Had hundreds in a big display cabinet. We'd stare through the glass and drool. A rapid no was coming if we tried to play with any of them.
I almost never use cash or notes these days. Paying the window cleaner's about it. My father in law who we look after keeps offering cash to make himself feel better and it piles up as we don't use it.
The younger ones in work don't even carry wallets now. It's all Apple Pay or Google wallet.
Merc 450 said:
The five pence piece became smaller mainly because us squaddies in Germany realised anything that took a 1 deutschmark coin (25p) would take an English 5p coin instead (pool tables fag machines etc)
It wasn't just squaddies, me and my brother would be armed with a bag on our family summer holidays. Didn't smoke, but made a load of money from the fags when back home! 
Wacky Racer said:
Mr Pointy said:
grumpy52 said:
Just realised that the modern £1 coin is much like the old thrupenny bit .
Probably buys as much as the old thrupenny bit did back then .
It's not the same when a lass gets her pound coins out.Probably buys as much as the old thrupenny bit did back then .
It's been a rough night and I need some boosting to kick the systems into gear .
Maybe some nice thrupenny bits staring over the tea would help !
ThingsBehindTheSun said:
ferret50 said:
We were poor, and lived in a cardboard box in the gutter, but we were happy....
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.We had to work 25 hours a day for a threpenny bit a week....
cheesejunkie said:
I'm too young to have spent a thrupenny bit but I'm old enough to have found plenty in the dirt as a child.
One of my cousins was a huge matchbox collector. Had hundreds in a big display cabinet. We'd stare through the glass and drool. A rapid no was coming if we tried to play with any of them.
I almost never use cash or notes these days. Paying the window cleaner's about it. My father in law who we look after keeps offering cash to make himself feel better and it piles up as we don't use it.
The younger ones in work don't even carry wallets now. It's all Apple Pay or Google wallet.
How are you defining "younger"??? One of my cousins was a huge matchbox collector. Had hundreds in a big display cabinet. We'd stare through the glass and drool. A rapid no was coming if we tried to play with any of them.
I almost never use cash or notes these days. Paying the window cleaner's about it. My father in law who we look after keeps offering cash to make himself feel better and it piles up as we don't use it.
The younger ones in work don't even carry wallets now. It's all Apple Pay or Google wallet.
I'm in my fifties and the only time my wallet ever leaves the house is if I'm on a trip where I'll need my driving licence or will need to keep receipts until I've had my expenses paid!
Mind you, it can get a little tight at times! My phone battery usually lasts a day with plenty to spare, but I tapped out at the station on Wednesday with literally 15 seconds to spare before the battery died!
GasEngineer said:
Just made me wonder why a thruppeny bit was called a "bit". We didn't say sixpenny bit or shilling bit etc.
That was done in 1872 to allow the coins to be retrospectively fitted into cockney rhyming slang as the Bow Bells Language Academy felt it was too good not to have it.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff