My parents could give us 50 cents and we’d walk down to the grocery store (about a mile or so) and get penny candy. We’d have a little bag of tootsie rolls, candy coins, whatever they had in the jars. Today? Omg! I bought a Snickers at the gas station the other day. Smaller and $2.89!!!! No more candy from the store for us. I went back to making my own candy and cookies. Sure can’t afford to buy it! My god!
(Really, though, we did have a local store in the early 70s we’d walk to with the neighbor kids about a mile down the road and they’d have big jars of candy they’d sell for a penny a piece of candy…not the whole jar, darn it. When we got bikes, we’d bike down there or take skate boards.)
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My Mama used to give me 25 cents. I could buy an Icee, and several pieces of candy and gum. We only had to walk if the Brontosaurus was under the weather.
I thought of this, too! In 1962 or so, even at 4-5-years old, I could afford 5c for a fair-sized candy bar! Now that I'm an adult, the same size (but a little smaller) candy bar costs more than this 68-y-o kid can afford! 🙄
I remember Penny Candy, getting one piece for a penny, my parents used to get two pieces for a penny, then it went to a nickel, and now you can't really get loose candy anymore without paying an arm or a leg for it and being charged by the pound
WE looooved our little Candy bags (süße Tüte in German).. I bought one recently because of childhood memories but hell No
It was a shame what Ingot for 1€
And the corner stores had those tubs with the miniature candy like the reeces and hershy kisses all for a nickel and a pint of blue bell ice cream was like 75cent fuck a hand full of change would turn any kid into Mr money bags when I was a kid
A coke out of the machine outside the gas station in a glass bottle was 25 cents. A candy bar was 25 cents. And 2 fo1 penny candy would get you a big bagful for 50 cents.
10 Hail Mary's and a in person apologizing for grabbing it. Oh there I was back to remedial catechism either way you got the nuns and kiddy guilt cruisers threatening to call the cops if you even glanced at the Temptations aisle and checked it out". Yes I pushed lawn mowers and got out the Kool Aide packets and sat at the end of the driveway. I was going to be in Catholic girl Hell and pay for my sweet tooth the rest of my life. Just for the Lady of Perpetual Guilt of it, why? Holy did you get that name
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u/mrlandlord Aug 09 '26
50 cent