Now that's a race track!

Didn't have Scalextric but had TCR (as was implied above) in the TCR wing (a.k.a. parents' bedroom - no idea why it wasn't in mine).

It was good because you could change lanes and there was a slower jam car as an obstacle:

I think today is so different from the old days, kids get such massively expensive presents at will.My parents were what you'd call working class, but Dad being a printer earned fairly decent money and they weren't tight, but if I got a "big" present like a Scalextric set or a bike it was always a birthday/Xmas present and only makeweights with them. Must be why everyone is in such debt. My dad believed in saving up before you bought anything, an abiding memory is of him coming home with his wage packet (cash in brown envelope, back then) and he had tins for everything that he's spend ages putting different money in and would the exact amount in when the particular bill came due.
 

All governments borrow, and it is sound economic strategy to borrow when interest rates are historically low to fund infrastructure projects that also boost that economy such as house building whilst also helping to keep employment high. Instead of cutting public services and then 10 years later having to employ thousands of new nurses and police offices and then train them again at huge expense to replace the ones you dumped on the scrapheap which was the Conservative approach.
   It does seem that finally many Conservatives saw the light and now have championed borrowing at low interest rates, which is something everyone else knew was the right thing to do more than a decade ago.
   Deciding as a government that borrowing is an ideological matter rather than an economic one (borrow when rates very low don't when high is hardly rocket science) is idiotic, you don't do it as a family because of massive APR's making it never a good thing or time.
   As far as house buying goes, you borrow as most people could never afford to save up the whole sum until they are in their late fifties, way past the time most people need the house to raise children. Most people require ten years of saving for the down payment alone.