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    House Broken Daisy and Miia's Avatar
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    How things have changed over my lifetime!

    I was going through a box of my memorabilia today and found an old birthday card someone gave my in 1987. It listed how things were the year I was born. The best movie was "From Here To Eternity" with William Holden and Audrey Hepburn (I love her movies). The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series. The top song was "Doggie In The Window" (that figures!). A 3 bedroom home cost $9,000.00! The average income was $4,233.00. Gas was $.29 a gallon and a loaf of bread was $.16. It was fun looking through that. I'll bet there's a website that has that information for every year. Mine was done by Hallmark.

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    Senior Dog POPTOP's Avatar
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    Kinda shakes you up seeing those prices.

    Well, I sure must be older than you because here are the highlights from my birth year.

    Average Cost of new house $5,600.00
    Average wages per year $2,500.00
    Cost of a gallon of Gas 15 cents
    Average Cost of a new car $1,120.00
    Worlds First Electric Blanket $39.50
    Men's Ties $1.50
    Watermans Pen $8.75
    Chicken 41 cents per pound
    Coffee 85 cents for 2 pound bag
    Doughnuts 15 cents per dozen
    Eggs 64 cents per dozen
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    Nice to see you again, Nancy! I remember your precious Daisy & the cart your husband made for her. My Molly girl is 13 now--hard to believe.....

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    Senior Dog labsnewfy's Avatar
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    Oh can we keep this going? amazing to see how much things have changed over the years - talk about the good old days

    In my birth year:

    Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.59%
    Average Cost of new house $13,600.00
    Average Income per year $6,450.00
    Gas per Gallon 31 cents
    Average Cost of a new car $2,650.00
    Price of Volkwagon 'Bug' Beetle: $1,595.00
    Loaf of bread 21 cents
    Bufferin Aspirin: 99 cents/100
    Average Rent per month $118.00
    Astroturf was invented.
    The Top Song was (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones
    The Big Movies included The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago and Thunderball
    Price of a movie ticket: 1.00
    The World Population was ~ 3,330,000,000
    Mystery Date and Trouble (board games) were introduced.
    Operation (motor skills game) was also released.
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    Tootsie - choc lab 10/19/99-8/03/13 adopted
    Bailey - CGC newf/fc 7/12/00-07/15/14 rescued
    Ginger - BT 11/16/05 - 10/14/19 rescued
    Sarah - blk lab 6/22/06 - 12/30/19 rescued
    rescued felines - AJ - 8/00 - 1/11, Merlin - 5/20/05-8/23/21
    Tucker - 8/3/10, Penny - 7/7/13, Toby - 6/14/21

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