Comments on: 10 Things That Used to Be Free

By: Carol@inthetrenches

Carol@inthetrenches — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:20:23 +0000

Very interesting. I know that over the next few days my brain will be churning to come up with more…

By: Minny

Minny — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:22:28 +0000

Here in the UK it used to be a ‘coin in the slot’ to use lavatories. Not so now – mostly, there are exceptions but usually it’s free.

That is why older people here say ‘spend a penny’ because that was the general price.

When using public lavatories back in the day, I remember the female members of the family holding the door for the next until we had all ‘been’ so as to only spend one penny.

By: bobebob

bobebob — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:19:28 +0000

If you look at the link at the end of the bench video, it appears to be an art piece by Fabian Brunsing as opposed to a serious attempt to charge people to sit on a bench.

But given my take on his project, I think he would agree with the rest of your article.