Things you could buy with the Punt which cost more with the Euro

bear1

I started reminiscing about my secondary school days which spent half the time during the Punt and the other half with the Euro.
I remember penny sweets which actually cost a penny and youd come out with a massive bag of them for 1 pound
Then refresher bars and stingers costing 10p and now i see them for 6/70c.
Everything seemed cheaper with the Punt.
I think my school uniform was 15 pounds which I remember my parents mad as ****e about that.
Fuel I vaguely remember but something tells me about 70p per litre of petrol?
So what can you remember that cost less pre-Euro times and to make it interesting things that cost less post-Euro times.

Kirby

I know right? :mad:

I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

neil_

Everything was cheaper. http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/ireland/historic-inflation/cpi-inflation-ireland.aspx

Valetta

Back when we had the pound, the Punt and € were just farthings yet to come.

One eyed Jack

bear1 wrote: »

So what can you remember that cost less pre-Euro times and to make it interesting things that cost less post-Euro times.

The Pound Shop became the Euro Store.

Good times, for a while at least!

MilesMorales1

Everything gets more expensive over time OP.

Sir Osis of Liver.

sugarman wrote: »

Mars bars used to cost 26 or 28p before the euro, they're now well over a euro in most places.

Chocolate in general. All relative to the inflation of coca prices tho I suppose.

They decreased in size too.

When I was a youngster you could be eating a Mars Bar for an hour.

namloc1980

sugarman wrote: »

65g down to 48g apparently! Knew they shrunk, but didn't think it was that much!

Yorkie was 70g in late 90s / early 2000s, now around 50g. Price only gone up though.

bear1

Cadburys Roses were also bigger back then, feckin things are tiny now.

One eyed Jack

bear1 wrote: »

Cadburys Roses were also bigger back then, feckin things are tiny now.

Have you seen those? :eek:


http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2015/12/17/09/quality-street-post.jpg

fullstop

sugarman wrote: »

Mars bars used to cost 26 or 28p before the euro, they're now well over a euro in most places.

Chocolate in general. All relative to the inflation of coca prices tho I suppose.

It was a hell of a long time before the euro that Mars bars were 26 or 28p!

Kev W

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Have you seen those? :eek:


http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2015/12/17/09/quality-street-post.jpg

Thing is, you can still buy those big tins. I got one myself only yesterday.

Liam McPoyle

CD's were the the thing I noticed were more expensive with the eurdo.

Before it came in you could buy a new release album for for around £15. When the change happened it bumped to around €20.

Havnt bought a CD in years though.

Snickers Man

I often wonder how that happens.

kfallon

When the Euro was introduced, it was supposed to be at a rate of £1 = €1.27 but everything became more expensive. Anything that was £1 was, at it's lowest, prob €1.30. Businesses saw it as a chance to make more profit so everything was more expensive

kavanada

£15 is €20 basically, Business Cat.

Inflation is the main answer to your question, OP. Nothing much else.

I too remember fuel being 70p or 95c in late 90's and early 2000's but then so much was added by the Greens (remember them?) in carbon taxes. Not so much inflation as state sanctioned theft.

bear1

I wonder, if Ireland had never gotten the Euro and kept at the Punt and for arguments sake say that the boom and bust had happened anyway, would Ireland be a more expensive country than it is now or cheaper?
I would probably guess more expensive due to the bailout coming as a foreign currency so having higher interests rates.

Avatar MIA

Erm, anyone care to mention the wage levels back in the year 2000?

Nah, me neither. Too lazy.

Yeah, gobernment suck!

bear1

Avatar MIA wrote: »

Erm, anyone care to mention the wage levels back in the year 2000?

Nah, me neither. Too lazy.

Yeah, gobernment suck!

Well the average min wage was 1300e from 00-05.
Looking at the average Irish manufacturing wage in 00 it was 423.24e per week net.

Whyohwhy?

A lump of hash went up by a few bob almost overnight round my way, cheeky feckers.
On the plus side, e's cost less, haven't paid more than a fiver in yonks...

Kev W

bear1 wrote: »

Well the average min wage was 1300e from 00-05.
Looking at the average Irish manufacturing wage in 00 it was 423.24e per week net.

You can't have an "average minimum wage". It's either the minimum or the average.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I used to buy a penny stamp, then they were 10 pence and now they are 11 schillings or 132 pennies.

Annasopra

sugarman wrote: »

Mars bars used to cost 26 or 28p before the euro, they're now well over a euro in most places.

Chocolate in general. All relative to the inflation of coca prices tho I suppose.

And smaller. Drinks. Chocoloate bars. Crisp packets. The price of them rises and the size goes down.

Eugene Norman

You are still all better off.

Also it wasn't the euro but inflation.

bear1

Kev W wrote: »

You can't have an "average minimum wage". It's either the minimum or the average.

Yeah sorry input average by mistake.

SouthTippBass

Snickers Man wrote: »

I often wonder how that happens.

My first thought when I see an unlabelled link on the internet this weekend: Its a spoiler for Star Wars.

donegaLroad

bear1 wrote: »

I started reminiscing about my secondary school days which spent half the time during the Punt and the other half with the Euro.
I remember penny sweets which actually cost a penny and youd come out with a massive bag of them for 1 pound
Then refresher bars and stingers costing 10p and now i see them for 6/70c.
Everything seemed cheaper with the Punt.
I think my school uniform was 15 pounds which I remember my parents mad as ****e about that.
Fuel I vaguely remember but something tells me about 70p per litre of petrol?
So what can you remember that cost less pre-Euro times and to make it interesting things that cost less post-Euro times.

I remember a litre of diesel was 72c back in 2002. We used to cross the border to fill the car 25 years ago because it was approx 18p per litre which was significantly cheaper than what it was 'down south'.

As far as I can recall, a pint in 1990 was £1.40 irl.

When the Euro came in everything was rounded upwards in price.

eg. the Indo was £1 in 2001, when the Euro came in it went up to €1.27, then €1.30, then €1.50 in the space of a year.

Capt'n Midnight

When the euro came in dentists, hairdressers, doctors all rounded up to the next fiver.

M50 toll was already rounded up. So instead of taking the original price they rounded up the already rounded up one.

Pound shops became two euro shops , pretty much until Dealz

Excise duty on a pint has increased by 7c since 1998.

AppleBottle

Ah I still can't accept that a Freddo bar was 10p and now gone to 30c, with more increases in the future I'm sure... Heartbreaking stuff.

Gaygooner

Ireland's largest year of inflation was 2000 not 2002 so myth busted

ongarboy

Business Cat wrote: »

CD's were the the thing I noticed were more expensive with the eurdo.

Before it came in you could buy a new release album for for around £15. When the change happened it bumped to around €20.

Havnt bought a CD in years though.

I actually thought CDs came down in price in the euro era. I remember buying double disc greatest hits or compilations for £19.99 back in the 90s or new releases for £15 but I'm pretty sure any CDs I bought since the euro were always much cheaper. Likewise, I haven't bought a physical CD since about 2007 so not sure what the prices are now though.

Sweets, crisps and soft drinks definitely seem to have gone way up alright. I think general grocery items (bread/milk etc) have remained static or have come down as have clothes. (thanks to Aldi/Lidl and the influx of highstreet chains - Zara, H&M etc). I remember buying Levis 501s :P back in the early 90s for 50 pounds which would probably be over 100 euro now if you factor inflation. Unless you're going for designer jeans (GStar, Diesel. etc), you'd never need to pay more than 70 euro for a pair of decent jeans these days.

Avatar MIA

The introduction of the euro had a minimal effect, but inflation has been impacting the price of commodities for hundreds of years.

Think back to the price of petrol (or anything you like) in 2001 pre euro and 1970.

snubbleste

Business Cat wrote: »

CD's were the the thing I noticed were more expensive with the eurdo.
Before it came in you could buy a new release album for for around £15. When the change happened it bumped to around €20.
Havnt bought a CD in years though.

Remember when you started buying CDs direct from HongKong with cdwow!
That was amazing at the time.

snubbleste

kavanada wrote: »

£15 is €20 basically, Business Cat.

Well technically €19.04607117643772 or €19.05

Badly Drunk Boy

Computers are probably cheaper.

bear1

Anyone remember what a pack of fags cost pre euro times?
What about electricity? Gas?

Whyohwhy?

bear1 wrote: »

Anyone remember what a pack of fags cost pre euro times?
What about electricity? Gas?

10 John player blue were £1.60 odd... Not sure how long before the euro was brought in though a bout a year I think. No idea on gas or electricity, still don't!

cdeb

fullstop wrote: »

It was a hell of a long time before the euro that Mars bars were 26 or 28p!

I don't think it was.

Fairly sure I remember Moros being 28p (on reduction from 32p) in late 2001.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Excise duty on a pint has increased by 7c since 1998.

It went up 10c in 2013 and again in 2014.

Do you mean 7c a year?

On a side note, I hate the use of the word "punt". Nobody ever called it the punt back when it was being used - why do people use it now? Daft revisionism.

fullstop

cdeb wrote: »

I don't think it was.

Fairly sure I remember Moros being 28p (on reduction from 32p) in late 2001.


It went up 10c in 2013 and again in 2014.

Do you mean 7c a year?

On a side note, I hate the use of the word "punt". Nobody ever called it the punt back when it was being used - why do people use it now? Daft revisionism.

Are we talking about Mars or Moro? Because Mars had that reduced price flasher on it in the summer of '95, that's quite a bit before the euro.

cdeb

Well I'm assuming all bars cost roughly the same amount.

I think it was actually early 2002 that Moro (not Mars) bars were 28p on special from 32p - remember thinking they must have been the last of the batch.

Capt'n Midnight

cdeb wrote: »

Do you mean 7c a year?

From Taxpolicy.gov.ie http://taxpolicy.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/12-20-General-Excise-Duties.pdf

The excise duty on all alcohol products was decreased by around 20% in Budget
2010. Prior to that, the excise duty on beer had remained unchanged since the Budget of
January 1994 (apart from the introduction in October 2008 of a new 50% lower rate of excise
for beers and cider of alcohol strength by volume of less than 2.8%)

Today's excise rate is 22.55 per hectolitre per cent of alcohol in the beer. For something at 4% this works out at 51.23c

see also http://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/19131/ which says €19.87 back in 1994
(what it doesn't say is how many drinkers changed from cider to beer)
Also back in 1970 excise contributed to 16.5% of revenue.

cdeb

Completely missed that somehow! :eek:

Dricmeister

Remember when a packet of crisps (Tayto) were 10/11/12p? The pack had the price on it (down in the corner).

I also remember going to rugby matches in Lansdowne Road when the schoolboy tickets were £3. Compare that to the price of attending a game now.

Gaygooner

40p for chocolate in 98 so I'd image it was 45/50p in 2001 pre euro

fullstop

cdeb wrote: »

Well I'm assuming all bars cost roughly the same amount.

I think it was actually early 2002 that Moro (not Mars) bars were 28p on special from 32p - remember thinking they must have been the last of the batch.

Definitely not, it was 1995. I remember it very well.

o1s1n

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Computers are probably cheaper.

Technology is much cheaper now all around. When my parents moved into their first house in the 80s, they bought a TV and VHS player on higher purchase that cost about £1000 in total.

My first proper entry level PC back in 2000/01 cost £600.

Videogames for home consoles cost £40-£50 as standard. You'd get one for Christmas, one for your birthday and the rest would be rented/swapped with friends.

We did still have proper sized Yorkies back then though so I'm not sure who was better off :pac: