Found a 1957 grocery receipt in my grandma's cookbook

I was going through my grandma's old cookbook last weekend and a grocery receipt from 1957 fell out. Total for a week's worth of food for a family of four was $12.37. That's about $135 today with inflation, which honestly isn't that far off from what I spend. What surprised me most was that a dozen eggs cost 28 cents back then, and now they're like $5 in my town in Ohio. Has anyone else found old receipts that changed how you think about prices then vs now?

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hall.ruby1mo ago

Read eggs were crazy cheap back then, heard some old timer say it was before factory farms took over.

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river_hart181mo ago

My granddad used to tell me about getting eggs for pocket change at the corner store in the 50s. Said they came straight from a guy down the road with a few chickens, no government stamps or anything. Makes you wonder how much changed in just one generation. Now I pay $8 for a carton that lasts me a week and a half, and half the time they're already cracked.

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