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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2190690, member: 27832"]How's that again? I came across a little piggy-bank (actually a plastic mouse) in my attic last month that was suspiciously heavy. I removed its plug, and found that it was stuffed with change -- twenty SBA dollars, and fifty 1972 dimes. This was surely a birthday gift from my grandparents, probably around 1980. How much is that $25.00 worth in 2015? $25.00 (unless I find a rare variety somewhere in there). If you can find a place where I can use it to buy $51 in goods, I'm all ears. (Although, to be honest, I'd rather use 2015 paper money; I'm sentimentally attached to that little mouse and its contents.) "Simply saving" money, as in "tucking it away", doesn't let it track inflation. You have to invest it, put it into something that earns interest or a return. The original scenario was buying a nickel for $25 in 1964, and finding it worth $51 today. If my calculator isn't lying to me, that works out to about a 1.45% compound rate of return. You're not taking a loss in nominal dollar terms, but you're underperforming most other investment classes.[/QUOTE]