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When I was young my mum would send me to the corner store with $1......

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When I was young my mum would send me to the corner store with $1.....

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    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
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    • Profile picture of the author waterotter
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      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
      Back in the day, most of what we bought was made in the USA or Canada
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by waterotter View Post

        Back in the day, most of what we bought was made in the USA or Canada
        YEAH, THAT TOO!!!!!! Around 1970 we started getting FEWER poisons! HECK, we just stopped using two of the most poisonous poisons. But they got RID of agent orange, DDT, lead, etc.... NOW, doing business with china, many are coming back. We even have ones that could be considered MORE poisonous to humans because they are so common and the delivery system is so good.

        BTW in the 1970s, a person seeing made in (name of asian country) or even made in mexico would just LAUGH and put the product down! By 1980, we accepted Japan. Korea came later. China after that. NOW, NUTS often come from OTHER places.

        BTW I think Canada and Europe and several other areas have been fine for as long as I could recall.

        Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author waterotter
    BTW I think Canada and Europe and several other areas have been fine for as long as I could recall.
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by waterotter View Post

      Canada has gone down-hill big time.
      I meant as far as the US is concerned. Obviously, this says little about the countries finances,etc....

      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.
      WOW, I'm sorry to hear all of that. Hopefully the money can be used to help people like YOU. I know you have your own health problems some money could help.

      Yeah, countries are all geared to let the more "elite" do things even if YOU know they are harmful. When they HARM you hopefully insurance will pay, or you can sue them. Never mind that you can always get more money, but problems like death can't be undone.

      Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author waterotter
    Hopefully the money can be used to help people like YOU.
    He made sure I wouldn't receive one cent.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    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.






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    • Profile picture of the author BigFrank
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      When I was young my mom sent me to the corner store with $1. She told me to spend 25¢ on candy and the rest on bus fare to anywhere but home.

      I wonder how mom is doing, these days?

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    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".
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  • Profile picture of the author javrsmith
    Prices have changed! I remember buying chocolate bars for 5 cents. Used to get 2 mojos for a penny. That was about 1970
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      For a quarter I could get a small bag of warm, fresh salted cashews from a counter in the department store. That was my favorite!
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  • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
    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!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mikaedi
    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
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