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09-14-2019, 01:28 AM | #60581 |
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I hate it when things are taken out of context. This is the shit that makes millennials think the boomers had it so easy.
Sure a meal was $2 but the internet tells me that the average blue collar (the majority) wage was $3.50 an hour and minimum wage was $1.60. Calculating inflation that $2 had the same buying power as $12 today. Since a 1/4 pounder, large fries, drink and apple pie (roughly $2 as stated) would not cost you $12 today (I looked it up it is around $7) that meal was actually way more expensive in 1972.
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Today (in this area) one who works an hour can buy 13 basic McDonalds burgers ($15.00 per hour and $1.17 per burger). Plus back then, to make that $1.00 a kid had to slave behind a dust belching, hay baler, in the broiling hot sun, dragging/lifting 70 pound hay bales, while walking back and forth on a rickety hay wagon, with steel wheels, across a bumpy field. At the same time, glancing at the 1 mile straight stretch of road in front of our farm, watching my older, spoiled, cousin (son of the owner of a Chevrolet dealership), driving a brand new 1955 Chevy Bel Air with a 265 cu in V-8 with a power pack (4 bbl carb and dual exhaust) wax all stock cars in the county in a 1/4 mile drag race. humfrz |
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Well, this week is wound down. After 6 trips a day to deliver and pick up granddaughters, today I even missed my nap time because mrs humfrz had a hair appointment for 2.5 hours and left the 3 year old with me this afternoon. I tried to catch a snooze while watching cartoons but the 3 year old woke me up by tossing a frozen box of bagel bites, that she got out of the freezer, on my lap and asking me to mic up some for her lunch.
After collecting the last one from school, I took them all down to the dollar store on a shopping binge. However, I did save some money by finding a huge (14") chicken pot pie at Costco this week, for $18.00, which fed all of them for supper tonight, since we keep them on Friday nights till 11:00 PM to give their parents a "date night". Of course, I had to tell the girls that the giant pot pie came from Safeway, since they won't eat anything I buy at Costco. Just wait till they start buying the groceries! OK - NOW, it's party time- , but we are too fucking tired to do anything- but, it's a good tired - humfrz |
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Hmmm..... Sequim, over on the Olympic Peninsula, is a nice retirement area and it's about an hours drive away …… hmmmmm. Just kidding, mrs humfrz would say - fine - YOU move over there, I'll see you on the weekends! humfrz |
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True story, the wife, while working for the local Chrysler/Jeep Dealer got a brand new Wagoner Limited for her demo. Driving it home that first night in the dark she struck a deer. Called the O.P.P who contacted the local game warden. He happened to be visiting a family we knew just one road over and they got to the scene before the police. He gave the wife a tag and the OK to take the deer. Our friend loaded it into his pick-up and delivered it to our house. In the mean time I'd called the father-in-law who loaded up his little Lada and drove over. We were ready with spot lights, rope, buckets and all the tools needed. We hoisted that thing up in the tree in front of the house and he bleed, skinned, butchered and back it all up before midnight. We got some steaks and a roast out of the deal. He and the mother-in-law ate everything else over the winter. Our new neighbours, (we'd only been in the house a few months) must have wondered about us. Things went down hill from there.
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