Do you remember when????

Don't you just wish that everything was just like that again. Everything is so expensive now at this time that you can not buy everything you used to enjoy before, but yea I do remember when gas was at .85 cents a gallon and now is past 3 bucks.

The first thing that come to mind was when i first married in 1959 even tho my husband would pitch a fit about what i spent for groceries [he was soo tight he screaked when he walked, lol]i could buy a weeks groceries & not spend but $25. Now u wouldn't have a sack full for that.

Herro Christmas2006 I remember lots of things. Let's see, I'm probably in the of the members already responding. My first job was under President JFK's first year of a program for teens on summer break. I was paid $1.25 hour, the minimum then. Two years later, I joined the military. My pay was $96 a month. I don't remember bread and gas back then, I went from a children's home into the military, so no need to buy food or shelter. I do remember gasoline at under $1.00. You could go to McDonald's and get a burger, fries and a soda and get change back from $1. I do remember my Grandmother giving me a quarter for the shoe. That included entry, 2 mains, cartoons and a newsreel, oh and a serial. Popcorn and a soda. ooops...I'll give away my age. Prosperous mylotting

yes, I do remember such things but my mother fits more in this discussion. She always make comments on the differences of the prizes of things today. Like she already can buy lunch, dresses and school materials with her 5 pesos, not what can you buy with it, only 1 sachet of shampoo. Well that implies that my mother is already old because there's a big difference. hehehee. :D be blessed!

yes i remember it all and even farther back when you could get a bottle of pop for 10 cents and that seemed like a lot. when i was little, i got 2 bucks allowance for a few weeks. mom stopped that when i kept buying candy and pop and ice cream for me and all my friends instead of saving any of it. you could get a whole sack of penny candy for 2 pennies when mine were little in the 60's, i could give them a dollar for bread and a gallon of milk at the corner store and they brought back change!! which they got to keep. is how my son learned to shop thriftily even today.

I am sure that i have done something like that. however ,i don't have as good memory as yours .

Yes, I remember when $20 would not only get you a tank of gas, but you could actually buy something in the Quick Stop as well, sadly, people cannot do that anymore. I remember when a dollar stretched pretty damn far. It doesn't anymore.

I hear this a lot from my elder acquaintances and have personally experience some. As when my children were living at home I use to buy 10 lb bags of rice at $4.99. I has been at least 3 years now since I had to buy it by that quantity so I went to the store the other day and noticed it was now $8.99 and that was a sale. So wow what an increase, just imagine what it will cost yet another three years from now.