Do you remember when it was affordable to fill up your gas tank?

I remember not having to make life-changing decisions at the gas station...do I fill the tank or pay my light bill? Gas is just so high now, my tank stays at about halfway.. I remember when the younger people in my city..my age 21 and up could go to different parties and nobody would get shot..now, we can't even go to the downtown area here without something happening..and it doesn't even have to be the weekend.. I remember when people could pretty much go into any business office and give any old information to get a check of some sort..now, they want everything except a blood sample..

I remember my father drving by gas stations saying..what are they nuts..I am not paying .29 a gallon for gas It is funny, I was just saying the other day..now we have $1 stores, it used to be the five and dime. I remember going to movies and seeing the news...since a lot of people did not have TVs. I remember looking at the back of the TV and radio to find the burnt out tubes so that we could buy new tubes and fix our electronics. When kids were the remote control and th dishwasher. I remember having 3 channels and a PBS. I remember having to iron everything..it was before permanent press. (Ick).

Ten years ago when I was sixteen, gas was 76 cents a gallon. Oh the days! LOL I also remember when Pacman was the one of the few video games to play, and you had to have cords to connect your games. No wireless hand held things. And when did twelve year olds start getting cell phones?

Well, we are very close - I remember in high school we got upset when gas went to .75 a gallon, it was crazy. I also remember the first McDonalds I ate at, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I also remember knelling on the floor in the school office for 'skirt length checks' - mini skirts were in but not allowed in our school - 1 inch above the knee and you went home to change.

I am going to be telling my age with this but who cares. My first car was a 69 dodge charger and I could fill the tank for less than $10.00. Now I wouldn't be able to move the car out of the driveway cause it would cost way too much for the gas. Gas prices keep it up, and I am going to be looking for a horse and buggy.

hehehe.. i got same experienced as you. I miss all the old good days and cheap life. Now every thing is expensive and we lucky, Malaysia got plenty of oil and the price is still low if compare from Thailand, Singapore or Indonesia. Good Luck my fren

this ones is not like everyone else story but i went oiver the weekend with my husband t o take are daughter fishing and they wanted 7 dollars to enter the peir. that is 7 dollars per person i was like what are they crazy so i asked how much to just walk on the pier they said 3 dollars. i remember when it was a dollar to go fishing and to walk on the pier was free.

All those I recall. I also remember drive-in movies that have gone by the side due to property taxes and new housing needed. I also recall when strip malls and enclosed malls first came about. I recall skateboards were a basic slab of wood with old roller skate wheels nailed on them. HAHAHA. I remember the first McDonalds opening up near where I was at the time. I recall gas as low as 25 cents. Smokes were 15 cents a pack I can recall. Oh god the lost goes on. HAHA. I remember no answering machines. Phones that you had to litterally dial in a circle that weighed as mush as a house cat. I remember the old crank type doorbells that didnt need electricity nor batteries. Transistor radios that used a 9 volt battery. Headphones the size of a pair of shoes. HAHAHA with a cable to match in size. 8 track tapes, cassette tapes. Blah Blah Blah. I'll stop now. Etc etc. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I remember when gas went over the dollar mark and the whole world went frantic. Now it is much worse. Of all the bills we have our fuel bill is by far the hardest impacting us. Plus the way gas prices have run everything else off the chart. I remember listening to vinyl and wondering how all that sound coulc come out of the black thing. Now we dont give cds a second thought. I appreciate how far things have come. I like to have a cd player in my car, and a microwave on my counter top. But gas is a different story.

It was as little as ten years ago that I can recall gas being under a buck a gallon. As far as gas prices goes future generations will never have the luxury of cruising the strip and things of that nature. Its like they have taken away a bit of our freedom just by raising gas prices.

I clearly remember when three dollars pretty much filled my gas tank. Now I can have a quarter of a tank of gas, put in twenty-five bucks and still not have a fill gas tank. Gas prices are the most blatant symbol of how bad inflation really is, but I suspect there's some price gouging going on as well.

I remember back when the first $2 dollar bill was issued in 1862...haha! I kid! I honestly can't remember a time when there weren't any McD's or BKs or Wendy's.. or a time when there was .36 cent gas! How I wiiish. Things I do remember.. when the stamps were still 39 cents. Now we're up to what, 42 cents? Also when the tolls were 25 cents instead of the dollar they are now. I remember when pay phones were 25 cents (and I remember back when people actually used pay phones! lol). That's all I can remember though, I don't think I was old enough to really focus on money back then. It's crazy how inflation just keeps going up and up.

I do agree with you so much. A lot has changed since I was kid too. Back then we would play actual games like tag and other local kid's games. Nowadays, the kids would rather play computer games and have no time to play with other kids. It's so sad to see them glued on their play stations. For me, it seems like they are missing a lot on their childhood. Back then, my playmates and I would often sneak out of our house and avoid noontime naps just so we could play outside with each other.

I remember going to the drive in movies with my parents. We would bring our sleeping bags and lay down the seats in the back of our Toyota. We would usually be able to stay up for the first movie and then fall asleep before the second. I remember watching the Muppet show on prime time TV with my family. There just aren't many shows that families watch together anymore that are geared to really entertain young kids. I remember when the happy meals at McDonalds had really good toys, not the junk we get now.

Years ago, in a land far,far away. The "past" haunts me.

There were poney tails and pettycoats and Elvis and Bill Haley and rock and roll and we had record players, the guys had floral print shirts to go with the blue jeans. We had a hoola hoop, the ice cream was a simple banana split. A Ford Mustang was looking totally different from todays and there was an Airline called PanAm. Louis Armstrong played his trumped and Jimmy Stewart was Mr. Nice guy. the world was quite ok as long as Hoss Cartwright was on TV but when J.R. appeared the world changed and not always for the better....