299/366 Remember when a dollar used to be worth MORE that its value...?

Nov 01 299/366

If I was born at that time, I may be a bit too young to recall those days, but I am old enough to recall that a dollar could stretch 24 hours, and you didn't even have make much of an effort to do that.

Case in point: I started high school in the late 80s and we used to have Top Hat Hamburgers. In the early 90s they phased out of existence. But my point is that you could buy a dollar's worth of burgers and STILL have some change leftover for the next day!

That's how most of us made our money "roll over" as it were. Nowadays, if you have a dollar you can't even afford TWO White Castles anymore, ain't that something?

Thankfully gas is going down but how long is THAT gonna last?

One thing that I was told by some coworkers who have recently retired from Detroit Public Schools was to "Pay off ANY debts that you owe. If you ain't done so yet, NOW'S the time!"

I think I see where they're coming from on that note.

My father once told me-and still tells me to this day: "A dollar is a lot of money if you don't have it!" So true! Sadly a dollar isn't even that anymore. And where I'm located, we are right next door to Canada, and THEIR dollar is worth almost three times more than ours!

I remember when Canadian currency was called (as Richard Pryor put it) "Yang Money!" Thankfully I still have some yang money left from our Canadian neighbours. Sadly American currency will fall into that category if it hasn't happened yet.

I ad-libbed this picture from a very wise elder statesman who is very observant with the times today, Mr. DeHoll. My thanks to him for his words of wisdom. And here's the picture that inspired this one!

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