Interest rates for housing, page-33

Mine was 18% as well. Back then a Saturday night out, in summer, was to push the pram up to the local shops after dinner to buy a ice-cream, walk down the other side of the strip shopping centre, look in the shop windows at what we couldn't afford and go home and watch Bill Collins and Mary Hardy on Channel 7's Penthouse Club.

Ham steak and pineapple was the meal of the week.

I kept a copy of the home loan statement just to show the kids.