BENEFITS hmmmm

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by gpick24

It was the original payday loan, without the extortionate interest.

Very true,I don't remember paying a dime in interest on any of my 'tick bills'.
Do they charge a percentage nowadays for "tick" from the local shop or is is it still just pay what you owe??

[gpick24]

I doubt they could charge interest, don`t know if shops even do tick any more. Although I do remember our local shopkeeper coming banging on a neighbours door cos she hadn`t paid hers, that was about 6-7 years ago.

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by gpick24

I doubt they could charge interest, don`t know if shops even do tick any more. Although I do remember our local shopkeeper coming banging on a neighbours door cos she hadn`t paid hers, that was about 6-7 years ago.

Yeah they'd probably get the hit an miss taken out if them nowadays,I heard my local shop asks for collateral if you want "tick" (passport,driving licence etc)

[gpick24]

Sign of the times i`m afraid, be too much shame years ago to have that happen.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh, when we went to the 'bottom shop' it was owned by a lovely man ...Frank and his wife Edna(I think that was her name). It was an old fashioned corner shop that sold everything, but there was definitely no smell of incense back then.

G - there was no interest at all......the page where what you had bought was ripped out of the exercise book once you had paid up and it was taken back home to give to your Ma, to show that she was in the black again.
When we had cash money I used to get sent to the co-op so that we got the divi.

[gpick24]

I know the corner shops didn`t charge interest, it`s the modern day equivilent - Wonga, Payday UK etc. that are the robbing gits.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, you are right......they prey on those who are in a tight financial spot.
Back in the day there were pawn shops....but we had nothing worth anything to pawn.
So had it not been for the likes of Frank and Edna.......and Mrs Almond(who had a bake shop near the Band club.....our family would have sunk.

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Oh, when we went to the 'bottom shop' it was owned by a lovely man ...Frank and his wife Edna(I think that was her name). It was an old fashioned corner shop that sold everything, but there was definitely no smell of incense back then.

G - there was no interest at all......the page where what you had bought was ripped out of the exercise book once you had paid up and it was taken back home to give to your Ma, to show that she was in the black again.
When we had cash money I used to get sent to the co-op so that we got the divi.

I must be thinking of a later date ,it was owned by a asain couple (still lovely) I remember thinking what's with the smell but as I grew up i realised it was incense sticks an I quite liked it.Me and my cousins use to get 10p 'lucky bags' an go sit near where the coal use to be loaded for woodnook bleaching and dying.

[Margaret Pilkington]

The era that I am referring to was the fifties and sixties(when lucky bags were 3d).

[gpick24]

Did you have to wear funny glasses?

[Accyexplorer]

You'd be lucky to get a 'empty bag' for that nowadays .
50s-60s was before my time,Although I'm often told that I should of been born in the 50s with my way of thinking

[Accyexplorer]

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[gpick24]

Originally Posted by gpick24

Did you have to wear funny glasses?

for your 3D lucky bags.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Perhaps I should said three pennies or thripny
There was always a toy, some sweets and a carob bean(they looked like a brown flattened banana and smelled awful but they tasted good)

[Accyexplorer]

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