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Remember when?
Posted: Jan 5, 2011
Showing my age here. I was telling my adult son how I had my own apartment, bought furniture, lived on my own, drove a Firebird, all on $3.65/hour working full-time. After paying all my bills I usually had between $25-50 left for 2 weeks until next paycheck and I was able to make it last! It really doesn't seem like that long ago (early 80s). Then I got into MT and whoa doggies, the money started piling in! I felt RICH making $6.80 plus incentive (which brought it up around $18/hour).
Sometimes I wish for that simple life again, single, living on my own, had money all the time. I guess there's no going back, right?
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nope, no going back - so sad
[ In Reply To ..]Same story except for a Trans Am! Darn, I miss that car.
I was easily making $28 an hour and raising my 2 girls alone. Loved it.
Its gone, just like my girls are.
Really telling my age. I used to stop for $3.00 worth of gas. - Lasted for couple days. NM
[ In Reply To ..]X
right... - $5.00 was a half tank!
[ In Reply To ..]And that was in the Mercury Grand Marquis!
gas - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Yep, I worked in a gas station in the late 70s and people were shocked that it had hit a dollar a gallon.
When I started driving, gas was 0.32, 0.34 and 0.36. I refused to - Olive
[ In Reply To ..]buy the 0.32 because it was "too cheap." Then things started to change and I then said if gas goes up to 0.50 a gallon I'm going to walk!
Back in the early 70s sm - CrispyCritterMT
[ In Reply To ..]I drove out of a Sohio gas station without buying gas because it had gone up to 71 cents. At the time, I thought, "That's ridiculous, I'm not paying that much!" I laugh about that now.
I remember gas being 25 cents/gallon. DH remembers 23. - Backwards Typist
[ In Reply To ..]I used to pick up friends for school and take them home for $.25 a week. I had 5 friends who did this. This paid for my gas for the week. Our school was 2 miles away and if they didn't have a ride, they'd have to walk.
If someone had a date and no vehicle, I'd be the chauffeur/chaperone (sp). This also helped me buy gas.
My allowance was $1.50 a week and it didn't go too far 'cause I had a gas guzzler back then, but at least when I ran out of gas, I had fumes to get me another 1/4 mile. LOL
It was that way for me right up until a few years ago, - (sm) - MT Wordz
[ In Reply To ..]when I left a good-paying inhouse job at a hospital to work at home for a national MTSO. BIIGGGGG mistake! Now I feel "rich" on those paydays where I actually break even, and don't have to raid my dwindling retirement money in order to pay the bills.
That's all I ask of an employer - not the moon and the stars, just enough to live a halfway decent life, and a little each month to sock away into savings for a rainy day. Too bad they're too greedy to realize that's all ANYBODY wants when they take a job.
That's not really what we were talking about. - Give it a few minutes' rest, will ya!
[ In Reply To ..]I was laughing til I got to your post. What a downer you are. Gonna have to get me a 25-cent Schlitz to make me feel better.
I remember when.... many things - anonymoose
[ In Reply To ..]We went to the gas station and the attendant had handlebar mustache. He pumped our gas, washed our windows, and checked our oil every time, and one tank of gas lasted mom and dad the whole week.
I remember going with grandma to the green stamp store.
I remember taking pictures with my brownie camera that had flash bulbs on the top.
I remember dancing around the maypole in grammar school and playing dodgeball (don't think they have either of those).
I remember when a lady never wore slacks on a Sunday (at least in my town).
I remember taking my allowance to the penny candy store.
Ah, green stamps - mt
[ In Reply To ..]My dad used to get loads of green stamps with his job. We used to sit for hours licking stamps, counting our books, looking at the catalog. Loved it.
I remember getting in trouble in the 4th grade for wearing nice slacks and a blouse because the top of my matching pantsuit was dirty. Teacher took me in the hall and said "don't do it again".
I remember going to the BBF (before McDonalds) and it was $6 to feed a family of six. It was a treat to eat out, usually after church on Sunday so my mom wouldn't have to cook.
I remember as a little girl wanting Mary Janes so bad I could taste it. Never did get them. Mom said those kinds of shoes were a luxury we couldn't afford.
You don't have to go back very far - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I remember when I used to be able to get out of the grocery store just under $100 for a full week for 2 people and 2 cats, and that included toiletries and stuff. It wasn't that long ago, maybe 7 years ago. Now I can only get under $150 if I don't buy any meat... and the meat nowadays is all injected with saline solution. A few years ago, only the really cheap bargain pre-frozen meats came injected, but now almost all of it is. You have to pay $9/pound for chicken that's "organic," i.e. all meat and not 15% salt water.
There's no going back, but there are many days when I wish I could!
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