1961 food prices vs. today (for a family with 18 kids)
On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:32:26 -0400, Brooklyn1
> wrote:
>lucretiaborgia wrote:
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>>In the sixties for a family of four and one large dog we spent $50 per
>>week on groceries and pet food and what's more we would split the list
>>and David and I both had a cart full each! Nowadays $50 barely covers
>>the bottom of a cart!
>
>Living is LA in the '60s the total food bill for two adults and a
>child was under $20 a week and was more than we could eat.. gasoline
>cost 9¢/gal and got double plaid stamps plus a steak knife... I had a
>glove compartment chock full of steak knives, today I'd probably be in
>prison as a terrorist for that. The world has changed in a bad way, I
>don't like it, I'm glad I'm old. However anyone comes to bother me
>I'd shoot them full of buck shot with my Winchester 12 ga. without a
>moment hesitation. Towel heads would end up in my pond as carp chow,
>mo one would find your DNA. Mooslems hate faggots because they are
>ALL faggots themselves.
9 cents a gallon for gas? I'd believe 29 cents.
Janet US
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