Australian 5 Cent Coin will it Go?

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BulldogPup
BulldogPup
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22 Aug 2012 5:57pm
kiteboy dave said...

Eventually it's gonna go.

I was just thinking the other day, $5 is the new $2.

Specifically, I wanted a milkshake at the local (to work) fish and chippie. Five bucks, thickshake $6.50, extra scoop ice cream $2. That floored me, $8.50 for a thickshake with the works.

When I was a lad, we had 1/2 cent lollies, that's right kids, 2 for a cent!


yeah mate - more in some cases , milk bottles were 3 or 4 for a cent - a one buck bag of lollies lasted days
I remember when Hungry Jacks/Burger King started up - Whoppers were bloody huge (....takes two hands to handle a whopper , handle a whopper da da da) and costed just under/over a dollar , Yumbo's were 60 cents .... ahhhhh good old days
kiteboy dave
kiteboy dave
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22 Aug 2012 8:05pm
Hell yeah 60c of chips was a feast for you and your mate... anyways, back then we used to tear a 2 dollar note diagonally and take it into 2 different banks with a sob story about how the other half got caught in the car/drain/etc, get free 2 bucks, go and buy chips with it...
BulldogPup
BulldogPup
6657 posts
6657 posts
22 Aug 2012 6:11pm
Yep - couldn't eat em all if it was 60 cents worth , that was heaps!
Our caper was Coke or other soft drink bottles for refund coinage , we scammed a heap of em down at the local beaches or river fronts where the kiosks were - usually had a bloody fortune in lollies stashed away every weekend , kept us grommets busy every weekend without fail
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