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[Puggywuggy]

@SandySparkles What a great thread! I remember going with Papa & Grandma to Thrifty's to get a rockyroad ice cream cone.

I remember 5 cent stamps and helping Mom put BlueChip or S&H Green stamps in the books and going to their stores when she chose something for the house.

I remember so many things from those seemingly innocent and simpler times. Thank you for this enjoyable post! ❤️

[dollgal]

I used to order at McDonalds " hamburger, French fries and a coke". I didn't have to specify what type of burger or sizes because their menu was simple. And I paid $1.00, I can't remember how much change I got back. 

[PinkyPetunia]

I used to go out for lunch with my friends to a pizzeria.  I was 12 or so.  A slice was 15 cents, coke was 10 cents.  Mom didn't always give me that quarter.  She was very frugal and told me to make a bologna or peanut butter sandwich.  

I grew up in Queens NY and I remember the bus fare was 15 cents and the driver made change if needed.  Fare was 20 cents in high school.  Newspaper was 7 cents, then a dime.  

[riley1]

I love when I go back to NJ and they pump my gas for me! It's the little things that make my day.

[qvcaddition]

I found a dollar bill in the grass while playing. Went and bought candy. Came out of the little Mom and Pop strore with a bag full.  1946..

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@KKJ 

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@KKJ wrote:

I remember going to corner store and getting a candy bar for a nickel.  Not a good thing, but I also remember when young my dad sending me to same corner store to get him a pack of cigarettes!

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I was in high school and cigs were .27 a pack. Early 50's?

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@J Town Girl 

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@J Town Girl wrote:

I remember walking to school throughout all of my twelve grades.  We had no school buses.  It was always fun to meet up with your friends and socialize while going to and from school.

We all gathered togethet on the corner and walked about 3 miles to grade school.  This was om San Francisco in a neighborhood you would not be able to walk in today with so much crime.

No school buses and families didn't have cars. 

Right after and during WW11.

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[Carmie]

If we ran out of cereal, 1961-1962, my mother would send me to the neighborhood small mom and pop store to buy a box.

It was always more expensive there, but she would give me a quarter.  The "best" cereal, IMO, cost twenty seven cents.  No matter how much I begged, she wouldn't give me two more cents.

She would say 25 cents is highway robbery for a box of cereal.

[SandySparkles]

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@mrshckynut wrote:

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@SandySparkles wrote:

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@mrshckynut wrote:

my parents teaching me these things about shopping

mrshckynut 

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@mrshckynut Welcome!🥰 I remember feeling SO grown up and excited when I was first shown how to shop! There was something special about handing over money to the cashier.😊 We actually had to WALK around the stores then; now we teach them to shop stores AND online!😁

THANK you SO much for caring to share!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

@SandySparkles    bye bye for now and thank you for being gracious enough to welcome a long time member and obviously being a beatles fan

mrshckynut 

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@mrshckynut You are MOST welcome!🥰

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[SandySparkles]

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@Burnsite wrote:

I was once dispatched down to the A&P (a five minute walk) to get my mother some hamburger for her incredibly tasty spaghetti with meat sauce.  I may have been in fifth grade. 

I was told at the store that they had a special that day---a pound of the hamburger for 28 cents.  I am still that way, a bargain for me is like a red cape for a bull.  I bought it. 

My mom was appalled.  She told me what the going price was for people meat, and said that I had been sold dog meat. But she wasn't mad.  We went back to the A&P and she left me to pick up items in eggs and dairy.

She never repeated what she said to the butcher, but she had the look on her face that meant she had fully expressed her feelings to the butcher. 

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@Burnsite Welcome!🥰 I thooughly enjoyed reading this, because your mother sounds like my dear mother!!!😂

THANK you SO much for caring to share!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖