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Who can remember saying....
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...."betcha a NICKEL" 
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I can’t. But I can remember saying “betcha a Half Cent”.😉
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
Your showing your age! It was a Quarter for me!
Edit to add...my little sister owed me all the money in the world several times!
Yes, I can remember when a single Quarter Dollar was the minimum threshold for a kid's bet.
You could probably still get a regular hamburger at MickeyD's for 21 cents. Those were better back then than today's product.
Quarters were for the rich kids. And they didn't bet with us juvies. :'(
Well, I think there was a time difference. My frame of reference is 1973 or thereabouts. A postage stamp was six cents.
"My mom gave me a nickel
To buy a pickle...."
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
I can, and a McDonalds burger was 15 cents w/o cheese, 19 cents with.
Yep...15 cent burgers, nickel ice cream cones and candy bars...as well as penny candy...and five cent draft beer...sure, 'betcha nickel' was a common challenge...and it was just as likely to be a buff as well... Cheers, RickO
Two bits. That’s how old I am.
I grew up in a world where a small coffee is at least a dollar. And I bet you a dollar you know my age.
And it cost a dime to make a call from a (insert finger quotation marks) phone booth.
So what is it now.....
Betcha a 100 bucks?
Betcha a new I phone?
HAPPY COLLECTING
I remember the potato chip one "Betcha can't eat just one".
I'm so old I remember when "dollars to doughnuts" was a good bet to take.
At the rate the dollar is fading away you'll need a sawbuck to buy one in twenty or thirty years. And you'll still get brand new pennies in change.
I recall saying, "Betcha a pistareen" and got my mouth washed out with soap....
Liar, liar pants on fire.......got 'em caught on a telephone wire!
Step on a crack......you break your mother's back!
Race track used to have $2 bets.
Now they have $1 bets.
Go figure.
I am rubber, you are glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks on you!
But you stopped by the baker..
And picked up some kichel.
Burma Shave!
Yep, when I first started working at the State in the big city in 1965 we would go to Mac Donald's for lunch and I would get a Hamburger, Fries & a Coke and get change back from a half dollar.
Those were the days. 
Problem was,.....I didn't have the 15¢ back then.
Still sort of can if it is a Franklin.
I remember when Micky Dee's didn't serve breakfast.
In high school we went to Mc.D for lunch and I got a
double cheeseburger, small fry and a Coke for 88 cents.
That was 1974-75.
Forget the fast food. I went upscale and did the Big Boy combo for $1.15. Decent hamburger, fries and a salad.
And back in the 1960's, if you left a quarter tip, the waitress didn't throw it back at your head.
In 1972, a whopper, fry and a coke for 99 cents, plus 4 cents tax.
How did this turn into a McDonalds history?
"That and a dime'll getcha a cup of coffee"
Who can remember saying, "Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions – on a sesame seed bun ?"
The mayo on the signature sandwich was cloying. It was a few more years before they told me that i could have it my way.
That wasn't that long ago. Or was it??
How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center?
Bet you can't eat just one Lay's potato chip.
Give me two dollars in gas and check the oil .
Where’s the beef?
Penny for your thoughts? (My last two were not coin related.
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23 skidoo is only 4 years away.
I used to buy a Kit Kat at Ted's for a nickel on my way home from basketball practice. That, and play pinball for a nickel and sneak a peek at the girlie mags (for free).
I knew it would happen.
I grew up hearing and saying "it's on my dime" or "it's your dime" etc., but my mother would use the phrase "your nickel"- as she spent the majority of her youth with 5 cent payphones.
Not until 1866.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Yep, I think so. [Insert some clever joke about Nickelback]
And this tread is useless without photos:
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Yosemite Lodge..... ROOM SERVICE !!!
For a Nickel I will!
My mother related the story of her having to scrub the wooden cellar stairs to earn a nickel for the movies. She was born in 1925.
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
Why mess around, Rollo?
Tapioca was included with the one way passage.
In 1978 I was traveling with “The Tubes” and their last stop was NYC. I remember it was $28.50 for a pot of coffee room service at the Park Place. That’s somewhere around $112.00 today.
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
I am about to write a story about the counterfeit 1925 nickel discussed late last year. All of this shows why somebody would counterfeit a nickel.
I used to stop and get a "Dollar Regular", (around 3 gallons). I'd cruise on it, then stop for more.
Many times a night.
Pete
On how I wish I was an Oscar Meyer weiner.....
Once bought a bunch of Nik-l nips and emptied them all into a glass. Got about six ounces of the gunk and drank it.
It was not a very good idea.