This is what stuff used to cost.

JaniceM said:
When I was a little kid, my parents would occasionally drive out to the country where a farm offered a special deal. You could get twice as many ears of corn for the same price if you went into the cornfield and picked it yourself.
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When I lived in Indiana we had a neighbor (or maybe a farm next door) who would let us have corn.

We'd get the pot of water boiling, run out, pick some, shuck it on the run back home, and drop it in the water before the sugars had a chance to even think about degrading.
 
old medic said:
Last fall I came back from the store and told the Wife I found Pirate Corn at the store....
Literally a Buck-An-Ear....
Best corn deal... a farmers market in NY.... a bushel basket heaped up to the point of falling out... $7
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The challenge then is figuring out what to do with all that corn. Sounds like a major shucking/cooking/de-cobbing/freezing & canning party.
 
1967, Gas at the local shell station where I worked was 24 cents a gal., but, I bought my gas at the local Pathmark food store for 18 cents per gal. That first job then paid $1.67 hr. Of course, you could eat a full meal at big Macs and get change for your $1.00. :cool: The year before, my high school hang around buddy won a brand new 1966 Lincoln in some local contest. Opted to take the cash instead, got $5600 dollars. šŸ˜² for a fully loaded Lincoln.
Fast forward to 1968, brand new Road runner. 383 magnum, 4 speed, $2500, that was the out the door price (tax dealer prep, etc).68 road runner.jpgmacs.jpg
 
squatting dog said:
1967, Gas at the local shell station where I worked was 24 cents a gal., but, I bought my gas at the local Pathmark food store for 18 cents per gal. That first job then paid $1.67 hr. Of course, you could eat a full meal at big Macs and get change for your $1.00. :cool: The year before, my high school hang around buddy won a brand new 1966 Lincoln in some local contest. Opted to take the cash instead, got $5600 dollars. šŸ˜² for a fully loaded Lincoln.
Fast forward to 1968, brand new Road runner. 383 magnum, 4 speed, $2500, that was the out the door price (tax dealer prep, etc).View attachment 103668View attachment 103670
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In 1966, I worked at Kemps Hamburgers, a local Massachusetts burger joint. I was a "window' guy. Till this day, I knew it by heart. 53 cents
1 hamburger -18 cents
1 fries -15 cents
1 Coke -20 cents
53 cents

What use to crack me up was the McDonalds type burger place was fairly new, and you could tell when it their first time at a fast food joint, because they would order a "hamburger, medium rear". Yeah, "medium rear" for 15 cents. Next!
 
Pappy said:
My first house was a 4 bedroom house for $15,000. Back in the late 60s. My second car, 46 Ford was $200. My first job paid 50 cents hour and insurance was $40 dollars a month.
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50 cents an hour?...I could only dream at that !! In 1970 my first job as an office junior netted me the grand sum of Ā£4/10 a week... which in todays' money would be worth just Ā£68.10. Terrible wages then and would be way below the minimum wage today for a school-leaver .. by the time I got to be an adult my wages were still only a meagre Ā£12.00 per week, not a chance in glory that I'd be able to save for a house.. or even a car.

Based on that intial Ā£4. 10 shillings wages ...or Ā£68 in today's money ....The total inflation on from 1971 until 2020... is a massive Ā£1, 561.00%
 
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This is 4 years out of date and most prices are greatly increased..but it gives an idea...
 
My parents house-which I just inherited-cost Ā£2000.
i remember when I was a student in the seventies parents sent me a monthly allowance of Ā£30.i remember a pint was 21 pence.It cost 24 pence for a return bus trip into the city.It was easy to make that last all month.
 
Fyrefox said:
Back in the day, McDonaldā€™s advertised a burger with fries and a drink...plus change back from your dollar! White Castle said of their burgers, ā€œBuy ā€˜em by the sack!,ā€ which you could do as they were 18 cents each...
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Burgers were 15 cents. Fries 22 cents. Burger King whopper 39 cents when I worked there 1965
 
But let's also think about what our wages were back in the old days and a microwave cost 500 bucks:

PRICES IN 1950

Prices for 1950
Prices for 1950
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House: $7,150
Average income: $3,216
Ford car: $1339-$2262
Philco model 1403 TV: $199
Admiral ā€œhome entertainmentā€ TV system: $549.50
12ā€³ records: $4.85
10ā€³ records: $2.85
Milk: $.82
Gas: $.20
Bread $.14
Postage stamp: $.03
Pumpkins : $.02 cents a lb
Campbellā€™s Pork & Beans ā€“ (2) 1 lb. cans: $.25
Sirloin steak: $.77 lb
Kraft Mayonnaise ā€“ quart jar: $.62.​
 
Supermarket register tapes from 1976

Seven years into retirement, I finally got around to cleaning out a file cabinet in the attic yesterday, and I found an envelope full of register tapes from the supermarket. 1976 must have been the first year they printed an itemized receipt; some of the tapes from early in the year were just a list of unidentified numbers. Looking through them is like going down Memory Lane! We don't eat beef or lamb any more, I changed from Pepsi to root beer, and our baby, who was just starting on solids then, is now 36! But I still use many of the same products, just different brands or different forms of the same thing.

Here are some sample prices (I can't believe so many items were under a dollar):

- Round roast $2.19
- Sirloin steak 2.85
- XL grnd beef 1.43
- Lamb chops 4.05
- Chkn breasts 1.85
- Apple juice .45
- BB light tuna .50
- OS crnbry sc .25
- Spaghetti .40
- Ragu sauce .69
- Sugar 5 lb .89
- Brown sugar .45
- Townhse crkr .85
- Maxim coffee 3.39
- Cheerios .63
- Wheat brd .34
- Parsly flk .25
- Salt .17
- Pepsi 16 oz 1.49
- Gerber cereal .41
- Gerber str carrot .20
- Gerber str meat .39
- Rubber pants 1.09
- 1.26 lb banana .21
- 12 oranges 1.38
- Cantaloupe .59
- 1.13 lb onions .33
- Pascal celery .49
- Green pepper .20
- 1.97 lb peachs .77
- Skim milk qt .43
- A large eggs .76
- Am cheese .83
- Butter lb 1.31
- Promise margarine .77
- Bryr van fdg 1.99
- Froz peas .67
- Froz spinach .23
- Bounty towel .59
- Scot facials .55
- Kitty litter 10 lb .79
- Cascade 1.15
- Ajax cleansr .39

* Copied from another site.
 
Prices today can seem outrageous, but given that wages, decades ago, were in the 1 to 5 dollars/hr. range, todays prices are probably no more of a burden on most people than they were 50 years ago. Inflation drives the cost of everything higher, every year, and the best a person can hope for is that their finances keep up with inflation.
 
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Aunt Marg said:
Supermarket register tapes from 1976

Seven years into retirement, I finally got around to cleaning out a file cabinet in the attic yesterday, and I found an envelope full of register tapes from the supermarket. 1976 must have been the first year they printed an itemized receipt; some of the tapes from early in the year were just a list of unidentified numbers. Looking through them is like going down Memory Lane! We don't eat beef or lamb any more, I changed from Pepsi to root beer, and our baby, who was just starting on solids then, is now 36! But I still use many of the same products, just different brands or different forms of the same thing.

Here are some sample prices (I can't believe so many items were under a dollar):

- Round roast $2.19
- Sirloin steak 2.85
- XL grnd beef 1.43
- Lamb chops 4.05
- Chkn breasts 1.85
- Apple juice .45
- BB light tuna .50
- OS crnbry sc .25
- Spaghetti .40
- Ragu sauce .69
- Sugar 5 lb .89
- Brown sugar .45
- Townhse crkr .85
- Maxim coffee 3.39
- Cheerios .63
- Wheat brd .34
- Parsly flk .25
- Salt .17
- Pepsi 16 oz 1.49
- Gerber cereal .41
- Gerber str carrot .20
- Gerber str meat .39
- Rubber pants 1.09
- 1.26 lb banana .21
- 12 oranges 1.38
- Cantaloupe .59
- 1.13 lb onions .33
- Pascal celery .49
- Green pepper .20
- 1.97 lb peachs .77
- Skim milk qt .43
- A large eggs .76
- Am cheese .83
- Butter lb 1.31
- Promise margarine .77
- Bryr van fdg 1.99
- Froz peas .67
- Froz spinach .23
- Bounty towel .59
- Scot facials .55
- Kitty litter 10 lb .79
- Cascade 1.15
- Ajax cleansr .39

* Copied from another site.
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How old was your child when she was just starting on solids?... you say she's 36 now but she wouldn't have been born in 76 ...

my daughter was born in '76, and on solids at around 14 months or so.. by 1977.. and she's 44 years old... :unsure:
 
hollydolly said:
How old was your child when she was just starting on solids?... you say she's 36 now but she wouldn't have been born in 76 ...

my daughter was born in '76, and on solids at around 14 months or so.. by 1977.. and she's 44 years old... :unsure:
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The tape isn't mine, it's from someone else.

That's why I added (at the bottom)... copied from another site.
 
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