Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 09, 2018

And you have to bring your own bags and bag it.

The only true measure is how many hours of work it took to buy that table of groceries. Money is basically just stored work.

cute little bags, impervious to weakening when wet.

I remember when I was young the grocery store gave me a raise to $3 an hour. My mother said she remembered when my father started making $3 an hour they went out to dinner to celebrate. They would have nothing to worry about from then on. Of course gold was $32 an ounce. His 40 hours was worth over 3 ounces of gold a week. Anybody making that today should feel as lucky as my parents.

“Bag ’em, Dano.”

That’s how all shopping work – the price remains the same but the quantity is greatly reduced.

About the only time the weekly grocery bill is over $30 is when I buy a bag of kibble for the dogs.

It’s easy for those items to fit in those small bags. The containers are smaller too. Remember when gallon containers of ice cream disappeared?

How is it Arlo has just as much hair now as then ? So not fair!

With our daughters now off at university, groceries are less than $100.00 per week for the first time in years.

Size, it seems, does matter after all.

About 6 years ago my family of 3 could get away with spending $70 a week on groceries but between a growing boy (he’s about to turn 11) and the price of products going up, we spend about $160-170 per week. It’s not bad, I guess, but still $70 was a dream!

This on the news that Dollar Tree is succumbing to inflation. This week I went in for toilet paper, which went from four rolls to one roll; an increase of 400%!

My rule of thumb in the 1970’s was $5 a bag and it was fairly accurate.

Funny, in the 1970s we averaged $2.50 a bag unless we purchased an expensive cut of meat. But then, we cooked all our meals from scratch. I still try to, but the quality of convenience foods has risen a heck of a lot.

The market I shop at offers free delivery for any purchase over $40. Around 2000-01, I had a hard time getting to $40 so I could get free delivery. Today, I spend $60 – $70 and all I get are two bags and a gallon of milk.

Why is it that, reading these comments, I am reminded of the scene in Deadpool when Wade first meets Vanessa: “You had a box?”, etc.

Oh, and I never heard of food delivery, even in the 1950s when we shopped at the grocery store (not self-service) across the street from our apartment building.

Sorry, keep hitting comment and then remembering something – and no place mom shopped after we moved to where we had a car (or before we did either) ever offered to take it out to the car for us.