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jon f mn

jon f mn

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Anybody ever see or remember seeing back when you used to be able to get them a REAL $1000 bill??

We were putting a large cash down payment on our first house years ago and we were able to call ahead to the bank to ask them to ship in $1000's bills from the distribution center so we would not have to show up to the closing with stacks of $100's

I don't think they print $1000 bills anymore, if I remember correctly it had something to do with laundring or drugs or something like that.
 
Can be a struggle to get some places to take a $100 bill now. Especially if you are going to need a large amount of change back. I was
working a ice cream stand at the fair for a farmers club one time , and a guy wanted to buy a $2.00 cone , with a $100.00 bill , I told
him that I couldn't change it..
 
When I was first married a $20 bill in my pocket was equivalent to having a $100 in my pocket now. It didn't happen very often.
 
Not sure about $1000 bills, but back in the 1980's a buddy of mine acquired a $500 bill in some dealings. Not too many of them around.

Anyway, he went to a race at Talladega, and went to a local bank in the town of Talladega to break the bill into smaller ones that he could spend. He handed the $500 bill to a teller, she looked at it and took it back to the manager. The other bank employees came running, also. My buddy was starting to wonder if it was legitimate.

It was simply that none of the bank employees had ever seen a $500 bill before. They gave him smaller bills and he went on his way.
 
Yup, around here very few farmers paid more than $75 per week wages. There were a few who were paying $100. Most of them went broke.
 
When gas was $.68, a car was $3,800, and returnables were 3 for $10 we had something.
 
I still remember the first time I held a hundred dollar bill. Dad sold an Oliver 70 and the guy paid cash.
 

Hauled a lot of square bales for $.75- $1 per hour, when I got out of school my first public job payed $2.50 per hour, after taxes my pay check was $54 for the week, I thought I was rich.
Good gas was $.33 per gallon, $5 got you 15 gallons of gas, now $15 will get you 5 gallons.

Back then with a $20 bill we would fill the car, go to movies or bowling, get burgers and shakes at the local diary freeze and have gas money for work the next week.
Last night I took the wife out to eat, the meal was $25, plus the $50 to fill the pickups tank.
 
I still think 100 bucks is a lot of money. I don't see how people can loose a few 100 dollars gambling and say "That's O.K." I planned for it. I'd be pi$$ed off.
 
When I was just out of the USAF in 1956 I got a job that paid a premium for early hours, 90 cents per hour, later getting a raise to $1. 40 bucks a week and thought I was in money heaven. Was also married and wife stayed home.
 
A good proxy for the value of money is the postage stamp.
the value hasn't changed, but the price has.
1st class postage was 6c in 1968 and is 49c today, because the dollar is worth roughly 1/8 of what it was then
 
I worked for 85 cents per hour back when I was first married. That was the minimum wage back in 1956.

My brother and I opened a gas station back in the 60's and we sold gas for 25 cents per gallon. Yes, three or four dollars would pay for a fill up. There were very few people getting welfare checks in those days so if you didn't work you didn't play.
 
In 64 was throwing bales of hay for a dollar a hour. Got a job at the railroad for 2.25 a hour. A whole lot easier then throwing hay. Was on cloud nine.
 
Oldest daughter was born in 1987. I remember that I would take $20 cash each week to gas up the car and take the family out once! It was a really cheap roast beef place (RAX), but still, cant even gas up the buggy for that now!
 
in the mid 70s , it was a very good day if 2 guys could hit 300 bux a day doing pc work hanging siding and trimmin windows and overhang,. a few yrs later when i sold my own jobsand had my own guys working on pc work, i come to realize that if 3 men could turn 4000 per weekin sales for labor and materials , then all was well,. a few cold weeks that put us down in the 1500 hundred dollar range had me scrambling to find work mechanicin to keep them til spring when things pikt up ..
 
(quoted from post at 06:46:24 08/11/17) When gas was $.68, a car was $3,800, and returnables were 3 for $10 we had something.
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the $3800 car is now $38 thousand--but on the bright side-we are ALL earning 10 times as much--right??
 
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