Washing the car

Viv's first contact with money was as a very young child (under 10 years of age). In order to introduce him to the basic notions of finance, his parents gave him a small amount of pocket money, and he has a dim recollection of counting his Pennies, Threepence coins (pronounced /THRUH PUNS/ ) and sixpences to make a shilling (there were 12 pennies to a shilling in the days before decimalisation in the UK in 1971) on the living room floor in the house he was born in, in Halstead in Kent.

His first job, in his early teens, was washing his parents' car. For this he received a small payment which he could spend as he liked.