Another shopping observation today
and none of it good. I had been buying a low end brand of flat twin size bed sheets in 100% cotton percale. I had been shopping and keeping tabs for months on these since the first of the year. Always priced on Amazon at $15.99 regular price. Not bad although they are thin. So I bought one 3 weeks ago to try it out. Not bad but now 3 weeks later I went to buy 2 more and they are now pricing at $20.99 for regular white with most of the colors going for $22.99. So the red one I previously bought 3 weeks ago has gone up nearly 50% in price. Made in Pakistan.
Medium level grocery store I frequent was making a big splash about selling round steak for $10.99/lb. Two years ago when Joe was President I could buy New York Strip on sale for that price from the same place. Good thing I know how to stretch meals with slow cooker stews and soups based with beans and lentils and don't need but a smattering of meat here or there.
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Lovd it! 
I'll bet you do! 
and bought the original from Rival way back when it first came out. Of course people had Nesco roasters and stew pots before that. I remember my great aunt with a stew/soup always simmering 24/7 on the back of the wood cook stove. My paternal grandmother also on her nice porcelain white electric stove from the 1940's/early 1950's. It had top burners, oven and a built in clock/timer but it also had another neat feature. Out of the four burners it had one of the back ones that you could lower into the stove and then put in a pot that came with the stove so you could deep fry, make candy, stew etc. with this pot that was at surface level so you didn't worry about knocking over a pot of hot stuff etc. and it kept your stove-top open for handles on pans on the other burners to be turned in without a fuss. My grandma used to use it for canning also. Here it is and look how nice to have that big work surface on top of the oven and nice pan drawers.
I want nine but could get by with five. 
I can remember getting McDonald's hamburgers for $.25 each, and fries were $.10 each, and I'm pretty sure the sodas (Cokes) were $.10 each. We could buy real penny candy, and most chocolate bars were a nickel. This was during the mid-1960's and I was probably in 8th or 9th grade at the time. Not old enough to drive yet, but we used to ride our bikes everywhere.
We'll never see anything like those prices again.
bakery in the Midwest called Gardner's. The little local general store in my unincorporated town had groceries, fence wire, fence posts, nails, bolts etc. and he put new glass in broken windows. His bread guy was a Gardner's and they also had bakery in thin cardboard trays that were cellophane wrapped. Frosted Jelly bismarks, donuts etc. I used to buy the tray of frosted jelly filled bismarks and wolf them down on a hot day with 2 sodas. There were like 6 of these in a tray and the cost with the 2 sodas was right around $1.50 or so. I remember the soda was about 15 cents each which included the 5 cent bottle deposit. The pastries were like 89 cents for the whole tray when I first started buying them. Cigarettes were 29 cents a pack and a six pack of Pabst would go for $1.65 regular price and even less on sale. If you bought a case of returnable bottles then it was just over $4.00 a case. Lower quality beer you could get for right around $1.00 for a six pack. This is before pop-tops.
I was working on the family farm and getting paid $1.00 an hour so I had money and no place to spend it other than at the general store. I bought garbage to eat like it was going out of style. Thought I was doing a good job of keeping that hidden until my visit to the dentist and he told my Mom how much the bill was going to be. I miss those bismarks.
This is the old original bakery building in Madison and it just closed about 7 years ago. Also a picture of what their bread trucks looked like. They had been around for 90 years.
My Mom and Grandmother were born there. I've been to Madison several times to visit cousins and extended family. I actually grew up in Saint Louis, but Mom told us cool stories about Madison and her childhood. I actually just visited there a couple years ago, and it still looks pretty great.
I think Pabst is made in Milwaukee, am I right?
