Things in life sure have changed, since I was a boy.
Cox control line airplanes, used to cost 20-30 bucks new. Now the company is out of business, and the USED ones are selling for 80-125 on ebay.
Gas was 45 cents a gallon. Now, I have paid 4 bucks and more for regular gas. And, it is only 87 octane. Regular used to be 91 octane.
We used to have TIME to fly model airplanes. Now, we barely have time, to pay our bills. Online, at that.
I have customers that have not paid me in 3 yrs. If they had the money, they'd pay. They ordered the survey, when they actually had the money, but when I'd finally finished, they were broke. I have never gone after them. One met me on the street the other day, apologized, and gave me $20.00, and I gave him a receipt. He works as a carpenter, building portable buildings. If he never pays, well, it's ok. He is a good fellow. I suspect he will slide me a 20 ever now and then. It's ok. He does not live high on the hog, and I respect him. This is how it used to be. When I was a boy. We just eventually pay our bills.
A wealthy guy, squeeked and hollered about a meager little survey, for $550.00. I expected that, though. Working people, respect working people.
Life has sure changed.
Nate
Maybe the price of toy airplanes has changed, but people haven't.
Never expect the well off to help you out.
It's always those that have the least that give the most.
Don
I bought snacks at a convenience store the other day and recalled when candy was $0.35... It made me feel old. I stopped thinking about this until I read this post. Now I will stop thinking about it again.
The downward spiral
We had a little store only a half-mile from our house when I was under 10. A delicious bottle of pop was 10 cents. You could add a candy bar for another 5 cents. Individual bags of potato chips were 10 cents but hard to find as they weren't big sellers. Hostess cupcakes and that sort of treat were 12 cents. Can't remember what real food cost. Well, there was this one time my grandmother sent me into Safeway by myself to buy a small loaf of bread for 10 cents and all she gave me was a dime. Good thing sales tax didn't start until you hit 15 cents.
I bought comic books for 12 cents but remember seeing nearly new ones that had cost 10 cents.
Look at the bright side
At least we didn't have to walk seventeen miles barefoot in the snow to get to school like our parents did. And have to shoot our lunch on the way. :-O
Wishing you a speedy and complete recovery!!
The downward spiral
If you were like me I'd pick up empty Coke (ALL soft drinks are Cokes) bottles for the 2 cent redemption. 5 empty bottles got you a free Coke as long as you drank it at the store.
Andy
Look at the bright side
> At least we didn't have to walk seventeen miles barefoot in the snow to get to school like our parents did.
You forgot to say "uphill both ways."
The downward spiral
Things do change.
Other than 10 cent bottled soda pop and nickel cherry Cokes (at the Dairy Boy), my fondest adult "money" memory was when I took home about sixty bucks a week. Paid 1/2 month's rent and had 8 bucks left to feed a baby, wife and myself.
I bought oatmeal, orange juice, potatoes, boxed mac and cheese and frozen fish sticks (remember 10 for $1 ?). We ate good and the landlord got his share. I think I even had some change!
The downward spiral
The first apartment I rented, starting about 10 days after high school graduation, cost $27.50 every two weeks. Worked out perfect as I only needed to be there for 10 weeks before leaving for college. There was a bathroom, kitchen, living room, bedroom and a huge covered porch as wide as the apartment (second floor unit).
Spent the first two years of college living in an old farm house about 25 miles from campus. But, at $75 per month, it was a bargain in an area with a university, a college and a military base.
The downward spiral
Don
The downward spiral
:good: :good: :good: 😀
Look at the bright side
I have to ask you the question:
If it could be uphill both ways, then why not turn around and walk downhill both ways?
Ha ha spledeus, Are you even 30 yet?
"Gas was 45 cents a gallon."
i must be an old fart. i remember 25 cents a gallon around 1972. $5 would fill up the car and last all week.
I remember the 10-cent candybars. The smaller ones like a single Bing or single Reeses was 5-cents. You knew that wherever you went a candybar was just 10-cents because the price was on the wrapper. A bag of sunflower seeds was 5-cents.
Inflation maybe? As far as gas, a commodity that holds a static price for 20 years is, at some point, being held in a deflated manner, and then it must correct.
$3.00/gallon gas is just about right. It was a buck when I was 3 and a buck when I was 23. Somethings wrong with that picture.
The first time I saw gas for a dollar was in the summer of 1979. Were you only 3 years old then?
The downward spiral
LOL! 😀 :good:
I remember dad was on the verge of completely cancelling a long-planned family vacation from Nebraska to Wisconsin in 1978 when gas rose up to 80-cents/gallon. We finally went, but it was a miserable trip since he grumbled the entire time about the price of gas. There were six of us packed in the 1977 LTD II. Any bickering among any of us four kids resulted in an immediate "I'll stop this car and turn it around right now".
> The first time I saw gas for a dollar was in the summer of 1979. Were you only 3 years old then?
No. I was 2 then. I was 3 in 1980.
