Hi, I am Big Kitty, the pessimist. Just another old fart that can remember the good old days and wonders what the heck happened to them. If you want to know my age I can remember buying gas for 50 cents a gallon and bitching about it.
.67 cents a gallon, and I think around $2.00 a pack is cheapest I can remember. But then I gage my memory by the price of Little Debbie Snack Cakes. .69 cents REALLY got you somewhere on your $2.00 a week allowance back in them old days.. . .
$2.00 A WEEK??!! I got 25 cents a week when I was in grade school. That was when a Three Musketeers was big enough to share between three kids (the standard [and only] size).
When I first started driving, gas was .89 a gallon. When my friends started smoking (I never picked up the habit) cigs were around $1 a pack and you could still find vending machines that sold them if you weren't old enough.