Well, it’s Monday again. Doesn’t that just bite your a$$? So, I think we should lighten up to start the work week a little, don’t you? The following is the story of inflation and how $383.50 sounds like plenty of money to go out and celebrate your 21st birthday, doesn’t it? Huh? But let us remember what kind of real money that was 21 years ago, and by extension we must question the real value of $383.50,(I did the math based on 365 + 5 days for leap years x 21 x .o5) 21 years hence..What kind of a party will that afford you? Only time will tell!
Have a “funday” Monday,
Jake.
A REALLY INFLATED NICKEL
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Inflated Nickels
If a nickel a day
you put away
and start
when you are a baby.
Then when you reach twenty-one
and go out for some fun
you may afford a drink or two.
Maybe.
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Apr. 2012
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This was such a beautuful coin but did not wear well
The buffalo however, wore very well, for generations.
And it fed and fueled and sheltered, well you know the story..