This is what stuff used to cost.

My mother allowed herself $20.00 a week for groceries for the 5 of us. We only had dessert on Sundays but ate really well during the week. Of course we always had a big veggie garden too.
 

terry123 said:
My mother allowed herself $20.00 a week for groceries for the 5 of us. We only had dessert on Sundays but ate really well during the week. Of course we always had a big veggie garden too.
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Your post reminded me of the allowance my mom gave dad, and she managed the money in the home. $10 a payday. :)

My folks had a garden, too, and that proved to a big help with putting food on the table. Even then, mom and dad struggled.
 
I remember when a pack of cigarettes cost 40 cents. Recently a young man ahead of me at the store bought a pack for 7 dollars!!
 

jalou65 said:
I remember when a pack of cigarettes cost 40 cents. Recently a young man ahead of me at the store bought a pack for 7 dollars!!
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I remember one store selling singles back in my high-school days. Crazy to try and wrap ones head around it today, but at .10¢ a piece, those singles used to fly off the counter. 🚬
 
Em in Ohio said:
At Woolworth's Five & Dime Stores, circa mid-1950's, 25 cents would buy you a hot dog, fries, and a Coke.View attachment 103400​
I don't know why, but I always though it would be the height of 'city living' to live in an apartment over Woolworth's. I thought that it was the ultimate in sophistication. Don't know where I got the idea, but every time I see a photo of an old store, I picture myself living on the secon floor.
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Aunt Marg said:
A carton here in Canada is now over $100.
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Woh!
A few years ago, when there was an increase in cigarette prices here, some people went as far as to drive nearly 1000 miles to over the next state's border to get them cheaper. I suppose whatever they saved on cigarettes they made up for in buying gas.
These days, generics are around $6, and name-brands are around $8. I'm glad I don't smoke cigarettes anymore!
 
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JaniceM said:
Woh!
A few years ago, when there was an increase in cigarette prices here, some people went as far as to drive nearly 1000 miles to over the next state's border to get them cheaper.
These days, generics are around $6, and name-brands are around $8. I'm glad I don't smoke cigarettes anymore!
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I know... up, up, and up in price they've gone over the years.

I recall a period (a good number of years ago), where cheap generic cigarettes were all the rave, and though I can't remember now exactly if the cigarettes were being brought into Canada (BC), or Canadians were going out of province to buy them, but what a big to-do that was.

I don't smoke much, never have, 2, sometimes 3 cigarettes a day, so a pack lasts me roughly two weeks. I've tied to quit so many times over the years, all to no avail. I still dream of quitting, and never really stop trying. It's an ongoing battle with me.
 
Aunt Marg said:
I know... up, up, and up in price they've gone over the years.

I recall a period (a good number of years ago), where cheap generic cigarettes were all the rave, and though I can't remember now exactly if the cigarettes were being brought into Canada (BC), or Canadians were going out of province to buy them, but what a big to-do that was.

I don't smoke much, never have, 2, sometimes 3 cigarettes a day, so a pack lasts me roughly two weeks. I've tied to quit so many times over the years, all to no avail. I still dream of quitting, and never really stop trying. It's an ongoing battle with me.
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A few years ago, I was making amazing progress at beating a decades-long cig habit/addiction by using "cigalike" vapes. Then the products have become harder and harder to find, more and more expensive, so I use vape pods when I can and the rest of the time smoke nasty lil cigars that cost less than $2 per pack.
 
JaniceM said:
A few years ago, I was making amazing progress at beating a decades-long cig habit/addiction by using "cigalike" vapes. Then the products have become harder and harder to find, more and more expensive, so I use vape pods when I can and the rest of the time smoke nasty lil cigars that cost less than $2 per pack.
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I seriously looked at switching to an electronic cigarette, but the health woes that are now coming to light over vaping, have me settled on continuing with my 2 cigarettes per day habit, and holding onto the dream that one day I'll be able to quit.
 
Oh, I remember more on what stuff used to cost:

From grades K-2, kids could have "afternoon milk." Bring in a dime on Monday, and have a carton of milk every day that week.

In High School, lunches cost a quarter. And they were good, full meals, too, not fast-food or the so-called 'healthy' stuff served in some schools these days. Plus if a student wanted a second serving of anything, the second serving was free.
 
JaniceM said:
Oh, I remember more on what stuff used to cost:

From grades K-2, kids could have "afternoon milk." Bring in a dime on Monday, and have a carton of milk every day that week.

In High School, lunches cost a quarter. And they were good, full meals, too, not fast-food or the so-called 'healthy' stuff served in some schools these days. Plus if a student wanted a second serving of anything, the second serving was free.
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Wish my mom was still alive, but when I was in kindergarten, I remember mom packing me a couple of cookies in my little lunch kit for the half day I was in school, with the milk supplied by the school, and I remember mom mentioning there was a nominal fee that applied, but I can't for the life of me remember what she told me it was. Would have been very little, because we were poor.
 
old medic said:
My Aunt and Uncle "Lost" their house to back taxes a couple years back... Bought it just after they got married in 1962, raised their family.
We lived there a few years after my parents split.....
The neighborhood went to hell... drugs, crime run down....
And when the Property Tax became more a year than they paid for it... they let them have it....
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None of us really own anything, do we?

My house is paid for, with an annually-renewing government tax lien against it.
 
Em in Ohio said:
At Woolworth's Five & Dime Stores, circa mid-1950's, 25 cents would buy you a hot dog, fries, and a Coke.View attachment 103400​
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My father managed G.C. Murphy stores in Pennsylvania,Indiana and then Virginia. Worked for them from his high school years until the day he died, with a few years off to go fight The Big One.

I have memories of soda fountain drinks, penny candies, and in-store roasted nuts.
 
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JaniceM said:
Woh!
A few years ago, when there was an increase in cigarette prices here, some people went as far as to drive nearly 1000 miles to over the next state's border to get them cheaper. I suppose whatever they saved on cigarettes they made up for in buying gas.
These days, generics are around $6, and name-brands are around $8. I'm glad I don't smoke cigarettes anymore!
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My brother in law used to do that back in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

He would avoid New Jersey taxes by driving all the way to I believe North Carolina...it may have been South Caroline. Yeh, you gotta smoke a lot for that trip to make sense...he did.
 
Aunt Marg said:
And that's the truth.
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When I first moved to the country, my property had been vacant for 6+ years. So I'm standing on the deck and there's a herd of deer standing exactly where I wanted to put a garden, defiantly staring at me.

My first thought was 'Get off my property!"
My second thought was "I'm just one tax payment shy of being evicted, and you'll still be here, won't you?"
 
In The Sticks said:
When I first moved to the country, my property had been vacant for 6+ years. So I'm standing on the deck and there's a herd of deer standing exactly where I wanted to put a garden, defiantly staring at me.

My first thought was 'Get off my property!"
My second thought was "I'm just one tax payment shy of being evicted, and you'll still be here, won't you?"
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I couldn't have said it better. :)
 

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