What can 1p buy you these days?

[MarioMark]

This should be fun!

I can't even remember the last time I saw 1 penny sweets at my local corner shop.

What can 1p buy you these days? And 1p bids on eBay don't count as with most stuff you have to still pay postage.

[Kongster]

I bought a load of energy saving light bulbs for 1p each at Tesco last year. Mind you, they were "reduced to clear" lol.

[Number45]

The school shop where I take my daughter to ballet each Saturday morning has 1p sweets. Other than that nothing springs to mind, can't remember the last time I saw something in a shop for 1p... although I don't go to shops very often.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

I wish I could buy those 1p bubble gum golf balls again

[112]

Don't they do cheap flights from time to time on easy jet or ryan air for a penny with a massive *asterix* next to it?

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[Number45]

As in:

* - price doesn't include £499 airport tax

[112]

As in:

* - price doesn't include ?499 airport tax

You knows it! I think you can still get penny sweets in some newsagents......... BUT I heard on teh radio this morning that Pic N Mixs are back, as Wolworths is online now lol........

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[wonderboy]

No fountain nearby, to toss it into for luck ?

[abigsmurf]

1p will buy you any number of struggling companies

[vertigo]

The fans bought Brentford FC for 2 quid a few years back (including ~?10m of debt but that's our version of airport tax).
Hmm... not a lot for 1p, most 'penny' sweets I see these days are 5 sodding p and any that are marked up as 1p I don't trust coz they're probably old and minging.

I'm all for discontinuing 1p and 2p pieces for cash payments. No problem to have an exact amount if you pay by card, but I think for cash we should go the Australian route and round up to the next 5p and get all that crap out of circulation. It can't be economical to manufacture all of it.

[kernow]

Don't they do cheap flights from time to time on easy jet or ryan air for a penny with a massive *asterix* next to it?

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[ShadowDancer]

1p could buy you a wish. I think wonderboy said this also. A wish is a wish.

[wonderboy]

Or you could put it in a piggybank, could come to a tidy sum. In these times...

[Welrain]

I tried to buy a penny sweet recently..it was 2p...wtf.

[vertigo]

1p could buy you a wish. I think wonderboy said this also. A wish is a wish.

Give a man a wish and he can dream for a day...