> wrote in message
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> The family?
>
> The Beardsleys, of California, as featured in the Lucille Ball movie
> "Yours,
> Mine, and Ours."
>
> Before the movie, their story was written by the mother as "Who Gets the
> Drumstick?" (Helen was a widow with 8 kids, he was a widower with 10. They
> had two more.)
>
> In that book (chapter 12), a researcher comes to the house a month after
> the wedding in the fall of 1961, to do the math on how they manage. He
> concludes that they spend 66 cents a day for food, per person. According
> to
> one inflation calculator, that's $5.15 in 2014 - and another says $5.16 in
> 2015. (I assume they were strict about not wasting food!)
>
> What's interesting, though, is that I DO waste food, unfortunately, but
> MY food budget, last December, was $120 a month - or about $4 a day!
>
> Also, there was clearly a mistake in the book - the mother said they spent
> $450 a month on food, so unless she meant $400, that would be just under
> 74 cents per person per day (using 365.25 days a year, I mean), not 66
> cents!
>
> Thoughts? Granted, I'm sure there are all sorts of reasons food might be
> cheaper now - someone also once said that in the 19th century, too, food
> was pricey but servants were cheap, which was why Louisa May Alcott, in
> "Little Women" could get away with calling her family "poor" even though
> they had a servant, Hannah.
>
>
> Lenona.

find some old episodes of Dobie Gillis and look at the store sign prices in
the background.