Do you rememberprices when you first arrived??

hawkeye


Joined: 12/09/2010
Posts: 334

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 17:58

When you first came here can you remember the prices of goods.......

7 years ago for us

the exchange rate was aroound 2.85tl to £

Lamb was 9tl kilo

Milk 1 litre 60kr

Bread 50kr

We got our pine furniture made

2 bedside tables, 2 single 3ft pine beds, 1 double pine bed, dressing table, 2 small chest of drawers, oval dining table and 6 chairs, side board, mirro, large bookcase all for £1200 - wonder how much it will cost now

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 18:17

5 years strongbow was 7tl now 3 ,effes was 3 now 5 average meat kepap was 12 or a donner 4 with ayran now 20 or 8 for the same the lawers set charge was 1000 stg now they are askin for 1200 and as for furniture wow

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 18:25

Historically money halves in value every ten years.... this is an economic fact that often gets missed when people start talking about 'do you remember the day when you could buy a suit for 10 shillings?' not remembering that 10 shillings was two weeks wages then! Take two weeks wages now and you could probably buy two suits...



As monetary values decrease it isn't surprising that some things go up but it's only on paper. If you earn more the effect is lessened...



When dishwashers were first on the market the cost was today's equivalent of three thousand pounds.



However the exchange rates being 2.85 and now 2.25 means that the TL is very much stronger... not the fault of Turkey and not a reason to say prices have gone up...

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 18:40

Ah --- But you failed to mention the interest rate folk received at that time ???

Goonerboy


Joined: 01/04/2009
Posts: 723

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 18:53

when i were a kid, you'd go out with 1lira and come back with:



3 kg of chicken

1kg of mince

5kg of lamb chops

5 breads

3kg of fish

5 cartons of milk,

5 boxes of cadbury's choc

10 Monopoly Board Games



and have change I'll tell ya...

































but then the b@stards fitted security cameras and got security guards lol

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 20:15

Goonerboy that made me chuckle and kev is roaring lol.

Goonerboy


Joined: 01/04/2009
Posts: 723

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 20:55

Just couldnt help ma self lol

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 20:57

Goonerboy - made me laugh out loud. Hillarious

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 21:00

Goonerboy, very good, reminds me of my childhood but what are batstards

swyflot


Joined: 07/11/2008
Posts: 916

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 21:41

Goonerboy.....made me laugh out loud !! Keep up the good work

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 21:45

I can also remember the 'club' prices!



Richard

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 21:47

Good one Gooner. ) )

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 21:51

Gooner was expelled from Liverpool!



Richard

jakki



Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 865

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 21:55

Since 2007 (when we first purchased) we have seen a rise of about 50% on food and drink (restaurants)

mmanue


Joined: 25/08/2010
Posts: 68

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 22:13

when cooking gaz was 16tl,ekmek 50kr and otobüs 1tl and salaries 950tl.

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 02:45

1985................£1.41 for packet of cigarettes,....weeks wage £230

2008................£6.00 for packet of cigarettes.....weeks wage......you should be so lucky.

apc2010


Joined: 28/07/2010
Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 02:47

then buy them in cyprus..........

yenibob


Joined: 13/10/2010
Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 02:47

Yorgozlu, thats the UK which is chearting, but very true

apc2010


Joined: 28/07/2010
Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 02:58

Average earnings in UK (London in brackets)

1980: £5,720 (£6,604)

1985: £8,890 (£10,660)



you must have had a good job...........



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/593477.stm

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 03:27

msg 19............no,not a good job,but got brains.....25 years on he is still searching for someone like ME.

apc2010


Joined: 28/07/2010
Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 03:30

is "HE" a policeman ..lol .....

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 06:52

Yoz... where are you hiding the brains?

NCMan



Joined: 19/09/2009
Posts: 670

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 07:43

Is this the whinging Poms creeping back into the fold ?

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 07:51

NCMan, You are probably right... they seem to want prices to stay still here when the rest of the world is volatile as hell.... Cyprus is not life in a bubble.



If they only asked themselves what their income was 10 years ago and then compared it's buying power to today.

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
21/10/2010 07:57

Groucho..........down below........