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Speedbird223@reddit

Flying. Significantly cheaper than the era from before low cost carriers. Accounting for inflation longhaul economy fares then are not far off business class today.

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AshamedQuail4@reddit

I've noticed a big jump in prices for short haul flights since covid. Slightly extreme example but I remember Ryan Air ran a campaign of £1 flights from Birmingham to Dublin a few years ago.

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FallofftheMap@reddit

Flying was cheaper a few years ago.

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Serious_Escape_5438@reddit

Yes, I complain because I'd got used to low cost flights but I remember trying to fly places before easyJet and it being ridiculous so doing a ten hour coach and ferry journey instead.

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AdrenalineAnxiety@reddit

CDs, DVDs, Books (all probably because they're struggling to compete with digital versions).

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YarnPenguin@reddit

Nah the cover price of a paperback has slowly risen from about £5.99 20 years ago to £8.99 now. I have some 20 year old penguin classics (the beige ones) that have £2.99 on the covers!

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Yep, obviously depends on the book but a new hardcover of a popular books has absolutely gone up as well. From my order history, a decade ago the new hardcover release of the latest Dresden files book cost me 9.65. In 2020 (3 years ago) the newest Dresden files release cost me 17.60. And that generally holds true from my experience. You used to regularly get popular hardcovers for about £10 a decade ago. Nowadays you’re generally looking at £15-20. Which is probably a reasonable increase, but the prices have definitely gone up.

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AshamedQuail4@reddit

New, popular fiction in hardback is easily £20-25 now, even the small ones. I know the majority of the costs aren't spent on the materials as such, but it does hurt to spend that much on a 100-150 page novel.

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Jip1210@reddit

I recently paid 50p for an old paperback from a charity shop, which was more than happy with the bargin price. On getting it home, I saw the original sale price printed on the book was 35p

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TheGeckoGeek@reddit

Hardback of the Mirror and the Light was £25 at my local Waterstones when it came out in 2020. There was a deal on, £5 off, plus I had a £10 gift card and it still set me back a tenner!

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BojimHorseguy@reddit

DVDs have gone down, I remember paying something like £20 for Rush Hour. New releases now are closer to £10.

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Ok_Working_9219@reddit

Because the technology came out in 1997😂. I had DVD then.

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Ok_Working_9219@reddit

Sold all my physical media when I moved. But books definitely not. I hate reading ebooks. Probably as a English Literature graduate, I’m reading really long Victorian novels. I’d rather not read 1500 pages on a screen.

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sargig_yoghurt@reddit

Books are way more expensive. Then again, that ties in with your point - books are decidedly dominant over eBooks now, while CDs and DVDs are a real minority to streaming.

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit

Yeah they went up to £9.99 about 2018 and stuck there for ages. I buy books a lot and last week I paid £10.99. I think they'll go to £11.99 by next summer.

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LieutenantDanbo@reddit

Weed has been weirdly stable.

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

Nah mate! I remember when a teenth was £12.50 now you gotta buy grams. Just not the same. I don't want considerably less weed for £10.

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rumbugger@reddit

£20 an eighth when I used to smoke. Admittedly this was a long time ago, and the variety and quality these days is far better.

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Andros25@reddit

£25 an 1/8 I'm paying at the min. 25% increase in 24 years. Pretty good.

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georgisaurusrekt@reddit

£25 an eighth for mids, £30 for flavours.

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Andros25@reddit

Im not a connoisseur just a mid smoker maybe. Is flavours when they're like "blue cheese ammi big bags"

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georgisaurusrekt@reddit

Nah more stuff like gelato, gorilla glue, Runtz, sunset sherbet etc. cheese and amnesia are definitely mids

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SavageMurphy@reddit

Aa someone who hasn't bought weed in about 10 years; what?

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georgisaurusrekt@reddit

Haha weed has come a long long way this past decade bro especially since it’s been legalised in much of the world

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fREAKNECk716@reddit

I mean...I was paying $25/USD for a quata-ounce (7 grams) of schwag for 25 years, $80USD an ounce (28 grams), because good weed was $75-$100 a quata... ...but now, that same (or often better) good weed, is now $150...an ounce!

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MrPatch@reddit

I used to just be pleased when my hash wasn't 30% plastic

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LieutenantDanbo@reddit

Goddamn yes. Getting 'diesel' hash which had come over in the diesel tanks of lorries, with layers of plastic a the way through it. Grim.

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MrPatch@reddit

Christ is that what it was, I always assumed the dodgy scrotes I was buying off were mixing it in, or the people they were buying off were.

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it_hurts_too_poo@reddit

I heard it was bitumen. That sticky black stuff they use for shed roofs. Didn’t stop me though

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winebookscats@reddit

Nah. We used to grow our own back in the day, that tar stuff is like sap from the plant 🙂

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it_hurts_too_poo@reddit

Kind of a relief if I’m honest 😂

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MrPatch@reddit

No, no hoodie, tshirt or car seat was safe from the little plummeting balls of plasticy fire.

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it_hurts_too_poo@reddit

I’ve got a 25 year old T-shirt (sentimental) covered in blim burns (that’s what we called them)

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Abaddononon@reddit

Hot rocks

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MrPatch@reddit

> blim Yep same here.

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unquietslumbers73@reddit

The inevitable pinhole burns.

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winebookscats@reddit

Did anyone used to hot knife it? Oh lord - I've taken shrooms and LSD but never tripped so badly as I did on a hot knife session. Didn't think it was possible to hallucinate on dope, but 😬

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MrPatch@reddit

hot knife was a last resort, I'd worked out how to make a pipe out of a carrot and some tinfoil and there were always lungs if we needed.

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dallaschickensh1t@reddit

Ahhhh the old bin bag spesh

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Refflet@reddit

Yes and no. The stuff that's imported isn't actually, and almost all of the commercial strains that you listed are contaminated with desiccants, and possibly other stuff. The smell of the "strain" is added in, and they may also add a sedative to make sure you get that "stuck to the sofa" stoned feeling in case it's a weak crop. Rather than your dealer buying an oz or a key and then the last 8th being underweight due to moisture evaporation, the moisture is absorbed by the desiccant and the total weight stays more or less the same. So there is a huge financial incentive here. Much of what you might think is pollen isn't. The thing is most desiccants are silica based, and inhaling silica is really bad and will cause silicosis, which is similar to asbestosis. AFAIK this has been going on for about 20 years now, centred around the UK. It's really annoying tbh, as sometimes you actually get a whiff of the weed's actual smell underneath. It can actually be quite good bud that they've contaminated.

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jonnyoxl@reddit

If anyone ever triea to sell you "Cali MIDs" tell them to jog on. It's just shit UK weed which people market as USA import.

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Anxious-Wasabi2907@reddit

Sorry to say this but ammi and cheese and stardawg e.t.c are not mids bro

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leedler@reddit

Maybe compared to what’s available but as a whole yeah that’s still strong shit, just not as exotic as some other strains

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Plenty_Loan_7033@reddit

what I don't understand is any strain can be low or high quality depending on how it's grown. Why advertise some strains as better than others it doesn't make sense

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hal2142@reddit

Doesn’t depend on how it’s grown, it depends on the seed. And then 2 strong seeds are bred together to make new strains etc

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omniwrench-@reddit

All natural products harvested from plants will depend on how they’ve been grown. Weed included.

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hal2142@reddit

He was talking about how strains can be better than others. That doesn’t come down to how their grown become I’m presuming they’d be under the same professional growing technique. It comes down to the seeds themselves which determines the stats of the plant. Source: ex grower

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omniwrench-@reddit

“Professional growing technique” lmao my guy, where I come from weed is mostly grown in hidden attics, by illegal migrants who are probably in some sort of modern slavery situation, often using stolen electricity

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hal2142@reddit

Of course there is a technique to growing. There is a lot to it. Do you think you stick it in a pot and watch it grow? Water it now and then? There’s a lot to it.

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omniwrench-@reddit

As someone who works with plants professionally (landscape architect) I’m well aware of the often delicate balancing act that is vegetative cultivation lol - my point was that if a crop isn’t managed properly it will vary in quality, even between crops of the same strain I don’t know what point you’re trying to argue about because we’re ultimately saying the same thing?

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psioniclizard@reddit

Lol ammi, cheese and strawdawg are base. I have quit now but when I did smoke i was luckily enough to try most of the top strains in the world direct from the source and honestly top quality weed is expensive. If it's not then either you have an amazing connect or they are lying to you. I was lucky enough to have friends who were pretty well connected in the weed world (knowing top growers in California etc.)

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harrywise64@reddit

Christ you sound like my dealer

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psioniclizard@reddit

Lol that is one of the reasons I stopped. When you smoke weed on an industrial scale it gets expensive and the cheap stuff just won't do lol. I am not saying there is anything wrong with those strains (and to be honest there is a lot more that goes into making good weed than just the strain) but the world of top quality weed has a lot of layers ans my good it's expensive. My friend had a reputation for seeing top quality weed across London and the most he ever got for a 3.5g was £100+.

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UndulatingUnderpants@reddit

Mans was shotting 50£ G's in East bruv.

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psioniclizard@reddit

Lol if you mean east London than that possible could be the person I knew haha

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UndulatingUnderpants@reddit

The one and only!

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jonnyoxl@reddit

Absolute horse shit. I've been to California and smoked the top grade weed and some of it tastes better but I've had stuff just as strong which I've paid £30 for a 3.5.

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psioniclizard@reddit

Ok? Then congratulations you get good stuff I guess? But alot depends on the strain, grow conditions etc. But buy what makes you happy honestly I am not going to tell you you are wrong.

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corneliusunderfoot@reddit

What's the difference though? Does it make me listlessly play. Video games, chat shit, laugh my head off, and eat way too much food in a COMPLETELY different way?

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psioniclizard@reddit

Honestly? It depends. It's likecwhats the difference between a Tesco Finest steak and Wagyu? They both fill you up. Or a cheap whisky vs an expensive one. In general I did notice better quality weed does feel better on your head, the flavours and effects are more defined. Also it can be stronger. That said, it is still getting you stoned. It's really a case of it depends iin what you want and value.

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corneliusunderfoot@reddit

The thing is, I can instantly tell you about the difference with those things (marble, travel, density of flavor, hangover, single malt) whereas whenever I've tried different weed it comes down to either slightly more active Vs slightly more docile

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psioniclizard@reddit

I can only talk from my own experience. I was lucky enough to try a lot of the top strains in the world from some of the best growers etc and I definitely noticed a marked difference. Was it worth the extra cost? That is debated and honestly depends a lot on the strain/grow. For examples my personal favourites were often orange or blue flavours and something nice like top quality Orange Cookies or Sunny D or Blue Zushi (not sure I got the name right of the last one, it's been a while honestly) were well worth it. Though a lot of of mid/standard level stuff I used to get was also nice and cheaper. A lot of the cheap weed I couldn't smoke at that point. It would really get me stoned (I smoked too much lol) and often wasn't washed/processed as well so had more of impact on my head. Like more paranoia and more of a lingering effect the next day. But that is just my experience, as I say it really comes down to what someone values. However you get a similar thing in Canada, where weed stores give you quite a breakdown in the flavours, effects and look of each strain.

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SnooTangerines3448@reddit

Amnesia, one of the worlds most successful strains. They can't just call it ammo or ammi and forget what it actually is. Definitely not mids. Won plenty of awards.

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Andros25@reddit

Yeah we don't get that round my way (gateshead) as far as I know sounds intense

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quickreviver@reddit

Nah you will. Someone will be pumping out premium for 40/50/60 an 1/8. Defo will be someone local somewhere.

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georgisaurusrekt@reddit

Fr I’m in a village between Coventry and Birmingham and still get access to the good stuff. There’s always someone

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leofab2802@reddit

Jeez.. round my ends it’s £30 for haze or dawg and £40/50 for “flavours”.

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strasxi@reddit

You may be getting good UK flavours for £30 but on average good domestic grown costs £40. Mids refer to 🇺🇸buds which can’t be sold as top shelf- this runs you around £50 and up. Top shelf Cali costs £70, or up if your dealer wants to make it out the hood 🤣

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Cheshireset@reddit

Flavours??? Looks like there’s been some strong developments since the lump of rocky days…

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GuardianGundam@reddit

Where the hell do you even find someone who sells it honestly. I don't think I've ever been offered some!

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Southcoastolder@reddit

Yeah, all those warnings as a kid dealers would give you drugs for free. 😥

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daekle@reddit

I was paying that in 2005. I think the area makes a big difference, as it was a student town.

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psychosicko@reddit

my local gaffer does 3.5g for £25

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oldspicehorse@reddit

Is it actually 3.5g though? I used to pay £25 for 3.5 then when it was reclassified it went to £20 for around 1.5-2g.

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Goose-rider3000@reddit

£15 for a Henry if it was standard weed or hash. £20-£25 if it was skunk. Circa 1995.

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Vast_Cycle6990@reddit

Haha yep, £15

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Goose-rider3000@reddit

£25 for a quarter!

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Vast_Cycle6990@reddit

The best of times!!

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Rodricdippins@reddit

Nothing beat picking the string and seeds out the thai stick

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younevershouldnt@reddit

Yep, that was the last time I bought any 😄 Is it still sold by the eighth? Do you still get resin which seems to be 50% melted down dustbin?

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pireninjacolass@reddit

Unfortunately yeah, soapbar is still a thing

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SnooTangerines3448@reddit

Is it? I only see 100g bars of soft commercial flogged up here nowadays. Not seen anyone trying to sell soapy in yonks.

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OKR123@reddit

Early 90s an 8th was £15 for soap, rocky, slate, red seal or maybe even gold seal hash, same for bush weed. Land races were more like £20 to £25 (Thai, Durban Poison, Jamaican High Grade), and specialty hash was £25 to £30 (menali charas, Nepalese temple ball, red Leb). Skunk came in followed by all the other hydro and messed it all up imo (too strong for me, imagine going to the pub and instead of pints of beer everyone was suddenly downing pints of vodka - I want to get nicely high, not obliterated), but I can still get Thai sometimes for about 20 for 3.5g.

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Sweet-Peanuts@reddit

> £15 for a Henry Haven't heard that one in yonks.

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MasRemlap@reddit

I'm still picking up ounces for £170, I swear when I started smoking 14 years ago it was £180-200 lmao

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AshFraxinusEps@reddit

I pick up 2 and a q for less than £300 near London. If you buy in bulk you save so much money

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magicalthinker@reddit

I was ripped off then because I was paying £25 back in the mid to late 90s. Bastards.

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MrPatch@reddit

My 'mate' and dealer once convinced my naïve younger self that £70 for a gram of mandy was the going price. That was nearly double the price of good charlie at the time.

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magicalthinker@reddit

Apparently, I must have been a mark or something because everyone over charged me. Cunts.

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Jaraxo@reddit

£20 and eighth that was only 2.5-2.8g instead of 3.5g.

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MrPatch@reddit

when was an eighth 2.5g? I had a 1p that I'd checked on the digital scales at work that was 3.5g exactly, kept that about me at all times to check on what I was buying.

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WearFlat@reddit

This is the truth. It used to £20 for an actually 8th.

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crankgirl@reddit

£15 for me. And it was squidgy black. Loved that stuff.

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the_cats_jimjams@reddit

You can still buy red seal, rocky hash and thai weed at those prices. The newer weed just costs more

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uncleAnwar@reddit

£10 for an eighth of brick weed/soap bar when I started smoking sometime in the 90’s. £15 for decent bud when it started to become a thing. Then £20. £25 was standard for a long time. Haven’t bought any in five years since I started flinging seeds in some dirt in the greenhouse.

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MagicCookie54@reddit

£20 and eighth is still pretty standard for a lot of dealers

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

Yeah there was £20 for an 8th round my way but you had to know people, mates rates and all that. That's when a hen went up to £25. Was 15-18 when I started buying.

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eat-the-bourgeoisie3@reddit

20 an eighth is still pretty standard

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owlshapedboxcat@reddit

£60 for a Q these days

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notchoosingone@reddit

I smoked back in the 90s and then didn't for many years, had some a couple of months ago and my *goodness* weed is a lot better than it used to be.

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Albert_Herring@reddit

I remember £7 a quarter...

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Slothjitzu@reddit

How long ago was this? £1 per gram is something I can't even fathom if I'm honest.

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Albert_Herring@reddit

Late 1970s. 45 years, gulp. The dole paid £13.05 a week at the time, if that helps. A pint of Wethereds Best cost 32p. I feel older thinking about that than I care to.

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Slothjitzu@reddit

I guessed it was a long-ass time ago (sorry) aha And that makes some sense to be fair, a quarter today is going to cost about £45/£50 and JSA is like £60odd.

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badgerfishnew@reddit

Teenth used to be £7.50, £15 a henry. This was before green was a thing and it was solid, occasionally dearer for pollen or squidgy black, very rarely we had skunk which was £15 a teenth. Haven't smoked for two decades about, funny how your brain stores random information! I can't remember how much a can of coke was back then?!

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Hour-Drink-7522@reddit

I can still get an oz of some nice sticky black for £150 but I think that's pretty rare, not many people do hash now adays, it all seems to be green

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badgerfishnew@reddit

I wouldn't know what prices are like these days, I stopped smoking before my first kid was born back in 2010. I bet it's a costly pastime nowadays!

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foxjerk@reddit

Reading through these comments with fond memories. Your prices and terminology is the closest to mine. Are you from Dorset? 😆

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badgerfishnew@reddit

No that was up in North Wales 🤣 I know I had a nostalgia blast when I remembered squidgy b 🤣

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thebigchil73@reddit

Red seal ftw!

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Robuk1981@reddit

Mid to late 90s was 35p for a can. I remember because I refused to pay 60p in the college vending machine lol.

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MrPatch@reddit

£1.10 for 10 benson and hedges too.

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

Awww crikey, yeah I forgot about the £7.50 stuff. I could get that around my way but it was always terrible. I didn't mind shelling out a bit extra for the good stuff back in the day. I moved to a town and it was all 12.50 regardless of Quality. £15 for a hen or £18 for a hen of the good stuff.

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owlshapedboxcat@reddit

35p

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magicalthinker@reddit

I remember teenths too. Then bud came along and it jumped to eighths and I never saw a teenth again after around 1999, lol.

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Feeney80085@reddit

Teenths nowadays are only for things like ❄️

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BigRich1972@reddit

15 quid an eighth in my day!

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BigRich1972@reddit

80/early 90s

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Slothjitzu@reddit

Serious question, but you used to have dealers taking in coins? That's mental to me.

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magicalthinker@reddit

Do they use chip and pin now? Lol, haven't smoked in two decades now.

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

Haha nah mate all cash still. Never heard of buying stuff via card.

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jbartlettcoys@reddit

Street dealers all cash for sure but these days I have a few guys who take card and deliver/mail it. The cards have fake African/Indian names.

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

Yeah, you can get it off the dark web but then you've gotta buy bitcoins and that's just extra effort. Used to get it posted, can't be arsed with the hassle though.

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cremedelapeng2@reddit

There's people on telegram too.They take paypal, bank transfer (fuck that though lol) and bitcoin still

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jbartlettcoys@reddit

Not even talking about the dark web, though that is an option, I went on a holiday to Spain a few years ago and befriended a group of growers from up north, and got added to their discord, unbelievably lucky and now bud supply is a dream for me. Makes it harder to quit / slow down though lol.

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ummm_bop@reddit

'donations' on a funding page could work.. maybe?

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Bunister@reddit

Yes they handled coins. But in those days an ounce of baccy was like £4 and a pint was £2.50.

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fluffton@reddit

Teenth for £12.50? Nah I used to get Teenth for 10, 1/8 for 20, Q for £35, oz for £100. Now it's £10 for 1g, £30 for 1/8, £50-60 a q and £160-180 an oz round my way. Though prices have come down in recent years, worst I saw was oz for £240.

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

Prices must have been regional. I'm talking like 20-25 years ago.

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fluffton@reddit

Yea most likely as my price ranges are from the same era.

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AshFraxinusEps@reddit

Buying baggies if you smoke a lot is just dumb anyway. Weights are as cheap as they've ever been. You can get 2 and q Oz for about £300 even round London. Buying a 0.9g bag (or probably less these days) for £20 is a joke by comparison

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HarassedPatient@reddit

£8 a quarter in 1975 for Lebanese gold hash, £10 for Afghan Black

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psioniclizard@reddit

I never get why people say weed honestly. When I first started smoking a 8th was 3.5g and cost £20. Over the years that went down to 3.2 then 3 then 2.5 or lower in some cases. A 10 bag used to be 1.75g for £10 and now depending on the quality you could be paying £10 a gram (or more depending on the strain). I get quality has improved and that is part of the price increase. Top quality weed costs a lot! But if you were to some how find a 3.5g 20 bag these days, unless you have a really good connect it is likely to be shit weed. Over the (many) years I was smoking I definitely noticed the increase in price.

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

Sorry, should I have called it the Latin name?

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psioniclizard@reddit

Sorry i was agreeing with you.

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

Ah I see, got confused when you said you don't know why people call it weed. I mean I personally prefer the Latin name, rolls off the tongue better. Much sweeter in the mouth.

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psioniclizard@reddit

Haha what is the latin name? And hahs sorry I meant I don't know why people say weed is something that has had a stable price but I wasnt clear.

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

That's cool. It's been a long day, my poor high brain.

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MrPatch@reddit

> teenth was £12.50 That's 70% up from when I started. A henry was £15.

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Similar_Election5864@reddit

Bloody inflation!

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Street-Necessary-725@reddit

Na I still get old school prices. £25 a hen, 50 a q kinda thing. Obviously if you want the ‘Cali’ it’s a lot more but that shit isn’t half as good as the standard stuff

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Sweet-Peanuts@reddit

I was always too embarrassed to buy a teenth. Hash though, which I actually preferred.

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toferino@reddit

It was a fiver when I was smoker in the 90s. Was shit though compared to today’s.

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CockKnobz@reddit

I remember the teenth. Last time I recall giving a dealer change haha

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ShutUpBaby-IKnowIt69@reddit

Been smoking 10 years and the price has never changed!

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DoNotCommentAgain@reddit

So not 25 years then?

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ShutUpBaby-IKnowIt69@reddit

Nope, 10

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North-Village3968@reddit

It’s been 160-180 per o for as long as I can remember, never seems to go up

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Dukeandmore@reddit

Yeah you’ll get some cheeky buggers selling “cali” for 220. Nah mate it’s just well grown, not cali and I’ll stick to my regular guy

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Captainusa1776@reddit

ironically cali weed is super cheap as long as it’s not from a rec dispensary

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SharePointR@reddit

I’ve seen oz’s go for 450

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head_face@reddit

There's no way anyone's importing weed *out of* the USA, across the Atlantic, for at best £50/oz profit.

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imgonnapooyourpants@reddit

It 100% happens, just not anywhere near as often as dealers want you to think

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windol1@reddit

I think it happens more on a personal scale more than anything, sure occasionally someone might try and deal it but as the other person says, it's just not nearly as profitable as grown within the UK. Knew a chap who bought some online and although he wasn't a dealer, he would still occasionally sell some of it to a few of us.

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imgonnapooyourpants@reddit

Yeah best bet in the UK for imports is grey market sites. Not sure why more people aren't using them, they're a bit more expensive but worth it

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windol1@reddit

>Not sure why more people aren't using them, they're a bit more expensive but worth it Well you hit the nail on the head at the end for why, sure the quality is far higher but you can still get high quality for less and still get the job done. But another issue is risk, you don't want to spend a load of money only for it to get caught at imports, if laws changed to decriminalise then I could imagine importing would become far more popular.

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imgonnapooyourpants@reddit

Grey market sites ship from England I believe, it's all imported beforehand

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psioniclizard@reddit

Peoole are importanting it (i used to knwo some people who did) but yea. They are not selling Os for £220. More like £420-£500. I don't think people realise how expensive top quality weed actually is.

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Ok_Cow_3431@reddit

It definitely happens - I know some guys that were doing it.

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jbartlettcoys@reddit

Correct - I know a guy who makes the fake Cali labels and bags for people to use in London. Still, I'd rather pay 200-220 for something banging than 180 for something decent.

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862657@reddit

It went up when it was reclassified to class B. It used to be 100-120

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LPL09@reddit

Gone way below that for cheap mass grown shit

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Captainusa1776@reddit

weed prices have gone down for me in the last decade

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862657@reddit

Used to get a g for a 5er in 2005

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Street-Couple-2715@reddit

Nah 10's were 2 grams and eighths were about 4g.

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jonnyoxl@reddit

It's been around 10 a G for small amounts in my area for a good 20 years

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tinasnow-poty@reddit

Same, but dealers won’t come out for less than a henny these days! Same price but I guess delivering a 10 isn’t worth it anymore

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windol1@reddit

Definitely, despite what other comments are saying the price/weight rarely changes. I think the last time it changed was about 10 years ago now, going from 12.50 a gram to 10 per gram (discount still applied to bulk buying).

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barriedalenick@reddit

No idea how much has is now but back in the 80s you could get some really nice hash for £8/eighth, less if bought by the ounce, even less if you bought a pound! If you wanted to splash out on some nice Afghan black it would be a tenner. It lasted way longer than weed, if you could get it, even accounting for any potency increase esp if you just hot knifed it all!

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HarassedPatient@reddit

Ohh I haven't thought about hot knives for decades. That's a memory you've brought back

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monjatrix@reddit

Skunk is 30/8th rather than the 25, of the 90s Haven't had solid in forever

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MaximusSydney@reddit

Disagree with this one. 3.5g was £20 when I first used to buy it, back in the mid 00s. You could commonly get an Oz for £110-120 (and less if you really knew the right folk). Grit bud seemed to drive prices up as guys started selling non-treated weed for 25 on the 8th. Now it seems to be at least a tenner per g and I see ounces going for 200+!

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AerodynamicHandshake@reddit

It's a shrinkflation issue, a 20 bag still costs 20 quid. You just get half as much.

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jbartlettcoys@reddit

For a 20s yeah, but 7g for 50 is fairly ubiquitous here, which is only a 25% increase over 20 years. Bud has got better too.

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I-Spot-Dalmatians@reddit

Same as cocaine, price hasn’t changed much over time

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melting_aunt@reddit

If anything it’s got cheaper. £20 used to get me 2g and now it gets a proper full 8th

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PartyPoison98@reddit

It's because the profit margins are fucking huge as, other than keeping it concealed, growing weed is cheap as chips.

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DoNotCommentAgain@reddit

3.5g was £20 around 15 years ago. Shot up in price rapidly and then stabilised about 10 years ago.

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fREAKNECk716@reddit

Weed? ...no, that's not right...it cost less now! I mean...I was paying $25/USD for a quata-ounce (7 grams) of schwag for 25 years, $80USD an ounce (28 grams), because good weed was $75-$100 a quata... ...but now, that same (or often better) good weed, is now $150...an ounce!

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CabinetOk4838@reddit

Time! I started work in the late 90’s on £22k. My lad just started work. And he’s on £22K.

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7148675309@reddit

You started on a good salary! Mine was £15k in London in 1999. Fortunately I was on £18.5k at the next job in January 2000 and while I saved nothing at least my overdraft didn’t get any bigger…

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CabinetOk4838@reddit

I have begun to realise this!!! I felt like it was peanuts at the time - surrounded by seniors on 50K+ and a carpark full of top end BMWs and a couple of proper sports cars.

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The_bells@reddit

My favourite is always when my managers try to pull the "oh when I started in the 90s we only got 9k" and I get to be like "yes Peter, and how much was a flat?" (27k ish, aka 3 years wages. Same flats are now £250k)

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Askduds@reddit

I use this on reddit a lot but I'm senior IT management, I'm on decent money. The flat my dad bought in the 70s as a trainee chemist and semi-amateur musician came on the market last year. I could not have afforded to buy it. Despite being 20 years older and in a massively, massively more senior role than he would have been at the time.

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BppnfvbanyOnxre@reddit

My parents in the early 60s moved out of south London had to stretch themselves to go upmarket as it were buying a semi in Surrey i.e the new place was around 1/3 higher than the place they bailed on according to my Mum. Last time I looked a couple of years back the London street they left nothing was selling below 1 million, she'd be lucky to get 1/2 that.

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Askduds@reddit

My one isn't even London, it's Buckinghamshire. I don't even want to think what would have happened to a flat in say, Ealing.

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MrDankky@reddit

My dad always goes on about this, I then ask him how much his first house was, had a house in Chigwell that cost him £25k, he was earning £20k a year back then (1980s). That same house is probably worth £1.5million today and even with a software engineering degree I was only on 30k when I started working. Loves to call me lazy and irresponsible with money while I have a full time job and a side business just because I don’t skimp and save every penny like he did. Fair play I did treat myself to a car when I was younger (happened to cost more than his first house lol). But it’s a different age we live in today

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BigJDizzleMaNizzles@reddit

I get the whole buy a nice car thing. If you'll "never" be able to buy a house then why scrimp and save every penny you have knowing it won't make a jot of difference with regard to getting on the property ladder. It's not the mortgage that people have trouble paying it's the deposit. If your current rent is £1500 a month your mortgage won't be that much but to save £30k for a 10% deposit on a _very_ modest flat is just soul destroying.

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DoNotCommentAgain@reddit

My parents pulled this on me last weekend, they were talking with a friend about how they bought their 3 bed house in London for around £90k. I jokingly said pls stop it's making me sick. They said "but we were only earning about £17k each" and I said yes and I'm making about double that but my two bed flat is about 4x the price of your 3 bed house.

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exialis@reddit

The same thing that is keeping wages low is making property expensive.

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windol1@reddit

Greed and over population. Thanks to a never ending stream of workers, companies have been able to hold down wages for decades, but that stream of workers also required housing pushing up demand.

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amoryamory@reddit

conspiracy theory actual answer: we don't build houses anymore

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chickeneyebrow@reddit

How is it a conspiracy theory lmao

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mr-no-life@reddit

The UK population is the same as it is in 1970, if you believe different it’s a conspiracy.

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chickeneyebrow@reddit

Lol no it isn’t? 55 million to 67 million since 1970 https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/population Take that tin foil hat off lad

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mr-no-life@reddit

No I was being snarky. Of course it’s changed. I was making fun of the other fella.

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chickeneyebrow@reddit

Damn sorry have upvoted you haha

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mr-no-life@reddit

No I was being snarky. Of course it’s changed. I was making fun of the other fella.

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Thestilence@reddit

Greed has always existed.

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windol1@reddit

And? Doesn't excuse it from being a reason.

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EmFan1999@reddit

Corruption?

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mr-no-life@reddit

Mass population increase.

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chickeneyebrow@reddit

Noooo!! Of course the best way to solve a housing crisis is to add to the population!!! We need more people to do the underpaid jobs!!!

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exialis@reddit

No because people have always been corrupt and always will be but property only became unaffordable about 25 years ago.

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tgnm01@reddit

Yeah my mum's first property was £47500 for a two bed terraced house, she bought that in 1998. That house sold for £183500 in 2018, yet inflation has £47500 be worth £70700 in 2018 - about £88k now, but I'd likely have to pay £230k for it if I wanted to buy that same house.

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guffychild@reddit

Politicians?

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ManMcManly@reddit

What's that?

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Nonsenseinabag@reddit

Commodification of essential goods. In a just world those items would be not-for-profit.

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colei_canis@reddit

I knew the crack fox was up to no good again, suppressing wages and keeping house prices high.

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jibbetygibbet@reddit

Yes, a lot more people working.

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vicariousgluten@reddit

We bought our house and it came with the original conveyance. It was first bought in the 60s by a nurse earning around £3k (according to Hansard) and the house was £2,800. The same nurse now earns £30k and the house is about £200k… So in the 60s the house was 90% of one year’s salary. Now one year’s salary is a 15% deposit.

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blazetrail77@reddit

I always wanna hear what people say in response to the reality people inform them of

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Captain_Pungent@reddit

Saw this recently which sums it up “nicely” https://ibb.co/c8Ck9yz

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bitofrock@reddit

It's worth noting that in the early nineties we had massive interest rates which made a mortgage very expensive. There was then a short period as the economy recovered when you could get bargains. Those aren't typical though. House prices are a function of access to capital and supply and demand. Lately we've had a period of some people being handed loads of cheap capital (rich people and people running companies that invent stuff, mostly) and they've pushed up demand for larger homes, whilst also hoovering up properties for letting. We also have a lot of millionaire pensioners around these days, and they're sitting in their oversized homes so they're creating a real squeeze on family homes.

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The_bells@reddit

No amount of interest is the difference between a house costing 3 years wages, and a house costing 12 years wages. Plus there's the fact you could actually *get* a mortgage large enough to buy a house without having a deposit of 100k

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smokelaw@reddit

Flats can be a lot more than 250k

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The_bells@reddit

Yof course! But I'm talking about the actual flats they could have bought - the amount flats on those streets cost now, not flats as a concept 🤣

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smokelaw@reddit

Sorry you said same flats! Thought you were saying some flats.

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b3mus3d@reddit

your managers sound like bellends

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The_bells@reddit

In their defense, both of them acknowledged the problem with "I need 10-12x my annual salary to buy a flat you could have had for 3x"

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Hmmark1984@reddit

yep, my dads never been one of those people who think they had it easier etc... because they, in numbers, earned less, but it was crazy to me when i found out the family house, a detached four bed, nothing crazy just a pretty average uk house, he paid £15k for. That same house was recently valued at over £800k

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skullsandstuff@reddit

Why do people pretend like they don't know what inflation is?

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teenytinyterrier@reddit

Let alone starting out saddled with £80k of student debt

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M1dnightBlue@reddit

But interest rates were higher! /s

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CabinetOk4838@reddit

LOL. I was well lucky being able to afford a 3 bed house after a year on that 22K (gf was in 25)… And we were renting too. We only needed a £6K deposit back then. I feel really sorry for those trying to follow behind and get on the housing ladder at all! 😖😢

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SeverusSnape__@reddit

I'm 35 and on £1k more than your son...

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CabinetOk4838@reddit

And that says it all my friend. 😢 He’s working for a large company, basic job in a call centre. It’s essentially minimum wage plus a few pence.

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ThinkAboutThatFor1Se@reddit

£22k was a very good starting salary in the 90s.

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4321zxcvb@reddit

Yes I started on 12k in early 90s

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MixLogical8993@reddit

9k for my first IT job, fresh out of college in 1998

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PixieBaronicsi@reddit

£12k was minimum wage in 2011, minimum wage in 1999 when it was introduced was £3.60/hour ~£7k/year

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4321zxcvb@reddit

I was doing ok then in 1992! I remember that my dad earned the same (in 86 ish anyway.. )

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efan78@reddit

You absolutely were, I was on £5,200 in '96 (bar staff). I was absolutely stoked when the minimum wage came in and I went from £2.50/hr to £3.50! 😁

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Jemma_2@reddit

I started on £12k in 2013 🤣

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spankybianky@reddit

I was an apprentice travel agent for £6k a year in the late nineties

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CabinetOk4838@reddit

Ooooouch! 😖😢

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CabinetOk4838@reddit

Ooooouch! 😖😢

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Cheesehunter2001@reddit

Engineering graduate salary in 1995 was £13k, it is now about £32k. Minimum wage didn't exist. There were people at my work being paid £1/hr in my first job in 1995. Sounds like you had a very good job, and your lad is on minimum wage.

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Chimp-eh@reddit

22k in the 90s absolutely wasn’t a typical wage as a starting salary, that would be like a 21 year old now starting on 40k, not obscene money but not typical for sure

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A-Grey-World@reddit

Yes... but chances are that's what most are starting on.

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CabinetOk4838@reddit

True. The peers I worked with were all on £50K+ mind. Took me a while to catch up. THEY rose within that bubble, I got the lucky tail end.

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MildlyAgreeable@reddit

Don’t forget zero hours contracts 🥰

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BodybuilderWorried47@reddit

Yep. I have a 2.1 degree and my first grad job (this year) is a whopping... 22k.

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princessparis5@reddit

I graduated with a 2.1 in Law with Hons in 2017..on 25k

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BodybuilderWorried47@reddit

Yeah, I've already considered going back for a computer science degree. Seems like the only thing that'll pay.

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Extension_Mention_82@reddit

I graduated with a 2.1 as well. My starting salary was £80k

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BodybuilderWorried47@reddit

Stop lying.

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Lilly_898765@reddit

Now I got '22 grand job' stuck in my head. Thanks

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winebookscats@reddit

"It's alright, it's alright, it's alright" it really isn't though for a job in the city 🤣

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Public-Fisherman-205@reddit

I started a university graduate job on £22k in 2015. This is why young people get bitter about housing costs!

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yellowc1trusfru1t@reddit

This is the sad fact. Wages have stayed the same, but everything else costs a lot more than it did in the 90’s. Food, houses, cars, council tax, energy..

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FastToLoseFurious@reddit

22k in the early 90s is like 55k now so slightly different...

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CabinetOk4838@reddit

Yeah, I’ve realised that. Fair comments. You’re quite right.

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trees-for-breakfast@reddit

Mad how you’re son’s started on such a comparatively shite wage, regression is not good.

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slade364@reddit

Yeah, that's pretty impressive for a starting salary.

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A-Grey-World@reddit

Isn't that his point? You're using inflation there aren't you... Wages have not risen in line with inflation.

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Aston_Villa5555@reddit

Hell, £25k in 2003 was very easily managable. Today £40k doesn't go far

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mittenkrusty@reddit

I remember around 1998 the wage at a local factory was £7.50 a hour, and overtime and weekends was double, bank holidays triple and Christmas and new year was quadruple, A small 1 bedroom house could be got in a council house part of town, of course a rough run down area, maybe even 2 bedroom for as cheap as 30k

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SubjectLuck6272@reddit

You were unusual. I started work in 2000 and got a good graduate deal and all my mates were like fuck me you're doing well. £19k You are being disingenuous if you think £22k was a normal starting wage in the 90s.

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cwaig2021@reddit

My first graduate job in 1995 was £24K. They asked at interview how much I wanted - I just blurted out the highest number anyone from my course had been offered and said that was the going rate at (company I forget the name of). They said ok. I couldn’t quite believe my luck tbh.

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ImTalkingGibberish@reddit

And fell into the same tax brackets. Adjusting to inflation, we are paying much more taxes for the same spending power group.

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Conscious_Cat_6204@reddit

I started work 15 years after you on £12k 😮‍💨

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JustAnother_Brit@reddit

So minimum wage?

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Conscious_Cat_6204@reddit

At the time, no. It was a little bit above minimum wage.

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h00dman@reddit

17 years ago for me, and it was £10.5k. Funny thing is because I was living at home and my mum insisted on me not paying rent or bills so that I could save, I was rolling in dough.

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thepoout@reddit

Shows you how poor we've all become. Think about it. With inflation about 3-5% for all those years. And now 11%!!! He's basically on a pittance.

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CabinetOk4838@reddit

I’m doing my bit to give him a home for a few quid a month (which he will get back, he just doesn’t know that.) I can’t see him being financially able to move out in the next 3-5 years. That’s ok! I planned for this.

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g00gleb00gle@reddit

Cracking wage in late 90s

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owahthray42069@reddit

No offence but your lads a mug accepting those wages.

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barriedalenick@reddit

Things like TVs are significantly cheaper in real terms than 40 years ago.

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madpiano@reddit

And so much lighter!!! I remember needing 2 people to carry a medium sized TV as they were so heavy at the back!!

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layendecker@reddit

My Grandfather died about 5 years back and we had to lug one of the old Sony 1980s super-tellys down stairs. It was his pride and joy for years, and it was sort of presumed by the family that he didn't want to let it go (it was a huge amount of money when he bought it). After 4 of us straining to get it out the house, we think it was probably purely because of the weight. The thing was ungodly heavy A quick Google says it was 100kg, which sounds about right.

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blackwylf@reddit

I've still got the ~1980 CRT TV my parents bought. It's good enough for what I occasionally watch in that room and I never have to worry about a power surge taking it out! Besides, if it ever does die then I can use it to build an aquarium or plant cabinet (because I'll be damned if I'm gonna try to move it again!)

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BppnfvbanyOnxre@reddit

I had an old 32" tubed TV with a similar weight, very deep so it had to be 1/2 way into the room. Gave it away on freecycle, helped the new owner carry it to their car which visibly sagged when we put it into the boot.

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mand71@reddit

We got a TV secondhand around 2016, flat screen, weighed almost nothing. The old Sony Trinitron monster is still under the desk in the living room as it's too heavy for the two of us to carry :(

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mandyhtarget1985@reddit

I replaced the big panasonic crt tv from my bedroom a couple of years ago. Got a cheap 32” flat screen which i carried upstairs with one hand. Went to lift the old tv off the top of the chest of drawers and damn near killed myself. Had to set it on top of my thighs and shuffle myself down the stairs as it was the only way of getting it out without damaging myself, the tv or the floor at the bottom of the stairs

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Pembs-surfer@reddit

Ahhh the old "Thigh Shuffle" been there and done that with a Trinitron!

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Feeney80085@reddit

I can comfortably carry my 50 inch TV on my own with no assistance and barely feel the weight. My parents old 50 inch plasma TV is a serious struggle to carry on its own and basically requires a 2nd person

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This_Charmless_Man@reddit

I moved house recently. My TV stand was built for a large CRT (I think 32" iirc) 20ish years ago. It doubles as a seat it can take so much weight.

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AshFraxinusEps@reddit

The back? You mean the front? Most CRTs I've lifted had most of the weight being the glass at the front

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MastarQueef@reddit

I remember me and 3 of my friends moving our old 28 inch tv from one room into the next when we were early teens. It probably weighed 40-50kg and was absolutely massive as it was a CRT. My current tv is 55”, and weighs less than 20kg without the stand.

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UnluckyChu@reddit

Nowadays it's the same with phones, they make every phone thinner

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Able-Requirement-919@reddit

I was given a 32” TV about 15 years ago. It was so heavy that it took two big blokes to get it into the house. The TV cabinet must’ve been under incredible strain.

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BriarcliffInmate@reddit

I remember my dad buying our first Widescreen TV and Surround Sound in about 2001 when he won some money on a scratch card. It took FOUR blokes from Currys to get it all in the house and then install it. Meanwhile, we bought a new TV last year for the living room that was 50" and my dad carried it under one arm and fit in his car boot. Took 5 minutes to install.

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Bunister@reddit

I had to move a 32" CRT (Big silver Panasonic wide-screen telly) about a mile across town to my new flat. Didn't have a car so took it in a shopping trolley. Absolutely killed me, and then the flat was on the third floor... I don't miss those TVs

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MrPatch@reddit

closest I've ever been to death was trying to get a 32" CRT upstairs in a tiny victorian terrace. I was half an inch off going down the stairs backwards with the bastard thing on top of me.

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ooooomikeooooo@reddit

I used to work in Currys having to move them around the store. In the warehouse we kept them upstairs which meant they had to be lifted onto a conveyor belt. The 32s were a right bastard to do on your own.

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Orri@reddit

When I moved into my bedsit in 2015 me and my dad picked up a Panasonic Smart TV. When we went to collect it we both got one side each to pick it up and take to the van - we damn nearly threw it over our shoulders as it was about 50x lighter than we thought it would be!

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Goblinbeast@reddit

Most tech is. I remember being working for the only bricks and mortar retailer selling a 40" PLASMA TV for sub £1k like 12 years ago... 999.99 baby haha. Nowadays if your paying 1k for a 40" telly it'll basically make you a brew in the morning haha.

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No-Dance2041@reddit

Mobile phones.. I remember buying the first iPhone and it was around £300 which was mega cheddar at the time but now you'd get a pretty basic model for that.

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pireninjacolass@reddit

Yeah, but a modern £50 phone beats the pants off the first iphone

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Caddy666@reddit

a 2 year old phone already did at the time.

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Sux499@reddit

What beat the first iphone at the time?

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Informal_Badger@reddit

The iPhone was very limited at first. No video, no app store and 2G only. Its real USP was the capacitive touchscreen and UI. The Sony Ericsson P990 had touchscreen, 2Mp camera with video, apps, Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G, QWERTY keyboard, memory card etc, announced 2005. The Nokia N70 was similar but not touchscreen, just normal candy bar. There were plenty of dumb-phones that did more than the iPhone, it wasn't really a smart phone then, the models above were.

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pursnikitty@reddit

It wasn’t a hard capacitive screen though. It was a soft resistive touch screen that required a stylus to use. There were plenty of devices around with touch screens such as palm pilots and hp ipaqs, as well as some other mobiles phones. The selling point of the original iPhone is that it was a hard capacitive screen that didn’t need a stylus to use. You didn’t have to apply pressure, just the regular touch of a finger. The differences in use are light and day.

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Caddy666@reddit

you just tapped with your nail instead of your fingertip.

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Caddy666@reddit

xda exec

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No-Dance2041@reddit

very true!

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mcchanical@reddit

What? Anything current that isn't some dodgy brand you've never heard of is closing in on 2 grand. 300 is only going to get you a phone from quite a number of years ago, that is falling behind in terms of software updates. Honestly to me a phone is the biggest example of something that has become eye wateringly expensive to keep up to date with, primarily because they have become ridiculously advanced to the point that they can do almost anything.

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Alarmed_Tiger5110@reddit

Not sure where you're shopping, a Google Pixel 8 starts at £699 for the standard model to £1179 for the 8 Pro with 512Gb of storage - are you really claiming the creators of Android are 'some dodgy brand'?

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mcchanical@reddit

I know, I own a Pixel. Their entire selling point is that they offer close to flagship quality and features at a lower price than most alternatives. The Samsung S23 Ultra is £1599, around $2000.

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Ramtamtama@reddit

Wasn't the original iPhone little more than an iPod Touch that you could make calls off?

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iani63@reddit

Brain-dead, no MMS if I recall right. Loads of stuff that every other phone user laughed at...Sony had Walkman phones and were among the first to have a half decent camera.

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No-Dance2041@reddit

Apple will always demolish any competition in doing what it does best. Product design and software.

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Ramtamtama@reddit

They rarely come up with something new, they just put it in a fancy case, still a half-eaten fruit on it, and jack the price up.

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Kurtcorgan@reddit

The first iPhone was £238. Only one per person and you could only buy them from the Apple Store with a debit or credit card, no cash. Then you took it home and either jailbroke and unlocked it 😂 or you signed up for a £36 a month 24 month contract which was only with 02.

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PopeJamiroquaiIII@reddit

Close but not quite Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse all sold the handsets (with a limit of 2 per person), then you took it home, plugged it into ITunes and applied for the O2 contract there - and they all had a 14 day return period in case you were declined when the credit check was run The contracts were 18 months at the time, with plans at £35, £45 and £55/month - and it was actually the minutes that varied, as all OG iPhone plans had unlimited data Not that the contract term mattered as Apple forced O2 to waive the remaining contract terms and allow everyone with an original iPhone to be allowed to upgrade to the 3G for free when it launched Source: worked for CPW back then, dredged this all back up from some crevice of my memory

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Kurtcorgan@reddit

Didn’t know they did it too! Yeah I remember the 3G thing. Wasn’t much was it, remember getting one for “free” at Carphone Warehouse and it was the exact same as the original model spec wise, just had 3G instead of Edge didn’t it? I Just jailbroke the “free” one and gave it to my girlfriend for Christmas because my OG was black on the back anyway (custom black backing plate) so you couldn’t tell the difference (and I’m a cheapskate 😂).

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PopeJamiroquaiIII@reddit

From what I remember off the top of my head, the 3G was a black plastic back (and maybe white or that might've been the 3GS, I'm not sure) that was more rounded, vs the squarer metal back on the OG iPhone I'm fairly certain it came with a higher storage option as well - on launch day, we opened an hour early and even then there was a queue before I got there, when we opened the first person came in and asked for the one with the higher storage (which we'd been sent one of), then the next person did and we had to announce that we only had one and the first person already got it, to which the entire queue collectively let out a disappointed *'Awww'*, then they all stayed and just bought the lower storage one instead, which probably remains to this day the most mind-blowingly 'Apple customer' thing I've ever witnessed I can't remember if there were any more changes, I feel like maybe a better CPU but I could be retroactively applying modern iPhone logic, I'm not sure

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Kurtcorgan@reddit

Yeah the 3G was just black plastic, and exactly the same internally as the OG, 3GS had a white one. The OG came with 8GB in the UK (although the original US one had a 4GB 🤦🏻‍♂️) and went up to 16GB and the 3G was the same. 8 or 16 only. The 3GS was the one with a white option.

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Adorable_Month3677@reddit

I remember this too (iPhone 3G was c.£160) BUT they were tied to specific contracts (O2 only for the first few) which were all c.£25-30/month and only came with 500MB and limited minutes and texts. Now you can get 200x the data for half the price.

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No-Dance2041@reddit

shit yeah! i forgot about that. i switched to O2 for that reason.

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BigJDizzleMaNizzles@reddit

In my first year of uni I got a call from my brother in about mid-October. "Hey BigJDizzleMaNizzles, Mom and Dad's TV just broke".... Me: "And?" Him "They said if we make it our joint Christmas present we can get a 42" plasma telly" Me: "Amazing! Merry Christmas to me" put phone down..... 5 minutes later, my internal monologue kicks in. "Hey dummy, you don't live there any more!" fuck. Got the telly, it was £1800 and branded Tiny (old out of business computer store) was really a monitor with a separate tuner plugged in and separate stand alone speakers. It was shit.

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Alarmed_Tiger5110@reddit

My 42" Panasonic Plasma cost that princely sum from Julian's place back in 2009. Which was a massive drop on the £4000 my friend had paid for a Pioneer one a few years earlier. Feeling old is remembering the Plasma was cheaper than the TV it replaced, a 32" Toshiba CRT from around 2001.

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Ill_Situation4224@reddit

I worked it currys in 2000, we had a 42 in plasma on display, £39,999 iirc.

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Isotope_Soap@reddit

Well, to be fair, my plasma does serve multiple functions. A TV of course but also a rather decent space heater.

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Significant-Math6799@reddit

>e functions. A TV of course but also a rather decent space heater. My first thought too. TVs today are not the same as TV's back then. My mum bought me my first TV as an 18th Birthday present (I was leaving home and she got her/my priorities right!🤣) but it was a big \*ssed TV with a rounded screen, an areal made of a circle of wire which I'd have to position right to get a good reception and it had an VHS player attached. I could program it to record things if I was out, but it wasn't connected to everything else. I couldn't connect it to my phone and stream things from my phone. I couldn't watch it if I didn't have it close to a window where I could get the areal to pick anything up and if a plane went over it was ghosted screens and fuzzy sound distortion until the plane had gone far enough and the idea that it would be portable -despite being the smallest screen you could get (I think it may have been 14") it was so heavy you were more likely to drop it than transport it across the room! Yes there are TV's now and they're no doubt around the same £100 mark my mum paid for the TV she gave be (Toshiba I think though could have been a Sony) I don't think there are TV's now which do so little to be a good comparison, and I think if there were they would be vintage and would fetch way more than £100!

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AnotherSlowMoon@reddit

No need for a heat pump when my flat is insulated and my gaming PC runs hot!

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10YearsANoob@reddit

Radiator? Oh you mean me leaving it on stress test for an hour

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Stokehall@reddit

Radiator? You mean Furmark

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10YearsANoob@reddit

I think they call it "efficient use of electricity." My leisure doubles up as warmth

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Stokehall@reddit

As an ITX user my leisure plagues me with warmth

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haaiiychii@reddit

My parents still use their £1k plasma TV and refuse to upgrade because it was so expensive and "it works", it'd have to become irreparable before they buy a new TV. And now for a third of the price they'd get a way better TV.

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Jonny_Segment@reddit

> 999.99 https://youtu.be/wnbTem-8q8U

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lardarz@reddit

I totally knew what that video was gonna be before I clicked it lol

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Grenache@reddit

Paul's accent is so fucking good.

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barriedalenick@reddit

I know what video this is without looking...and I wasn't wrong!

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Goblinbeast@reddit

Made me chuckle thank you 😂

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JoRoLUFC@reddit

Graphics cards and cpus at the top end really aren't, they're way more expensive.

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MoreFeeYouS@reddit

Graphics cards have entered the chat

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Ok_Cycle225@reddit

> Most tech is. Except for computer parts.

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Rarvyn@reddit

Depends on how you count it. The *newest* computer parts are more expensive, but if you buy the equivalent to the parts from ten years ago, they’re generally cheaper than what they would have cost then.

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P2K13@reddit

There's definitely still expensive TVs, the latest technology will still cost you £7k+. I picked up a 65" LG C1 for ~£1500 a few years ago and I love it.

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Rarvyn@reddit

But the equivalent TV has gone down in price over time.

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Legitimate-Bug-5049@reddit

i saw an ad of an old $5000 Computer with a staggering 12mb hardrive on one of the PC subs.

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Goblinbeast@reddit

Yup, everyone saying pcs are more expensive obviously are too young to remember them days!

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AshFraxinusEps@reddit

Except computers have gone back up. When they were "new" it was about £1k for one. They dropped to about £500, but now to get something decent you are probably paying £700+

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Range_sover_yt@reddit

I've got a newspaper ( 1988 uk ) advertising a Panasonic hi tec vhs video for £370 And above that, a PYE 21" teletex TV for £380

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MrTrav15@reddit

Similar to how dvd players were. I remember my step dad buying a dvd player for £350. Now you couldn’t give one away.

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The_Fyrewyre@reddit

Oh Graphics cards, Computer Graphics cards. If only they had followed the TV trends.

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darfaderer@reddit

I remember my first tv was a 27” lcd made by daiwoo (however you spell it) and cost £600. 😂😂😂

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quasifun@reddit

I am in the US, but my company paid over £10k for a first generation 42" plasma. This was ~ 2000. It could do 720p or 1080i. I bought it from them for £1500 when they shut down. HDMI did not yet exist, but you could do component video.

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rolypoly99@reddit

Takes me back! I used to work for a B2B audio visual supplier back in 2003, and we would sell 40" plasmas for around £1k, and that was a good deal back then. One staff perk was we were allowed to buy stuff direct from the big manufacturers (Sony, Samsung, LG etc) at trade price, so about anywhere between 50-80% off the customer price.

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Tyeveras@reddit

I’m old enough to remember when we got our first ever colour CRT TV in the early 70s. They were so expensive, people (including us) rented them rather than buying them.

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No-Information-Known@reddit

Saw a Curry’s advert from around 2005 the other day. Their deal of the month was wireless landline handsets that were £150! Nearly £260 today.

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Goblinbeast@reddit

Supply and demand that though. Not even my 80 odd year old parents pay for a landline anymore.

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pond-weed@reddit

Until china invades Taiwan

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AnAussieBloke@reddit

Mate of mine threw down $19,000 AUD on a plasma not long after they came out....I'd be surprised if it was even 40"

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JayR_97@reddit

Blu Ray players used to be so expensive that you were better off just buying a PS3

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Scary-Try3023@reddit

Definitely, last month I went to get a TV and expected to have to pay £400-500 for some sub 4k TV. Boy was I wrong! I picked up a 55" 4k smart TV for £300! Not to mention they were selling 32 inch full HD TVs for like £140! Absolutely crazy to see you don't need to spend hundreds anymore for a basic TV.

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stpizz@reddit

The 'smart' part of that is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Panels have gotten cheaper to make too etc probably, but there are TV companies out there making more money off data + upsell opportunities from the smart features than they do from selling you the TV.

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ldn-ldn@reddit

Panels are stupid cheap these days. I remember paying a huge premium for a monitor with a quality IPS panel in early 2000-s, now you have better IPS panels in ultra cheap Chinese mobile phones made out of shit and sticks.

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Scary-Try3023@reddit

Yeah I can believe that, it's a loss leader. Similar to how the PS3 was sold at less than manufacturing price but it allowed Sony to get a blu ray player into every home and made blu ray the standard for HD optical discs which earned Sony more money in the long run. Personally I hate the "smart" aspect and would rather just have a TV and use my own plug in devices to get access to the smart stuff.

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MrPatch@reddit

pretty easy not to give the TV the wifi password? Or are we at the point that even a telly needs an always on connection now?

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DispensingMachine403@reddit

My Samsung needs updates every so often, it's a TV ffs

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dust_of_the_cosmic@reddit

I thought the same when I was updating my light bulbs recently 😅

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Huddstang@reddit

Worse than that is that the remote has separate firmware updates!

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PotentialBat132@reddit

They will find any open wifi connections nearby now

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Raunien@reddit

> Personally I hate the "smart" aspect and would rather just have a TV Same. Just turn data into light and sound,*I* will provide the data source.

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MasterJohnny69@reddit

😂😂😂

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TheChoke@reddit

They also started selling advertising slots in the remotes. Disney+ and Netflix pay for that quick button. Drives down the price of the TV so you can afford their subscriptions.

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colei_canis@reddit

Yeah they’re cheap because they spy on you to the extent a KGB agent would jizz in their pants.

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Robbo_54@reddit

Yeah about 6 months ago I went to Costco and got a 55inch 4K android tv for £250 it’s insane how cheap they are now, considering my telly before was a Samsung 50inch thing that cost £800 5 years ago

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phatboi23@reddit

Yup, I brought a 40 odd inch 4 TV for the princely sum of £250. Smart functions are pretty much disabled as never given a WiFi password and it's just plugged into my PC and my series s. Damn good TV for playing games on :) And beats the pants off my old 1080p(ish), it had weird issues with overscan, TV from 5+ years ago that was about £350 at the time.

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qtx@reddit

> Boy was I wrong! I picked up a 55" 4k smart TV for £300! Yea but you bought a LED TV, not a QLED, OLED or MiniLED. It's the least best one out of the bunch. Sure you got a 55" 4k smart TV but it's not a good one.

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elchet@reddit

Yeah, an LG OLED 55” will be £1,100 and that’s a “good” tv at that size relative to the spectrum of tv panel technology of today.

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Silver-Appointment77@reddit

Same here. My old trusted tv I bought 2nd hand about 8 years ago died. So I had to order a new one. But was i suprised to get a 32 inch HD smart tv for £139. I was pleasantly surprised.

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thegreedyturtle@reddit

It's definitely at the point where I'm deciding what size I actually need instead of buying the biggest quality one I can afford.

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graygray97@reddit

Btw depending on the quality of the smart part of a smart TV a Roku is a huge improvement for very little, less laggy and better UI than most.

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tarpdetarp@reddit

Better UI but the business model is still selling your data to advertisers. It's the same with pretty much all the TV box makers except Apple.

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graygray97@reddit

Oh yeah not denying that in any way, but as you say it's happening regardless so for the difference in quality I've found its worth the few quid.

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AndyVale@reddit

We got our son a TV for his room as a reward for finishing his GCSEs, he'd wanted one for years. We haven't bought a TV for well over a decade. So I was shocked when we were debating what size would fit the room best without any real consideration for price. I wouldn't quite say the difference was negligible, but it was so far below what we had initially budgeted based on naïve expectations.

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FIREBIRDC9@reddit

This. TV's are insane value. £400 in 2005 got me a 26 inch HD Ready Samsung. £400 in 2017 got me a 55 inch Samsung  Both brand new!

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TheZZ9@reddit

Many many years ago I worked for Rumbelows in the early ninties. A standard known make 21 inch TV was £400. Sony were £430. Today, as others have mentioned, you can get a forty plus inch HD TV for £300. And bearing in mind inflation that's probably a third of the price. *Just checked* A inflation calculator says £400 in 1990 is almost £1200 today, so a quarter of the price! For a vastly better and bigger TV.

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bitofrock@reddit

I was thinking that. Mid nineties I bought Sony Trinitron for my house and it was around £400. 40" telly in the lounge five years ago was £380. 50" in the extension we went a bit mad on and spent a grand, but it's really nice.

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Same_Grouness@reddit

I'd call that the same price, once you factor in the drop in quality programming.

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slade364@reddit

And £400 in 2005 is probably around £700 in purchasing power now.

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obb223@reddit

You didn't get the built in ads in 2005 though!

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Robotica_Daily@reddit

£400 in 2023 will get you a week's shopping and an hour's heating.

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Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit

Not even just real terms, comparable TVs generally have a lower ticket price now

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allgone79@reddit

The newer technology oled tvs are around 1500 quid upwards, all the 4k smart tvs are now "older" technology and are much cheaper.

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elchet@reddit

Yeah the change has been that you can now get a “flat” TV at a large size in the low hundreds. Back when flat screens were new, they cost up to 10x as much. But if you want cutting edge display tech in 2023 then you’ll still pay £1k and up, and you’ll be getting the modern improvements in contrast ratio and colour range, Dolby Vision / Atmos support on top of 4K etc.

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multiarmform@reddit

there isnt a lot of profit on skateboards and parts (trucks, wheels etc) and i remember a deck was around 50 in the 80s, you can still find them today for about 45 and up (tactics.com) depending on the model, pro rider, brand and materials. those limited edition runs are gonna cost ya though

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pepe612@reddit

But if you have a "flat screen telly" you can't be poor amiright?

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Prize-Recognition670@reddit

A movie on VHS in the 80s was £80 to buy. That's £300 in today's money. That's why video rental was so huge. £300 for die hard for two days.

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revzjohnson@reddit

Actually that’s only true without context, because lifespan is considerably shorter than the quality goods of the past. Not to mention, there’s considerable expense to offshoring all manufacturing and ravaging the earth of its resources.

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Prestigious-Ear8095@reddit

TVs are strange one though. They cost a small fortune in the 70s and 80s, but by the late 90s TVs cost pretty much nowt. This is what led to the decline of some pretty major brands like Sharp and JVC and those that survived (like Sony) did so by diversifying. Then in the early to mid noughties, TV prices seemed to triple overnight. Flat Screens and LEDs led a revolution and before we knew it, the cost of a TV had tripled! In fairness they have pretty much steadied off since then.

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mittenkrusty@reddit

But technology has advanced so of course its cheaper, a CRT tv's manufacture cost became not worth it after the price it sold for (and also likely the space it took up to transport and store) Modern tvs are actually very cheap to produce as they are circuitboard based, you are paying for the research costs. Some tech though costs more, I remember buying microwaves for £30 16 years ago and kettles/toasters for £4 each in fact I am sure they were £3 at one point, now a "cheap" microwave is around £60, kettles are around £10.

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selffulfilment@reddit

Highest voted comment literally not answering the question

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Aston_Villa5555@reddit

I remember in 2002 time how proud I was when I bought myself a Gamecube on the week of the UK release, with Rogue Squadron for about £350 which is insane in todays money. It's equivalent to £600+. A modern PS4 is so much less

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PooleyX@reddit

Yeah but that wasn't the question.

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NightGlacier@reddit

You can get a 43 inch 4K TV for around £250. That is insanely cheap.

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swibbles_mcnibbles@reddit

Picked up a 40'' QLED 4k android tv of amazon for £120 on prime day. Insane.

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voice-of-reason_@reddit

Unless it’s cutting edge tech like a GPU in which case they are significantly more expensive (albeit also significantly more powerful).

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1RegularDayOfBarclay@reddit

The question isn’t about ‘real terms’.

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John_Fx@reddit

computers are cheaper

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London-Reza@reddit

Cannabis. £20 a 3.5gram

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ArtoriasBeaIG@reddit

When I used to take drugs I noticed the price of those never changed despite everything else did. I always found that funny cos it felt like a hard counter to the narrative we are being pushed

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qwert5678899@reddit

I purchased 8GB, 1.8ghz Toshiba with dvd player, CD rom for 3k in late 90s. Now its obsolete and for 3k I can get 4 iPhones. Tech changes so fast, not worth investing in

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JoinMyPestoCult@reddit

Video games I guess. My mum paid £59.99 for Street Fighter 2: Championship Edition back in something like 1993. So 20 years ago. Not that I pay that much for games now but some new releases are around that mark.

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ldn-ldn@reddit

£60 in 1993 would be £123.39 today. Imagine paying £123.39 for a game...

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amoryamory@reddit

I wonder if console prices have changed. I can't remember what my N64 or PS2 were. I paid £260 for my switch two years ago

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Prasiatko@reddit

PS2 was around £200ffrom memory but that might have been a wee bit after release.

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LostInTheVoid_@reddit

Totally depends on when you started buying. In the 360 days AAA titles sold new from anywhere from £32.99 to £39.99. PS4 it then rose to £42.99 to £44.99 to £50 by the end of the gen. Now most AAA launch titles are selling for £59.99 + on PS5/XSX/PC. From my perspective, it's only gotten more expensive lol.

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JoinMyPestoCult@reddit

Well the thread asks about prices 25 years ago. So I’d say today’s prices match up to N64 games.

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Waste-Horror-7127@reddit

I haven't bought a new game in years so used 40-50 quid as a benchmark as a holdover from when I was a kid. Always seemed to notice that that was we still about right in shops. I felt like a sit-down when I saw the new Spider-Man for PS5 was 70 quid in Tesco this week.

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iani63@reddit

1993 was 30 years ago, feel old now?

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Ok_Working_9219@reddit

I was 13😂

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ThaiFoodThaiFood@reddit

Nah it was just last decade so only like 10 years ago.

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Jakibx3@reddit

No, no, no... let's stick with 20yrs, then I can still drink and drive (not at the same time)

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ThaiFoodThaiFood@reddit

That's just a saying innit?

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Jakibx3@reddit

Five and drive in the countryside? Or something else? 😅

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Cant-decide-username@reddit

As someone who was born in 1993. Im afraid we are going to have to just accept this guys first answer.

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justananxiougirl@reddit

Hilarious 🤣

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JJY93@reddit

Yeah I feel 30 too

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Sweet-Peanuts@reddit

My beautiful car was born in 1993. She's an immaculate head turner. Nothing wrong the being 30.

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JoinMyPestoCult@reddit

lol oh yes! Old and terrible at maths

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Ok_Working_9219@reddit

SNES in the silver case😂

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Emergency_Mistake_44@reddit (OP)

Good one that, I remember N64 games being £50 each on average.

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Das_Gruber@reddit

Unless you shopped at gameplay.com where the games were £39.99

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LuxuryMustard@reddit

Some N64 games would go as high as £70 in some stores. Turrock I think was about that much on release.

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JoinMyPestoCult@reddit

Yep. I always feel like games today are good value for money considering the massive leaps in quality and content, plus you can get top games for under £20 if you hang on for a bit, plus considering what £50 in the 90s would be equivalent to today!

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Slothjitzu@reddit

Video games are incredibly good value for money IMO. Even buying a brand new AAA game and solely completing the story as fast as possible, you're talking £60 max for a bare minimum of 20 hours of entertainment. Factor in that most games are longer than that, have additional content like side missions, and that some have a lot of in-built replay ability and it's not impossible to get 100 hours out of some games. Then if you're patient and willing to buy second-hand, you might only pay £30 or so just a few months after it gets released.

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alice_op@reddit

I don't usually buy new games that you can complete (usually things like Sims 4, World of Warcraft types that are never ending), but I bought both Hogwarts Legacy and Baldurs Gate 3, both around £60, and had about 120 hours playtime for the first playthrough from both. Each. That's amazing value for money, really.

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Slothjitzu@reddit

I'm not a completionist unless I really *love* a game, but I don't race through either. I bought Hogwarts Legacy for £55 shortly after launch, completed it at around 50/60 hours, then traded it in for like £20odd off another game. 50p an hour is fantastic value for money IMO. Never ending games even moreso, I must have sunk hundreds of hours into Civ 6 and I bought all expansions and vase game for like maybe £50 total?

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Crazyh@reddit

>hundreds of hours into Civ 6 Looks at nearly 2k hours in EU4, terrible game, do not recommend.

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alice_op@reddit

Absolutely, and Civ 6 is really special like that, I bought the complete set on Steam a couple of years ago, when I looked at buying the new "leader pass" it said I already owned it, just have to download. I couldn't believe it included future DLC in what I bought. In today's world of £££ microtransactions and half baked DLC, just giving newly developed DLC to people who bought the complete pack is unfathomable to me.

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super_starmie@reddit

In baldurs gate I'm at almost 60 hours and am only at the start of act 2 Game is massive

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PsychologicalFan7749@reddit

but with the advent of online purchases if you buy a game like fifa, if you dont pay for online add-ons game packs etc then its a pretty shit game compared to before where you'd get full functionality out of the initial purchase.

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JoinMyPestoCult@reddit

Well sure but the majority of games you can get a full good experience at just the buy price. Hopefully too many things don’t go the FIFA way.

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PsychologicalFan7749@reddit

yeah i hope so, i feel for parents because those games just seem like cash cows and parents will be coerced by their kids into buying packs. i've heard of kids chucking thousands into it which is insane!

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DispensingMachine403@reddit

MWIII has entered the chat...

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BenjiTheSausage@reddit

Not to mention development costs, paid £40 for Streets of Rage 2 31 years ago, took a smallish team 6 months to make, pretty sure I paid near the same and certainly less in terms of inflation for Red Dead Redemption 2 which took $540m apparently

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Cleanshirt-buswanker@reddit

Compared to other forms of entertainment you certainly get a lot more hours of use out of it versus going the cinema, an escape room or bowling etc

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Hazz3r@reddit

This is a weird one because they went down in price in the 2000s, a new PS2 or Xbox 360 game was £39.99. They've slowly crept back up since 2010.

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DatsyukesDekes@reddit

ESPN 2k5 football was $15 in the US brand new. It was a huge deal at the time

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b00n3d@reddit

Psx games used to be £29.99 because their main selling point was how cda were significantly cheaper than cartridges. Then you had the platinum collections at £19.99.

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Askduds@reddit

Although only mid-gen, the RRP of the launch games were £45 and £50 in 1995.

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Hazz3r@reddit

That's interesting! I was too young then to be in the know. So is it because of Playstation that the market's appetite for price decreased you think?

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b00n3d@reddit

Nintendo and Sega were charging 50 - 60 quid a game. Even when the Saturn first came out, they were more expensive than ps1 games despite being on cd. Sony literally marketed the ps1 as a cheaper alternative. Also, back then, you had small businesses and independent game shops as well as larger chain stores like GAME, HMV, Virgin Megastores and Electronics Boutique that were all competing against each other.

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Antergaton@reddit

Spot on. There's a lot of history is how prices in the UK worked with video games. It used to be that the medium for their distribution (cartridge) was expensive compared to the CD. Playstation and Saturn came in and drastically reduced those costs, so what was £50-60 for SNES and N64 cartridges became £40-45 for CD. But generally because of emerging internet or magazine sales (where it's just a massive warehouse) those places could offer games at reduced costs to get your business. This mean over time, other highstreet stores and supermarkets would compete with internet and such alike reducing costs even more. I'm guessing a lot of people remember the £30 midnight store rushes for CoD in late 2000s, it was meant to be £55. Even today, online stores still undercut the RRP (just not as much as they used to). It's why many people didn't ever thing digital only would have a future as Sony, MS and Nintendo had a 'EU' RRP price on their digital store fronts, still do. But high streets undercut them by like £10-20. At the start of this gen it happened less for some reason, Amazon for example basically put up games by like £20 when the RRP only increased by £10.

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Askduds@reddit

Cartridges were hugely expensive to make, discs weren't. £30 of that SF2 is probably pure hardware cost.

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ssamshire@reddit

I remember the new Call of Duty’s and FIFA’s costing about £44.99 before they came out (from about 2009-2012), and now the latest FIFA, or EA FC 24, and the new Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3 - is about £69.99 from what I’ve seen.

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genteelblackhole@reddit

Yeah my personal benchmark for the price of a new game is still £39.99 because of that PS2 era.

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CarrowCanary@reddit

£39.99 for the "normal" version, £19.99 for the platinum release.

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patelbadboy2006@reddit

Omg I feel old now, platinum edition.

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BluebirdPEN@reddit

Same. Even at £49.99 I see as “overpriced”. Then you see some over £60 and I think it must be a special edition with extras but nope that’s the standard version. The premium edition is like £80-90 which I can’t fathom.

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International-Elk727@reddit

Yeah but that's still technically base. Because some games for example games like Total War, Cities skyline, stellaris etc etc etc all have sometimes a dozen + £5-20 addons. So even when you pay 50 for a game now if you want complete game you are looking at sometimes upwards of 150-200, makes me pick and choose games with a lot of thought now about how much it will likely cost in the future rather than the base price.

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Britlantine@reddit

And £29.99 for a new Amiga release in the 90s.

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JayR_97@reddit

That explains why there full of microtransactions. Because they know they wont get away with charging £105 as a starting price.

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EeveesGalore@reddit

And DLC which often would have been part of the base game in the past. Also gets around the 'problem' of games going on sale; the game can be discounted to a very enticing price but much of the content is a paid extra that hasn't been discounted or depends on mtx.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

> And DLC which often would have been part of the base game in the past No they wouldn't, they'd have been released as separate "Expansions". Sonic & Knuckles for the Genesis was an additional "Expansion" release to Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

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EeveesGalore@reddit

That's not really comparable. That was a one-off and it functioned as a standalone game. It's super common for games to be released with day 0 paid DLC nowadays. Also what part of the UK received a console called the Genesis?

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glasgowgeg@reddit

> It's super common for games to be released with day 0 paid DLC nowadays Which games launched with paid DLC expansions this year so far? >Also what part of the UK received a console called the Genesis? It was never a console I owned, [so I just went with the name on the box art from Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_%26_Knuckles).

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EeveesGalore@reddit

> Or are you conflating full DLC expansions with cosmetic microtransactions? You're right, cosmetic microtransactions are super common but day 1 DLC story expansions seem to have gone out of fashion a bit. Some publishers also refer to bundles of cosmetics as 'DLC' so it's harder to check at a glance. Complaints on Reddit on the subject seemed to peak about 10 years ago. I went on 'Popular new releases' on Steam and just clicked on a few of the more expensive games released in the last 6 months. Every one I clicked on had extra cosmetics that could be bought. The majority did not appear to have day 1 DLC (the release dates are shown separately so you can tell if it was released years later which is fair enough IMO) but there was [some RPG which did](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2250600/Disgaea_7_Vows_of_the_Virtueless/). I can't comment on how fleshed out the base game is. Not sure if it even counts as AAA, it is expensive but it's probably quite niche.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

>The majority did not appear to have day 1 DLC (the release dates are shown separately so you can tell if it was released years later which is fair enough IMO) but there was some RPG which did That's an example of a game which was not released on PC until several months after the console release, so more of a the DLC was released later on console, but by the time it got a PC release the DLC was released alongside it. Console release was January 2023, DLC was March 2023, and PC release was October 2023.

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EeveesGalore@reddit

Fair enough. It's good to see that trend has died out.

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MrPatch@reddit

Hardly common though

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glasgowgeg@reddit

> My mum paid £59.99 for Street Fighter 2: Championship Edition back in something like 1993 Can be confirmed as well, go to page 627 of the 1993/1994 Argos catalogue [here](https://archive.org/details/argos-autumn-winter-1993-1994/page/626/mode/2up?view=theater), and you'll see Street Fighter 2 listed for £59.99 for the Super Nintendo. Adjusted for inflation, that's the equivalent of £123.39.

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trees-for-breakfast@reddit

How did you find that?

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glasgowgeg@reddit

There's a website with old Argos catalogues https://retromash.com/argos/

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saigon2010@reddit

I was workingin dixons when it came out, we were selling it for £69.99 I think which at the time I thought was absolutely crazy

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turbochimp@reddit

I paid £60 for Quake in the 90's!

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Superbead@reddit

What platform? I got it in 1996 for DOS and I'm sure I remember it being 'general CD-ROM price' which then was about £35-£45

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turbochimp@reddit

PC CD-ROM, PC World Cribbs Causeway Bristol, last copy on the shelf. Went halves with a mate whose Dad worked for Borland or something and had the ability to duplicate discs (CD burners being bleeding edge and very expensive for us around the time)

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Superbead@reddit

Wow, good memory. I honestly can't remember what the RRP was, but we weren't the sort of family who was casually throwing £60 at games (even £40 was an ask), so I'm not sure. Unless I waxed a load of birthday money on it or something. Either way, it was an amazing experience. I think I had the first episode as shareware off a cover disc and managed to get hold of the full game not long after completing it. I still play it every now and again.

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turbochimp@reddit

I usually waited for the cheap reissues, especially point and clicks like beneath a steel sky & DOTT. No idea why quake was so expensive at the time but you're right they were usually £40 or so. We were hosting a Lan party that day so it was "essential"

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SpudFire@reddit

Playstation games were a lot cheaper though, new PS1 games were more like £30. They've tended to go up by around £10 per generation.

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Percinho@reddit

Nah, I've got a Jonah Lomu Rugby for PS1 at home with £49.99 on the cover.

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Affectionate_Comb_78@reddit

Making video games is a much bigger undertaking nowadays though so it's naturally more expensive (although the market is also bigger). I just did some quick googling; the original FF7 listed ~400 people in its credits in 1997, about 1,000 for FF16 this year.

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slotbadger@reddit

The RRP was generally £49.99 - [here's a Toys R Us advert](https://www.reddit.com/r/psx/comments/ykwksi/toys_r_us_ads_from_19971998/) from 97/98.

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ooooomikeooooo@reddit

Everyone had a chipped PS1. I got my games for £5 from the car boot sale.

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SpudFire@reddit

Except for me. Mine got damaged during the chipping process so not only did it end up not being chipped but it also refused to see any memory cards afterward. I had to leave it running overnight to carry on with my progress in games.

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oldspicehorse@reddit

I remember ps1 games for between £10-£20 and ps2 starting around £20.

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Piccadil_io@reddit

No. Your memory is bad.

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oldspicehorse@reddit

I won't dispute that. I was also a child so wasn't paying out of my own money. Time definitely can distort memories.

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Slight_Armadillo_227@reddit

Not new. The Platinum games were £20 new, almost everything else was more expensive.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

> I remember ps1 games for between £10-£20 "Platinum" games were £20, brand new games were absolutely not that cheap.

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Slothjitzu@reddit

You definitely don't, not at launch. You're likely thinking of either second hand games or those that are already several months/a year old. Which would be more accurate, but the correct comparison today isn't £60, it's like £30.

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Ok-Discount3131@reddit

A Game Cartridge was more expensive to manufacture than a CD. N64 games were more expensive than PS1 games.

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Steakers@reddit

I distinctly remember Metal Gear Solid being £40 at release and that being a big deal.

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Key-Original-225@reddit

Hmmmm, you have to consider certain factors. Inflation being one. Another, is that cartridge production was fairly costly in comparison to disc printing or server hosting the download. So games then were more expensive than now if properly compared.

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JoinMyPestoCult@reddit

Yes I did think of inflation, considering that, games are better value. But inflation is an issue for everything in this thread.

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Capable_Tadpole@reddit

I don’t really agree with this. I used to pick up brand new games on PS3 for about £30-35 back in the day. The new FIFA was £60 for the basic version.

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JoinMyPestoCult@reddit

I’ve literally shown how new Street Fighter 30 years ago was around the same price as new Street Fighter now. Of course you’re gonna find price differences all over the place but generally £40-60 games in the 90s and now are accepted as what you might pay for a new game.

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PigHillJimster@reddit

In the middle to late 1980s games on cassette for the Commodore 64, Spectrum, BBC etc. were typically £9.99 for "big release" games and £2.99 for budget games.

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LoquatOk966@reddit

You could go to a car boot sale and pick up C64 games on cassette for under a quid. I had a huge library of games bought purely second hand.

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MrPatch@reddit

'Second hand', someone with a dual tape deck and a photocopier at work was making dollar.

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Cautious-Tomorrow564@reddit

This says more about Street Fighter than it does about wider video game trends IMO.

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JoinMyPestoCult@reddit

Sure there were s couple of games really up there in terms of price but a lot of Mega Drive new releases would come in at £39.99 or so. You cans be paying that now. I also paid £44.99 for Streets of Rage 2. I was big on fighting games lol.

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Flagrath@reddit

Yeah, that’s starting to catch up to us these days. It’s not exactly sustainable.

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KeepOnTrippinOn@reddit

I remember buying zx spectrum games. £1.99 for shit budget games, £2.99 for decent budget games then £7.99 for full price games from the likes of Ocean and US Gold.

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Mercurial_Synthesis@reddit

Virtua Racer for the Mega Drive was £70 when it was released. It had that fancy graphics chip as part of the cartridge but £70 back then was an insane amount when you think about it, and it only had 3 tracks to race on.

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JoinMyPestoCult@reddit

Neo Geo games held a near mythical status in high school as we heard the games cost about £120. But nobody owned a Neo Geo and they seemed to insanely out of reach.

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DangerShart@reddit

https://www.game.co.uk/en/street-fighter-6-steelbook-edition-2907559

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5im0n5ay5@reddit

SIM-only mobile phone contracts. I'm actually paying slightly less now than I did 23 (sorry, didn't have one before then) years ago.

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ProfessorDemon@reddit

Sadly PAYG seems to be fizzling out or becoming more restrictive

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5im0n5ay5@reddit

I don't know if it's technically PAYG, but I've been on a rolling monthly contract for about a decade, and recently switched from one to a new provider I'd never heard of before, saving me a couple of quid a month (but I did it because the reception of the other provider was poor in my area)... Texts and calls are unlimited; data is more than I can use... So I don't see any evidence that it's fizzling out or becoming more restrictive.

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lotsum20@reddit

I was going to say mobile phone contracts / monthly tariffs. Came across an old One2One bill the other day. They were also £25~ a month.

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opopkl@reddit

Price has stayed the same, but the amount of data you get has gone up considerably. £10 for unlimited calls and 100Gb data, now.

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Affectionate_Comb_78@reddit

I remember paying £10 a month for like 100 minutes and 100 texts. No data. Unlimited texts on Sundays though!

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TheZZ9@reddit

I remember the early car phones, way early days. I knew someone who would arrive to pick someone up but phoned them from his car and let it ring once then hung up, to let them know he was outside. That one ring, not even answered, cost him 50p a time.....

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patelbadboy2006@reddit

Double minutes on weekends and evenings.

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UncleFred-@reddit

Come to Canada where £10 got you 1GB of Data in 2007, and £10 still gets you 1GB of data in 2023.

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opopkl@reddit

Oof.

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Namiweso@reddit

I remember when £10 got me 100mb of data and 300 texts. Hell I remember when £10 didn't get me a set amount of data and it was charged per megabyte until it ran out.

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Serious_Escape_5438@reddit

20 years ago it was just calls and texts, neither unlimited

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turbo_dude@reddit

I wonder how long it took for consumers to pay off the stupidly over inflated 3G licenses that companies massively overbid for?

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k_rocker@reddit

The cost of prescriptions has gone down. I remember going to the clinic with my mum and she had to pay about £8. Now it’s free. Thanks Scottish government 🙏

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CliffordThRed@reddit

Death

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UniquePotato@reddit

Sim only deals. If anything cheaper. I pay £8 for unlimited calls/texts/16gb don’t think we even got data back then beyond WAP.

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ProfessorDemon@reddit

I remember decimating all my mobile credit trying to access a website on my flip phone, really pissed my parents off. Now I pay £40 per year for 5gb and unlimited calls/texts.

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alice_op@reddit

That's a good deal, who's that with? I just switched to Smarty for £6 for 6gb, but to be fair with working from home I rarely use any data. Satnav and music doesn't use that much on the go.

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Remote_Echidna_8157@reddit

£8 for 6GB isn-t a good deal, you can get 30~100GB for £8~10 from the networks that piggyback off the same network as the mainstream companies

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UniquePotato@reddit

Its also Smarty

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Serious_Escape_5438@reddit

I remember not even WAP being a thing for the very first phones. And when it did come out wondering who'd ever want internet on their phone because it was so shit.

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UniquePotato@reddit

Lol, I remember first time I used it and thinking it was like a crap Ceefax.

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Serious_Escape_5438@reddit

I must not have known anyone with Vodafone. But yes, even texts cost money so we did a lot of things like missed calls so we didn't have to pay.

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AffectionateComb6664@reddit

OP where are you from? We called it "Non-uniform day" (Hampshire) but other schools not too far away called it Mufty Day

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reddit_is_rubbish@reddit

Mufti day for me, I was in Somerset, and I certainly wasn't paying £1 for it. I don't think the school could have done it as there was a lot of poverty in the area so people wouldnt have been able to do it creating bullying.

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Awordofinterest@reddit

Pretty sure ours was 50p, and there was atleast a couple of times I wore uniform. What ever happened to that money anyway? I don't ever remembering them saying it was going toward a charity of any kind.

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reddit_is_rubbish@reddit

My guess is piss up for the teachers, from the teachers I know now I can image them all getting legless in the pub after mufti day, haha

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Awordofinterest@reddit

They waited til after school for you? Pretty sure ours fucked off for a cheeky couple at lunch.

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EmFan1999@reddit

We had to pay £1 in Somerset but there were always those that didn’t have the £1 and did it anyway, and those that forgot and wore uniform 😳

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Beefcakeandgravy@reddit

Same, in our school they'd send one of the kids round to collect the £'s off the tutor group and they'd only get about half what they should because everyone "forgot" to bring the cash and promised it next week. Hardly anyone who "forgot" ever did pay up.

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Imlostandconfused@reddit

Our school had teachers literally stationed at the entrance, armed with collection boxes and stickers that said 'I've paid my £1 for (insert charity).' It was weirdly aggressive and honestly quite disgusting how they accosted kids, especially since a huge percentage of the school were from poor families. If you didn't pay your £1 or didn't have your sticker on display, various teachers would essentially interrogate you throughout the day. My friends and I took a stand as we got older and just came in uniform because it was fucked up. And they still tried to get money out of us when we were in uniform. Their aggressiveness honestly made me think it wasn't really for charity at all but it's not exactly a lot of money even with a school full of kids so I don't really understand it.

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RemoteCareful7304@reddit

Mufti day in NZ too.

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Ha-Ur-Ra-Sa@reddit

Came to comment the same thing, never heard it referred to as "Own Clothes Day". It's also "Non-uniform day" in the Midlands.

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ZookeepergameOk2759@reddit

Mufti where I’m from in the midlands

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

Yeah mufti in Staffordshire. And it was £1.

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happyspanners94@reddit

Mufti for me in Surrey too

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Ulfgeirr88@reddit

Yep, same in my west Midlands county. I remember it costing more than a quid, though. I can't remember how much exactly, but I'm completely sure it was more than £1

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foxfunk@reddit

I've also heard it as "home clothes day" in the midlands.

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Icy_Place_5785@reddit

Was waiting for this answer (!) Had wondered if the kids around me had just been mishearing/mispronouncing “own clothes”

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foxfunk@reddit

When I was at school it was always Mufti day, but then when I worked in a school everyone was referring to it as "home clothes" day, and I had the same thought as yourself haha

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KatVanWall@reddit

I’m from the Midlands and we always called it Own Clothes Day. My daughter’s school calls it Non-Uniform Day though, and when I’m talking about it nowadays I tend to say Mufti Day!

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Emergency_Mistake_44@reddit (OP)

Born and raised South London myself where it was called Own Clothes Day at my school. Currently in Kent where it's called the same. I have heard of Mufty Day though between both locations. I've heard of Jeans Day too where you get to wear, well, jeans for £1.

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insomnimax_99@reddit

Yeah, fellow South Londoner and it was called Own Clothes Day, also remember Jeans for Genes day where we’d come in wearing own clothes and Jeans to raise money for people with genetic diseases. Although for me both costed £2

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connectfourvsrisk@reddit

And Orange for Muscular Dystrophy. When our local Northern Irish school sent that email out they quickly had to send another one out saying that they realised although UK wide it was orange kids could wear whatever they wanted here!

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jelly10001@reddit

Volunteered for Muscular Dystrophy UK a few years ago and one of the first tasks I was given was to send letters to people in Northern Ireland inviting them to 'join Team Orange.' Unfortunately I didn't feel confident enough at the time to speak up and point out the problem with that...

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connectfourvsrisk@reddit

To be fair a large portion of the population would be absolutely fine with it!

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EvandeReyer@reddit

LOL awkward

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connectfourvsrisk@reddit

I don’t think they’ve ever sent a follow up email so fast! I’d love to know who pointed it out though.

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Dadsentmetothemooon@reddit

It was Mufti day for me in Kent and East Sussex back in the 90s and 00s

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Icy_Squirrel5823@reddit

SE Londoner here who left school not too long ago and we called it Own Clothes Day and it costed £1.

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BennyInThe18thArea@reddit

South London here (Sutton to be precise) and it’s Mufti day here.

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summinspicy@reddit

Went to school in Kent - Non-Uniform day

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Viper_4D@reddit

As someone who just left school in SW London, I've only used own clothes day but have heard Mufti day.

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usernameinmail@reddit

SE London, we had non-uniform day

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Viper_4D@reddit

Wierd, I guess it just goes to show the linguistic variety in this tiny country.

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usernameinmail@reddit

Oh definitely, the land of baps, muffins, cobs and barm cakes

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135622@reddit

Me and my wife called it tag day, both from Kent

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EvandeReyer@reddit

WTH I will fight all you South Londoners, it was always mufti day in sunny SW London!!! Richmond massive!

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wildgoldchai@reddit

East London here. We called in non uniform day. Interesting

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breakbeatx@reddit

That was specifically jeans for genes day, a charity thing

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MelodicGene9283@reddit

I've only known it as tag day (no idea why). My children think it's weird. I'm in the south east.

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FulaniLovinCriminal@reddit

> Mufty Day *Mufti. It's an armed forces word, originally from Arabic, I believe.

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ChipCob1@reddit

A teacher told us it stood for Manchester United Football Team International...part of my brain still thinks it's true!

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visitorsfromspace@reddit

I grew up in NZ and we also called it mufti day. How did it end up crossing over from arabic?

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firthy@reddit

Always known it as Mufti Day

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Omar_88@reddit

Mufti is a title given to islamic jurists. Time to go down the wikipedia rabbit hole

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himit@reddit

I thiiiink it's because the soldiers would wear the much cooler arabic clothing on their free days, and thus dressing 'like a mufti', and thus it became mufti day. What did wikipedia say?

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MildlyAgreeable@reddit

*you’re* a mufti

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sillydog80@reddit

Wanted to put a curb joke here but the times they are a-terrible.

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MadTux@reddit

Grew up in Berkshire, and "own clothes day" seems to ring a distant bell for me ..

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saucy_angel@reddit

Non Uniform Day in Hertfordshire in the 90s. Really confused when I joined an employer based in Surrey in 2003 who had mufti Fridays!

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AffectionateComb6664@reddit

We just called them casual Fridays!

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Tazzyb@reddit

Our school called it own clothes day (West Midlands)

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twopeasandapear@reddit

Well call it "casual clothes day" up north scotland.

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tropicnights@reddit

I reckon Mufty Day is more of an age thing. We used to call it Mufty until Middle School (mid-nineties), where it became Non-Uniform Day.

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minstead@reddit

Not just an age thing, I think it's more regional/school by school. When I was in school (2000s & 2010s) It was called both Mufty and Home Clothes Day.

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tropicnights@reddit

Really? Well there you go. Fwiw I grew up not too far from the Hampshire border so OP could be on to something there!

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No-Dance2041@reddit

Went to school in Hampshire, it was mufty day

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welshcake82@reddit

Worked in schools in Hampshire, it’s still Mufty Day now.

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Clockportal@reddit

North Wales here, we also called it 'own clothes day'. As well as 'diwrnod dillad eich hun' which is the direct Welsh translation.

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Dros-ben-llestri@reddit

'diwrnod mufti' down south, although I think it should be 'mwffti'..

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AffectionateComb6664@reddit

How is that said out of interest? I don't speak Welsh at all and wouldn't know how to start

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Clockportal@reddit

Due-r-nod dee-llad a-ch -heen. Pronouncing the ll like Llandudno and Ch like pig sound

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DoctorSkelly@reddit

Wow, we called it "Mufti Day" from very nearby on the Isle of Wight

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zaGoblin@reddit

My school calls it shag day

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IllustriousLimit8473@reddit

We used “Dress Down Day” Non Uniform Day and Wear Your Own Clothes day.

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Cam_Sco@reddit

Scotland here (Glasgow), was always called "dress as you please day".

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TinyDemon000@reddit

Thats so weird, thats what we call it in New Zealand. We also call unmarked police, mufti cars. Never knew the UK used that term

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Maleficent-Ebb1323@reddit

Where we are we call it "day of dressing oneself in clothes not of the usual regulated style for education purposes"...

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absolutetwat69@reddit

I called it a mufti day in Aldershot, weird it didn't extend to the whole of Hampshire

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LondonKiwi66@reddit

Mufti day too at my school in New Zealand.

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FoldingStarAttire@reddit

>Mufty Day Every day is Mufty day

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WickedMIL@reddit

I grew up in the West Midlands and we (both other kids and teachers) called it 'wear-what-you-like day'!

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super_starmie@reddit

We always called it Civvies Day here (East Anglia)

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UnnecessaryStep@reddit

Mufti day here. But I grew up next to an army base

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EmphyZebra@reddit

JHQ or Celle?

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UnnecessaryStep@reddit

Nah, UK base

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EmphyZebra@reddit

Fair lol

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downtown_lights@reddit

Dress down day here in Scotland

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P2K13@reddit

> Non-uniform day Also this in the north east

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magicalthinker@reddit

Ours was mufty day and we were in Hampshire too.

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Tricky_Parsnip_6843@reddit

We called it civies day (Canada).

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early_cruise@reddit

I thought Canada would be the same as the US in that you always wore your own clothes is that not the case?

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Tricky_Parsnip_6843@reddit

We have private school options as well. Once a month, you can wear civilian clothing.

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Past-Educator-6561@reddit

I'm North West England and in my memory 'Own Clothes Day' is a more casual name for it, probably was used in primary school. In secondary it was 'Non-Uniform Day' but colloquially we'd use both phrases. Mufti Day is what my Mum would call it... Old people tings..

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ThaiFoodThaiFood@reddit

People at our school used to call it "no clothes day" accompanied by a shit eating grin.

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hxlywatershed@reddit

I also grew up in Hampshire but gave it the long title of “non school uniform day”

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AffectionateComb6664@reddit

Haha!

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smushs88@reddit

Grew up in Cape Town, used to be called civvies day there.

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Top-Hat1126@reddit

How much 'you've been framed' pay you for your funny videos

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googooachu@reddit

Well they pay £0 now as it’s no longer being made lol

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

It was never the same after Harry Hill took it on and they got rid of the studio audience.

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tastethegoodlife@reddit

I think the presenter was a huge factor in how popular the show was, when it was successful in the 90s I always though Jeremy Beadle had a little hand in it.

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DirtOk225@reddit

I see what you did there.

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dedido@reddit

I see what you did there...

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h00dman@reddit

Airing clips off YouTube as well felt like cheating.

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Justboy__@reddit

And all the American clips

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Askduds@reddit

The American shows all did the same with them too tbf.

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PooleyX@reddit

You're kidding. Harry Hill was absolutely hilarious.

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googooachu@reddit

The Golden Era!

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robbodagreat@reddit

Harry hill made it better

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Top-Hat1126@reddit

Yeah but from 1980s to 2022, still just £250

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Pins-N-Needles_@reddit

Thankfully

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oldspicehorse@reddit

Thank god for that

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BriarcliffInmate@reddit

Here's a fun fact from someone who worked on it (i.e. me), they were (as of 2012) still paying about £100k a year in fees for clips sent in. Apparently at its peak they were paying out about £1m. The other thing people don't realise is that once you get paid £250 you have to hand over copyright forever and they can use it as much as we want. We were still using 1980s footage (with the date blurred out) in the 2010s.

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Waste-Horror-7127@reddit

Do you sign away the clip being used by other shows too? You've Been Framed always had a load of American clips, so I always wondered how the rights worked. Like are people in the US watching America's Funniest Home Videos and seeing the odd UK clip in the montages?

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TheZZ9@reddit

Did they get a licence to use it forever or did they actually get the Copyright and could stop the original owner from putting it on Youtube or selling it somewhere else?

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Thestilence@reddit

Imagine paying £250 for a tiktok clip.

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jazzyb88@reddit

I can beat that. What about all the companies that pay influencers for a video on Instagram. Easily £1k+ for a post.

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Britlantine@reddit

"Come dine with me" has had £1k as the prize for decades now.

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No-Establishment4222@reddit

A bump of cocaïne

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yourdarkmaster@reddit

What is a Own cloths day and why does it cost money

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leeweesquee@reddit

Wages

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Ok-Morning-6911@reddit

Maybe not fully 'consistent' but slow to rise - taxi fares? 20 years ago a taxi home from a night out was 4-5 quid in my town. Now it's still only 7.

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Jaded_Wrangler_4151@reddit

Fuck I wish taxis were 8-10 aud. Pretty sure the fare start at that at this point. It bonkers over here

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Ok-Morning-6911@reddit

to be fair, I only live 2.5 kilometres from the centre, whereas I imagine over there distances are much bigger?

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Jaded_Wrangler_4151@reddit

I mean sure but a 1km ride is 8$ minimum. I paid upwards of 100 for a hald hour ride

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BenBMTH@reddit

Manners… they cost nothing

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TinMan242@reddit

I guess video games. They’ve recently started slowly going up but you’re still expected to pay similar amount

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anywineismywine@reddit

The tooth fairy still leaves a pound, that was a pleasant surprise.

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Affectionate-Boot-12@reddit

I used to get 50p in my younger days. My wife gave our two £20 for the first, £10 for the second and £5 for the rest. I’m being absolutely robbed!

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anywineismywine@reddit

Jeez!!!!! You’ll end up in the workhouse at that rate!

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InfectedWashington@reddit

You kiddin’ me? You lift up that pillow and you find out kids these days got card readers.

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anywineismywine@reddit

My children don’t.

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txakori@reddit

The tooth fairy used to leave me a Worther’s Original. It is a miracle I still have all my teeth, tbh.

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YlvaTheWolf@reddit

Pretty sure I used to only get 50p for mine about 15ish years ago. Now I'm just sad

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anywineismywine@reddit

Oh no! As a mum, I am really sorry for making you sad! Dm me your address, I’m sure I can have a word with the tooth fairy for you ❤️

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YlvaTheWolf@reddit

Aww you're too kind. It's okay, I'm sure the tooth fairy has her reasons!

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anywineismywine@reddit

You’re a sweetheart. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to have a word with her! My son was bothered that she didn’t leave an apple 🍎 last time 😂

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YlvaTheWolf@reddit

Like a whole apple? I've never heard that before 😂

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anywineismywine@reddit

Lol yeah!! And he was very specific about it being a big Green apple - his reasoning was that apples are good for your teeth 😂 I thought we’ll I’d rather him request an apple than more money 😂

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YlvaTheWolf@reddit

Get him into the healthy habits now while he's impressionable 😂😂

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anywineismywine@reddit

That good old child conditioning 😆

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darybrain@reddit

Tooth fairy was always part of the striking unions in my day.

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anywineismywine@reddit

Oh no :( did they not make it round at all? Or was it a reduced work load?

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darybrain@reddit

Total coincidence of course, but every time on those days the Tooth Fairy was striking so I got nothing. Apparently unions had agreed to not fulfil any backlog of requests. Better luck next time. Also, the Tooth Fairy wasn't Indian so probably wouldn't come around to our house anyway.

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anywineismywine@reddit

What? Does India not have The Tooth Fairy?? Also, I’m sorry that you didn’t get anything, I hope you weren’t too upset as a kid.

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richkeogh@reddit

it left 20p in my day

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anywineismywine@reddit

Wow did she? When was that?

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didndonoffin@reddit

80p ago

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anywineismywine@reddit

Lol 😆

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richkeogh@reddit

in the 1980s - although there may well have been an additional exchange rate operating over our house specifically.

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anywineismywine@reddit

Ahh the tooth fairy only started operating at our house in the 90’s, prices would have gone up I imagine due the the crash of 87.

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richkeogh@reddit

I think when the UK withdrew from the ERM in 1992 tooth inflation was severely impacted

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anywineismywine@reddit

Ah yes, tut tut such a shame

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Izwe@reddit

Ditto!

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UndulatingUnderpants@reddit

Wish I knew this before I was dishing out fivers for a tooth!

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opopkl@reddit

6d. when I was young.

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anywineismywine@reddit

Was that earlier than 25 - 30 years ago? If not the tooth fairy wasn’t being very fair!

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opopkl@reddit

It was in pre-decimalisation days.

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anywineismywine@reddit

Just wanted to check! Sixpence sounds like a sweet deal back in the day!

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opopkl@reddit

I believe it was. I think a Mars bar was 5d around then, and they were bigger than they are now.

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

That's 5p in today's money so it's still a rip by today's standard.

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anywineismywine@reddit

Isn’t that a literal conversation? I thought you could get a chippy tea for sixpence?

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

Back when old money was in use you could, but inflation has happened since then.

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opopkl@reddit

I feel that chip shop inflation is much greater than national nflation.

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anywineismywine@reddit

Ahh right so in real terms that’s more like £2.00? Today assuming you just wanted a bag of chips?

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HarassedPatient@reddit

Bag o' chips was sixpence when I were little, but you'd not be getting fish with it. If you only had thruppence they'd do you a little bag with a few chips and the scraps though.

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opopkl@reddit

Small bag 6d, large bag 9d.

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anywineismywine@reddit

Love me some fish bits (scraps) Thanks for sharing your memory, so would you say my estimate regards worth was correct?

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HarassedPatient@reddit

It depends on what you mean by chippy tea - to my mind it implies something more than just chips, a thruppenny sausage or fishcake perhaps. So perhaps 9d for a 'proper' tea (although as all property is theft that probably implies it was actually ruthless exploitation of the downtrodden working class by exploitative chip shop bourgeoisie )

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HarassedPatient@reddit

Eh - 6d = 2.5p 5p is a shilling (12d)

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

Ah shit you're right

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Legitimate_Junket_45@reddit

My child’s wobbly tooth fell out at their grandparents house. The tooth fairy at their house left £20, that upped the game and we’ve been paying £10 ever since.

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anywineismywine@reddit

They must hate you and long for your poverty and ruin. there is no alternative thought process on this. The TF brings our kids a pound and a toothbrush and toothpaste when they lose their first tooth, it’s a pound with an apple thereafter.

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Nickibee@reddit

Jesus, she’s £2 in Bristol…flash bitch!

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damned-n-doomed@reddit

She left my 6 year old cousin a fiver the other week. 15 years ago I was getting a quid. Tight bastard.

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anywineismywine@reddit

Bloody hell! With cost of living I’m tempted to pull out my adult teeth at that price!

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creamyclear@reddit

Weed and LSD.

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Content-Damage8406@reddit

Truck mounted cranes like Jian were equivalent to a Sydney house price in 1998. They are still the same , but you can’t buy a house for the same money any more.

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King_MonkeyZ@reddit

Mobile phones. I remember looking at some brick of a Nokia phone in the local O2 shop and being amazed that it was £1000. The next best thing is probably Freddos, although not exactly the same price (20p inflation). And you do get less chocolate but it is what it is

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All_within_my_hands@reddit

The Costco *hotdog and a soda* deal has famously remained the same price since its inception in the 80s. Now admittedly we've not had Costco here that long but still well over a decade.

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Prasiatko@reddit

Doesn't that mean it was initially a rather expensive hotdog?

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All_within_my_hands@reddit

Accounting for inflation the original price equates to about £3. For a large hotdog and unlimited soda. So no, not expensive at all.

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turbochimp@reddit

The chief exec famously told a fellow board member if he tried to put the price of hot dogs up he'd shoot him in the face.

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Jaded_Wrangler_4151@reddit

Chief exec(utioner)

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anywineismywine@reddit

It’s the calm and measured approach I love

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subbie2002@reddit

But the only approach I’d accept!

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anywineismywine@reddit

Either way they didn’t want to find out if he would carry through on his threat.

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LectureAfter8638@reddit

More like Exec Chef

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evil_chumlee@reddit

It works though. I'm in the US and I'll make it a point to go to Costco to get the combo for punch. Then I leave with $200 of groceries.

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Killzoiker@reddit

Technically it’s gotten cheaper due to inflation, so any examples here will have reduced in price in real terms

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getthatoutofhere@reddit

The question isn't "Accounting for inflation, what's the same price as 25 years ago?" Why is inflation suddenly hamfisted into every conversation? It's like people first learnt the word last year and feel like they've only just understood what it represents.

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captainpink@reddit

Getting more expensive slower than other things is not the same as becoming cheaper. Only lowering the price results in something being cheaper.

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DispensingMachine403@reddit

Soft drink on its own is now£1.20. its a if they want you to buy the hot dog combo

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Killzoiker@reddit

I imagine they do, economies of scale will play massively at this level, so offering a combo will likely net more profit than just a soft drink on its own.

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obliviious@reddit

Pretty sure they put that up recently.

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All_within_my_hands@reddit

Nope.

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obliviious@reddit

It was £2 last time I went in.

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All_within_my_hands@reddit

You are mistaken.

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obliviious@reddit

Absolutely not. But since you have my eyes and memory you must be right!

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Maxvy@reddit

Yeah I literally just bought a hotdog meal yesterday it was £1.50 for the dog and drink. Pizza slices are £1.99 if you’re thinking of that?

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obliviious@reddit

Well just I was in it was £2 turns out it was probably a temporary change of product due to stock. Thankyou for not going mental like the other guy.

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All_within_my_hands@reddit

Your mistaken memory. Do you not think if Costco had increased the price, something they have very vocally said they would **never** do over and over, that there would be some coverage of it happening online? I look forward to you correcting the record next time you go in and see the price is still the same as it always was.

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obliviious@reddit

Not sure why you can't respond to me, but all I said was I saw it at a higher price and you got arsey about it.

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All_within_my_hands@reddit

I'm neither being an arse nor did you see it at a higher price. Did you even look at the link you posted? It was a different product.

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GreenPL8@reddit

Yes but the quality has gone down and they stopped selling polish dogs.

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BriarcliffInmate@reddit

It was a major part of why they changed from Coke to Pepsi products, because Pepsi was giving them a better deal in terms of fees for the syrups for the drinks. It allowed them to keep the costs low.

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blainsapain@reddit

Costco's been here for about 30 years :)

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Robtimus_prime89@reddit

Costco UK opened in 1993

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anywineismywine@reddit

Im sorry to upset you, I specifically remember being at a house party and one of the lads scammed everyone saying he would go and get Costco pizza, but instead pocketed the cash and brought back oven pizza from his house. That was in 2004 :(

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All_within_my_hands@reddit

Why would your utterly irrelevant story about pizza upset me?

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anywineismywine@reddit

Pmsl my bad I just reread your post and thought you said Costco had been here for a decade, but you said well over a decade. Anyway, I hoped you liked my irrelevant pizza story, I have a ton more!

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Reasonable-Phase-681@reddit

Photo assistants.

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SnooLobsters8265@reddit

There’s an independent cinema near me which has been £4.99 since it opened in 1994. Sadly, they have had to put them up to £5.99 this last couple of months but it’s still an absolute steal!

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Fair_Comparison_2324@reddit

Skateboards

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jussyjoe@reddit

A 50p mix up.(you get less than 25 years ago but the price is the same.)

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Parapolikala@reddit

I'm going through my dad's old stuff rn and found the HP agreement for their first TV from 1977. It cost them slightly under £350.

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joculator@reddit

You can still get a cheap flight from NYC to Orlando for around $250. The price hasn't moved much in over 25 years.

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Plenty-Ad-6927@reddit

Getting the clap still costs the same.

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JackSpyder@reddit

cocaine.

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Significant-Math6799@reddit

I don't actually think there is anything that is the same price. I was 17, 25 years ago and was buying a lot of my own stuff. Maybe you could compare Primark prices with Miss Selfridge or Clarks shoes prices but the quality isn't on the same level. You could argue some foods are the same price but actually they're not. Foods have gone down in volume, when I was 17 you could pick up a bag of crisps which were around 50g. I don't buy crisps anymore (they seem to make my weight go up if I even smell a crisp!) but they were 29g last time I did check. 99p cornets back then were actually 99p and 89p without a chocolate flake. I was with my sister and nieces last summer and to buy the twins two "99p flakes" set her back close to £10! I thought she'd been done and was about to complain but I noticed the price listing on the outside of the van. £4.50 an ice cream! Back when I was 17, a sandwich was around £1.50 to £3 if it was a "posh" sandwich. I think Pret may have pushed the boat and asked £3.50 for their Club sandwich but that was one of the few chain gastro-sandwich type shops and everywhere else aimed closer to £1. Benjis (anyone remember that?!) would have quite a few sandwich options around the £1 mark. Mc Donalds had hamburgers for 89p (actually I think they may be the same price?) and cheeseburgers for 99p. An ice cream sundae was 99p and an apple pie with ice cream and caramel sauce was £1.50 though I think those may have started being sold a few years after, but I could be wrong. Bus fares were 50p or there abouts. I think it may have been 25p for a child. I had a travel pass and I think it was just shy of £10 for the week for all London buses, trains and tubes, zones 1-4. I don't even want to remember how much they cost now! Although the rules are slightly different now; you can use the hopper service and get quite a far distance on not a lot. But even that fare would easily pay for an entire day and maybe two days on the bus 25 years ago. Toilets which required money used to be 20p and now seem to all be 50p, they were no cleaner back then though. The inflation on that didn't do anything to pay for decent cleaning products or make people be more respectful in their usage. So in answer to your question? I can't think of anything. Yes there are replications of things that were available back then, but today's version is not the same quality in those situations. I know recycling fabrics is very important but the quality of the secondary fabrics let's down the principal of the ideas and what you end up with is not anywhere near the same quality of what used to be made 25 years ago.

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ButterMeAnotherSlice@reddit

Freedom.

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Jackster22@reddit

The trolly is still only a quid.

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Geordieguy@reddit

Our politicians seems just as cheap as ever.

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daern2@reddit

Not if you're paying their bills they're not, I'm afraid...! https://www.statista.com/chart/17547/short-history-of-mp-pay-rises-uk/

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TheZZ9@reddit

Interesting that if you compare MP salaries to the average GP salary back in the sixties MPs used to earn far more than the doctors, but today the average GP earns more than an MP. Today MPs get £86k but the GP average is £108k.

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IceFurnace83@reddit

Your £1 is worth roughly half as much as it was 25 years ago.

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AbsoluteScenes4@reddit

The videogame market has somehow managed to keep prices relatively steady and had only really started to rise since the launch of the latest Xbox and Playstation a couple of years ago. Back in the late 90s N64 games were releasing at prices of up to £70 and PS1 games at £30-£50. The benchmark for games prices stayed at around £30-50 through the PS2-PS4 era and has gone up to around £70 rrp in the last 3 years but with many places still charging less than rrp and some games still launching at lower prices (the latest Assassins Creed launched at £45)

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Das_Gruber@reddit

> N64 games were releasing at prices of up to £70 Only if you bought 'em off Littlewoods!

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Green_Solution_123@reddit

I think this is down to the increased popularity of gaming as a hobby. Production costs for a AAA title have increased massively, but the customer base has increased even more.

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DanTheBib@reddit

Also microtransactions and dlc exist now. Remember when Horse Armour was announced, and people were in uproar about it? Now paying £5 for a cosmetic skin would be considered cheap.

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amoryamory@reddit

I'm still yet to play a game with paid-for skins or paid-for DLC that isn't new dungeons or whatever. Microtransactions suck but they aren't the norm in every kind of game

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DanTheBib@reddit

Unfortunately, you're in the minority there. It's not always true of indie games, or even AA games like Baldurs Gate 3, for sure, but most AAA (big-budget/"mainstream" releases) have a heavy amount of microtransactions in one form or another. In fact, out of the Wikipedia top 10 list for this year so far, only Tears of the Kingdom doesn't have dlc of any sort. The only other game that doesn't is Starfield, and they have plans to release additional content soon.

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deaddonkey@reddit

The “somehow” is a larger market to sell to and in-product purchases I.e. micro transactions

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7ootles@reddit

This is one I brought up when *Tears of the Kingdom* was coming out earlier in the year. People in the US were complaining that it was coming out at $70 over there where *Breath of the Wild* had been $60 when it came out in 2017. I pointed out that with inflation, that $60 in 2017 would be around $73 when *TotK* came out, and therefore *TotK* effectively launched at a *lower* price than *BotW*.

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tradestonkswsb@reddit

Cocaine

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BiscuitsDippedInTea@reddit

The ‘£1’ that bar staff take for their tip

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No-Astronomer-5328@reddit

I bought a Sony Betamax C9 when they were new out (picture quality was a tad better than the VHS machines I'd had, and you could copy protected VHS onto Beta), and I think that was something like £649. Nowadays you can get a Freeview HD set top box recorder for under £50. Blu Ray players can be had for £49, and a 4K player for around £149. Good video cameras were around £1000 in 1989 and now you get better in a cheap smart phone.

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Old-Acanthopterygii5@reddit

Taking the sun

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Atschmid@reddit

laptop computers. In fact they're probably cheaper.

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Vitawa2020@reddit

The walk of shame.

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jado5150@reddit

The cost of my love. Still free to a good home.

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One-Performance-7154@reddit

that's a cute comment, I kinda wanna hug you 🥺

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jado5150@reddit

Well I'm not one to turn down a hug. Maybe I should buy a tie.

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thewibbler@reddit

OMG. Should I buy a hat?

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coder111@reddit

Computers. A decent desktop PC was ~1000 USD in year ~2000. Same is true now, but now you can find lower end PCs even cheaper. TVs got cheaper and better. Mobiles are getting cheaper and better. All kinds of electronics I guess...

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This_Charmless_Man@reddit

I blew up my work pc a few months back. The replacement was three grand. Granted it's tippy top of the line because I thrash it and I didn't pay for it, company did.

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coder111@reddit

Something like Next Cube was $7995 in 1990, which inflation adjusted is ~$17910 today. High end professional workstations were always expensive. I was talking more about a mid-range PC. And no, 3k today still isn't "top of the line", but still quite decent. Try maxing out something like https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/precision-7920-tower-workstation/spd/precision-7920-workstation/xctopt7920us_3?view=configurations or https://www.mediaworkstations.net/systems/amd-workstations/a-x2/ and you easily run into $50k-$100k But only very specialist workloads actually need something like this.

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MrPatch@reddit

Unless you want to put a half decent graphics card in, the price of those things now is fucking mental.

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

It's not the same price, but the price of a Mars bar follows inflation so closely some people are actually suggesting it as an economic standard. It costs more now than it did however many years ago, but its value is the same.

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Capital_Punisher@reddit

May I introduce you to the [Big Mac Index](https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index). It's apparently one of the best indicators of currency missalingnemt!

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thewibbler@reddit

Your missalingnemt is misaligned.

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turbo_dude@reddit

It used to be 62g though.

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DanTheBib@reddit

Is this true? Their prices might change with inflation, but they used to be much bigger in the 90s/00s.

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Unusual-Biscotti687@reddit

Guitar strings. A six string electric or acoustic set has been between £5 and £7 since I started playing in the 80s.

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Brownsteven15@reddit

Simple correct answer is street drugs, inflation free

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lewisw1992@reddit

This is the first time I've ever read Non-Uniform Day be described as Own Clothes Day.

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MJLDat@reddit

Shopping trolley deposits.

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Tesla7891@reddit

There’s a snowball stand near me that still sells a cup for $.50

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Jessmb22@reddit

A hotdog deal at Costco! £1.50 since 1985 🙌🏻

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Local-Shame-8637@reddit

A mortgage. A mortgage today is the same interest rate as it was 25 years ago. Just because the gubmint artificially pushed it down to 0% because of the housing bubble pop, it doesn't change the fact that interest rates are now where they were 25 years ago. The real question is, now that it's back to where it was. How much higher will it go? How high would it be today if the gubmint didn't get involved? I bet it's a lot higher then what they are now...

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oddsock87@reddit

Supermarket Jam Doughnuts… remember paying £1 for 5 about 15 years ago, weirdly they’re 85p for 5 now.

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Serious_Escape_5438@reddit

I assume they are one of those loss leaders.

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This_Charmless_Man@reddit

Sugar, flour, water, and yeast. Plus they can be made by machines. I'd assume they can make decent margins on them

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Grimdotdotdot@reddit

Soooo... Not the same price, then?

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CRJF@reddit

10 quid's worth of petrol For those who missed it, someone was saying they didn't understand what all the fuss was about with inflation. They always put £10 of fuel in the car so it'll always stay the same price for them.

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WhatDoWithMyFeet@reddit

I know some people are living paycheck to paycheck and really don't have the cash at the he end of the month but fit receive else I really don't understand people who would rather have an extra £30 sat in their current account and stop to fill up 4 times as often.

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R888EH@reddit

It’s more that they may not end up using £40 worth, I would assume.

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WhatDoWithMyFeet@reddit

What?? They might never use £40 of fuel again? Ever?

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R888EH@reddit

In the same pay period.

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hardingman@reddit

Can you try this again

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WhatDoWithMyFeet@reddit

No.

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obliviious@reddit

Pardon?

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HellPigeon1912@reddit

I remember being at a petrol station once and they had a sign for a contest where you could "Win £100 worth of free petrol" I dearly hope that whoever won that contest pointed out that £100 worth of free petrol is an infinite amount of petrol

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darybrain@reddit

Maybe they meant 100 pounds or 45.36 litres of free petrol,

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Yangy@reddit

You have to find where the free petrol is though. Sorry you can't have it from our pumps, it's clearly got a price.

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slain101@reddit

Stupidity still has the same price

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slain101@reddit

Stupidity still has the same price

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Capital_Punisher@reddit

Where are they going, from pump 1 to pump 4?!

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CaptainBonkmood@reddit

A classic Viz Newsletter

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Ok-Set-5829@reddit

She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene!

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hattorihanzo5@reddit

What country is this car from?

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Serious-Goose-8556@reddit

it no longer exists

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sweencat@reddit

Put it in H!

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Bunister@reddit

I know a guy who wanted to go back to gallons because 'you got more for your money' compared to litres...

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marksmoke@reddit

Same as one pound of fish https://youtu.be/EhiESf2zE9g?si=pWDrf-rOEXWTpeZI

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HisDudeness316@reddit

A pint of Amstel in my local. I got change from 3 quid when I first visited in 2008, I still get change from 3 quid now.

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daern2@reddit

In pub terms, that's surely an exceptional case. I know it's a northern cliche, but it's hard not to stagger backwards a bit when buying a drink in a London pub these days.

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This_Charmless_Man@reddit

My brother does a lot of work in London and he pointed out that the London price has stayed about the same for the last few years. Everywhere else seems to be catching up to their prices instead.

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montgomerywes@reddit

It's not much better in Manchester these days for something on draft.

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daskeleton123@reddit

Depends where you are, northern quarter is around £6/7 a pint sometimes whereas my local snooke club does £2.60

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HisDudeness316@reddit

Not just London. I tend to drink in Nottingham City centre (my local is in Derbyshire) and £6 isn't an unusual price to pay.

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hattorihanzo5@reddit

London pub prices have stagnated. Pubs everywhere else have shot up in price. I struggle to find a pint under 4 quid these days!

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BannedFromHydroxy@reddit

Depends where. Plenty of pubs down south have pints for south of 4 quid still.

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Capital_Punisher@reddit

In 2004 I could walk into my local with a £10 note, buy 2 pints of Stella and get a pack of Marlboro lights from the machine. Probably with a few coins in change. The same pub now is £13 for 2 pints of Stella alone. I quit smoking years ago, but I hear the price for a pack is about £14.

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fuzzeelogik@reddit

Cocaine It's been about 60 a gram roughly for as long as I remember

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Tariovic@reddit

Out of interest - I've never indulged - how long does a gram last? Is that, like, an evening's entertainment, or more? And just for one person, or for a group?

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mikolv2@reddit

It's difficult to say because cocaine is very moreish and as soon as you take a bit, you'll just want more. But a little goes a long way, if you're sensible, or as sensible as you can be whilst taking coke, a gram will cover more than a big night out.

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BannedFromHydroxy@reddit

Don't waste your money and time on that shite mate. It's boring af and the drivel that will come out your mouth isn't entertaining for anybody but you. Hoof some psychedelics in, that's a much better time, cheaper, and you'll learn from it.

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Tariovic@reddit

I'm not in the market for any mind-alterers, I'm capable of being weird without chemical assistance. I'm just interested to see how it stands economically against, say, a trip to the cinema, a Netflix sub, or a new video game.

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deaddonkey@reddit

To answer your question I’d say it would last one night for 2-3 people.

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Tariovic@reddit

Yeah, I'm just thinking I spent £50 on Baldur's Gate 3 and got 175 hours of fun out of my first playthrough. Glad to be a boring nerd.

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BruceBannerscucumber@reddit

Yeah but if you are playing BG3, you are getting really into it and want to pull an all nighter. Hoof some gear up your beak and it will keep you going. Seriously don't touch the stuff. I've tried it a few times and it's OK. Honestly not worth developing an addiction for it.

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deaddonkey@reddit

I’m a bit in column A, a bit in column B. My friends are weekly users and I’ll join them now and then if they offer but I refuse to buy bags. Many are on higher salaries with no savings because of excessive lifestyles: Gaming is by far the better value. Also enjoying BG. But people are willing to spend a lot more for a much briefer entertainment if it’s in front of other people, especially the opp sex 👍

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BannedFromHydroxy@reddit

you'll get much more entertainment from the cinema, netflix or a game than gak, but you'll have to make up your own mind on it. best of luck either way mate

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TheGeckoGeek@reddit

£40-50 for half a gram last time I indulged!

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Capital_Punisher@reddit

London? 8 years ago decent stuff was £90+ a gram in London whilst it was £40 in the countryside. Usually better quality, apparently, but not double.

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TheGeckoGeek@reddit

Nah not even! East Anglia

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404pbnotfound@reddit

The price has stayed the same, but if you ever weighed those bags, you’d see that it’s not a gram anymore

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MYRMACOLLECTIVE@reddit

$20 for a tinnie. Always has been.

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BonnieMcMurray@reddit

> I was actually surprised for a second to find out it's still £1 for the privilege - the same it was for me 25-30 odd years ago. £1 today was worth 49p 30 years ago. So the actual price has doubled.

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sotko99@reddit

weed seems to stay pretty constant. But even across countries it’s almost like gold, a physical asset of stable and universal value

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lukes2218@reddit

Wash n go…. Still £1

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Tiny-Thing-6055@reddit

The home video money for submitting to you’ve been framed

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Henery16@reddit

Them poisonous 35p cans of energy drinks

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Henery16@reddit

Them poisonous 35p cans of energy drinks

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hutchzillious@reddit

Air

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FluidSpace420@reddit

Weed and cocain have improved in quality but stayed the same price. Atleast someone thinks of the consumer.

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Cheesehunter2001@reddit

CDs. Used to be £12 upwards for an album on CD in the early 90s. More than I try and some d in one nowadays.

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TheNotSpecialOne@reddit

My gym membership hasn't changed at all

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Pengetalia@reddit

A lot of old membership contracts have a "price for life" clause. We've got kids paying £3.50 a week compared to the new rate of £5.10 for swimming lessons because their parents have never broken their contract with us and have always had a child swimming. A couple of our customers are paying £28 a month for something which new customer pay £35 for. It's a good customer retention strategy.

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Serious_Escape_5438@reddit

I wish my gym did that. It puts prices up all the time.

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Pengetalia@reddit

We took out the clause in 2019, but at that point we also got rid of the minimum term contracts and just made everything a bit more accessible. We've not put our membership prices up since then and honour any contracts taken out before that date. Your best bet is likely local authority gyms and leisure centres for good prices, especially at the moment with price hikes and pools being threatened with closure. They get funding to keep prices reasonable and many have partnerships with other centres to promote use. Our package gets access to 7 different centres which is pretty good, and you can select a cheaper option if you're only going to use certain facilities or certain centres.

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PooleyX@reddit

Mine neither. It's been £0 for as long as I can remember. Mind you, that's because I've never had one.

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Global_Scallion_2965@reddit

The tooth fairy does not seem to have gotten that memo.

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grunt56@reddit

People complain at the price of video games on the newer generation consoles, but Super Nintendo games used to be £50+ and NeoGeo, Jaguar and other stuff was pushing £100 in 1992

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Malamutalisk@reddit

Fresh air

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Alarmed_Inflation196@reddit

But what about value... Companies chip away with cheaper and cheaper materials/processes each year to fight inflation and increase profits. Very little has stayed the same price, made the same way, of the same quality. I'd say almost nothing in fact!

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evil_chumlee@reddit

Labor

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

I don’t play videogames much these days, but I’m sure I remember paying £40 for FIFA ‘99. A quick google shows that the latest edition of FIFA is still £40.

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ubiquitous_uk@reddit

Last years game of this years EA Sports equilivent, as I can only find that for £59.99?

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Patty0209211@reddit

The latest fifa is definitely not £40

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AbsoluteScenes4@reddit

RRP is £70 but loads of places are charging less. Amazon are charging £50 for the PS5 version and weirdly £55 for the PS4 version. Loads of games back in the late 90s were charging up to £70 on release. Turok on N64 for example

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OuchPotato64@reddit

Im from the US, and there were also N64 games sold for around $70. I had Mortal Kombat Trilogy on N64 and, for some reason, kept the receipt in the box all these years. It cost $75 when it came out. I believe that there were some snes games (the ones with more memory) that were $80. Game prices became standardized on all consoles in the 2000s and cost $60 for around 2 decades. New releases are now $70. Its amazing to think that some games 3 decades ago were more expensive than modern games. I dont even play modern games, but Cyberpunk 2077 looks like something I dreamed about playing 25 years ago. And it could be bought for cheaper than the games I was playing at the time.

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pullingsneakies@reddit

I'm going to assume the PS4 is cross gen version, I am new to playstation but it looks like some games give the ps5 upgrade for free.

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

https://www.gamescard.net/product/ea-sports-fc-24-ps4/?srsltid=AfmBOoqJfQKaXuoG8ead6t2Dunc18CFL9iZPxt0vo7Iz_dbb6SOCvTAbQYY

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hunterfam55@reddit

No way I'm trusting that site

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

I’ve no idea, I just googled how much fifa was and it came up as the top hit.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

It's also the last generation version of the game, and not the current generation. It's not going to be reflective of modern game pricing.

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Jaraxo@reddit

Yeh RRP for new games is around £50-60 these days. In reality, games haven't kept up with inflation and are cheaper now than they were 30 years ago.

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The_Blip@reddit

Good call, a brief bit of research shows they're dodgy as shit. Looks like they sell accounts from other countries, where the game is cheaper, and give you the account details for you to use, rather than a valid download code for the game.

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/1?q=fifa+24&client=safari&sca_esv=574765094&hl=en-gb&biw=390&bih=664&tbs=vw:l&prds=num:1,of:1,eto:11510928175806112419_0,prmr:1,rsk:PC_773680362148563046,cs:1

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mtrueman@reddit

It’s not only the price that hasn’t changed in years, the whole game hasn’t

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gary_the_merciless@reddit

Hey they changed the players and added new textures. Money please.

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

I’d probably buy it again if I could have Keane and Scholes in my United team from the off.

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MrPatch@reddit

It's called FC24 now and you're looking at 59.99 for the standard edition and £99.99 for the ultimate edition. Don't ask me whats int he ultimate edition, I've got no idea.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

> A quick google shows that the latest edition of FIFA is still £40 £49 on Amazon for PS5, on sale from £70. Xbox One/Series X edition is £54.60, down from £70 as well.

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hoyfkd@reddit

Going outside. Also, WTF is "own clothes day" and why do you have to pay for "the privilege?"

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How-Football-Works@reddit

Subs to play cricket were £5 in 2008 and £5 now

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peekachou@reddit

Plant seeds. Comparitively similar pricing, found some old packets from about 20 years ago and the pricing on them was about 20p different from the new ones I got recently

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FallofftheMap@reddit

I must be buying seeds at the wrong places. Prices I’m seeing are way up. What was 99 cents is now $3.99.

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peekachou@reddit

Where you getting seeds from in $? Most of the ones I get are between £2 and £3.50 and have been consistant for ages now

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FallofftheMap@reddit

At the moment I typically buy some from a big chain store called Mega Kywi and the rest from small garden and farm supply stores in the village. Whenever. Visit the US I pick up varieties I can’t find here in Ecuador from multiple online sources.

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peekachou@reddit

So not in the UK then. Can't speak for seed prices for the rest of the world, but this is r/askUK

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FallofftheMap@reddit

Oh, so it is. Not a sub I intentionally participate in. Thought I was in the general askreddit. Looks like Reddit’s habit of pushing new subs into my feed tripped me up.

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oralardaburalarda@reddit

Freddo Bars, while often joked about, have seen relatively small price hikes over the years. The TV License's cost, although increased, hasn't surged dramatically. The Royal Mail 1st Class Stamp has gone up, but not sharply compared to other commodities. Many national museums in the UK continue to offer free entry, an enduring tradition. The 5p charge for plastic bags in shops has remained stable since its introduction. And, in many supermarkets, you still need a £1 coin to unlock a shopping trolley, just like years ago.

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Masteriiz@reddit

Oddly most drugs is exactly the same price.

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Animal-Lover-3865@reddit

Costco hotdogs

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_MicroWave_@reddit

Like nearly all household appliances are coming down in price in real terms dramatically over that period. I remember a news piece where there was a household exclaiming that their blender had lasted for 20 years unlike the modern crap. They spent literally 2 months wages on it in the 1970s. We are talking thousands and thousands effectively.

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Late-betterthannever@reddit

I had a vacation cottage a few years ago. It came with the 1970’s avocado green washer and dryer set. The previous owners lived in the house full time so it was well used. When I sold it was still in there working fine. Can’t get that anymore .

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Lolzerzmao@reddit

Costco hot dog special

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darlo999@reddit

A £10 Woolworths voucher, oh wait

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snazzynarwhal@reddit

That's a 100% increase for me. Our mufti day was only 50p in about 2003. Bargain!

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gronksmash15@reddit

TI 84 calculator??

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qqererer@reddit

Bottle and can deposits.

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pepe612@reddit

All the replies are TVs, games or drugs Says it all really. Keep the soma cheap while things you actually need shoot up in price.

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Odd-Detail1136@reddit

99p Flakes are the only inflation proof asset we have

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GoliathsBigBrother@reddit

99 flakes were never 99p

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kirstymmm83@reddit

Yeah they are called 99 coz they are sold in boxes of 99

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glasgowgeg@reddit

Do you think a flake cost 99p when they were introduced in the 1920s?

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OhNoXo@reddit

I paid 3.50 in the summer...so gobsmacked I couldn't say anything

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slimdrum@reddit

More fool you

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OhNoXo@reddit

Well I didn't know until I was holding it and my card was tapped. Too polite to kick off clearly

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slimdrum@reddit

That’s crazy in the supermarket you can get a 2ltr tub of arguably better ice cream for around £2 and a box of 15 ice cream cones for £1, that saves you 50p! I hope your £3.50 ‘99 was the most amazing you’ve ever had!

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Odd-Detail1136@reddit

You are shitting me? Where?

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OhNoXo@reddit

Newcastle. I know places to get cheaper alcohol

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isntitbionic@reddit

my dignity

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Fine-Huckleberry4165@reddit

Transferring a vehicle registration number from one car to another in the UK. My father paid £80 to do so in 1990. It is still £80.

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SouthernZorro@reddit

What's an Own Clothes Day?

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personalhale@reddit

Video games. People LOVE to whine about game prices now...I paid like $90 for Chrono Trigger back in the early 90s.

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Disastrous-Pepper391@reddit

Weed

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ireaditonasubreddit@reddit

Price of tinned tuna.

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Eastern_Idea_1621@reddit

Wages for arts workers. The exact same jobs I was doing 15 years ago and getting paid 25k are still 25k which equivalent must only be 20k now at best!

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172116@reddit

I'm seeing entry level graduate jobs going for the same wages we thought were tight 15 years ago. If those jobs had kept pace with inflation, that 25k salary 15 years ago would now be the thick end of 40k.

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Eastern_Idea_1621@reddit

Exactly it's bonkers. I was.in 21k in 2001 in my very first job as a project worker post degree. And managers jobs at 30k still. I earnt that as a manager 14 years ago!!!

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Critical-Adhole@reddit

Vegetables because I grow my own :)

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youw0tmate_r@reddit

Space Raiders

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Rigman-@reddit

Video games are much cheaper than they were in the past. It’s actually kind of insane just how good we have it these days.

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Nuker-79@reddit

A 20 pence mixup

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cari-strat@reddit

1980: 40 sweets. 2023: two sweets.

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Nuker-79@reddit

Still a 20p mixup though.

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cari-strat@reddit

You're not wrong. Sad times.

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zb_xy@reddit

Video games, Costco hotdog and soda, Arizona iced tea.

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L1ham@reddit

Can't think of an answer off the top of my head, but definitely not Freddos.

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LazyFiiish@reddit

Birthday and Christmas money from Dad. 1995 we could choose anything from the Argos catalogue up to £50. Today, we still get £50 from him. It's become a running joke between the three siblings.

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iRepliedtoaIdiot@reddit

Video games and guns.

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Ill-Hope-4752@reddit

Laptops

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DeinOnkelFred@reddit

Avon.

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SmokyBarnable01@reddit

Drugs.

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Eevf__@reddit

Cocaïne doesn't seem to change price

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CommunityPristine601@reddit

Cars. Saw an ad for a Ford Telstar from the 80s and it was around $50k.

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skb239@reddit

Cocaine

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VanJeans@reddit

The price of PC and console games seems to have always remained around the same for their different tiers, AAA games, indie, etc.

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mebjulie@reddit

My friends daughters have Non uniform Day tomorrow and the price list is as follows: Non uniform- £1 Silly hair- 50p Make-up- 50p Transfer tattoos- £1 (Something else for £1) OR be able to do all 5 for £4.

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BigPoppaSnow@reddit

Kindness. Spread it early and often!

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m5online@reddit

In the US, Costco started selling Hot Dogs for $1.50 in 1984. The price has never gone up.

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ButtonNew5815@reddit

Freedom bitches!

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PirateKilt@reddit

US info, but [Arizona Iced Tea was 99 cents](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*54yjjPxGKAvBP5U7CR1yJg.jpeg) from 1992 until just a few months ago... Inflation finally drove the price up to $1.29

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ScotchBrisket@reddit

Pizza from the main chains like Pizza Hut and Domino's are about the same price as it was back then. There's plenty of commercials from the '80s and '90s on YouTube if you're curious.

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---x__x---@reddit

1 pound chocolate orange

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Canna_grower_VT14@reddit

Cocaine.

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JellyfishRun@reddit

The £250 for You’ve Been Framed was inflation-proof. That didn’t change for about 20 years.

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Jack5063534@reddit

Entry level Mac's have been £999 since what feels like the dawn of time.

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This_Acanthaceae2250@reddit

Any Nintendo game

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impalerofwetpussy@reddit

Penny chews

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ny_collin@reddit

A Costco hot dog.

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LukeATrillionaire@reddit

Nivea Vaseline in a pound shop, used to be £1 and it is still £1 :)

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InstrumentationTech@reddit

Weed

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VanderBrit@reddit

Everything in the pound shop

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D34TH-TR4P@reddit

Love

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Arseypoowank@reddit

I’ll say the price of video games has remained stable some the nineties. Obviously value changes but the actual price point has remained relatively stable

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tugjobs4evergiven@reddit

1 g of cocaine has always been $100

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hscbaj@reddit

Make it 30+ years… Video games. SNES and Megadrive were around £40-£55 a game.

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Laddasaurus_Sex@reddit

When I was in school, about 10 years ago, they tried to replace non-school uniform with 'silly sock day'. So we had the pleasure of wearing funny socks for a quid. Didn't try it next year when they realized no one gave a shit about socks lol

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chromebaloney@reddit

Ditto on the tech pricing comments . I sold computers in the 90s and a really good consumer-level PC was about 2000. Today 2000 will still get you a really good home PC and you can get a perfectly acceptable one for 900.

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CarpeNivem@reddit

The cost of gas, per mile. Yes, per gallon it costs more, but thanks to advances in fuel efficiency, it also lasts longer.

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Hoagiesandbeer@reddit

Being kind.

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horridbloke@reddit

Depending where you buy it Stella Artois has been pretty much the same price for thirty years.

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turbo_dude@reddit

“Reassuringly Expensive”. Even Belgians don’t drink that piss. And fuck SA for ruining Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources

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MrPatch@reddit

Except it's come down from 5.4% to 4.8%, a large part of the cost of beer is that the ABV is taxed. So it costs largely the same but it's not hte same beer. Not necessarily a bad thing but its shrinkflation like getting fewer rolo's in a pack.

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Capital_Punisher@reddit

I used to work in a pub when the ABV came down. The rep told us they spent over £100m making sure it tasted the same!

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MrPatch@reddit

Jesus. Tastes like every other lager to me now I've turned into a £8 for a pint of IPA wanker.

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RSN-Evzy@reddit

Unfortunately, not in Wales. They introduced minimum price on alcohol. I was shocked to see 4 pint cans for nearly £8 in the corner shop. To counter the rising prices ive noticed theyre lowering the alcohol volume on some beers. E.g Fosters. Its like 3.7% now.

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Ok_Cow_3431@reddit

Despite Scotland already proving the MUP doesn't work. Muppets!

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DrSquigglesMcDiggles@reddit

works to line their pockets so as intended

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Bustakrimes91@reddit

I agree, even recently the price went up! I was getting 4 cans for £5.50 a few weeks ago and now its £7.99.

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cari-strat@reddit

Yep, it wasn't that long ago that my husband would only buy his beer at one of the two village shops because one charged £4 for four cans and one charged £4.50. Now you're lucky to get anything under £6 and quite a few are close to £8.

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im-also-here@reddit

🤢

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BringerOfGifts@reddit

Apparently the cost of labor.

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Oiggamed@reddit

Musical instruments.

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airtraq@reddit

Uniform is not your own clothes?

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m3kw@reddit

1 dollar is still 1 dollar

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Qontherecord@reddit

a pound still costs a quid

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charlesotts@reddit

Costco Hotdogs

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HunkerDownDemo1975@reddit

Opinions. They’ve always been free to have. How that communicative transaction goes is the value litmus test though.

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EstablishmentExotic1@reddit

Some computer games are still around the 50 pound mark

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coolplate@reddit

Arizona tea

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WeeklyVirus2203@reddit

Our 20 year service award at work was £200 when I started 26 years ago AND you got a carriage clock in a velvet case. I coveted this in blind adoration at the time. Now it's a £200 digital voucher....

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purpleplums901@reddit

Tech is cheaper in absolute terms in a lot of cases. I remember being in toys r us with my parents in about 2001/2ish to get our first PC for the house, basically a bog standard windows XP and it was £899.99. I swear it was the equivalent of one that's like 450-500ish these days. Japanese brand TVs were like a grand around the same time, you can easily get one now for 500. Also apparently clothes in the 80s were insanely dear compared to now, especially trainers

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Rob_Haggis@reddit

Weed

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thunderpantsIII@reddit

My hourly rate :(

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862657@reddit

Premium bonds

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Mel0nFarmer@reddit

Video games. 1996 N64 games were £49.99 and even £59.99 or £69.99 (Turok Dinosaur Hunter). The latest Nintendo game, Super Mario Wonder releases tomorrow. Its £49.99

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DanEdy@reddit

My patience

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Blackintosh@reddit

Skateboard decks. Especially some of the UK grown brands that are still alive. When I was a teenager the American branded decks were around £60-70, and still are aside of the high-tech ones with carbon fibre layers etc. The well established UK brand decks are still around the £40 mark for standard shaped decks.

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smashhazard@reddit

Skate clothing on the other hand...jesus wept. Since the mainstream caught on to skate fashion the prices are insane.

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rezonansmagnetyczny@reddit

Did you ever actually buy the decks as a teenager? I remember really wanting a blind deck in the early 2000s and the only people who had them had nicked them from route one..

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Chrisf1bcn@reddit

Jesus route one now that’s a flashback!

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quigglington@reddit

They're still about and still the nemesis of the independent skate shops in the UK. Fuck Route One.

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Blackintosh@reddit

Not with my own money! I was a spoiled only child so my mum usually bought me new decks when I needed them, and those monstrous Osiris D3 shoes.

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Chrisf1bcn@reddit

I love them shoes

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staminaplusone@reddit

I had a rubbish argos one with some wrestler dude on it so I sanded it down and varnished it 👌

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Chrisf1bcn@reddit

Yeah exactly!! I remember payin 50-60 quid for a Santa Cruz or an Alien Workshop and the UK blueprint decks were around 35-40 quid! Mid 90s. Wheels were £30 and I still remember paying 20-25 quid for them Swiss bearings that bloody fell apart in a month or two. Still bitter about that!!!

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LengthinessAlone4743@reddit

Costco hot dogs

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kanejarrett@reddit

Own clothes day was 50 about 15 years ago for me

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didndonoffin@reddit

A 10p mix up, only now it’s like 1-3 sweets

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eat-the-bourgeoisie3@reddit

Space raider crisps. Unlike the Freddo, which has suffered immensely from inflation, space raiders crisps have been a loyal 20p my whole life (26 years)

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layzee_aye@reddit

Where are you buying these? They come in 2 for 60p bags in central Scotland - am I being mugged off?!

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eat-the-bourgeoisie3@reddit

Any corner shop here in Yorkshire! I think you are being done there

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Demonkid37@reddit

New Sega Megadrive games were typically 35 - 50 quid……….in 1991. Same as some new games now unbelievably

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srtftw@reddit

Hotwheels cost 98¢ in 1968, and I regularly see them advertised as $1.00, sometimes $1.19 in 2023. Hotwheels toys are one of the best inflation-proof products on the market.

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th3-villager@reddit

The amount of money you put in a shopping trolley to prevent you from stealing it? (£1)

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Ronaldo_McDonaldo81@reddit

Hang on, hang on. The difference berween the non-uniform day today and the non-uniform day from 30 years ago is that the price might be the same but now they have about 25 non-uniform days a year whereas it was just one back then. There’s your inflation: “jeans for genes” day the other day for my son’s school. Still not sure what that was all about.

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1984conspiracy@reddit

The Jeans for Genes campaign raises awareness of the daily challenges faced by those living with a genetic condition and raises money to fund projects that make a tangible difference to the lives of those affected

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1984conspiracy@reddit

Vodka

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Ziaber@reddit

Most things in pound shops

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luv2gro@reddit

Where I’m from weed hasn’t changed price in 40 years

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KRONKCHEF@reddit

When I did dress down days at school, they were 20p. That was late 80s

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LumpyCrumpet687@reddit

Pound coins.

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Civil-Target3457@reddit

Costco hotdog

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Snoopy2010uk@reddit

Computer games are still pretty much the same price. Kinda surprising considering how much more they cost to make.

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Cirias@reddit

Not many things in the arcades are the same price now, but you can still get 2p pushers in good seaside arcades. The ones in the bowling alleys are 5p now and never give you any prizes.

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Scott_EFC@reddit

Compact Discs, I remember them being £10 back then, pretty much the same now.

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CaveJohnson82@reddit

Blazers. They were about £30 plain from John Lewis or M&S when I was a teen - even though my kids need branded ones from a school supplier they're still only about £30.

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RaspberryWonderful16@reddit

The price of new cars has been surprisingly stable over the last 40 or so years. When you scale for inflation, a new mondeo today and a new sierra back in the 80s is fairly consistent

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Rosschops@reddit

Drugs! Fantastic value for money!😃

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UnluckyChu@reddit

Technology in general, except now's is better for the same price

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mspk7305@reddit

costco hotdogs

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FastToLoseFurious@reddit

I hate to be pedantic here but the value of £1 changes constantly and the difference between a 1993 £1 and today's £1 is 251%. In 1993 £1 was worth £2.51 in today's money. Those are not the same prices.

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Emergency_Mistake_44@reddit (OP)

That's the point. What has remained the same number.

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FoldingStarAttire@reddit

That's kinda the whole point of this post kek

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allgone79@reddit

Freddos are a marker of the uk price market. They're 30p now. If they hit 50p the world will end.

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bobovdarlo@reddit

Drugs

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rumblemania@reddit

Costco hotdog

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think_im_a_bot@reddit

Salt. I don't use much salt. When I got my first flat at 18 years old I went to Asda and bought 500ml of salt for 69p More than 20 years later the salt was finally running out, went to Asda and it's the exact same bottle (slightly different label) and still 69p. Expecting this one to last me until retirement unless I take up doing tequila shots.

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Bicolore@reddit

Well thats certainly how I intend to spend my twilight years.

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Impressive_Disk457@reddit

Pay up for (whatever cause its being collected for) or your child will be bullied for being too poor to dress down. What a state.

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DanTheBib@reddit

Tangentially related; does anyone know why the cost of a new car has (seemingly) only increased? A 1L standard Fiesta cost £3091 in 1980, around £12.5k in today's money. The cheapest new Fiesta I can see on their website starts at just under £20k.

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172116@reddit

My parents bought their first home in the early 80s, for about 10k, and paid their solictor £1000. I bought my first flat in 2020 for ten times as much - and paid my solicitor £1000... There's a story in there about the devaluation of the professions.

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Bedsitdweller@reddit

Parking fines in Harrogate, yet parking fees are higher, so I just never pay since as long as I get away with it 30 times or more (which I have several times over) I'm still better off. Also motoring PCNs in general are not far off what they were 20 years ago.

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thesteelmaker@reddit

My wages. 25 years ago I was a steelmaker. Working on an Electric Arc Furnace. Hot, dirty, noisy, burn's and heat stroke were common, but the pay in these heavy industries was good. Now a Team Leader at a recycling yard on £500 a year less than I was on in 1996.

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lifeIsfunButhard@reddit

Cocaine.

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shard_@reddit

The top prize money on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? When it started (coincidentally, 25 years ago), it would have been the equivalent of 57 years of the average wage, and able to buy you 14 average UK houses Now, it's the equivalent of 29 years of the average wage, and only able to buy you 4 average UK houses. Obviously that's still a life changing sum, but it's no longer the *unthinkable* amount that it once was. Depending on your age, you might even have to continue working. I wonder if they'll have to increase it if it keeps airing.

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TheJobSquad@reddit

They say you can't put a price on dignity. But you can, and in my case it's stayed at a consistently low price for decades.

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Tor-Pedo@reddit

Booze has stayed pretty stable, 20 years ago a 70cl bottle of a standard spirit would be 12-18 quid, you might struggle to find 12 quid but basically the same. Ironically, alcohol is the deadliest drug there is. The conspiracy side of me says they want us to be killing ourselves, the non conspiracy side agrees.

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Lamprophonia@reddit

Technically, video games. [Golden Eye, brand new in 1997, cost $59.99 USD](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fj1kxxkndfcpa1.jpg). Most new games are still $59.99, right off the shelf.

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destria@reddit

Nintendo 64 games were like £50-55 in the 90s. Most new Nintendo Switch games are £50 now.

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MeAlsoNobody@reddit

My worth

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saucyenglishjess@reddit

Are flights? I'd imagine they are slightly cheaper in real terms compared to years ago? I may be wrong though

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winch25@reddit

Premium Bonds.

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roskybosky@reddit

A graphics designer in an in-house agency.

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Marsawd@reddit

Employees.

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LordTwaticus@reddit

It hurts

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thewanitz@reddit

A pound coin still costs the same!

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BasisOk4268@reddit

Employees

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cifala@reddit

Secret Santa. It’s always a £10 limit

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Awayze@reddit

Mobile phones. I got the Nokia 7650 on about £30pm when it first came out and now you can get a much better phone for £20pm. I suppose that’s down to the mass manufacturing of the components nowadays despite the technology being immensely improved.

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Chinaski_616@reddit

Manners: though you'd be forgiven for thinking they now cost the earth.

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B113ber@reddit

A £10 bag....

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Sufficient-Muscle-24@reddit

Silver

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Ok-Ad-8367@reddit

Time.

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Bunister@reddit

I promise this isn't a joke about inflation... Car tyres seem to still be quite cheap, compared to everything else.

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HealthyAbility5618@reddit

Cocaine

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Any-Establishment-99@reddit

Trolleys (at the supermarket). Haven’t they always been a pound?

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UsAndRufus@reddit

Nah I defo remember 50p or 20p ones

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ProfessionalPair3630@reddit

Wages 🤣

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ManDohlorian@reddit

£25. Next gift voucher, they never seem to change!

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Key_Mail_6420@reddit

Holidays

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ajjmcd@reddit

Free advice.

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Best-Error410@reddit

My house is within a shared courtyard with a residents association - set up and managed by the residents. Most have lived there since it was built - in 1992. The monthly maintenance charge remains the same. £5.

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tonification@reddit

Flights to New York

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1Marmalade@reddit

Flights. Yes, so similar to how they were 25 yrs ago. I still pay almost the same to fly from Chicago to Heathrow as in 1997-2000 despite fuel costs being far higher and all the new taxes/fees. Amazing.

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Darkened100@reddit

U had to pay £1 it was free at my school

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squingulated-mingoid@reddit

A good desktop computer. £999 was the standard in the 90s, still around that today.

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MajicVole@reddit

Good manners. They still cost nothing.

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Piccadil_io@reddit

Video games. I paid £49.99 for Ocarina of time in 1998.

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ireadfaces@reddit

My self-worth may be. Maybe it is a bit cheaper

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Jamie2556@reddit

CD’s

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Fresh-Hedgehog1895@reddit

Some brands of designer jeans sell for about the same. I remember wanting a specific brand of jeans at the Bay (the Canadian department store) in 1988 and they were $100. They still sell for about $100.

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captaincinders@reddit

Laptops and computers Bought my first laptop (386 and plasma screen) for about £1k. You can now buy a very decent i7 12 core laptop for the same money.

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kevinmorice@reddit

My integrity.

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subbie2002@reddit

From my understanding, because of planes like the 747, flying has become significantly cheaper?

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Zealousideal-Sail893@reddit

Adultry. Same high price to pay, thankfully.

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Tariovic@reddit

The wages of sin has always been death.

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Dedward5@reddit

Penny chews

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Livednatas@reddit

Yo mamma

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PBtown55@reddit

My wage??

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Valuable-Wallaby-167@reddit

You clearly went somewhere fancy, it was 50p when I was at school. Prescription prepayment certificates have barely gone up in the past 20 years.

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CliffyGiro@reddit

Same. It was 50p

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ironwilledf-up@reddit

I'm just confused that the kids have to pay. Who are they paying? What happens to the money? I don't remember this at all.

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CliffyGiro@reddit

Was normally for charity.

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Valuable-Wallaby-167@reddit

Normally the money goes to charity or occasionally to fundraise for something for the school

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ironwilledf-up@reddit

I see! I really don't remember that when I was at school, I think we just had random non uniform days!

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wildgoldchai@reddit

Ours was a £1 but if you could afford it. Poor area in east London. Most of us turned up with no £1

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Emergency_Mistake_44@reddit (OP)

Far from fancy, just mugged off it seems!

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PickaxeJunky@reddit

The prize money for sending videos in to You've Been Framed.

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Nickibee@reddit

For the most part console games are still around £50. It’s changed lately and some hit £70 now but they are pretty big games. I remember buying SNES games in Boots of all places in the 90’s and they were £40. So they stuck at that price for a long time. I can still buy a decent console game for £40 though. Whereas a console is around £400 now compared to my £150 SNES in the early 90’s.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

CDs are roughly the same price. Vinyl however has probably tripled.

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AsymmetricNinja08@reddit

I've got my dad's records that have price on at anything between 99p & £5. I think I just paid £30 for 3 records recently

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Kubrick_Fan@reddit

Video games

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fixy5570@reddit

Body piercing. I paid 20 quid for a tongue piercing in 1998.....had multiple piercings since....and had a nostril piercing done a month or so ago and they're still about 20 quid

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Moomoocaboob@reddit

Tooth value, good to know the tooth fairy has stayed clear of inflation

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joshgeake@reddit

Many books (I've sold them for over 10 years). As time's marched on we've just used ever more developing parts of the world to print them.

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rgahewitt@reddit

Manners.

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Cotemay@reddit

Washing machine’s are, generally, cheaper and better value (in real terms - though even sometimes nominal).

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Hmmmm13242@reddit

Prostitutes

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randymysteries@reddit

Used stuff. You pay $1000 for a computer, try to sell it for 400 and gladly take $100. Same for cars: pay $40000, try to sell it for its bluebook value, and gladly take a few thousand.

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BrawDev@reddit

Petrol. My dad has only ever put 20 quid in his car, and still continues to do so. So it's the same price?

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mk45tb@reddit

Wines and bottled ale in supermarkets hasn't gone up very much

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chicaneuk@reddit

Surely you jest. The price of alcohol has climbed significantly.

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Zerttretttttt@reddit

Tesco Trolleys

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Ferocious-Muppet@reddit

Prostitutes?

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idlewildgirl@reddit

Costco Hotdog

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slimdrum@reddit

A penny sweet

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spattzzz@reddit

Whiskey doesn’t seem to suffer from inflation.

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The_bells@reddit

Whisky VERY much has (i.e in the 90s it was under £20 for a good bottle of single malt, and even 5 years ago it was still pretty standard to get something "nice" on offer for £20-25 - now you'd be doing well to get something fairly shite but technically single malt for £25). Whiskey has suffered much the same, 5-10 years ago Bushmills and Powers could be acquired for £10-£14, and even until recently it was fairly standard to get Bush for around £15. These days it's £20 *if you are lucky*. I don't drink bourbon, but certainly gone are the days when you could get "2 for £20" on Jack Daniels.

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pullingsneakies@reddit

Bushmills went from being on the bottom shelf in Asda to near the top and 50%+ added to the price within the last year.

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The_bells@reddit

For years I've been calling bush "the best cheapest whiskey" Unfortunately I'm not sure I can keep saying that 🤣

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External-Bet-2375@reddit

Bushmills £17.25 at Tesco right now with a clubcard.

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The_bells@reddit

That's my point, even last year it was £16 on offer

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FulaniLovinCriminal@reddit

It really, really has. When I first starting buying it, around the late 90s, Jack Daniel's was £12 for a big bottle, £5-6 for a small one. These days it's £25 standard. And the "premium" brands? I remember buying a bottle of Woodford Reserve for £15. Lucky to see it for less than £30 in shops now. Jameson was a tenner. Now more than double that. And don't get me started on the ridiculous markups on whisky...

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_whopper_@reddit

Duty has added almost £10 per litre just since 2010.

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Donkeytonk@reddit

The taxi from the train station to my house is still just shy of 10 quid since the early 2000s

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Crumbdiddy@reddit

I used to pay 50p, you’re being scammed m8

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Top-Effective-9743@reddit

Air

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WotanMjolnir@reddit

Video games have only recently increased in price. When I first started buying PC games back in the early 90s a brand-new high profile game would be £40. It's only in the few years or so that prices ha e started to ruse to £60 ish plus (ignore Nintendo). What has happened with games is that old games are no longer cheap - you used to be able to pick up games a few years old on budget publishers like Sold Out for £5 or £10 where now old games will still be £20-£25 except during sales- I guess that digital delivery via Steam mow means the original developers can keep hold of thir products and sell them without having to physically produce them, so can maintain the revenue stream directly.

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SgtSnuggles19@reddit

Happiness You still cant put a price on it.... I'll see myself out

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the_illmatic@reddit

Costco Hot Dog and drink combo

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TheKillersHand@reddit

My anus. Had to actually reduce the asking price due to deteriorating elasticity

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Leather-Air5496@reddit

Not Freddos for damn sure!

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rbsudden@reddit

The hit that was taken out on me, it hasn't been affected by inflation and is still active.

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HeavyWaste@reddit

Divorce

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Icy_Session3326@reddit

I paid like 20-50p for the same time 😂

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25LG@reddit

Death....the ultimate price we will all pay for

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silverstar189@reddit

Fame

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Comprehensive-Two888@reddit

Televisions are cheaper probably Recently bought a new telly after having the old one for about 10-12 years. Decent Sony cost me less than I paid for an inferior model with a smaller screen back then.

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bardic-play@reddit

>My daughter had Own Clothes Day at school today and I was actually surprised for a second to find out it's still £1 Jokes on you, my daughter's non uniform day tomorrow is 50p

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Nodiggity124@reddit

Cocaine

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JishBroggs@reddit

A 10 bag

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winobeaver@reddit

hell an ounce is nearly the same price as it was 20 years ago they must be abstracting the electricity to grow it

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