RE: O/T: Change

The "Menards" shirts, available in at least a half dozen styles are

When you started building the boat I was working at a drugstore for $50 per week. But my rent for a furnished apartment was only $50 per month. I was doing ok.

Got married in 1966 making less than $100 a week. Bought house a few months before the wedding. Mortgage, taxes, insurance came to $84. Raised two kids had two cars and only one income.

Yeah, back in the late 60's I was buying three-packs of blue chambray shirts at Sears for $3.75, if my memory serves. A single blue chambray shirt today goes for at least $36. Of course they're way better shirts than the cheapies I was buying then, but still...

Tom

In 1970, started work at $1.50/hr. I pay about the equivalent of about 1/2 hour for a shirt, now.

----------------------------------------------------- "tdac> Yeah, back in the late 60's I was buying three-packs of blue

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Lew

I thought you started right after Noah and used his plans. I stand corrected. ;>)

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Lew

And a cheap pack of cigarettes (Marvels or Avalon) in the early '50s was

My first full time job ('56) paid $47 a week. I was making more than that an hour when I retired and I was still broke :-).

After graduating from a bookkeeping school in Denver in 1959 and coming home in Nebraska my first job keeping books for a propane company was $45.00 per week,no insurance and I was married and had 1 child and paid