Saw a 10-cent coin in drain

[Silver_blade]

My pocket money while in pri school wan 70 cents...considered 'rich'

[Albeniz]

My pocket money while in pri school wan 70 cents...considered 'rich'

 

Were you born in the very early 70s (e.g. 1971, 1972) or late 60s, if you are, then you are considered as "rich" for havng 70cents as daily allowance.

Otherwise, no.

[Ysc3]

Inflation sets in.

 

I gave a beggar 40cts from my table and he asked for $1 instead (real case).

 

Kids know about price too.

 

got people tell me ... reason they do not pick up coins is that coins are for the beggars ... so i also stopped picking up coins.

[Silver_blade]

Early '70s. It was a rather generous allowance...but need to save the extras for other stuff like exercise books, pencils, hair cut, etc...

[Albeniz]

My pocket money while in pri school wan 70 cents...considered 'rich'

There is this other "Rags to Riches" thread in lite and easy section.

Considering my 40cent allowance many years ago, I feel like contributing my story there.

 

 

[Silver_blade]

got people tell me ... reason they do not pick up coins is that coins are for the beggars ... so i also stopped picking up coins.

When I was a child, I was told those coin has black magic cast on it....but those who told me that will pick it up...cos those black magic specifically targeted at children :D

[Albeniz]

Early '70s. It was a rather generous allowance...but need to save the extras for other stuff like exercise books, pencils, hair cut, etc...

 

You need to pay for your hair-cut? Mine was sponsored by Ah Gong on separate account and not counted into the daily allowance.

And hair-cut was once a month.

[Silver_blade]

Your ah gong was good. My parents dare not try.

[Albeniz]

Your ah gong was good. My parents dare not try.

I meant Ah Gong paid for the haricut, I stayed at my grandparents' place when I was young.

 

[Silver_blade]

There is this other "Rags to Riches" thread in lite and easy section.

Considering my 40cent allowance many years ago, I feel like contributing my story there.

Should contribute. Actually, more people were poor in the '70's or maybe even during the '80s...but childhood was more fun and had more 'substance'. Nowadays, kids generally have more choices but not necessary more in substance.

[Silver_blade]

I meant Ah Gong paid for the haricut, I stayed at my grandparents' place when I was young.

I see. I think haircut was affordable...$2? Can't remember if my saving was enough or did my parents paid the difference.

[Albeniz]

Should contribute. Actually, more people were poor in the '70's or maybe even during the '80s...but childhood was more fun and had more 'substance'. Nowadays, kids generally have more choices but not necessary more in substance.

Yeah, when I was a kid, there were 10 people staying in a 3-room HDB flat in my grandpa's house.

The floor was the cold marble type (I think so) and my relatives had to lay the wooden thin planks on the floor before they could sleep on it.

 

Not even foam mattress. Now you ask the kids to sleep on the floor? Haha..

 

[Albeniz]

Yeah, when I was a kid, there were 10 people staying in a 3-room HDB flat in my grandpa's house.

The floor was the cold marble type (I think so) and my relatives had to lay the wooden thin planks on the floor before they could sleep on it.

 

Not even foam mattress. Now you ask the kids to sleep on the floor? Haha..

 

But strangely, we didn't feel poor then.

[Blackwind]

Remembered when i was small, would definitely pick up the coin as that would mean a sng bao treat. kids nowadays just walk away from it.

 

go to the drains behind school bus-stops or any other bus-stops .... it is a gold mine bcos last time noodles in school 30cents or 50cents i think.....

[Raymondism]

kids dun look at coin now, i have a coin bowl that collect all the loose change from our pocket when we come home, the kids cant bother to 'take' from it as if those are not 'money'

 

this is for fengshui izzit

[Rncw]

You must be older than me. When I was in primary one, the cheapest soup noodle in the canteen was already 20cents.

 

My P1 pocket money was 40cents. But in the subsequent years, the allowance was increased to 60 cents. Thanks to Ah Gong.

 

i only 47 this year, where go older?

[Tianmo]

When I visited Cambodia years ago, the child beggars at Ang Kor Wat asked for US$!

 

 

those are well train............. [laugh]

[Tianmo]

Saw this beggar who asked for $ to buy food and my fren told him to just order the food at the hawker stall & he will pay for it.... Guess what, he walked away! Argued but rejected him cos my fren thinks he wants to buy to ciggi...

 

 

not surprise........... [laugh]