Gas today is $2.80 gal. I was inline at a dollar store, Reese's' PB cup 2 pack is $.95 !!!!I remember walking the mile from my home to the village picking up 5-6 soda bottles and having enough refund money to buy a bottle of soda AND a PB cup .
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Posts: 4608 | Location: East Overshoe, second buckle from the top. | Registered: January 20, 2007
.10 Pop and large jars of loose cookies marked 2 cookies for .01 ... well, some were .01 each and some 2 for .01
There was no tax on sales of .10 or less, so we'd buy a pop ... walk outside and stash the pop ... walk back inside and buy a little brown bag of .10 worth of cookies. Hey, a penny was 2 cookies. Shoot. ... and if mama had given us a quarter, we'd either walk back home with a nickel or maybe we'd go back in and get a pack of gum for .05. Seems like just day before yesterday ... or maybe a couple of days ago.
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Yeah, but back then an AM/FM radio was seventy bucks!
Posts: 9632 | Location: Somewhere looking for ammo that nobody has at a place I haven't been to for a pistol I couldn't live without... | Registered: December 02, 2014
i too remember picking up enough returnable bottles to get a coke and a candy bar. Often I'd get a little cellophane pack of Daisy bb's for I believe a nickle!
Posts: 2561 | Location: Georgia | Registered: July 12, 2004
... bought my first brand spanking new automobile in 1974 when I was 21. Paid sticker ... $3032 for a shiny no miles Dodge Dart Sport off the showroom floor ... a blue one.
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Over the years I drove several different decent condition used cars and pickups that cost less than $1000, and two VW vans that I bought for $100 and $60.
Now if we buy a vehicle for less than $30k and hang onto it for 5 years I think we’ve hit a home run.
Posts: 27313 | Location: SW of Hovey, Texas | Registered: January 30, 2007
Originally posted by Hobbs: ... bought my first brand spanking new automobile in 1974 when I was 21. Paid sticker ... $3032 for a shiny no miles Dodge Dart Sport off the showroom floor ... a blue one.
My first new car was a 1960 Ford Falcon--I paid about $2000 for it, and drove it for 6 years.
I remember penny candy--there was a little variety store across the street from my school that sold them. Very popular to stop there on the way home.
We walked the alleyways from our neighborhood block down the road about 6-8 blocks (with no supervision, no cell phone mind you) and picked up coke bottles on the way to get the deposits. Nine times outta ten we had enough by the time we got there to get a snack AND play a game or three of Asteroids, the newest thing that had just come out. I must have been 11-12ish?
Those were never ending summers, where the only rule was that if you come inside during the day, you'd better need to poop or be deathly ill. Otherwise stay out of the house!
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Posts: 6393 | Location: Mogadishu on the Mississippi | Registered: February 26, 2009
And when having a temporary unskilled labor job for $2.62 an hour was a huge step up from the 1¢ a pound I got for my (very brief) job picking pickle cucumbers, and then joining the Army and being paid less than $80 per month while being expected to contribute part of that to the Red Cross.
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Posts: 48083 | Location: 10,150 Feet Above Sea Level in Colorado | Registered: April 04, 2002
I have a 68 Mustang convertible with a copy of the original window sticker. Just over $3000. Of course, that is equivalent to roughly $22K today, but still....
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Posts: 21140 | Location: Montana | Registered: November 01, 2010
When I was 12-13 I mowed a couple yards in the neighborhood. Push mower, no rider or self propelled. I got $2.50 per yard and that would buy you approximately 5 Big Macs. So today I guess those yards would have to bring about $20.
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Posts: 5769 | Location: Ohio | Registered: December 27, 2008
Originally posted by YooperSigs: Rotary phones. And pay phones. I can still remember my childhood phone number. It was drilled into me.
Trinity (TR) 2-3549 ... or ... 872-3549 Took a while to correlate the "TR" (for Trinity) into "87". Didn't have to dial the 87 part for local calls most of my time growing up. Just knew for some reason that never made much sense, that Trinity was technically part of the phone number.
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Originally posted by roarindan: Gas today is $2.80 gal.
I remember when gas was <$2.00/gallon, but that was last Halloween.
Seriously, I remember 19.9¢/gallon gas during "Gas Wars" around 1960. Candy bars were a nickel though I don't go back far enough for nickel Cokes and pay phone calls.
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Posts: 3719 | Location: W. Central NH | Registered: October 05, 2008
The first phone I remember was a rotary dial on a party line. First car was a '67 Plymouth Valiant and gas was about a 0.25 a gallon for a long time. I was running on fumes once and it took $4.54 to fill the tank, I remember thinking that was a lot of money for gas. A buddy's parents bought a Maverick around the same time-the base price was about $1,800. First NEW car was a '72 Barracuda with a 318 V8 that was $3,200.
