Are you saddened....

Yes, it's amazing how much the dollar is really worth anymore. I would have taken her to the local dollar store and let her see how many different things she could buy with it. Prices are soooooo inflated at regular stores, but at the dollar store you can still buy lots of things for that buck. Some of the things there are the same things you can buy elsewhere for 3 times the price. My one daughter is also a waitress and she has learned to be a savvy shopper, and see the value of what one measly dollar can buy. A dollar is a dollar, and the value of the dollar depends on where you buy your merchandise. Full inflated prices vs. discount prices.

Let's look at the flipside of this coin. remember back in the mid 70's - the cost of a basic calculator - a handful of functions and it was a $100. Or at look at the desktop computer, what now cost a few hundred dollars in computing power that sits on your desk - just 40 years ago was a mainframe that would fill a house and cost a small fortune. In the 80's a desktop computer went for over 2,000. It had no hard drives, and sometimes only 1 floppy and 48K was a lot of memory and a dot matrix printer costed more then a laser printer does now. And these computers were monochrome. Back then a car costs less - but 40K was considered high miles, now 100K is barely broken in.

It is sad when you have children and can never give them much money. I was not so sad as when I just found out I am going to Holland to visit my son I have been saving for months and now have $2000.00 which a LOT to me, but it will only convert to 1500 euros and everything is so expensive in Holland. The value of the dollar is very low everywhere. If only the salaries would equal the cost of things.

Oh boy how the times have changed. I remember thinking a nickel was quite a big deal. My stepfather always had a jar of pennies..I thought he was rich because of it...lol Now the candy bar we paid a nickel for is .50 or more. It's terrible, thank the good lord for dollar stores...lol

I remember what a thrill it was to collect bottles and turn them in for deposits. There were mostly 2 cents bottles and then the bigger 5 cent. When we found a five center, wow, we were in heaven. That meant we could go to the penny candy store and feast..lol. That was back in the late 50's and 60's. I don't know what a dolar will buy today, but the real secret of getting more of them is to appreciate and be thankful for every dollar that comes into your life. Appreciating what you have now, will lead to having more of it.

Come to Canada, our dollar is worthless hahhahah oops worth less than yours is. I remember the good old day when penny candy was just that.....a penny. PS People who are lousy tippers should be zapped at the door when they are leaving AND an alarm should go off just so the whole world knows how cheap they are.

I hear you. The dollar really has not much value. However, I might have mentioned that she could go to the 99 cent store. I don't know how they do it, but you can really get some great things there for 99 cents.

Oh CrazyNurse, I am saddened at so many things taht are going on in the US today. I cannot belive that a great county such as the US has so many families who cannot afford medical care or food to sustain their family. Yes,I am very saddened that the dollar is no longer worth anything. Everyone seems to be so happy when the min wage is reaised but I dont understand why. That just means that everything else will raise so the money they get will not go any farther, no matter how high the min wage gets. Doesn't people think of this stuff?? LOL She is right you cant buy much with a dollar but do you know how much a dollar means to the seniors in our state. Some Eldrly are living on less than $500. a month. to them a dollar is alot of money.

Well there's lots of stuff at the dollar tree. Nothin all that great but its something.

The only way to beat inflation is by investing your money wisely. Saving in a bank account is not good enough.

yes, as you said one dollar can hardly buy something,but you must know that our incoming are becoming higher than years before. so it's not necessary to be sad, just try hard to make more one dollar.

It is really a shame that our dollar value has gone down. There is this one place i know that you can get tootsie rolls for 1c but thats only 1 place and its just a mom and pop store so its not the best example. But yeah it is very amazing how that has changed. The government just keeps printing and printing and only scarcely taking the money out of circulation. I heard they have come out with a new 1 dollar bill...? that would be cool but whats next the 1,000 dollar bill. Who knows? Good Discussion...

yes.i remember being given $20 dollars for my birthday as a kid-i thought i was rich LOL that was a lot of money then. i'm not sure $1 will buy anything now,maybe a small handful of bazooka gum.