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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:43:45 PM EDT
[#1]
2 cartons of smokes
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:45:18 PM EDT
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I remember back in the 90s as a teen, taking a $20, putting $10 on gas to pretty much fill up, and getting a drink and snacks/food at the gas station, and still having a few bucks leftover.
Now you’d have a hard time staying under $10 for just the food. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:45:39 PM EDT
[#3]
An SKS, case of ammo and a big ole bag of beef jerky.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:46:29 PM EDT
[#4]
When I was a boy in South Africa, 20 Rand would buy a quality Swiss wristwatch.
I remember standing next to a guy at a jeweler's shop and he bought a stainless steel Swiss watch for 20 Rand The watch was a Camy similar to this one. 
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:51:09 PM EDT
[#5]
400 Snickers bars.
30 boxes of 22shorts 20 bales of hay 40 dozen eggs at the farm My parents used to pull into a gas station and tell the attendant ( that's right, they used to pump your gas everywhere not just in Or a gun) put in a dollars worth. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:53:07 PM EDT
[#6]
Do we really need another thread that brings the boomers out?
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:53:43 PM EDT
[#7]
In mid-80's Florida, that was either 3 grams of pure Cocaine, 2 cartons of Marlboros, enough gas to fill up a '69 Pontiac, or 2-3 days worth of beer at the beach.
A 20 rd box of 7.62x39 ammo in 1985 would cost you 24.99 ..... I bought a VN bringback SKS for 75 bucks at a flea market, and had to save up to buy a single box of Norma ammo to shoot thru it..... Gen "X" btw..... |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:54:18 PM EDT
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Gas was .19 a gallon and a case of cold beer was $2. 15 gallons of gas and beer for 4 weekends of fun.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:54:34 PM EDT
[#9]
Inflation happened back then, too.
  
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:56:49 PM EDT
[#10]
Being on a fixed income, I'm really feeling this inflation.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:58:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: $20 bought me a legit amount of boolits back in the day. Up until the 2008 election got going good you could get a box of 50 9mm for $3.86. I shot the hell out of them. You could also get a box of 50 Winchester 9mm hollow points there for $8 something then. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 4:58:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My late mother ( born in 1939, so not a Boomer ) used to tell stories of my dad giving her $20 to go to the store in the mid 60s to buy a weeks groceries for the family. He never went with her and didn't factor in inflation; she said that he got really mad when she had to tell him that $20 wouldn't cover the weeks groceries any longer. I do recall my dad ranting that $5 no longer filled the gas tank. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:00:22 PM EDT
[#13]
Four bricks (2,000 rounds) of Wildcat .22lr ammo.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:00:48 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's an anti-Fed hit piece targeting the types of wet behind the ears Zoomers who consider "Boomer" an insult. Don't expect anything resembling accuracy. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Not a boomer, but I think that 1998 cart is pushing the limit of credibility if it isn't mostly full of ramen noodles or something. It's an anti-Fed hit piece targeting the types of wet behind the ears Zoomers who consider "Boomer" an insult. Don't expect anything resembling accuracy. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:01:14 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Or 3 cases of Lucky Lager. As a kid, 25 cents would get me a 19 cent hamburger, a 5 cent Coke plus a penny for the governor. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:01:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI don't know where it is right now but somewhere I have a ticket for a Led Zeppelin concert that was to be held at the old Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta. The concert was cancelled after the drummer had a car wreck in Italy and broke his leg. I paid $10 for it, got my money back but retained the ticket to assure I could get another if it was rescheduled. It was rescheduled the next year but I wasn't able to make it. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:05:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gas was $1.06 +/- in '98.....So right at a half a tank for my PU that I had at the time. I got my first car in '73 (a well used '64 VW). After I got it I left town and headed home but forgot to get gas. I was pissed when I to pay 34.9 at a country store instead of the 29.9 I could have got it in town.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:05:39 PM EDT
[#18]
Van Halen 1984 tour in 83, $18 with tax
Big macs were a $1 Go to the foothills gun shop in Denver, indoor range, fee and 250 reloads of HMR(I think, orange box) 9mm ammo was $20 if you returned the brass :( |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:07:15 PM EDT
[#19]
Not a boomer, but gas stations didn't use to take anything larger than a 20$ bill.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:07:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:08:39 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You must have had a pathetically small fuel tank then. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Stop it with the boomer shit. In 2000 I could fill up my tank and get a hamburger for lunch with $20. You must have had a pathetically small fuel tank then. At that time here gas got under $1 gallon for a while. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:09:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:10:02 PM EDT
[#23]
A $20 had the same value as a $100 today.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:11:02 PM EDT
[#24]
I'm a millennial, and I used to get 20 double cheesburgers - not McDoubles, but full-blown double cheeseburgers with two slices of cheese -- for $20.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:11:02 PM EDT
[#25]
Hookers and blow
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:11:54 PM EDT
[#26]
I remember when I could get a whopper, fries and a coke for $1 plus tax.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:12:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:13:04 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's an anti-Fed hit piece targeting the types of wet behind the ears Zoomers who consider "Boomer" an insult. Don't expect anything resembling accuracy. Oh good - it's just anti-Fed nonsense. I was beginning to think inflation could become a real problem 
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:13:47 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Not a boomer but: 2 cartons of smokes (that was early 1980s), I remember people saying they were quitting when they hit $1.00 a pack. When I was a kid we'd buy groceries for a month. I remember the first time the total broke $100, it was around 1980. Gen X'er |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:15:57 PM EDT
[#30]
I could buy cigarettes from a vending machine for 35 cents when I was in high school. A gas station near my house sold two packs of major brand smokes for 50 cents as a loss leader. A carton of cigarettes (10 packs) sold for two dollars plus tax. That was in 1967. The government in most places put state and local taxes on cigarettes and the federal government subsidized the tobacco farmers via the department of agriculture.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:16:19 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Not a boomer, but I think that 1998 cart is pushing the limit of credibility if it isn’t mostly full of ramen noodles or something. We didn’t even break $5 minimum wage till 1997… $20 would’ve been just under 4hrs of minimum wage labor in 1998. Half a days work. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:18:23 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh good - it's just anti-Fed nonsense. I was beginning to think inflation could become real problem Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It's an anti-Fed hit piece targeting the types of wet behind the ears Zoomers who consider "Boomer" an insult. Don't expect anything resembling accuracy. Oh good - it's just anti-Fed nonsense. I was beginning to think inflation could become real problem Inflation is and can be a problem. It's also necessary in moderation. The mythical golden era of financial predictability and stability pre 1913 was... not so. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:20:26 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryWas recently watching season 1 of The Andy Griffith Show with the family. Sign on a shop window said 5lbs of bacon for 99 cents. Got to get out a couple of silver US coins and explain it to my daughter. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:20:47 PM EDT
[#34]
LOL I'm 42 and those pics are BS. I left my parents place in 98 and no way would 20 bucks buy that. You are believing the agenda.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:21:40 PM EDT
[#35]
20 table dances at Band-Aids Show Club. 4 table dances at Bourbon Street Circus. Less likely to get stabbed at Bourbon Street.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:22:53 PM EDT
[#36]
Not a "Boomer", never launched a nuke out my aft section in my life!
Actually a Gen X'er, but remember when you could get 80rds of of PMC 5.56 for $20. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:24:00 PM EDT
[#37]
3 bricks of 22lr. With change back.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:24:08 PM EDT
[#38]
In the 70's, I could put a tank of gas in my Hot Rod, then take the H.S. sweetie to Pizza Hut, for a large pizza, hang out with the rest of the "gut" crew. Afterwards, I could cruise the Gut until bedtime. 10ring
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:24:45 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't know where it is right now but somewhere I have a ticket for a Led Zeppelin concert that was to be held at the old Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta. The concert was cancelled after the drummer had a car wreck in Italy and broke his leg. I paid $10 for it, got my money back but retained the ticket to assure I could get another if it was rescheduled. It was rescheduled the next year but I wasn't able to make it. Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't know where it is right now but somewhere I have a ticket for a Led Zeppelin concert that was to be held at the old Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta. The concert was cancelled after the drummer had a car wreck in Italy and broke his leg. I paid $10 for it, got my money back but retained the ticket to assure I could get another if it was rescheduled. It was rescheduled the next year but I wasn't able to make it. Those were the days. I even saw many concerts for free back then. My sticker shock happened in the 90s when a single ticket to the Eagles Hell Freezes Over Tour was $100. I couldn’t believe it, but I was still willing to pay the price. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:25:10 PM EDT
[#40]
Not a "Boomer", never launched a nuke out my aft section in my life!
Actually a Gen X'er, but remember when you could get 80rds of of PMC 5.56 for $20. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:25:20 PM EDT
[#41]
$20 is $20 |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:27:22 PM EDT
[#42]
An entire night of drinking and shooting pool. $0.25 cent for a glass of draft and pitchers of beer were a dollar. Pool table as long as you kept winning. Hell when I was good I could get by with $5 or $10
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:28:38 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A $20 had the same value as a $100 today. I would argue it’s worse than that. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:30:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:32:31 PM EDT
[#45]
No way you could get a cart full of groceries for 20 bucks in 1998.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:35:04 PM EDT
[#46]
Back in the mid-80's, $20 would get me a cab ride from Subic Bay to Magsaysay Drive, and in no particular order drunk, laid, fed, and with change left over for the ride back. Give or take a few bucks for tipping. Marcos was still in charge back then.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:36:07 PM EDT
[#47]
Only way that 1998 cart is $20 is if it's all bought with food stamps and there's a carton of Carlton 120 Menthols underneath.
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:39:04 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: In Olongapo city, Philippines in 1984, $20.00 would buy your dinner, a blow job, beers all night including rounds, and a trike ride back to the gate at Subic Bay in the morning. " You have chosen... wisely"
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:44:03 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: ... was in place until 1933. 1913 ushered in the Fed, and also marks the furthest back CPI calculations go. Inflation was a major political issue in that era, with WW1 having a lot to do with it. This, despite the gold standard. Your ignorance of monetary history is astounding. |
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Posted: 6/27/2021 5:45:25 PM EDT
[#50]
80 gallons of gasoline.
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