As a kid I could go to the market with a dollar and come home with milk, bacon, eggs, and bread. Not now;

[Floyd R. Turbo]

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with those damn cameras everywhere! 🤬

[niyad]

1. They make things so very inconvenient!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Bastards! 🤬

[TheBlackAdder]

40. A dollar!?!

[surrealAmerican]

3. So, two bottles of milk, but no bread.

Bet your mom sent you back for that bread.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. Sorry ma! I fixed it ma! 😬

[Probatim]

4. Plus you can get murder-raped for crossing the street - according to the orange anus...

It'S UnSAfE EvERYwhERe!!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. 😬

[KS Toronado]

5. Yes a dollar would buy milk, bacon, eggs, and bread back in the late 1800's.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. 🤗

[Permanut]

6. And still have your dollar!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. 🤗

[Prairie_Seagull]

7. Too soon there are likely going to be readers. facial recognician ...

That will know who is in the store and what they lifted, Expect invoice.


IMO.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. 😬

[Beck23]

8. It depends on how old you are

I am 77. The Fed says the ideal inflation rate is 2 percent. Multiple 2 times 50 and you have 100% inflation over 50 years. Higher education is worse. I went to a state college for about $2000 a year. Northwestern was $8000 a year, which is less than now.

A lot of things, like health care and higher education inflated over 100%. That's because Reagan and the Republicans thought evertlything should be for profit. Guess who pays for the profit.

[peppertree]

18. You can imagine what that same anecdote sounds like in Argentina!

Since you were born (1947, right?) consumer prices have jumped by around 39 quadrillion times.

That's 39,000,000,000,000,000 - or 64% a year on average, or 4.2% a month.

Every month.

There's a joke in a hit theater play from a few years ago down there, in which an exasperated housewife is wondering how she'll pay the bills this month (after another sharp utility rate hike by some RW gov't.).

Her senile father suddenly remembers that he kept the proceeds from the sale of his parents' home, in the 1960s, in a suitcase in the attic.

"But - why didn't you deposit that at the bank, dad?" she wails.

"I don't trust banks," the older man huffs.

"Well, let's see," she starts. "In 1970, they removed 3 zeros from the currency; in '83, 4 zeros; in '85, 3 zeros; and in '92, 4 more."

"So if you can find me 10 million suitcases full of old money just like that one, I can go the corner store and get us something for dinner."

Qué será.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. 😵‍💫

[sarchasm]

9. according to online cost of living calculators...

https://www.aier.org/cost-of-living-calculator/

$1 in 1960 dollars is worth about $10.25 today

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. 🤗

[lastlib]

10. They had stores when you were a kid?

Surprising.

[RussellCattle]

11. Funny, but I'll let you and Floyd work this one out between you.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

27. We had a store!😁

[lastlib]

35. Sam Drucker, proprietor, amirite?

right next to the railroad?

[homegirl]

12. Yes, you could

and if your Dad had a job he made $14.00 a week!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

28. 😬

[barbtries]

13. i do recall

going to the liquor store with a dollar and coming home with a bottle of Dr Pepper and a pack of cigarettes. i mean without shoplifting

[Floyd R. Turbo]

29. 🤗

[aggiesal]

14. Where I grew up, we used to have the Wonder Bread & Hostess plant, across the bridge from my Middle school ...

You can see where I'm going with this ...

The plant had a company store which would sell fresh made bread and Hostess goodies.
The Twinkies, Cupcakes, SnoBalls & pies were 10¢ each and the loafs of bread were 25¢ each.
The bread would be rolled out into the store and the bags were still puffy from the heat of the bread,
so we knew the bread was just freshly made.

Just walking past it gave off an aroma that made you go into the store.

Whenever we had so much as a dime in our pocket, we'd head over and pick up a treat.
My mom would give me $1, and told me to pick up 4 loaves of bread after school.
I hated that, because not only were we walking home with our school books, now I have to
carry a grocery bag filled with fresh bread and I had to get it home without squashing the bread.
In Indiana, at that time, there was no sales tax on food or medicine.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

30. We had a Wonder Bread bakery in our neighborhood. On the bottom floor there was a conveyor belt

that carried damaged loaves to trash bins. The operator would let us take as many loaves as we wanted since they were being disposed of.😋

[appleannie1]

15. Yes, and back then my dad made $29 a week as a drill press operator at Rockwell.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

31. 🤗

[Mblaze]

16. LOL

I came back with the dollar too. 😂

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. Yep! 😁

[Beck23]

17. This is why it is important to buy property

Real estate is one of the few investments that keeps up with inflation. I'm not sure a 401K can keep up.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. 🤔

[happybird]

26. I've often wondered how people restrained themselves from robbing banks

back in ye olde days. Back before cameras, of course, but also before phones and other quick cop-summoning devices. Why not just roll into a town where you are unknown, put on a low key disguise, and get ya some free money?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. Saw a documentary about bank robberies a few years ago. A primary reason small town banks didn't get

robbed was most the male locals were veterans of one war or another and knew how to us firearms and wouldn’t hesitate to shoot a bank robber.

[True Dough]

36. By the sounds of it

these days when you go to the market, you go "wee wee wee" all the way home!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

38. 😬

[malthaussen]

37. You and Jimmy Buffett both...

-- Mal

[Floyd R. Turbo]

39. 😁

[Figarosmom]

41. I remember

Complaining about a $30. Electric bill at Xmas time.