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Who remembers using these? Show your age and own up

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Money cannot buy happiness, but it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes Benz than on a bicycle.

Not those, but I do still have the old R1 note around somewhere!

Wayyyy before I came on the scene I'm afraid!

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A plan is simply a basis for change.

I only remember the 10 Shilling note.

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Money cannot buy happiness, but it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes Benz than on a bicycle.

Yep, remember the 10 shilling note ( and the R1 note), but the Five Pound note...must have been a months wages back then

Yep - I remember when the One Penny coin was replaced by the One Cent coin with the immediately inflationary effect of being able to purchase only 3 star toffees for it instead of 4 that the penny got you. It was quite late in the sixties before my old man's monthly wages exceeded R100 per month.
I mourn the demise of the R1 note - due to it's social use. Asking whose farm was depicted on the back.

I was around but a bit young to remember ....

I do remember my first 'sakgeld' (pocket money) which was R1.20 per week in 1965, some of which went towards the Airfix model planes in plastic packets at the OK Bazaar in Johannesburg city centre costing 59c iirc. Rand notes came my way only on birthdays.

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I can remember buying Airfix models, series 1, I think, in the plastic bags (boxes only started with the next step up) at the PGI (SADFI) for 30c. Cement included. I used to earn pocket money by delivering bread and newspapers. And one year I got, as a birthday present from rich relatives, an Airfix C-130 - which was the biggest plastic model I had had to date! Huge it was to a little laaitie.

To us "Old Ballies",

You still remember the song of "Daan Desimaal" ?
"1/2 sent vir een pennie en een sent vir twee . . . . . . . . "

And the rest of the 'rympie' .... ?

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Travelling in Europe - including photos.
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My Portfolio of Airplane Pictures
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The English Version.
Decimal Dan the Rand-cent man,
Gives you cents for pennies wherever he can,
One cent for a penny and two for two,
And two and a half for a tickey,
And notes and silver are worth the same,
Remember it's just a changing their name.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/decimal-coinage

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Money cannot buy happiness, but it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes Benz than on a bicycle.

Ah! Now it begins to ring a bell. I don't think I ever consciously heard/read the Afrikaans version.

I just realised with a shock that I might be one of the youngest posters on this site.

That feels so much better. I don't mind the girls calling me "Oom", as long as they don't say ... Soppie lorrie.

Sies you dirty old men ... I know what you were thinking.

I wanted to say: as long as they don't say: "kan ek vir Oom help dra"

Yeah, right!!!

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Gil en spring!!!!!

Imagine how I feel

Kinders moet gesien word en nie gehoor word nie! I will now shut-up.

Who remembers Airwolf, Straatvalk, Macgyver, Magnum PI, "real" jawbreakers, Styvesant 10's, Lucky Strike, Jan Smuts Lughawe, St George's Pub with dagga-runs every other weekend by the cops, Bloubergstrand, flossies and Pumas, the original wear belts and battle webbing, actual staaldakke, putties, Orkney snork nie, Gerard Viviers, Al Debo, may I continue ... Or should I start a new reminising thread?

Ah, the good ole days!

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Gil en spring!!!!!