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Default 1961 food prices vs. today (for a family with 18 kids)

On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 20:02:06 -0600, Janet B >
wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:32:26 -0400, Brooklyn1
> > wrote:
>
> >lucretiaborgia wrote:
> >>
> >>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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