• @DirkMcCallahan
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    2012 hours ago

    A $5 advance was a bargain, given all she had to go through.

    • @Ostrakon
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      3112 hours ago

      5 dollars in 1988 was roughly* one mortgage payment.

      (*I did not look up an inflation calculator)

      • @Broadfern
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        11 hours ago

        According to CPI Inflation Calculator, $5 in March of 1988 is roughly equivalent to $13.63 in January 2025 (no data is available yet for February). So you’re right.

        ETA: I know you’re joking, and it’s a good joke. Just putting this here for anyone else curious /pos

  • billwashere
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    1011 hours ago

    If I was Calvin, I would make a deal where she would say I was particularly bad, and split the extra money with me.

  • Tanis Nikana
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    211 hours ago

    Calvin will be an even bigger handful at 18.