In Your Dreams
Kevin unearthed this grocery store newspaper ad from 1977. He probably found it in an old building, just prior to demolition. He often drags home little treasures like this. Alas, no gold pieces.
A 10-oz. pkg of walnuts for $1.18? I'd love to see that again!
EIGHTEEN oranges for 79 cents???
It's because the Federal Reserve keeps printing money. Paper money. And it's becoming about as valuable as Monopoly money. The U.S. Dollar is getting worth less and less. When we see an ad like this, it shocks us, doesn't it. But we don't usually see ads like this, these reminders of what's reallly happening!
Inflation is designed to occur gradually. Remember a few years ago when we noticed that ice cream was no longer sold in 5 quart pails, but smaller boxes? And the price remained the same, or perhaps a little less, so that it looked like we were getting a good deal - until we caught on to what was going on. Same thing with cereal boxes. They became thinner and smaller, and the price did not decrease correspondingly. We didn't like the smaller boxes, but we didn't complain too much because the bill at the end didn't rise dramatically [enough] overnight. SO that in reality, although we complain every time we go into the grocery store and swipe our credit card to pay the enormous food bill, we aren't mad enough to actually riot. And as long as people around the world still accept the U.S. Dollar in trade, we can keep all the plates spinning in the air, if we really try hard. But when they no longer do accept the Dollar, it will all...
come...
crashing...
down.
Then there will be riots.
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So after that depressing post...
Something to make you smile.
This photo came up because I did an image search through my files for:
'grocery.' And this photo was there too because Henry was riding horse at the 'grocery' store. :-) That's one happy cowboy!
P.S. Do you save your grocery receipts so you can compare them month by month and year by year? I wish I'd been doing that right along.
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