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From loaf of bread to Hostess Twinkie to gumball to litter....
Coinstartled
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Tomatoes were $2.99 and change from the five was $2.01.
I dropped the cent on the ground as I was putting the money away. Considered picking it up and waited for the obligatory older lady in line to let me know that "You dropped your change." Nobody else in line so I left the coin behind.
That Lincoln cent (well an older version) would have bought my grandfather a loaf of bread. It was worth a Hostess sanck to my father during the Depression and would have bought me a healthy gumball (or two of the chintzy ones) back in the 1960's.
Now they are sort of an economic nuisance. A sturdy asset to collectors of course, but a relic of commerce from at least half a century ago.
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Hostess cakes were 12 cents in the mid 60s. It was a tough decision to blow 12 cents on Hostess cupcakes or 12 pieces of penny candy or 7 pieces of penny candy and a 5 cent pack of baseball cards.
The Hostess SuzyQ was a monster in 69 / 70. Twinkies, cupcakes, that coconut covered thing? Snoball? nope.
SuzyQ.
Well, I should have picked it up. I'm one of those poor folks with only a balance of around 2K in one of those "interest paying" checking accounts. My interest for the month equals exactly one cent!
That's okay. For what interest bearing checking accounts pay, you could have $50K and the interest would still be around 1 cent...
I do remember when White Castle sliders were under a dime. Maybe like 8 cents?
I would usually opt for the Archie Comic.
Betty or Veronica?
Well, a piece of bubble gum was 1c at the candy store and it stayed that way for decades. Now I buy the 380 piece tub! Have never done the math to price the cost of each piece.
I remember the McDonald's campaign..burger, fries and small drink and change back from your $1 (1 cent).
Miss Grundy.
The nickel candy bars were bigger than the one's you pay a buck for now...and penny candy was a reality. Five cent ice cream cone and nickel popsicles.... Ten cent soda machines... Of course minimum wage was a dollar...and a great house (in this area) could be purchased for $16K..... Cheers, RickO
My bank just recently stopped paying my 1 cent in interest!
I would buy 2 packs of baseball cards! At least they had a stick of chewing gum in them!
What about the 6 cent coke machines!
And the 25c cigarette machines gave back 2 cents in change.
Some of that change is quite valuable.
If you left that penny I would have picked it up.
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I remember being given a quarter to buy smokes for my dad from the vending machine. Two pennies in change inside the cellophane. A thrill! I was always given the pennies.
Little did I know that @Coinstartled's mini-hoard of '55 DDO's started this way.
Do the newer pennies still work in the fusebox?
And, if you know what a fusebox is, you're an old coot.
I was a Drakes devil dog guy..wash that down with an 8 cent coke that had a 3 cent deposit on the bottle
In the 60's, I preferred those giant waxed lips, popeye candy cigarettes and of course the product that kept dentists happy, the giant sponge candy.
I don't remember the exact prices, but I do definitely remember going into my Canadian quarter collection, popping those silver suckers out of the blue Whitman album and heading straight to our local candy store, where I came home happy with a full stomach full of sugar delights.
My older brother to this day laughs his guts out when he thinks of the quarters I foolishly spent from my collection.
"“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)
"I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
Leaving that cent on the floor was a display of disrespect to your country.
My brother Alan used to steal my silver quarters back in the late 60s and go buy candy. The little corner store was only too happy to receive them, I loved that kid, but I wished him a toothache when I found out
25 cents would have bought me a gallon of gas.
Or simply a more mildly subversive meme for a Socialist Canadian plot to repeal (and NOT replace) the penny?.