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@Terry I remember in High School taking the bus to school, spending the morning with friends, not going to a single boring class, walking home, reading books, masturbating, and then walking to the nearby graveyard with a lunch and watching the cars drive to and from the Caribou Ferry while eating my Dagwood and drinking a 2L of golden ginger ale. Those were good Mondays. Praise "Bob".

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I remember in High School I'd play hookey, go to the local burger king, buy a whopper with a coupon for $1, get a cup for "water" and then jump on the bus for less than 2 bucks round trip and see a movie for 5 bucks.

When I was flat broke I used to buy organ meats from the butcher for $0.50 a lb or a carton of eggs for about the same. Couple that with some rice and some kind of spices/sauce and I was fine. Food costs could be down to ~$5 per week. This was in 2010. The same strategy today would likely be at least $40.

@SwordFighterSuper @All_bonesJones @Terry

what's even more insane to me is that gen-X keeps up the boomer narrative of how much harder it was for them in the 80s when they paid for a truck for $50 bucks and had to put in about $100 bucks into it over a yearwhen they were 19-20 so that they could laboriously work 40 hour days at a hardware store during the summer to pay for two semesters of college. As if today any of that is even remotely possible lol.