Cold weather is expensive!!

[Doggy]

I got £8.26 a week, before stoppages in my first year. As they rounded wages up or down, that meant I got £7.50 most weeks & an odd week at £8

Mind you, when I got a car I was able to fill it up with 6 + a bit gallons and get change from £2.00

(can anyone else hear the Hovis music)?

[lozz]

No mate,

But saying that my speakers are broke,

Irember my Grandad sayin he got 10 bob aweek wage,

Never asked how much that was in Real money, Must of been sad if you got paid in bob

[Welly]

I started work in 1987 in an office and I always remember my monthly take home was £187.00

Back then though you could have a *very* good night out, and a Taxi home for £20.00.

I saved up £600.00 quite quickly with me cycling to work until I passed my driving test and bought the shittest P-reg VW Golf you've ever seen.........thinking about and knowing what I know now it was crazy but then no-one in my family really knew about cars - I guess that's what sparked my interest in second-hand motors

[puggy]

When i started work my first wage was £4 : 10 shillings , or £4 . 50p but
then again petrol was about 25/30p a gallon .

[Welly]

I can't really remember the prices of petrol, I know I used to put a 'fiver' in and it would go for days on end I do know one thing though, the price of petrol was never ever an issue like it is today

The internet's just told me petrol was 0.37p/ltr in 1987, would have been 4-star

[highlander]

When I first started driving back in 2007, petrol was under £1 per litre. It's gone up by 40p per litre since then, so a 40% increase in the last 5 years.

Road tax for my Coupe back in 2007 would have been £205 per year. It's £245 per year now, up £40 per year since then, so just under 20% increase in the last 5 years.

MOT price in 2007 was £50.35 according to Direct.gov, and is now £54.85, just under 9% more expensive than it was in 2007.

Car insurance isn't as easy to chart the price of, owing to the fact that the thieving bastards make it up as they go along, but if you look at average car insurance prices, they were 30% higher last year than they were the year before.

Bloody pathetic, isn't it - just makes you want to scream.

[Welly]

When I bought the gas-guzzling Volvo in 2009 petrol was 87p/ltr.......

......how I laughed as I sloshed in that green stuff with gay abandon

These days I can be seen crying in pain as I gingerly wait for the very last drip to fall from the nozzle into my possession

[Bailes1992]

£185 a week after stoppages at the moment.

£5.09 an hour and usually do a 45 hour week.

£25 I give to my perents lodge (Dosen't bother me, I expect to pay it. Infact they save it up for me)
£75 goes in an ISA towards my insurance/ car maintenance.

So I manage to live on about £85 a week. £50 - £70 in diesel and car parking costs dosen't leave me with much else to play about it.

Just a good job I don't drink or smoke cause then I would be up a creek without a paddle!

Think I'l give inland revenue a call now.

[grasmere59]

When i started my apprenticeship i got £17 a week,my mum had £10 for keep (which i thought was a bit steep),£4 went on hp for my 125 Honda and that left me the grand total of £3 to get by on.

[Doggy]

When I bought the gas-guzzling Volvo in 2009 petrol was 87p/ltr.......

......how I laughed as I sloshed in that green stuff with gay abandon

These days I can be seen crying in pain as I gingerly wait for the very last drip to fall from the nozzle into my possession

Must be an agonising dilema trying to work out whether it's evaporating faster than it's dripping from the nozzle

(They're now going to graft nasal hair onto BP petrol delivery nozzles - just as the last drop or two is about to drip of the end, you'll hear a loud sniffing noise).....