LOL.

My mom used to send my sister and I to the store with a nickle and we'd get 4 coconut slices that looked like watermelon slices - a couple of strips of paper candy (5 dots of candy in a row and rows down a strip of what looked like reciept paper), and a pack of bubblegum cigarettes.

lol. Good one. My grandmother lived close to a penny candy store and given some small change, we had a great time picking out a bag of penny candy.

I don't know what I would have gotten when I was so much younger and all, but even since highschool costs have gone up SO much. Stuff costs literally like 10 times as much today. And things were SAFER!

Steve

Canada has gone down-hill big time.

I only have two local big box grocery stores in which to shop.

Most of the meat is labelled as Halah. The majority of other products have the Rooster or Cock Brand label on them. I refuse to buy this crap.

As for chemicals, my Dad had a license to acquire some type of poison (I'm almost certain it was Agent Orange) as he was retired from Hydro management.

Long story short, I just recently lost my Dad to cancer, the reason I was away from the forum for some time.

While Dad was dying in hospital, a letter arrived for him. That letter was informing him that he was entitled to a settlement if he had any of the symptoms listed in the letter.

Needless to say, he is entitled, but won't be around to enjoy it.

He made sure I wouldn't receive one cent.

I was buying cigarettes for my dad when I was 8 years old. The only question the cashier asked was what kind of cigarettes do you want? I would throw an empty pack up on the counter & say this kind.

I also had to cross the busiest street in town (8 years old) to get to the convenience store to buy those cigarettes, lmao, I look back on that now & it reminds me of the video game Frogger.






Frogger - YouTube

I lived in an upper middle class small town. We didn't have heavy traffic anywhere. My first pack of smokes put a 35 cent dent in my wallet. My friends and I would each pitch in another 35 cents for gas (two gallons each) and we'd each get ourselves a bottle of Boonsfarm ($1) or a pint of something and we'd drive around the back country roads and party. If we got caught, the cops took us home and we'd get lectured, grounded - and some parents gave whippings, too. I was never lucky enough to get off with a whipping. I got the lecture, and a question answer drill. Why did I do it - do I know the consequences - for me - for others, what is the worst that could have happened - what is the best that can come from it. yadda yadda yadda - on and on. I hated it. It does make me think before I act now - but back then I'd be thinking "just hit me and get it over with would ya".

Prices have changed! I remember buying chocolate bars for 5 cents. Used to get 2 mojos for a penny. That was about 1970

Probably a good thing, but back then I could not even finish a 12oz can of soda that cost 25 cents or less (I don't remember). Now I see kids younger than I was then carrying around a pint of corn syrup sweetened tea because their parents think "tea" like this is healthy.

Bins of 1 cent Brach candy at the grocery store. Yeah!

Haha in New Zealand in the 60s and 70s us kids were sent to the corner store for an Ice cream for a penny and a bag of sweets for 5 cents..
Funny the shop owner's name was MR Rabbit which always got cheekyness from the neighborliness kids