In 1940, eggs cost 33 cents per dozen, Harlan Sanders (not yet a Kentucky Colonel) introduced his Kentucky Fried Chicken, the first Dairy Queen opened, and M&Ms and York Peppermint Patties first hit the market.
In 1940, eggs cost 33 cents per dozen, Harlan Sanders (not yet a Kentucky Colonel) introduced his Kentucky Fried Chicken, the first Dairy Queen opened, and M&Ms and York Peppermint Patties first hit the market.
Year-by-year listing at link.
You can live cheaply if you had a dozen eggs a day, with a little bit of this and that.
This week I got a dozen eggs for free. My neighbor gave them to me from his chickens that each produce an egg a day. Since it is just him & his girlfriend, that apparently can’t eat them all. 🤣
57 cents. Both sets of grandparents were living on farms, with chickens aplenty. Egg-sucking or chicken-killing dogs were not tolerated.
Yesterday I bought a dozen large eggs for $4.49. This is down 50 cents from last week and down from $6.19 in January.
It was about a dollar when I came to this planet. I paid around $6 this week for a dozen eggs. Should really buy in quantity since I go through a dozen in 4 days.
You’re 85?
In the mining camps in the late 1800’s eggs were $10 each. 😮
In 1940, a PFC got paid $54.00, or just under 164 dozen eggs a month.
Base for a PFC now is $2733 a month. Based on that, eggs should now cost $16.66 a dozen.
That’s all fine and well but how does that relate to a percentage of hourly wage in r 2025 dollars?
I was born in 1936. We didn’t buy Eggs we sold them. We always raised 200 to 300 Chickens. We were a Family of 6. We would take a 12 Dozen crate of Eggs to the Grocery store and trade them for the food we didn’t raise on the farm. Our Eggs kept us fed.
We got a 18 carton and a dozen carton for free the a few days ago.
Been getting them constantly. Neighbors got about 15 hens and they are all laying. He has been giving them away since they started laying.
We all send him our potato peelings, etc to supplement his chickens and hogs.
I intend to put in a patch of dryland wheat for him next year. Was going to do it this, but last winter we got zero for rain.
We can thank God for sending Donald Trump to expose it and help put a stop to it.
When you consider the magnitude of wealth generated in and concentrated in the USA, it's inevitable that greedy looters would figure out how to seize as much of it as they can. Corrupt government and corrupt politicians are not victimless. The price of protecting against their exploitation is--like liberty--eternal vigilance.
The governments goal of 4% inflation basically doubles the price of ANYTHING every 20 years.
so:
1940 .33 cents
1960 .66 cents
1980 $1.32
2000 $2.64
2020 $5.28
Eggs are exactly priced where you would expect them to be
most poor people dont understand inflation and how it works against them
basically, if your net worth is not DOUBLING every 20 years, you are actually falling behind and don’t even realize it.
1944: 55 cents
The price of eggs had more or less stabilized by the time the U.S. troops landed in France in 1944.
But my markers were always
College: Brussels sprouts 4 cents each.
Marriage: Hamburger 29 cents/lb.
I really enjoy the photos and snippets of food culture for each year.
I was buying a dozen eggs for 99 cents until the 2020 lockdown. I always bought them on sale at the supermarket.
In inflation adjusted dollars eggs were more expensive the year I was born.
Unless you spring for the Vital Farms eggs! Much more expensive but amazingly wonderful!