Price differences

£3000 in 1983 Mamie that is amazing! And I bet it couldn't do 100th of the things a machine now costing less than a tenth of that in modern money can now do.

Sadly (look at the effects) one of the things I reckon is vastly cheaper is booze. A bottle of strong wine for £3.99. Until recently round you could buy 3 for £10.

That's very much cheaper relatively than I started drinking 50 or so years ago. Almost as true for cheap spirits. But not true at all for beer, especially pub draught beers.

We paid £3000 for our first Apple Mac (512k) and £600 for the printer in about 1983.

3d for a bar of Palm banana toffee is one I remember vividly..can't even work that out in 'new' money..

Greatnan I used to work at C & A and we had frocks at 19s11d, 29s11d etc etc.. and the expensive frocks were 69s11d , we sold knickers from 1s11d (less than 10p), those were the good old days..or were they?

isn't chocolate one of the things that is cheaper. Picture how small the bars were 50 years ago.

It isn't a good idea to work things out in old money or you'd never impulse buy any more chocolate!

Some things are relatively cheaper. When I was 16, my wages as a trainee shorthand typist at the CWS were just over £3. A dress at C & A was £1. Now, I could get a dress at Matalan for not much more than a fiver and it is the same with shoes
The biggest difference in prices must surely be in housing. I got married in 1959 and we were able to buy a three-bedroomed semi near Bolton for £1,500 - the mortgage interest rate was still 6d. in the pound!