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#2134175 03/01/26 11:25 AM
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When you watch an old movie and a cowboy goes up to the bar and orders whiskey and the barkeeper says that there will be two bits.

I kinda of feel like I woke up in the wrong century now.

I read that the average cost for a new car is $49k. I find that inconceivable. In 1960 my parents bought a brand new 4 bedroom 1.5 bath ranch home about 1500 sq ft. in Highland Hts. Ohio.

It cost $27,500.

My first car I paid $150 for an old Ford Fairlane of course it didn't last too long.

I look at the cost of things and I am floored. I just shake my head.

Facing life today as a twenty year old. Damn it is looking like a tough road just to reach the hope of owning a home and a car.

I remember when a million was a million.

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As much as some are unwilling to admit it, things were much easier for us. Sure we didn't make as much but things didn't cost as much either. College, housing and things in general were much more affordable. As with everything in life I associate it with music....



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I get it. But as much as I would have bet money this would end up being a political thread as much as I was hoping to avoid that.


Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.

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No intent to make it political.

More about the cost of living.

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