Coin Week

[Triggersmob]

Apparantly it's coin week this week.
Why wasn't I told?

http://www.coinlink.com/News/clubs-associations/national-coin-week-2010-national-coin-week-beautiful-places-landmarks-and-mintmarks/

[OldDan]

I guess so, and it's dang near over before I found out!!!!!!!!

[Goose]

AHA, coin week is upon us. The temps have been around 70 F here in central Minn this week and I see the kids coming out and putting up their Kool-Aid stands. I went to a few this week and paid them in dateless Buffalo nickels. One boy looked at the nickels and ran to his house, shouting "Dad, dad, look what I got!" Another, a girl, said, "Oh, these again." I questioned her about her comment and she said that last year I paid her in the same nickels. (I didn't remember.) <The bloomin' kids are greedy...both Kool-Aid signs had a price of 50c....50c? At both places I said that I'd buy some if it were only 25c. Both agreed.>

[Nighthawk]

KOOL!   

[Templar]

NO.....KOOL AID......WEREN'T YOU PAYING ATTENTION
  $O.50 FOR A CUP OF KOOL AID..........0H I'M GETTING OLD.....I PAID ONLY 5 CENTS WHEN MY KIDS SET UP THEIR FIRST STAND.........WOW THE THINGS I COULD BUY AS A YOUNG SQUIRE WITH A NICKEL...........GOOD TIMES

          YOUR SERVANT.........THE TEN CENT TEMPLAR

[Pocketcoins]

.........WOW THE THINGS I COULD BUY AS A YOUNG SQUIRE WITH A NICKEL...........GOOD TIMES

          YOUR SERVANT.........THE TEN CENT TEMPLAR

You were probably like the rest of us and hardly ever seen a nickel.   

[Nighthawk]

I remember when to use a pay phone cost 10 cents, comic books cost 12 cents (most folks I knew almost had a stroke when they jacked the price up on comic books to 15 cents!), and a bottle (glass bottle, that is!) of pop cost a quarter, and a big candy bar was a nickel. Ahhhhhh, those were the days.  

[OldDan]

Here are a few 1940's prices:
New house cost $3,920.00
Average income per year was $1,725.00
Gallon of gas was 11 cents
Average cost of new car was $850.00
Box of 100 asprin 76 cents
Philco Refrigerator $239.00
Pork Loin Roast per pound 45 cents
Nylon Hose 20 cents
New Emerson Bedroom Radio 1938 $19.65
Mens Suits from $24.50
Portable electric heater $42.50
Ford Super Deluxe Sedan Coupe $1395
Sealey Mattress $38.00

[Triggersmob]

A house was twice the average income, now it's more like 10 times.

I remember as a kid, I would go visit Grandma's house and she would give me sixpence. I thought that was fantastic.

[Tobyle]

Yeah, wasn't it a let down though when they changed to the decimal system ....... one day you could buy 12 loose sweets for 6d ..... the next day, with 5 cents, you could only get 10!

Some Australian prices for the 40s were:

Newspaper - 2d
48-215 holden (1948) 733 pounds
Plane flight from Sydney to Melbourne - 5 pounds
Milk - 6d per pint
Bread - 7d per loaf
potatoes - 1d per pound

I gotta stress here .... these prices were BEFORE MY TIME!

[TwoShadows]

Well I must admit I can remember 6 cent Cokes and a machine that actually took a nickel and a penny! Also bread was 19 cents a loaf and gasoline was 39 cents a gallon. We could actually get something for our money back then and most of it was NOT plastic.
We didn't lock our doors and crime was something you read about in the big cities. TV programing actually was entertaining with storylines and plots. And we didn't walk around with a cell phone or ipod stuck in our ear oblivious to the world around us. We knew how to respect others, plant a garden, hunt for food and barter if needed. We actually needed our neighbors and they needed us. We also knew what REAL work was!
Children of all ages played together, made up games and explored the outside world. Those are just a few of the things that have died or are slowly disappearing from the planet as mankind marches toward total technological stupidity.
 
And in an effort to stay on topic shouldn't this have been Medallion Week instead of coin week?