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

bear1 · 19-12-2015 10:54AM #1

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 · 19-12-2015 10:55AM

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_ · 19-12-2015 10:58AM

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

Valetta · 19-12-2015 11:02AM

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

One eyed Jack · 19-12-2015 11:02AM

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 · 19-12-2015 11:02AM

Everything gets more expensive over time OP.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 19-12-2015 11:11AM

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 · 19-12-2015 11:20AM

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 · 19-12-2015 11:30AM

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

One eyed Jack · 19-12-2015 11:33AM

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 · 19-12-2015 11:36AM

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 · 19-12-2015 11:36AM

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 · 19-12-2015 11:40AM

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 · 19-12-2015 11:47AM

I often wonder how that happens.

kfallon · 19-12-2015 11:56AM

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 · 19-12-2015 12:00PM

£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 · 19-12-2015 12:05PM

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 · 19-12-2015 12:08PM

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

Nah, me neither. Too lazy.

Yeah, gobernment suck!

bear1 · 19-12-2015 12:13PM

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? · 19-12-2015 12:16PM

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 · 19-12-2015 12:18PM

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 · 19-12-2015 12:29PM

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

Annasopra · 19-12-2015 01:11PM

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 · 19-12-2015 01:17PM

You are still all better off.

Also it wasn't the euro but inflation.

bear1 · 19-12-2015 01:39PM

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 · 19-12-2015 02:48PM

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 · 19-12-2015 03:16PM

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 · 20-12-2015 12:47AM

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 · 20-12-2015 02:20AM

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 · 20-12-2015 02:26AM

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

ongarboy · 20-12-2015 02:54AM

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.

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

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