Back in the late 70s $20 bill to get me a half gallon of Bacardi Rum with Coke to mix with, fuel in the car for the next week to get to and from work and still have enough left over for hamburger and fries.
Lived a house with three other guys and we never we’re out of food or beverage we would buy eight or 10 gallons of milk at one purchase and we had a refrigerator just to put that in and we had another refrigerator for beer and wine. Both of those are the old round top Kelvinator brand and we had a big over under refrigerator freezer in the kitchen with food and stuff in it and we each kick in $100 a week for groceries and we come out of the grocery store with paper bags back in those days and we have 15 or 20 maybe 25 bags of groceries and it wasn’t junk food and we had a little bit of money left over to buy stuff.
yup, living wi couple guys you could live like kings...