During the 80's I remember going into town and seeing young artists/art students drawing beautiful pictures with chalk along O'Connell St. and opposite Trinity College. They were trying to raise money to keep themselves. As a result I discouraged my daughter from pursuing her interest in art.
I was very young in the 80's but when I think back now I see how my folks had to scrimp and save for everything. My Dads wage was completely accounted for, every last penny, and things weren't just bought for the sake of it or on spur of the moment. You certainly wouldn't be getting yourself into debt for furniture/jewellery/holidays. If we were going on holidays it was a huge deal and my parents had to save up for it and make sacrifices. Even with the recession today I don't see this happening too often. I asked my mam does the recession today compare to what it was like in the 80's and she said she wasn't really aware their was a recession in the 80's - she just thought that everyone was poor! I guess there wasn't the extremes in that nowadays alot of people had loads of money and then within a space of a year they had lost their job.
I remember everybody wore knitted jumpers - my mam used to pay a woman down the road to knit all kinds of big cardigans and jumpers for us. She'd bring us to the wool shops (of which there were loads) to pick the wool and the buttons that we liked! - everybody seemed to knit back then!. Also remember two of us being put into the same bath water on a Saturday night - no showers then!
Me too. And do you remember going out on friday night drinking plenty going to a nightclub with £20 in your pocket and being able to go out again on saturday night with the change of the £20 you had on friday night. What are the chances of that happening again?i can remember being in the pub with my friends a lot more than i can afford to be nowadays!
Pretty slim. I'm getting far too old for two nights drinking in a row.What are the chances of that happening again?