The Incredible Shrinking Package

[PILOON]

$1.62 per liter for the cheapest here.

Hey, I'm old enough the remember paying 36 CENTS an imperial gallon for gas! (and with my VW 'bug' could drive almost forever.) (LOL, but froze in winter)

 

[mrmikey]

Hey, I'm old enough the remember paying 36 CENTS an imperial gallon for gas!

Same here. Used to work at a garage pumping gas when I was 14-15 getting a buck an hour, thought I had the world by the jewels LOL. Saturday we closed at 1:00, only allowed to stay open on Saturdays once every 4 weeks I think it was. When we closed up at 5:00, used to splurge on a bag of chips and a bottle of Coke for $.25...Didn't realize how good we had it LOL

 

[Big Barn]

Hey, I'm old enough the remember paying 36 CENTS an imperial gallon for gas! (and with my VW 'bug' could drive almost forever.) (LOL, but froze in winter)

I still remember the used service station gas pump our fuel supplier provided for our underground farm tank was always set at 25 cents per IMP gallon!

Hard to even fathom that now.

 

[Big Barn]

The good news is as I have gotten older, I have really come to appreciate those 40 lb bags of concrete and water softener salt. As stated above the 80 pounders didn't bother me much when I was young, but I can't really handle them any more. I remember the 100 lb sacks of horse and mule feed I used to handle as a "child", and the 100+ pound alfalfa bales the really mean farmers would have us kids buck up on the wagons, but that is all in the past. We kids (teenagers) would really get "pissy" with the farmers when ever the bales got over 80 lbs, but some of the nasty ones would be over 100. I put up a lot of bales on wagons and unloaded them by hand into barns for 2 cents each. I never did get to drive the tractor. I stacked on the wagon some, but mostly just "bucked" bales from the ground to the moving wagon. I don't know how I survived it. Young and stupid I guess.

Same here. Different commodities but same concept. Didn’t have posters on the wall back then telling us to “LIFT WITH YOUR LEGS...” Would have ignored them or not known what the heck that meant anyways.....

 

[Scrambler82]

I did not read all of the postings, too many !

My thoughts and my biggest beef, is the Lumber Industry, Plywood is 1/16" smaller than it used to be (I know METRICS - BS). Try to buy half inch Plywood and you get 15/32", and this applies to all thicknesses of the stuff ! Let's talk 2x stock, used to be originally 2", then 1 3/4", then 1 1/2", now I find some at 1 3/8"... and the width went from 4" to 3 1/2"; soon we will have a new thickness, it will be back to 2" AGAIN... and everyone will think this is heavy duty material and will ing to pay a higher price, and that my friend is the problem... GREED !

The worse part is most people just buy it, it's close enough, me... I do the dance, do not like it, tell the store so, but in the end I have to buy it too !

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I have purchased the same brand of dog food for my last two dogs. The big bag used to be 40 lbs and now it just went from 28 to 25 lbs. I am now paying more for 25 lbs than I used to pay for 40 lbs.

I've noticed the same with my dog food. Yet somehow it's no less work to get it out of the car.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Two pounds of coffee now weigh in at one pound, 9.4 ounces.

 

[Diggin It]

I've noticed the same with my dog food. Yet somehow it's no less work to get it out of the car.

Why is the third 80# bag of concrete so much heavier than the first two?

 

[bunyip]

Inversely proportional to the weight of your wallet.

 

[3Ts]

Let's talk 2x stock, used to be originally 2", then 1 3/4", then 1 1/2", now I find some at 1 3/8"... and the width went from 4" to 3 1/2"; soon we will have a new thickness, it will be back to 2" AGAIN

You forgot the 1-5/8" step and there was one between the 4 & 3-1/2. I think it is done so consumers don't notice the change. A tiny step at a time probably won't cause the customers to leave. Kinda like the story about boiling a frog.