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Look What $0.02 Bought You in 1914
Today you can’t buy anything for 2 cents, but way back in 1914 you could buy any of the following:
- A Cake Pan
- 3 Yards of White Tubular Corset Lace
- A Hardwood Butter Ladle
According to the Inflation Calculator, $0.02 in 1914 is worth $0.43 in 2011. To bad that $0.43 still doesn’t buy much.
via The Best of Our Past.
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Angela Shupe on September 8th, 2011 9:29 am
That really shows just how much has changed since then. If only we could buy a cake pan for $.43 today (somewhere other than some used goods shop, anyway).
Cindy Hawkins on September 8th, 2011 1:49 pm
One of the funnest (as my niece Grace likes to call them) books is the Sears Roebuck catalogue from like 1900. You can sometimes find them in flea markets, and secondhand book shops. Someone reprinted it in paperback a few years ago. I love browsing through its pages, looking for dresses with those puffy sleeves, for two dollars. Bedroom suites, they used to be called. Player pianos. Home remedies, farm equipment. What a beautiful window into an old time gone by, and a chance to ‘travel back’ to simpler days.
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