Posted on 05/29/2011 10:23:38 PM PDT by Dallas59
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
THX THX
Yep! Those were the days!!! Kids were well behaved and grocery prices were “cheap”!!
(Old geezer from 2061) "Why back in my day, we used to pile into the mini-van and go to the Wal-Mart superstore...those were the days!"
My first year being married, I budgeted $20 for groceries for a week and that included a carton of cigarettes.
‘I’d replace them with the tatoos I have___________.’
G r o a n - tatoos! - whole ‘nuther subject.
It’s gotten so I don’t know where to look when I see tatoos on anyone - especially clerks, who I kind of have to look at - don’t know what I might see!
Clerks in Whole Foods, for instance. Dunno - food and tatoos, for me, don’t mix!
I’m thinking that many have tatoos and certain tatoos just for the shock factor.
Those with tatoos can’t see the ones WE have to look at depending where it is on their body.
It’s so in our face.
I’m thinking that’s the intention.
Those tatoos that are charming, sweet, and few, so be it. But that all-over stuff is murky, ‘dark’ and off-putting.
I know, I know, those tatooed don’t care!
Not picking on you, but I found a chance to sound off!
However, I originally came here to reply because it’s your tag-line which first caught my attention - outstanding!
Thank you kindly for your remarks, and for further similar memories!
Tag Line is altered just a bit.
Ceremony at our local cemetery on May 30th was just fine, remembering our fallen heroes.
It was conducted near the main building, at the top of a hill.
There was our community band, Gold Star mothers laying small wreaths at a flag-draped casket, a bagpipe band, a message from our assemblyman who is presently serving in Afghanistan, a 21 gun salute (pointed over the heads of the many hundreds of us that were seated in white chairs, and sprawled on the grass with their kids! I’ve never experienced a gun salute in THAT position before!), and a dynamic keynote speech by a Navy chief, who also narrated something as sailors (6 or 7...) did a ‘Passing The Flag’ ceremony, not to be confused with the Flag Folding ceremony.
It is being said that attendance at this, and other Memorial Day services elsewhere is up over previous years and that some explanations could be that it’s 10 years since 9-11; and the killing of bin Laden.
In 1957, $5.63 was equivalent to (approximately) $45.06 today (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5.63&year1=1957&year2=2011), though these inflation/deflation calculators are never that exact.
For instance, if I could drive around in an “as new” ‘55 Chevy today, I’d be the envy of all my friends! I’ll bet that leg of lamb would be almost $45 all by itself in today’s money. The rate of inflation is a little bit different for every item.
Still, I wouldn’t mind going back; it was a much more simple, innocent, safer time to be alive and the ratio of honest and honorable people to the other kind was much higher than today. IMHO, the ideal time to be alive in America was the mid-50s.
I followed along and totted up my own prices as they shopped, including Betty’s additions at the end. I would have spent $45 on the same cart, barring the veal roast, as the market for veal has changed drastically in the last fifty years. If I had to serve an equivalent roast I’d pay $12 for pork, $24 for beef, or $34 for lamb.
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