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<blockquote data-quote="John6185" data-source="post: 3951445" data-attributes="member: 25679">When I was a kid, many eons ago, I remember the electric bill at around $9.00 per month.&nbsp; didn&#039;t have natural gas, we cooked with propane (one of those tanks that is around 4-5 feet tall and can&#039;t remember what it cost to fill it with propane.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t have water bills because we used a well that cost $1.00 per foot to drill and as I remember it was 50 feet deep..?&nbsp; Many buckets of water was drawn and carried to the garden from that well and it still exists today.&nbsp; We raised our own garden, green beans and I don&#039;t like green beans to this day.&nbsp; We had them nearly every meal and I&#039;d go out and pick a couple and eat them raw..&nbsp; I can remember carrying buckets of water to the garden so they&#039;d have moisture to grow.&nbsp; Cucumbers, green beans, tomatoes, potatoes, okra, radishes, watermelons and I&#039;m not sure what else was grown.Those days are long gone now, rarely do we hear of someone living like that.&nbsp; Usually people live in the cities where all the conveniences of life are and they either don&#039;t know how to grow anything but kids or don&#039;t have enough land to grow anything of merit on.I think Eisenhower was president and the years were from 1953-1960.&nbsp; Everyone in the neighborhood was fairly poor except for the families whose dad worked at Tinker.I just thought i&#039;d throw this out for purview as to how things cost yesteryear.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t like being poor, I thank God things are better today than then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John6185, post: 3951445, member: 25679"] When I was a kid, many eons ago, I remember the electric bill at around $9.00 per month. didn't have natural gas, we cooked with propane (one of those tanks that is around 4-5 feet tall and can't remember what it cost to fill it with propane. Didn't have water bills because we used a well that cost $1.00 per foot to drill and as I remember it was 50 feet deep..? Many buckets of water was drawn and carried to the garden from that well and it still exists today. We raised our own garden, green beans and I don't like green beans to this day. We had them nearly every meal and I'd go out and pick a couple and eat them raw.. I can remember carrying buckets of water to the garden so they'd have moisture to grow. Cucumbers, green beans, tomatoes, potatoes, okra, radishes, watermelons and I'm not sure what else was grown. Those days are long gone now, rarely do we hear of someone living like that. Usually people live in the cities where all the conveniences of life are and they either don't know how to grow anything but kids or don't have enough land to grow anything of merit on. I think Eisenhower was president and the years were from 1953-1960. Everyone in the neighborhood was fairly poor except for the families whose dad worked at Tinker. I just thought i'd throw this out for purview as to how things cost yesteryear. I didn't like being poor, I thank God things are better today than then. [/QUOTE]

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