Looking back on my early years as an adult, I remember gas cost about 39\u00a2 a gallon when I started driving. Hamburger was about 69\u00a2\/lb. Bread was 30\u00a2 for a loaf. Butter was 69\u00a2\/lb. A dozen eggs were 75\u00a2, and steak was 99\u00a2\/lb. The average price for a home was about $38,000.<\/p>\n
While those prices were considerably lower than now, so were wages. The federal minimum wage was $1.60\/hour.<\/p>\n
I remember the first car I bought vividly. It was a used 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne; I paid $500 for it. I remember going to my insurance agent to get insurance on the car. At the time, it felt like I was going to have to pay a lot of money (my memory isn\u2019t clear enough to tell you what that amount was \u2013 it was 52 years ago). I do remember being told that once I turned 25 years old, the cost for insurance for a car would be less because I would have matured. I looked forward to that day, but as we all know, things like insurance didn\u2019t get less expensive. Mostly because nothing covered by insurance got less expensive either.<\/p>\n
If you fast forward to our post-COVID era, you\u2019ll have to wait for a good sale to get hamburger anywhere close to $4.00\/lb. Steak is about $13.00\/lb. Butter feels like a bargain at anything close to $5.00\/lb. And gasoline is about $4.00\/gallon.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve lived through a year when taxes went down; that cost seems to rise every year \u2013 but then, so does the value of our home.<\/p>\n
I remember when I was younger, I kept hoping for a break from things breaking down or needing to be replaced. It seemed that every time I felt like I might be getting ahead, something would need replacing or repairing \u2013 let me tell you, that doesn\u2019t change a whole lot as you get older. The fact is, you can add your body breaking down to the list of things that need to be repaired.<\/p>\n
As I get older, I also realize that I don\u2019t need to look too far to find someone who isn\u2019t as lucky as I am, and I\u2019m thankful for what I do have.<\/p>\n
Now I have to go shopping for plants to replace the ones that didn\u2019t survive the cold weather this past winter. The nurseries here in Florida are having a good start to their year.<\/p>\n
Have A Good Week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Looking back on my early years as an adult, I remember gas cost about 39\u00a2 a gallon when I started driving. Hamburger was about 69\u00a2\/lb. Bread was 30\u00a2 for a loaf. Butter was 69\u00a2\/lb. A dozen eggs were 75\u00a2, and steak was 99\u00a2\/lb. The average price for a home was about $38,000. While those prices […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corner-copy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/571x371_CornerCopy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}