I remember when a nickel was worth a nickel.
 

It was back in 2006 ... if I recall correctly.

Metal value today .... $0.0644842

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Hope you saved a truckload of those valuable little puppies...

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Well I remember when air was clean and sex was dirty!
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Is anybody melting down yet?

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Just started opertations tonight.

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Yea and I remember when a Coke was a nickel and a pack of shewing gun the same ......... and of course a dime for a donut and a cup of coffee.

The way that I got figured out is only greed that makes prices go up because what you get is still the same.

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I remember gas was .23 a gallon, bread a nickle a loaf, candy was a penny. Used to get a hot dog, fries and soda on the south side of Pgh for .25 cents. The biggest fish sandwich at the original oyster house in Down town Pittshburgh for a quarter, was enough for two guys to share. I also remember making a buck tweny five an hour too. Now pushing 19.00 per hour. Me personally have much more than I did years ago, house paid for and do re me , so Im better off than I was, Im set for life, working now to save and help the kids with their future.

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Gas .23 a gallon? hummmmmmmm when I got my first job after coming out of the army in 66 gas was .17 and when they came up with the super unleaded for .20 everyone reaised hell about it.

Filled my 64 Corvair for $2.00........ oh well.

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Wow, and you might have paid 8 silver quarters for that tank of gas. 8 silver quarters today would get you about $16 in gas or about 7 gallons . . . not enough to fill your tank!

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I remember filling the gas can for the lawn mower (1 gal) for less than the quater that I got to do it. I tell my children that and they think I am ancient and it was only 1966. 40 years ago! :wink:

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...it was under a dollar 7 years ago. I hope I'm not getting old yet :)


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A funny thing I've noticed lately is this: radio ads for a sale where they don't tell you how much they've reducedrices, but they tell you they are cutting prices back so many years. That is, they don't say 15% of or something, rather, prices from five years ago. Seems a big indicator of inflation to me.