Fuck all else to do really. No TV, iPads, social media, credit cards, mortgage rates etc. You got a job and generally knew what you had coming in for the next year / decade and what you needed to put on the family table each week. Any extra went in your pocket for a drink or a bet. Simpler times. It had it's positives.
In some ways it hasn't changed. I work, travel round a lot overseas, come home and on pay day the missus (a Yorkshire lass) does the books and tells me what I have to spend. She and the family are well looked after. I get enough to keep me happy and a drink.
