You Know You Are Old When

[Jstpssng]

I pay more in taxes now than I made at my first job out of college in 1980.

 

[Sigarms]

Can't help but wonder how this commercial would go over today for various reasons...

 

[Sigarms]

You know your old when the minimum hourly wage equals your first daily wage for 8 hours.

It's all kind of relative... Current minimum wage in NC is $7.25 an hour, that's a gross of $15,080 a year for a 40 hour work week. Minimum wage in 1969 was $1.60 which would be a gross of $3,340 a year.

I think the biggest difference is back then you could find a lot more people willing to work for minimum wage and not sure what kind of new car you could buy for today under $15,000 LOL (although I do wonder how much shipping and handling were).

If I could only go back in time, buy one and bring it home with me new today!

 

[ultrarunner]

I pay more in taxes now than I made at my first job out of college in 1980.

My property tax on my East Oakland home is double what I paid for my first East Oakland home…

The annual car registration is 1/3 what my old Ford cost new.

It’s amazing what was hundreds is now thousands.

Just priced a booster pump for a friend and about doubled in 7 years.

I remember working for 1.65 and $2 minimum in 1974.

Same job minimum wage is $20 now.

So a ten fold increase over 60 years plus certain benefits are now mandated.

 

[Sigarms]

My property tax on my East Oakland home is double what I paid for my first East Oakland home…

The annual car registration is 1/3 what my old Ford cost new.

It’s amazing what was hundreds is now thousands.

Just priced a booster pump for a friend and about doubled in 7 years.

California don't count

 

[ultrarunner]

If that was only true…

 

[MoKelly]

California don't count

Who made the quote “Everybody counts or nobody counts” famous? First book was published in 1992.

 

[Jstpssng]

Who made the quote “Everybody counts or nobody counts” famous? First book was published in 1992.

Hieronymus Bosch

 

[masseyrider]

It's all kind of relative... Current minimum wage in NC is $7.25 an hour, that's a gross of $15,080 a year for a 40 hour work week. Minimum wage in 1969 was $1.60 which would be a gross of $3,340 a year.

I think the biggest difference is back then you could find a lot more people willing to work for minimum wage and not sure what kind of new car you could buy for today under $15,000 LOL (although I do wonder how much shipping and handling were).

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If I could only go back in time, buy one and bring it home with me new today!

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I bought my first new car Fall of 1977. It was a 1978 Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am.
Well loaded. PW, PD, air, am/fm with 8 track, even a factory CB. Also the TA 400 engine, 4spd, ws6 handling package and the w72 package.
I paid for it with money from working on the family fruit farm, growing my own side hustle, Tomatoes, and working weekends for the hog grower down the street.
Just under $8200 all in.
There is no way I could buy a comparable such as a Dodge Challenger at age 16 and a half in today's world working at those jobs.
I walked into the local dealership with the money in a brown paper shopping bag.
They called my parents.
Pa said it was my money, I could do as I wanted.
$8k is a lot less money than it used to be. Try to withdraw it from the bank today without a reason and a 3 day heads up.

 

[Sigarms]

$8k is a lot less money than it used to be. Try to withdraw it from the bank today without a reason and a 3 day heads up.

Took out 20K in cash at my bank end of last year, no problem, same day and If I had to give them a reason, I'd close the account.

Keep in mind, 8k in 1977 is 40K given inflation in 2024.

 

[Sigarms]

Who made the quote “Everybody counts or nobody counts” famous? First book was published in 1992.

Although I love the California I saw last year for vacation, end of the day probably wouldn't move there for gun laws alone, let alone house prices I looked at

 

[Pixguy]

 

[Sigarms]

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My wife gets upset with me because that's what our yard is for

 

[goeduck]

My wife gets upset with me because that's what our yard is for

My wife's father died when she was 2 and there was only her sister and mother at that point. They led a quiet sheltered life but when she was 16 or so she started dating. She tells the story of her boyfriend standing in the corner of the yard one day for a minute, so she asked him what he was doing. Apparently, he said "I had to piss". She said, "Standing up?".

 

[garry1p]

Don't know why people complain about price increases when the truth is your dollars have less value and no one seems to consider that. The more money printed the less value for the dollar.

 

[ultrarunner]

Easy... too use to electronics where not only does cost plummet but features grow exponentially.

Computers, TV's, Internet, etc.

Then there is the cost of calling long distance or internationally...

Air travel also has amazing niche markets, etc...

 

[MoKelly]

Hieronymus Bosch

Yes! Fantastic books.

 

[JasperFrank]

I was referring to a commercial made famous by a little ol lady that said. "Where's the beef"?

If you remember the commercial you would know the rest of the story.

"Pop, Pop, Fizz, Fizz, Ooh,... what a relief it is ."
The ol lady was an actor named Clara Peller. She died in 1987. She was world famous for the "Where is the beef?" TV commercial by Wendy's during the election cycle of 1984.

 

[masseyrider]

Took out 20K in cash at my bank end of last year, no problem, same day and If I had to give them a reason, I'd close the account.

Keep in mind, 8k in 1977 is 40K given inflation in 2024.

This is Kanuckistan. Same rules in the banks. Turdo has to know everything going on with the little he doesn't tax away.

 

[seville009]