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I have just found an interesting site. Pre- decimalisation! If you spent 15s.6p in a shop, what denomination of payment would you have used, what note could you have offered to receive change and how much change would you have received. No trick! Just to see if anyone knows or remembers.

[seivad]

I have just found an interesting site. Pre- decimalisation! If you spent 15s.6p in a shop, what denomination of payment would you have used,

Not being picky... but it would have been 15s 6d. "p" wasn't used for pence.

You could have paid with a 10 shilling note, 2 half crowns, and 6 pennies

what note could you have offered to receive change and how much change would you have received. No trick! Just to see if anyone knows or
remembers.

A pound note. You would get 4s 6d change.

[seivad]

P.S. I had to edit your thread title to get rid of the exclamation marks. Damned Sucuri firewall is still blocking certain characters and the thread wouldn't open.

[Nick2]

Not being picky... but it would have been 15s 6d. "p" wasn't used for pence.

You could have paid with a 10 shilling note, 2 half crowns, and 6 pennies

A pound note. You would get 4s 6d change.

Oh dear Sandy! You must be of my generation!

[Ceam]

Glad to say I've not a clue :-)

[said]

P.S. I had to edit your thread title to get rid of the exclamation marks. Damned Sucuri firewall is still blocking certain characters and the thread wouldn't open.

Thank you for doing that - I keep forgetting. You are quite right, I did get the p wrong. I bet it made you think for a bit though.

[Hamble]

I need my 1972 pencil case with decimal design.

[greenmachine]

10 shilling note, 2 florins, a shilling, a threepenny bit, 2 pennys, 1 half penny and 2 farthings.

[seivad]

10 shilling note, 2 florins, a shilling, a threepenny bit, 2 pennys, 1 half penny and 2 farthings.

Or 2 sixpenny bits instead of a shilling. The permutations are endless!

[seivad]

I bet it made you think for a bit though.

Funnily enough it just came to me immediately. £sd were in use for most of the time I lived in the UK.

When I first started work there was one adding machine in the office. Being a junior meant I was low in the pecking order and rarely got first dibs on it. I used to add the ledgers manually, which, under £sd meant 3 columns. I doubt I could race through it now, but I used to be like lightening and rarely made errors.

[gazaprop]

This nostalgia thing can get very silly - the other week I paid for something with a bushel of corn and had a very sticky time of it on the bus home. My change wasn't allowed on the seats and I struggled to sweep the feathers under my seat with a pointy felt boot.

[seivad]

This nostalgia thing can get very silly

And dangerous if used to idealise the past. Today's politicians have used it with great success. Trump with his "Make America Great Again". UKIPs' "We want our country back" and the pro-Brexit "Take back control". Nostalgia for a non existent utopian past.

- the other week I paid for something with a bushel of corn and had a very sticky time of it on the bus home. My change wasn't allowed on the seats and I struggled to sweep the feathers under my seat with a pointy felt boot.

Ha! That made me laugh.

[said]

This nostalgia thing can get very silly - the other week I paid for something with a bushel of corn and had a very sticky time of it on the bus home. My change wasn't allowed on the seats and I struggled to sweep the feathers under my seat with a pointy felt boot.

Bet the tights were uncomfortable too!

[seivad]

Bet the tights were uncomfortable too!

Yeah, but his codpiece was the talk of the town!

[shippy]

Yeah, but his codpiece was the talk of the town!

😀 of course you were , with 20 layers of tutu style underskirts under your circle skirt...

What else do you remember from that era. 50/60s

Shampoo in small sachets. Soap only in tablet form ?

Terry toweling nappies/ protected by plastic knickers.

Huge silver cross prams.