[Jarred Santos]

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We often hear the term ‘back in the days’ when talking about the past; this time is no exception.

The above photo is the Wednesday, May 21, 1969 edition of the Daily Mirror showing food advertisements for a supermarket. Look at those prices! Lamb chops for less than $2, sausages sold for 25c per pound, 25c for a 5-pound pack of potatoes. These are enough to bring tears to anyone’s eyes, probably not because of nostalgia…

Do you remember a time when prices were this low? Tell us below!

 

[Bernice S]

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We often hear the term ‘back in the days’ when talking about the past; this time is no exception.

The above photo is the Wednesday, May 21, 1969 edition of the Daily Mirror showing food advertisements for a supermarket. Look at those prices! Lamb chops for less than $2, sausages sold for 25c per pound, 25c for a 5-pound pack of potatoes. These are enough to bring tears to anyone’s eyes, probably not because of nostalgia…

Do you remember a time when prices were this low? Tell us below!

I do remember a time when prices were this low. I also remember at the same time that wages were that low as well.

 

[Anthony S]

I remember going to the football with 5/- (that is 50 cents today) and that was enough for admission, a pie and a drink and a packet of Turf filters 4 in a pack. Petrol was 20 pence a gallon .
But it is all relative, wages were 1076 pounds per year .
Now I'm 70 so it was a little while ago.

 

[Luckysue]

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We often hear the term ‘back in the days’ when talking about the past; this time is no exception.

The above photo is the Wednesday, May 21, 1969 edition of the Daily Mirror showing food advertisements for a supermarket. Look at those prices! Lamb chops for less than $2, sausages sold for 25c per pound, 25c for a 5-pound pack of potatoes. These are enough to bring tears to anyone’s eyes, probably not because of nostalgia…

Do you remember a time when prices were this low? Tell us below!

Not really but the brochure caught my eye. It was for New World supermarkets which was a subsidiary of the giant Foodstuffs in NZ.

 

[Rusty-anne]

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We often hear the term ‘back in the days’ when talking about the past; this time is no exception.

The above photo is the Wednesday, May 21, 1969 edition of the Daily Mirror showing food advertisements for a supermarket. Look at those prices! Lamb chops for less than $2, sausages sold for 25c per pound, 25c for a 5-pound pack of potatoes. These are enough to bring tears to anyone’s eyes, probably not because of nostalgia…

Do you remember a time when prices were this low? Tell us below!

I remember these days. I remember when a huge shopping spree at a grocery store cost $6.00, and that included going to a butchers, and a bakers, as the supermarket didn't sell fresh meat and bread then..Rent was around $10 and wages were about $25-30...I could always afford a handbag & shoes( usually onsale for around $3 each), or an outfit too. Now, I'm op shop and food bank from time to time...

 

[Macarj]

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We often hear the term ‘back in the days’ when talking about the past; this time is no exception.

The above photo is the Wednesday, May 21, 1969 edition of the Daily Mirror showing food advertisements for a supermarket. Look at those prices! Lamb chops for less than $2, sausages sold for 25c per pound, 25c for a 5-pound pack of potatoes. These are enough to bring tears to anyone’s eyes, probably not because of nostalgia…

Do you remember a time when prices were this low? Tell us below!

But don't forget wages were very low as well

 

[Janice Reilly]

Back in 1969 a worker earned about $100 per week, so probably comparative to today.

 

[Linwar]

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We often hear the term ‘back in the days’ when talking about the past; this time is no exception.

The above photo is the Wednesday, May 21, 1969 edition of the Daily Mirror showing food advertisements for a supermarket. Look at those prices! Lamb chops for less than $2, sausages sold for 25c per pound, 25c for a 5-pound pack of potatoes. These are enough to bring tears to anyone’s eyes, probably not because of nostalgia…

Do you remember a time when prices were this low? Tell us below!

Yes but the wages were in line with the cost. In 1969 I was working as a junior clerk and getting $27 a week.I note that the prices are in cents but the weight was in pounds. All was supposed to change in 1966 when we went metric

 

[RTS]

Weekly wage for a man was $40 in 1969. Tradesmen got $50.
Women shop assistants earned about $30.

 

[Michelle S]

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We often hear the term ‘back in the days’ when talking about the past; this time is no exception.

The above photo is the Wednesday, May 21, 1969 edition of the Daily Mirror showing food advertisements for a supermarket. Look at those prices! Lamb chops for less than $2, sausages sold for 25c per pound, 25c for a 5-pound pack of potatoes. These are enough to bring tears to anyone’s eyes, probably not because of nostalgia…

Do you remember a time when prices were this low? Tell us below!

Yes, my daughter was born 6weeks later, and we were struggling to pay our mortgage, having bought our house a year before (the rates were yet to reach 18%, and the petrol crisis was coming, not an easy time). Back then we both had to work.
... never stopped working for the next 40 years.

 

[Jarred Santos]

Thank you so much for these comments!

You all pointing out that wages at the time pretty much evened out the relatively low costs really puts things in perspective, especially for someone like myself who looks at things like this and says 'How I wish we had that right now.'

 

[Michelle S]

Yes but the wages were in line with the cost. In 1969 I was working as a junior clerk and getting $27 a week.I note that the prices are in cents but the weight was in pounds. All was supposed to change in 1966 when we went metric

Jarred Santos, not quite. Currency decimalisation happened 14Feb 1966, however adoption of "my lovely French metric system" happened in July 1974.

 

[Linwar]

Jarred Santos, not quite. Currency decimalisation happened 14Feb 1969, however adoption of "my lovely French metric system" happened in July 1974.

Decimal currency came in 14, Feb 1966. remember the adds "so be prepared when the money starts to mix, on the fourteenth of February 1966." I know I was just starting work in 1966 and was paid indollars, my first pay was $18.63 cents.

 

[Michelle S]

Decimal currency came in 14, Feb 1966. remember the adds "so be prepared when the money starts to mix, on the fourteenth of February 1966." I know I was just starting work in 1966 and was paid indollars, my first pay was $18.63 cents.

Decimal currency came in 14, Feb 1966. remember the adds "so be prepared when the money starts to mix, on the fourteenth of February 1966." I know I was just starting work in 1966 and was paid indollars, my first pay was $18.63 cents.

YES 1966...I arrived in Australia in 1965 and the currency changed a few months later, apologies should read back before posting.