the good ole days?

Tadams said

I know you are correct about inflation, but seemed like I had so much more money then. But then again I wasn't married, and didn't have 2 kids in college with another one who has gotten married and we have a new granddaughter. I definitely wasn't retired and. Working part time.
Life is good now as it was then, different, but good

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I agree. I know exactly how you feel. I remember making slightly above minimum wage at 18 and living quite comfortably.

But then I factor in that I had 2 roommates sharing rent in an apartment and basically lived off of fast food and cheap beer and drove A 12 year old car I bought for a few hundred bucks. No cable, cell phone bills, kids karate classes, rental home, maintenance, mortgage, insurance, blah blah blah that eats away at every last bit. Oh and Taxes (that's for you RR).

But I could always go back to renting a cheap three bedroom apartment with two roommates, disconnect all my devices, and drive a cheap car and live on microwave meals and cheap beer and enjoy the relative low cost of living.