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'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00.
'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.
'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.
'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter!.
'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.
'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.
'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas .
'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President..
'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.
'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.
'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.
'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.
'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.
'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.
'There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.
'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.'
'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'
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I have a sister born in 1955
(No, I wasn't "invented" yet).
XOXO
Me
Those were the days...wish I were there.
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ReplyDeleteI remember stamps still being 8cents in the early 70's.
ReplyDeleteAnd the gas wars were kinda fun. Me and my sister would drive up and down both sides of the highway to find the one with the cheapest gas. We would end up filling the tank at 19cents a gallon. Usually when they hit the lowest they could go, the prices would start to climb again. But it sure did drum up business for them. The money we saved on gas meant we could buy ourselves some cold drinks and a snack while there!
Not only do I remember the penny candy or the 2 for a penny candy....bread was less than a quarter a loaf!
While I don't remember penny-candy (candy was much more expensive when I was old enough to start buying it), I was born in 1954. Several of these are within clear memory.
ReplyDeleteLOL can you imagine the prices back then ..They are ridiculous now
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky to come out of the store with 3-5 things for 20 bucks nowadays!
ReplyDeleteI need a haircut bad... If I give you 50 cents, would ya cut it for me??? hehehe
I certainly remember penny candies, what fun was had with a whole quarter to run down to the corner market and buy 25 whole pieces of candy, I also remember my brother all of a sudden wanting to lavish attention on me because I held the bag full of candy, candy gone, poof so was the yearning my brother had to play barbies with me!! xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteThis is very depressing...
ReplyDeleteI wasnt either!
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