A housewife poses with a week’s worth of groceries in 1947. She spent $12.50 a week to buy all her groceries except milk. On this she managed to feed herself, her husband, her four-year-old twins and the family cat. (Robert Wheeler Time & Life Pictures)
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photo of A housewife poses with a week’s worth of groceries in 1947. She spent $12.50 a week to buy all her groceries except milk. On this she managed to feed herself, her husband, her four-year-old twins and the family cat. (Robert Wheeler Time & Life Pictures)
What was the average wage in 1947?
What’s the point of post. This would cost a groat in 1352.
That’s a lot of salt each!
$178.88 in 2023 money
Not enough produce and very weird amount of salt and butter..
It’s 178.88 in today money….
Minimum wage then was 3.71….that means they had to roughly work 4 hours on one wage, at the lowest paid job, to afford that.
Currently, at minimum wage, that’s 24 hours. Double minimum wage is obviously 12 dollars, and what is triple minimum wage is 21.75, at 6 hours.
So people could work 4 hours and be fed for the week, versus spending 24 to 6 hours being fed for the week…..and the 6 hours being THREE TIMES the minimum wage….back then it was 4 hours at the minimum wage…..
My point is that life is at least 3 times harder/more expensive than it used to be, and it’s all because the workers are getting screwed. We have to work longer hours, with less benefits, in order to simply feed ourselves.
And people wonder why millenials and younger think America is a terrible place to live…
>$12.50 USD in 1947 would be worth $168.89 USD in 2023
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This doesn’t include the milk … that got delivered to her house and she never had to worry about 😭😭😭
I can’t imagine having milk brought to my door. What a dream!
Also, three dozen eggs and two big containers of salt?!
Hopefully she’s got more produce somewhere else…
Why is everyone acting like this lady has 4 packs of wagyu. It’s probably pork and chicken. Which in todays world isn’t the most expensive thing.
Most likely roasts and ground meat,that’s today would be 100$ plus the other stuff around 75 max depending where you go,I bought this much food last week it was 150$,if you do the cost of inflation of that 12.50 it’s pretty much exact what it is today