£10 DWP XP

[reg]

Party time

Just received my £10 christmas bonus.

Which gets me a Tesco Finest Fruit cake.

 

 "The £10 bonus was introduced in 1972"

"£10 in 1972 is equivalent in purchasing power to about £155.94 today"

Edited December 5, 2022 by reg

[Loddon]

I bought 2 Aldi finest fruit cakes with mine

 

[LadyG]

First I've heard of it, Ill have to make a claim backdated 

[Nightwatch]

I’m saving mine!

[ditchcrawler]

27 minutes ago, Loddon said:

I bought 2 Aldi finest fruit cakes with mine

 

We are saving ours, £10 each.

24 minutes ago, LadyG said:

First I've heard of it, Ill have to make a claim backdated 

You told me what it was this morning

[Lady C]

No that was me not Lady G.

[MtB]

Isn't it a BITCH when the free money given to you is not as much as you think it should be?

 

 

 

 

[rusty69]

7 hours ago, MtB said:

Isn't it a BITCH when the free money given to you is not as much as you think it should be?

 

 

 

 

At least one person on here doesn't even seem to know what the 'free money'  landing in their bank account is for.

 

Poor boomers!

[Bee]

£10!!! Whee!, that's me sorted this weekend! Couple of pints in the pub, maybe a quick visit to the local red light area and fish and chips on the way home, Yay!!! It's been ages since I've had a night out!

[Nightwatch]

2 minutes ago, Bee said:

£10!!! Whee!, that's me sorted this weekend! Couple of pints in the pub, maybe a quick visit to the local red light area and fish and chips on the way home, Yay!!! It's been ages since I've had a night out!

2 Pints and a bag of scratchings in the local here!

[pearley]

11 hours ago, LadyG said:

First I've heard of it, Ill have to make a claim backdated 

If you receive your state pension monthly then the £10 is paid into your bank separately. If you receive it weekly then it's added to that weeks payment so many people don't realise they have it.

[BEngo]

£10?  Five Litres of Heck's single variety farmhouse cider ( Kingston Black for preference) or 5 l of vintage (dry is fave)  and some change toward some Keens unpasteurized  farmhouse cheddar.

 

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[Jon57]

18 minutes ago, Bee said:

£10!!! Whee!, that's me sorted this weekend! Couple of pints in the pub, maybe a quick visit to the local red light area and fish and chips on the way home, Yay!!! It's been ages since I've had a night out!

40 years is a long time.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Slim]

Now, what's the address of my financial adviser ? I'm not squandering mine of frivolities like beer and cake, I'm planning for the hard days ahead.💰💰💰 

[Slim]

6 minutes ago, Jon57 said:

40 years is a long time.🤣🤣🤣🤣,

I recall when you could go out and buy 7 pints (Watneys Special ), 20 Embassy Tipped ,a box of matches and still have change from a Pound

[Jon57]

5 minutes ago, Slim said:

I recall when you could go out and buy 7 pints (Watneys Special ), 20 Embassy Tipped ,a box of matches and still have change from a Pound

60 years plus then 🤣🤣the red light is what was taking all your money 🤣🤣🤣

[Slim]

1 minute ago, Jon57 said:

60 years plus then 🤣🤣the red light is what was taking all your money 🤣🤣🤣

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[wandering snail]

11 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

We are saving ours, £10 each.

 

By next year it will be worth £5.

[wandering snail]

1972 -With £10 I could buy nearly 3 weeks worth of a complete food shop at the newly opened Sainsbury's supermarket, the first supermarket to open in Norwich then. Admittedly I only earned £8 a week.....

[reg]

3 hours ago, Slim said:

I recall when you could go out and buy 7 pints (Watneys Special ), 20 Embassy Tipped ,a box of matches and still have change from a Pound

Embassy Filter Red 20 Pack Tescos £13.70 (Dec 2022)

Edited December 6, 2022 by reg

[Alan de Enfield]

Back in my School days the 'little shop' just outside the gates used to break down cigarette packets and sell 'a single and a match' for 3d.

Never quite sure what you'd get but they were normally Park Drive 'Blue' or Players No10. (Players No6 were more expensive)

 

I think a pack of 10 "No10" was around 2/- (10p)

 

A quick google suggest that by 1968 a pack of 20 "No10" was 3/2 (16p)

[Machpoint005]

5 hours ago, pearley said:

If you receive your state pension monthly then the £10 is paid into your bank separately. If you receive it weekly then it's added to that weeks payment so many people don't realise they have it.

 

Just as well it goes straight into the bank. I wouldn't be bothering to cross the street to pick up £10.

 

The Memsahib and I will give ours to the grandchildren. 

 

 

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[Ex Brummie]

6 hours ago, Bee said:

£10!!! Whee!, that's me sorted this weekend! Couple of pints in the pub, maybe a quick visit to the local red light area and fish and chips on the way home, Yay!!! It's been ages since I've had a night out!

What will you do with the change? Same again next week.

[Goliath]

2 hours ago, Ex Brummie said:

What will you do with the change? Same again next week.

Ain’t it so the old folk can buy some Viagra and have a merry christamas?

[Dav and Pen]

It was a Christmas present from that nice Gordon Brown so we will put it towards a bottle of Gordons.