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<p>[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 8149545, member: 92655"]Hhhmmmm.... Memory isn't what it used to be..... I joined the Army in 1977 and had a one year old daughter so I had been out on my own and paying attention to that sort of thing for better than a year. We were poor but I do remember we budgeted forty bucks a week for groceries, eighty bucks a month for rent and twenty bucks a month for auto liability insurance. I held two jobs to make ends meet and my second job was part time pumping gas and I remember pumping thirty cent a gallon gas. Seems when I left the Army in 1984, gas was around eighty cents a gallon. The whole gas shortage/OPEC thing took place and gas prices rose rapidly. I was single when I left the Army and the only cost I was concerned with was Jack Daniels.... Today, my wife budgets $350.00 a week for groceries, mortgage is about $2000.00 a month, auto insurance is $150.00 a month..... Absolutely the cost of living has easily quadrupled. Other thing to take into account is that we didn't have such things as cable TV bills, cell phone bills or internet connection fees that we consider to be necessities these days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 8149545, member: 92655"]Hhhmmmm.... Memory isn't what it used to be..... I joined the Army in 1977 and had a one year old daughter so I had been out on my own and paying attention to that sort of thing for better than a year. We were poor but I do remember we budgeted forty bucks a week for groceries, eighty bucks a month for rent and twenty bucks a month for auto liability insurance. I held two jobs to make ends meet and my second job was part time pumping gas and I remember pumping thirty cent a gallon gas. Seems when I left the Army in 1984, gas was around eighty cents a gallon. The whole gas shortage/OPEC thing took place and gas prices rose rapidly. I was single when I left the Army and the only cost I was concerned with was Jack Daniels.... Today, my wife budgets $350.00 a week for groceries, mortgage is about $2000.00 a month, auto insurance is $150.00 a month..... Absolutely the cost of living has easily quadrupled. Other thing to take into account is that we didn't have such things as cable TV bills, cell phone bills or internet connection fees that we consider to be necessities these days.[/QUOTE]
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