showing your age...

[allmycats]

tonight I bought cigarettes( I know they are bad, I am trying to quit)
and the clerk and I started talking about the price, and I told him, well the first pack I bought, in Jr high school, was...........40 CENTS! guess that really shows my age! I'm in my late 40's. and I felt so OLD when I said that!
40 cents

so , you fellow smokers out there, how much did your first pack cost?

[caseysmom]

I'm too old to remember!

[chocolatepuppy]

I can remember rolling up pennies (.50) to buy hubby a pack of cigarettes.

ETA: hubby quit smoking 10 years ago.

[Medusa]

I don't smoke and never have, so I have no comparison to make there. I don't want to highjack your thread and if it you object, I'll delete my comment but your question got me to thinking about the price of things now as compared to the "old days". When I was a little girl, movies cost $.25. Truly. My son always teases me and says "Yes, Mom, I know. And you walked uphill to school both ways in the snow". But it really did only cost $.25 to see a movie, so if I had a dime extra, I could buy two candy bars and watch a double feature! Now do you still feel old?

[pomtzu]

I remember my Dad buying cigarettes at $2.00 per carton.

And I remember the 3 cent stamp. And if you didn't seal the envelope and just tucked the flap in, you could mail it for 2 cents. I only remember that on Christmas cards tho, so that might have been the only time you could do that.

[happylabs]

Wow that was too long ago for me to remember. I smoked some in high school but gladly I quit in my early twenties. You should think about quitting. Think of all the money you will have saved and also health care costs.

[moosmom]

I remember going to the store for my Mom to get her smokes. The cost??? $.25 a pack. Mom's been gone for 36 years. Died from lung cancer. Nice.

[Willow Oak]

I used to wlk into Winn Dixie and buy a coke out of the coke machine for a nickel. Anybody remember that?

[davidpizzica]

I don't remember what cigarette prices were in 1962 when I started, but I do remember that when I quit in 1982, they were up to .65 cents a pack which I thought was too high. I haven't smoked in 27 years!

[kokopup]

I dont remember the lowest price for cigarettes but I remenber 25 cent in the stores and 10 cent onboard ship while in the Navy.

I remember getting into the movie for 10 cents and not telling the truth about my age when I turned 11 so I didn't have to pay 18 cents.

quote by Willow Oaks

I used to wlk into Winn Dixie and buy a coke out of the coke machine for a nickel. Anybody remember that?

Williow Oaks, prices must have been much lower in Mississippi than they were in Alabama and Florida. I remember when they put the penny honor box on coke machines to raise the price to 6 cents. I was 8 at the time and you would not have been born for another 7 years. They finally went ahead and made them 10 cents when I was around 10 or 11. Back then the small coke bottle had the date and place it was made on the bottom of the bottle. We use to have a game to find the bottle from the furtherest place away.

[pomtzu]

I remember in elementary school when we had a milk break in the morning. You got a half pint of milk and it came in a little milk bottle (no cartons then), and it was 2 cents.

We had the savings bond program too. You had a book that you filled with savings stamps that you purchased, and when it was full, you cashed it in for a bond (whatever the denomination of the book you filled).

Sorry if I got off track here, but this thread brings back a lot of old memories.

[Medusa]

I remember in elementary school when we had a milk break in the morning. You got a half pint of milk and it came in a little milk bottle (no cartons then), and it was 2 cents.

We had the savings bond program too. You had a book that you filled with savings stamps that you purchased, and when it was full, you cashed it in for a bond (whatever the denomination of the book you filled).

Sorry if I got off track here, but this thread brings back a lot of old memories.

Yes, we had milk breaks, too. Milk was $.04 a bottle. And the savings bond program reminded me of S&H Green Stamps and later on Plaid Stamps. Remember those? They came in quite handy for trading in for household items to be given as wedding gifts. And do you recall being given glassware when you purchased gas? Some of it is selling at a premium now at antique stores.

[Willow Oak]

Yes, we had milk breaks, too. Milk was $.04 a bottle. And the savings bond program reminded me of S&H Green Stamps and later on Plaid Stamps. Remember those? They came in quite handy for trading in for household items to be given as wedding gifts. And do you recall being given glassware when you purchased gas? Some of it is selling at a premium now at antique stores.

You just opened up a whole can of worms. Gas stations? My memory fails me in many ways, but for some reason there is a snapshot image still in my mind of the Esso station and its 32 cents per gallon gas. And my dad complaining about the price of gas!

[Medusa]

Also, grocery stores gave a free book to a set of encyclopedias w/every order over a certain amount but I can't recall what amount. I acquired the entire set of encyclopedias that way from my parent's shopping. Funk and Wagnalls, I think. LOL That may have come later, I'm not sure.

[pomtzu]

Yes, we had milk breaks, too. Milk was $.04 a bottle. And the savings bond program reminded me of S&H Green Stamps and later on Plaid Stamps. Remember those? They came in quite handy for trading in for household items to be given as wedding gifts. And do you recall being given glassware when you purchased gas? Some of it is selling at a premium now at antique stores.

My Mom used to shop where they gave Green Stamps. I still have a set of pyrex mixing bowls that she got with them, and a locket too.

I remember the gas station glasses too. We had a set of really tall green glass ones, and Dad made rootbeer floats in them! That was always a big Saturday afternoon treat.