I never bought those things with my pocket money, NoM!
I remember buying a pair of boots in about 1975, and my father asking how much I'd paid for them -on hearing I'd paid £20, he commented "money no object, then!"
I still have a pair of shoes I bought in 1971, they cost me 29 shillings and 11 pence, I have kept them for posterity :-)
Joking aside, I used to go out on a Friday night with a couple of mates with only a pound because a pint was £33p and we could buy a round each. That was about 1979, so not that long ago.
bus into town paid a high price for my beer in the disco on deansgate then kfc and chips shared a cab home and would still have a few bob left out of a fiver
Being able to travel by train without any thought of the cost.
Being able to find a vacant carriage, putting one's case on the luggage rack, sliding the corridor door shut and pulling down the blind, ah the sheer luxury.