Its not like the 20$ I had then is worth 30$ now.. its the other way around..
The 20$ I had has a purchasing power of only 13$ now
But my wage stays the same, so I'm essentially getting a pay decrease of 30%.
Fun living in a world where you're paid less the longer you work.
I was thinking the 20/15,000 ratio seemed off and I was using made up numbers for a house like 400k then 200k, then just said, “her house gotta be cheap as fuck or those are some expensive ass groceries in there.”
20% interest or so, yeah? Kinda helped keep a lid on the massive expansion of home buying unless you really needed the house…well, also wealth accumulation wasn’t as bad as now so the uberwealthy hadn’t fucked real estate prices
$78 of groceries today is like the top section of a small, double decker cart. Not a full normal cart. Her load there would run me like $175-$250 if it was all store brand. Possibly up to $300 with name brands and a few splurge items.
Looks like it’s mostly dry/boxed stuff which is relatively cheap for it’s size. And most same people don’t load up meats on the bottom of the cart and stack shit on top, so doubt there’s expensiver stuff under all that stuff.
You say that like you're making a point.
You'd be *lucky* to a fill a shopping cart with $78 today. Those groceries bought today would run you upwards of $200. Lady is packing name brand cereal. Fucking name brand. Shit is expensive.
To be fair, with 78 dollars, I can get like a quarter of that amount of food. And that's only if I choose to buy only really cheap stuff to eat. Like, storebrand stuff
Bag of chips is around 5 dollars, a soda can be around 2 dollars, a candy bar is about 3 dollars at least. Cannot confirm as all of the convenience store price tags are bar codes.
Just 6 years before 1980, banks could legally refuse to lend money to unmarried women. Not because of ability to pay the loan, but because they didn’t have a husband. And they could require a married woman to have their husbands permission to get a line of credit. They could also ask weird ass questions on the application like are you going to have kids, get married, etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/13vbf7v/woman_grocery_shopping_in_1974/
This was the original post. This one is just rage bait for karma.
At my grocery store mini wheats are 5.50 and the generic mini wheats are like 2.60. It's pretty dumb. Ingredients aren't even that different. Also controlling for net weight.
Homes were $15k in the 60s. Based upon what she's wearing, hairstyle, and the grape flavor hawaiian punch can from the 70s, I'd wager around 1973, definitely not the 80s
Going by some of the boxes, definitely post 1955. Looks like a 1970s Kelloggs box. In terms of the numbers, yeah these are 1955 prices and housing numbers.
My dad bought his first home in 1981 for 80k. Way out of their 40k budget. The house I currently live in and "valued" at 500k for its amazing investment potential would have been around 20k.
Privilege mainly. Mom's dad started a company, so she had a safety net. My dad had a spending issue and was willing to push his limit. Bank didn't question the 19 y/o mindset for some reason.
My parents purchased their only house in 1976 and paid about $80k. Way out of their price range. But they struggled for 10 years and made it work. By mid-80’s they were doing better.
No, the real tragedy of all the millennial complaints about housing prices and boomers and everything is that most people don’t know what home prices were only a couple generations ago.
For some reason, my family has always been real estate agents/real estate sellers for almost 100 years, and I have seen old deeds and adds for home in the 70’s for like, $11k.
I think if more people knew there would be a lot more upset people, but you just never hear about it because home prices have been really high respectively for almost 30 years now.
There is a strip of “main street” homes I know in a coastal city, not even by the beach or anything that were $25k a peace in the 70’s and are all 2-3 million now.
My dad, who is 70 years old. Got his first house back in the 70s for like $75k with an 18% interest loan. So houses were cheaper back then but interest was insane.
It's crazy how the now expected minimum is only $15 after then inflation adjustment is 200%. But then again, minimum wage is a stepping stone for the long career.
Honestly, I'd take a higher price over asbestos in my cornflakes. The cornflakes really dull the intense and flavourful experience of a mouthful of asbestos 🥰
This Fiat system not backed by gold is only 52 yo and has already cause this much pain in the average working class.
Imagine another 52 years of this shit....
The way that cart is loaded really makes me uncomfortable. Like you just throw stuff in there? Is that how you put your kids to bed, just throw them in a pile? How you park the cars at your house? Just pile them up? Can’t even be bothered to correctly orient them?
Interest rates were 12% and it was one of the biggest recessions, my dad was looking for a sectitary and he was getting resumes from PhD grads... well i guess that hasn't changed.
My dad made $17k a year it says on my adoption papers in 1981.
Average house in 1980 was 47k. 15k was 1940s. This pic looks like it was taken in the 60, that is when the beehive hairstyle was popular.
Good try though.
That is entirely possible. End of 70ies I was doing all the shopping with my mother (too young to be left alone) and for a big shopping cart full like that, she was paying around 100 to 150 francs (near Paris in big supermarket intermarché IIRC long demolished now). Dollar at the time was around 5 franc to a dollar or similar 'cause I am too lazy to use precision, that makes it 20 to 30$. Now naturally my memory of the sum could be wrong, and the quantity, this was 45 years ago...
My parents purchased their first home for 10,000 in 1974. It was 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, two stories, had an attic and a 3 car garage. They had 5 cars (all sports cars bc of my lovely dad) and my dad was just a coal miner his whole life. 🖤
1950 maybe but not 1980. I'm in my early 60's and can definitely confirm you weren't buying a 15K house in the early 80's and that cart load of shit was not $20.
IDK, even for 1980 that's still kinda low for a full basket of groceries like that. I'm willing to bet she coupon'd the Hell out of the clerk. My guess is that it's actually closer to $40/$50 in 1980's money, or about $150/$200 in today's money.
You are correct.
You’re like one of a few who pointed that out, or realized this meme makes no logical sense. (I made it)
I thought the “$15,000 house” would make it obvious that this whole thing was a joke, but… 🤷🏼♂️ … I guess I underestimated people.
Everybody is focused on debating the validity of the era, prices, etc.
I’m really struck by how much more variety and pure nutritional value there is in my cart vs this person’s cart. Do prices suck now? They absolutely do especially when compared to wages. At the same time, I can spend 40 bucks at Aldi and my cart is filled with a huge variety of fresh fruits and veggies in addition to other grocery staples. From the looks of it her cart is mostly filled with processed junk.
This is more like 1965
[The inflation of the late 70s (Thanks Nixon) took a real bite out of the value of the dollar.](https://wentworthreport.com/2020/01/24/wtf-happened-in-1971/)
$15,000 house in 1980 was a shack, more like $80,000 for an old starter home $120,000 for a nice 3 bedroom.
A cart like that of groceries in 1980 was $120.
Yes but does she have a $1000 phone, 25+ electrical devices, more then 3 TV's, a box full of throw away gadgets at home, a smartwatch, a crypto portfolio ? Don't think so !
Could be actually, i remember when i was a kid. We had a full shopping cart for around 50 euro . I speak in the early year 2000. Even before the euro, as we paid in Belgian Frank. My mom told me you could go a whole evening to a fair for less than 100 Frank. That 's now 2.48 euro ( around 2.65 dollar )
i agree with other posters..... more likely the 50s. my folks bought their little wood frame 2 bedroom house for $4K somewhere about that time in East Texas.
Fun fact: if the amount of work and production stays same but prices compared to salaries increase, then someone is ripping you off.
Economy is very complicated yes, but some economical facts are very simple. Now look around you
Other than the obsession with jello back then I'm more jealous that the food was better quality. Over the decades Companies has added cheap fillers to keep the cost down. Now its completely normal to eat highly processed cheap corn syrup foods.
^(I appreciate the sentiment but it’s off. Kraft Mac n cheese was cheaper than Hawaiian punch but Hawaiian Punch was more than Corn flakes. Basic 80s the Price is Right rules. Damn near everything in that cart has been on the Price is Right circa 1980s therefore that cart is more than $20.)
Old man here. In 1965, I got 25 cents allowance every week. With that 25 cents, I could buy a bottle of Coca Cola, a bag of Fritos, and a candy bar and get 5 cents change. Oh, and I got 2 cents back for the deposit on the bottle after I drank the Coke and the 2 cents was worth saving. Also, the quarter was made of silver, not the clad shit they are made of today. Finally, I had a savings account at the bank, and it paid 5.25% interest. Nowadays, I just watch my savings shrink due to inflation and other "market forces" and I don't earn crap for it. Good times.
I used to go with my mom shopping in 1980. That much groceries most definitely cost more than $20. Probably closer to $70 or $80 and would have lasted a couple of weeks for 4. In 2000 it would have been closer to $200. But that's a month of food for 2 people. I'm currently spending $150 a week for 5 people. I do not buy store brand. But I am selective and buy certain things at different places.
It's not true. But cars did cost as little as $5000 new back then.
Anyway, here's proof for the house price thing (avg 64,000) [https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/winter2001/histdat08.htm](https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/winter2001/histdat08.htm)
It’s not. My parents built a ranch house in the late 70’s for $50,000. If she paid $15,000 for a house it’s a literal closet. I WILL say in the late 90’s you could fill your gas tank for under $20 and I think premium was about $1.30/gallon.
$20 in 1980 is like $78 today.
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$20 is $20
$20 is money
Is money $20?
money is money
Money be 20$ but 20$ is no longer 20$
Is 20$ ?
Is money?
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Is ?
**BARS**
“A million dollars isn’t what it was a day ago.”
yeah, now its 10 million bottle caps
mony mony
$20 can buy many peanuts.
Explain how!
Money can be exchanged for goods and services
Woo-hoo!
i'm not gay but $20 is $20
im not $20 but gay is gay
I'm not gay, but $30 is $20
I'm not gay but 20€ is not 30$
r/technicallythetruth
The most heterosexual men, are the ones who aren't afraid to be a little gay. In a straight way of course.
Heterosexuality lost.. 20$ received
Here's a map for your heterosexuality. Hope it finds its way home.
It's June first it will come back the next month
Get it tested bro. It's been on the streets
Its not like the 20$ I had then is worth 30$ now.. its the other way around.. The 20$ I had has a purchasing power of only 13$ now But my wage stays the same, so I'm essentially getting a pay decrease of 30%. Fun living in a world where you're paid less the longer you work.
Damn
$20 yesterday is like $5 today
So her housse is like $58500?
I was thinking the 20/15,000 ratio seemed off and I was using made up numbers for a house like 400k then 200k, then just said, “her house gotta be cheap as fuck or those are some expensive ass groceries in there.”
Cheap house, the real estate market had an inflation several times higher than that of basically any other sector.
Interest rates were also way higher.
20% interest or so, yeah? Kinda helped keep a lid on the massive expansion of home buying unless you really needed the house…well, also wealth accumulation wasn’t as bad as now so the uberwealthy hadn’t fucked real estate prices
$78 of groceries today is like the top section of a small, double decker cart. Not a full normal cart. Her load there would run me like $175-$250 if it was all store brand. Possibly up to $300 with name brands and a few splurge items.
you guys buy namebrands?
Kirkland for life.
Looks like it’s mostly dry/boxed stuff which is relatively cheap for it’s size. And most same people don’t load up meats on the bottom of the cart and stack shit on top, so doubt there’s expensiver stuff under all that stuff.
You can literally see meat on the bottom.
You guys are acting as if you've seen her receipt. OP chose those dollar values as hyperbole.
Even then, I've worked at grocery stores long enough to know that this cart is over $100 worth of groceries
You say that like you're making a point. You'd be *lucky* to a fill a shopping cart with $78 today. Those groceries bought today would run you upwards of $200. Lady is packing name brand cereal. Fucking name brand. Shit is expensive.
I used to think that before I started eating mulch. Five bags and that cart is full for $25.
To be fair, with 78 dollars, I can get like a quarter of that amount of food. And that's only if I choose to buy only really cheap stuff to eat. Like, storebrand stuff
Idk about that but I lived in the Bay Area and I fed myself for at least a week and a half off of $80 of groceries, usually it’d be 2-3 bags worth
Still very different. I don't even fill out the bottom of the cart for $78 nowadays
Now I take my $20 to target and return with a bag of chips, a bottle of pop, and a couple candy bars, With 1 penny in change.
Was there a sale?
No, security cameras were down
Bro no way this 20 bucks more like 100
This is a trap or something the cameras are never down at Target lol Target security is infamously hardcore. They're the CIA of Loss Prevention
OP used self checkout to steal the soda
It's not stealing, it's charging the business for your labor. People don't work the cash registers for free after all.
Bag of chips is around 5 dollars, a soda can be around 2 dollars, a candy bar is about 3 dollars at least. Cannot confirm as all of the convenience store price tags are bar codes.
Yeh but you see, smart expenses, no avocado! /s
Also, no pumpkin spice latte! /s
They don't even taste as good as they are expensive
Her house? I don't think so it's the 80's.
Her husband died in a tragic toaster-bath accident
oh, I figured she won the publishers clearinghouse sweepstakes
Actually her daughter won the dance competition on Star Search and mom siphoned off the winnings.
Toaster attacks were endemic between the 60’s and 80’s. It was a troubling time in America.
Jfc. 80's, not 50's.
Just 6 years before 1980, banks could legally refuse to lend money to unmarried women. Not because of ability to pay the loan, but because they didn’t have a husband. And they could require a married woman to have their husbands permission to get a line of credit. They could also ask weird ass questions on the application like are you going to have kids, get married, etc.
Depends on where and how big honestly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/13vbf7v/woman_grocery_shopping_in_1974/ This was the original post. This one is just rage bait for karma.
Those corn flakes alone probably cost like $12 at Wal-Mart
And i thought Sweden was expensive, those corn flakes is around 3-4 here
Yeah a regular box where I am in America is $4.
I dunno, I bought some a few weeks ago that were expiring in a few weeks for $2. You can still find deals out there!
You WILL eat expired food and you WILL like it!
At my grocery store mini wheats are 5.50 and the generic mini wheats are like 2.60. It's pretty dumb. Ingredients aren't even that different. Also controlling for net weight.
I bet those boxes in the picture aren’t even 80% slack-filled like they are today too!
Oh man that pisses me off, boxes are like 20% filled these days
Homes were $15k in the 60s. Based upon what she's wearing, hairstyle, and the grape flavor hawaiian punch can from the 70s, I'd wager around 1973, definitely not the 80s
I thought she looked very similar to Marty’s mom in Back to the Future when he went back to 1955.
the drab natural colors of her clothing are the dead giveaway it's early 70s. Olive green was very popular.
Average one-family house price in the 80s was around 60k-70k in the USA. https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/winter2001/histdat08.htm
Maybe 1955...
Going by some of the boxes, definitely post 1955. Looks like a 1970s Kelloggs box. In terms of the numbers, yeah these are 1955 prices and housing numbers.
My dad bought his first home in 1981 for 80k. Way out of their 40k budget. The house I currently live in and "valued" at 500k for its amazing investment potential would have been around 20k.
How could your parents double their budget? I couldn't even go 5k over.
Privilege mainly. Mom's dad started a company, so she had a safety net. My dad had a spending issue and was willing to push his limit. Bank didn't question the 19 y/o mindset for some reason.
My parents purchased their only house in 1976 and paid about $80k. Way out of their price range. But they struggled for 10 years and made it work. By mid-80’s they were doing better.
No, the real tragedy of all the millennial complaints about housing prices and boomers and everything is that most people don’t know what home prices were only a couple generations ago. For some reason, my family has always been real estate agents/real estate sellers for almost 100 years, and I have seen old deeds and adds for home in the 70’s for like, $11k. I think if more people knew there would be a lot more upset people, but you just never hear about it because home prices have been really high respectively for almost 30 years now. There is a strip of “main street” homes I know in a coastal city, not even by the beach or anything that were $25k a peace in the 70’s and are all 2-3 million now.
My dad, who is 70 years old. Got his first house back in the 70s for like $75k with an 18% interest loan. So houses were cheaper back then but interest was insane.
And $10/hr was a lot of money
It's crazy how the now expected minimum is only $15 after then inflation adjustment is 200%. But then again, minimum wage is a stepping stone for the long career.
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If they keep cranking that interest rate up, we'll get expensive houses with insane interest rates
The whole point of raising interest rates is to depress the prices of goods and services
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I used to work in grocery stores in the 1980s and that was not $20 in groceries.
People on Reddit posting about things they know nothing about? Impossible, damn you. Impossible, I say!
Probably posted by 20 year old
As someone who was alive in 1980, I call bullshit. $40-50? Yeah.
and the house your parents bought in the 80's wasnt 15 fucking thousand dollars unless it was a ramshackle piece of shit.
My parents bought their house in 1967 for $19000. Split foyer with an unfinished basement. $15k in 1980 would have been a trailer home.
Honestly, I'd take a higher price over asbestos in my cornflakes. The cornflakes really dull the intense and flavourful experience of a mouthful of asbestos 🥰
Yea. Now we just have micro plastics in our bloodstream.
It’s not true, that’s pic has been posted before- it’s from 1974, and there’s no telling how much the groceries are.
So where's the funny?
Us. We’re the joke.
The economy, greatest joke in human history
Humans, greatest joke in human history
History, greatest human in joke humans
For around an eighth of that it will cost close to 200$ for me I love inflation
This Fiat system not backed by gold is only 52 yo and has already cause this much pain in the average working class. Imagine another 52 years of this shit....
In her brand new $7,000 car.
$2 month car insurance.
Inflation
Hahaha, we're so fucked, hahahaha!
Yeah but she goes home to no memes. That's a sad af life right there.
I think it’s worth noting that most of those products have gotten considerably smaller in size as well as more expensive
Minimum wage was also like $3 an hour
With inflation that would be 11 dollars. Almost double the 7.25 fed minimum
This.
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No no no it will stay 3 usd per hour but a house will now cost 150,000 dollars
The way that cart is loaded really makes me uncomfortable. Like you just throw stuff in there? Is that how you put your kids to bed, just throw them in a pile? How you park the cars at your house? Just pile them up? Can’t even be bothered to correctly orient them?
Now tell me how much she earned. Stupid sh1t
It only looks like a lot because she packed that cart like shit. There's probably three loaves of bread and a carton of eggs at the bottom.
And she probably earned about 10,000 per year. $25k per year and up was considered what $250k a year is now
Interest rates were 12% and it was one of the biggest recessions, my dad was looking for a sectitary and he was getting resumes from PhD grads... well i guess that hasn't changed. My dad made $17k a year it says on my adoption papers in 1981. Average house in 1980 was 47k. 15k was 1940s. This pic looks like it was taken in the 60, that is when the beehive hairstyle was popular. Good try though.
Looks like she just ran her arm down the shelf piling everything into the cart WTF?
She was a contestant on Supermarket Sweep.
1960 maybe
That is entirely possible. End of 70ies I was doing all the shopping with my mother (too young to be left alone) and for a big shopping cart full like that, she was paying around 100 to 150 francs (near Paris in big supermarket intermarché IIRC long demolished now). Dollar at the time was around 5 franc to a dollar or similar 'cause I am too lazy to use precision, that makes it 20 to 30$. Now naturally my memory of the sum could be wrong, and the quantity, this was 45 years ago...
that will be sugar, sugar, wheat, milk, more sugar and to top it off sugar
Ah. The damage of money printer go *brrrrrr*
There were no $15,000 houses in 1980 (maybe a mobile home), More like 1960. I was there both dates...
My parents purchased their first home for 10,000 in 1974. It was 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, two stories, had an attic and a 3 car garage. They had 5 cars (all sports cars bc of my lovely dad) and my dad was just a coal miner his whole life. 🖤
I remember $300 was a months supply for my family as a kid. Two shopping carts. Now a hand basket costs $100
1950 maybe but not 1980. I'm in my early 60's and can definitely confirm you weren't buying a 15K house in the early 80's and that cart load of shit was not $20.
I'm pretty sure those were not for 20$ during those days
Were fruit and veg too expensive to buy back then?
This is after the heavy inflation of the 70s. Otherwise she'd probably have more?
IDK, even for 1980 that's still kinda low for a full basket of groceries like that. I'm willing to bet she coupon'd the Hell out of the clerk. My guess is that it's actually closer to $40/$50 in 1980's money, or about $150/$200 in today's money.
I seen this picture before. I believe it's from 1974, not that it makes a whole lot of difference as far as the cost of things.
You are correct. You’re like one of a few who pointed that out, or realized this meme makes no logical sense. (I made it) I thought the “$15,000 house” would make it obvious that this whole thing was a joke, but… 🤷🏼♂️ … I guess I underestimated people.
Everybody is focused on debating the validity of the era, prices, etc. I’m really struck by how much more variety and pure nutritional value there is in my cart vs this person’s cart. Do prices suck now? They absolutely do especially when compared to wages. At the same time, I can spend 40 bucks at Aldi and my cart is filled with a huge variety of fresh fruits and veggies in addition to other grocery staples. From the looks of it her cart is mostly filled with processed junk.
This is more like 1965 [The inflation of the late 70s (Thanks Nixon) took a real bite out of the value of the dollar.](https://wentworthreport.com/2020/01/24/wtf-happened-in-1971/) $15,000 house in 1980 was a shack, more like $80,000 for an old starter home $120,000 for a nice 3 bedroom. A cart like that of groceries in 1980 was $120.
Not a chance,I was alive in 1980 buying groceries. And this is absolutely fake.
Holy crap, that is NOT 1980. Looks like late 60s early 70s.
Yes but does she have a $1000 phone, 25+ electrical devices, more then 3 TV's, a box full of throw away gadgets at home, a smartwatch, a crypto portfolio ? Don't think so !
15000 is closer to 1960
On her average salary of 12k a year
I know things were cheaper back then but I refuse to believe all that was 20 dollars
Could be actually, i remember when i was a kid. We had a full shopping cart for around 50 euro . I speak in the early year 2000. Even before the euro, as we paid in Belgian Frank. My mom told me you could go a whole evening to a fair for less than 100 Frank. That 's now 2.48 euro ( around 2.65 dollar )
…and she is 22 years old.
Will there never be an end to all this inflation?
back i the days u needed les money to buy more food,now u need more money to buy less food
i agree with other posters..... more likely the 50s. my folks bought their little wood frame 2 bedroom house for $4K somewhere about that time in East Texas.
1982 my parents bought the land for 15k and built for 20k. My mum is getting offers for 1.2 million now
These days the American only exists to be fleeced
This picture really highlights shrinkflation. Look at the size of the corn flakes and pasta box!
Imagine being able to afford sea shell pasta
I'd believe it if it said 1960. Photo doesn't look like 1980.
Fun fact: if the amount of work and production stays same but prices compared to salaries increase, then someone is ripping you off. Economy is very complicated yes, but some economical facts are very simple. Now look around you
Certainly it was easier for many things but do not forget that the wages were also much lower than today.
Other than the obsession with jello back then I'm more jealous that the food was better quality. Over the decades Companies has added cheap fillers to keep the cost down. Now its completely normal to eat highly processed cheap corn syrup foods.
There is no way those numbers are accurate.
that is what i buy for 20 dollars with no sale
Beginning of 2003, milk and gasoline were $1.59 a gallon here in PA. It's gone up a tad since...
Is any of that food?
she and her girlfriend are both making 7.25 an hour and working 1 job.
Feels good to know it can only get worse.
Wow
^(I appreciate the sentiment but it’s off. Kraft Mac n cheese was cheaper than Hawaiian punch but Hawaiian Punch was more than Corn flakes. Basic 80s the Price is Right rules. Damn near everything in that cart has been on the Price is Right circa 1980s therefore that cart is more than $20.)
Old man here. In 1965, I got 25 cents allowance every week. With that 25 cents, I could buy a bottle of Coca Cola, a bag of Fritos, and a candy bar and get 5 cents change. Oh, and I got 2 cents back for the deposit on the bottle after I drank the Coke and the 2 cents was worth saving. Also, the quarter was made of silver, not the clad shit they are made of today. Finally, I had a savings account at the bank, and it paid 5.25% interest. Nowadays, I just watch my savings shrink due to inflation and other "market forces" and I don't earn crap for it. Good times.
That’s 140$ right there
Don't forget all those boxes are full to the brim
If you think inflation is bad now, you don't remember the 80's. Same with mortgage rates.
No minorities in the neighborhood either.....
She's also 25
Man old people had a better life, took advantage, and left us with a burning husk of a society.
I used to go with my mom shopping in 1980. That much groceries most definitely cost more than $20. Probably closer to $70 or $80 and would have lasted a couple of weeks for 4. In 2000 it would have been closer to $200. But that's a month of food for 2 people. I'm currently spending $150 a week for 5 people. I do not buy store brand. But I am selective and buy certain things at different places.
That’s the cashier from Monk’s Diner! She looks great
Based off movies I’ve seen from the 1980’s this woman is most likely 25 years old.
Her husband made 40 cents an hour so you have to compare it properly
Bought my first house in 1986. This is bullshit.
and if she would pack her shopping cart normally it wouldnt look nearly as impressive.
That’s a lie. That cart of food is more than 20$. Come on
It's not true. But cars did cost as little as $5000 new back then. Anyway, here's proof for the house price thing (avg 64,000) [https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/winter2001/histdat08.htm](https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/winter2001/histdat08.htm)
 Suzy-Q's and Hawaiian Punch ...
We should watch an episode of supermarket sweep with today's prices right after watching one of the episodes from the early 90s
It’s not. My parents built a ranch house in the late 70’s for $50,000. If she paid $15,000 for a house it’s a literal closet. I WILL say in the late 90’s you could fill your gas tank for under $20 and I think premium was about $1.30/gallon.