Wow I just found a grocery receipt from 09/05/93!
By sweetdesign
@sweetdesign (5142)
United States
July 16, 2008 7:47pm CST
check out these prices:
coke 12 pck $1.09
purex classic $1.79 (small bottle)
M & M candy at the check out 33 cents
Lever 2000 soap 67 cents
bread 45 cents
Frozen pizza $2.39 (red barron type)
Can you see the price difference from then to now? I about flipped. I knew things were getting expensive but good nights!
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@snowy22315 (208955)
• United States
17 Jul 08
I remeber when I was a kid you could get like a ten pack of reeses cups in a package for .39 cents now you'd be really lucky to find them for .99. Candy bars are like .69
a pack of gum is 45 cents at a minium and 1.59 at a maximum. 12 pack of coke for 1.09 try finding that anywhere!! The other stuff I dont buy so I have no basis for comparison but I am sure everything was much cheaper in 1993.
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
17 Jul 08
Bread here is $2.69 a loaf! I got it back then for 45 cents!!!
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
17 Jul 08
Tings have gone up that much in 15 years? I would have hought that was from 30 years ago. Either that, or it reflects American prices, when the dollar was a lot stronger, so it was worth more!!!
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
17 Jul 08
It is crazy! I will scan off the receipt later and add it on here. My daughter was repacking some old photos and found that receipt in perfect condition. Not fadded or anything. Going to add it to my scrapbook. I am also going to add one from 2008. Wish I had kept more receipts through the years (I am enough of a pack rat I am surprised I didn't).
@insaneduck9 (836)
• United States
17 Jul 08
Wow, time has certainly changed. The prices also where a lot cheaper then.
I remember the good old days. That's when everything, including gas, was cheap.
M&M candy is around 90 cents now. That's three times the 1993 price! 
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
17 Jul 08
Well I know I earned $6.00 an hour at that time and worked about 35 hours a week. I can tell cause it was a reciept from the grocery store where I worked as a baker/cake decorator.
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@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
17 Jul 08
Our kids are getting stronger these days. It used to be that it would take four trips to the car to bring in $100 worth of groceries. Now a 16-year-old can do it in one.
@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
17 Jul 08
Wow what a way to rationalize, my friend! Stronger kids yeah that has got to be why it only takes one trip in 2008 to bring in $100 worth of groceries! LOL!
@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
17 Jul 08
I've been meaning to mention (and please pardon me for being forward), but if those are your legs in your avatar and not your 18-year-old daughter's, you're in fabulous shape for 37!
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
17 Jul 08
No unfortunatly for me those are my daughter's legs lol! I wish I was in that great of shape!
@WANDALIE44 (888)
• United States
17 Jul 08
wow we sure are spending more these days, cuz a 12 pk of can soda is $3.99 to $4.99 and the purex is more too, its crazy how things have gone up so much within the years. thanks for sharing.
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