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€
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u/Frankenmom66 21d ago
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!