I wish this was true anymore, but I was the the grocery store today looking at how the 6-pack ramen noodles are now $2.56. I can remember when they were a quarter. Not a quarter of 2.50, but just 25 cents.
I mean, that’s fair, I figured it was probably close to inflation adjusted, but it’s still absolutely mad to see. I’m finally beginning to understand why my boomer dad would go around having a fucking stroke at all the prices in 2007; I think at some level, your frame of reference for what something costs gets stuck in whatever it was in your teens and early 20s.
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I wish this was true anymore, but I was the the grocery store today looking at how the 6-pack ramen noodles are now $2.56. I can remember when they were a quarter. Not a quarter of 2.50, but just 25 cents.
$.16 when I was in college. That’s $.42 in 2025 money, so same price with inflation (from 1989).
I mean, that’s fair, I figured it was probably close to inflation adjusted, but it’s still absolutely mad to see. I’m finally beginning to understand why my boomer dad would go around having a fucking stroke at all the prices in 2007; I think at some level, your frame of reference for what something costs gets stuck in whatever it was in your teens and early 20s.