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What' the cheapest you remember ..............

  • 14-02-2012 10:29pm
    #1
    i_am_job
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 53 ✭✭


    a pint of the black shtuff ...

    and a pack a fags ...(10 or 20)

    and a pouch of tobacco (state the weight with the price)

    Same question for Dublin Bus ticket and Irish Rail ticket (adult) for a commuter journey ...

    if you don't know exactly, then a ball park figure would be grand ..cheers :D

    no earlier than mid 1991 (when I was born)


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  • #2
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,109 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Why do people born in 1991 seem to have a common interest in how cheap things were in the 90s? Was there something in the water?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056478724


  • #3
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    A gallon of Guinness for £1


  • #4
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    aujopimur wrote: »
    A gallon of Guinness for £1
    Actually the cheapest cans/bottles of beer in off licences costed more then than they do now.

    Of course people conveniently forget this when they start moaning about prices these days.


  • #5
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I can remember 10 fags 20P and 20 were 40P

    There was an old guy in a newsagent that would do them singly too for 3P. :p


  • #6
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I can remember 10 fags 20P and 20 were 40P

    There was an old guy in a newsagent that would do them singly too for 3P. :p
    Did he include a red Friendly match.


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  • #7
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Pint of beer when i started about '89- £1.35, some beers were even cheaper and pack of crisps were about 20 pence, jesus im an oul fella at this stage!


  • #8
    JADMIX
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭JADMIX


    32p for a pint in 1982, 77p for 20 john player special,
    2 & 1/2p for crisps in 1974 thats about itcant remember any further back (uk prices)


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