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Post by JeriJet on Apr 6, 2013 7:46:53 GMT -5
So, I guess nobody found this chart of any interest at all !!??
I'm bringing it forward again, because it had already gone to the second page of Newest Threads.... and I thought some folks might find it of value....
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Post by Forum Administrator on Apr 6, 2013 8:08:46 GMT -5
Actually, I did find it interesting. I just didn't reply.
I graduated from college in 1973, and my first teaching job was in a rural West Virginia county. I taught kindergarten, and my salary was $7,200/year! And that was considered a good salary for someone in their first job just out of college. I paid $125 per month to rent an apartment, and I bought a new car for $2,000. How times have changed!
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Post by wmfan/waltonsportwriter on Apr 6, 2013 10:21:58 GMT -5
Itnteresting research Jeri Jet andshows the value of the dollar over the years and being born in 1967 I've deen a dramatic change in it. Wm Fan
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Post by JeriJet on Apr 6, 2013 12:45:41 GMT -5
Thanks, Brenda and Wmfan..... using the chart, I've checked on a few things I remember, like the rent on my first NYC apartment compared to today's price, and it matches up perfectly with what is shown on the chart.... now, I want to "test" more and more things. Just takes simple algebra.... It's also fun to determine what something did in fact cost back to whatever year you want. And, it's staggering to find that $5 to the Waltons in 1935 is about $82 to us today.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2013 22:13:45 GMT -5
$82 is not much to anyone these days so I am not sure why the waltons were so excited about the money.
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Apr 7, 2013 0:36:12 GMT -5
When my husband & I got married in 1985, our rent was $165.00 a month. No such thing as cellphones back then, just landlines. We did without a telephone for the first two years because we did not have the money to have one put in or to pay the monthly bill on it! We never had to worry about the phone interrupting a TV show, a meal, etc.....We did just fine with no phone. Now it seems people can't live a few minutes without one.......mostly texting nowadays though, not much talking. But we still have our landline & I still do not own a cellphone.
From 1990 to 1996, I would budget my husband & myself twenty dollars ($20.00) a piece for the week. Our twenty dollars would fill up our gas tank for the work week & we had enough left over to buy ourselves lunch two to three times a week.
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Post by wmfan/waltonsportwriter on Apr 7, 2013 6:51:03 GMT -5
Wow great survival story in everyday life. You did well taking care of yourself and family forever waltons. Way to budget! WmFan
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Post by JeriJet on Apr 7, 2013 9:50:06 GMT -5
$82 is not much to anyone these days so I am not sure why the waltons were so excited about the money. I think $82 is quite a bit to folks who don't have much today -- people who are out of work or living payday to payday or have been on a fixed income for a while (like me). If the Waltons needed shoes for a couple of kids, that $5 would have bought 2-3 pairs.... I bet there are quite a few members here who would "get excited" about having an additional $82.
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