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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 2936964" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Things were that crazy.  I worked at a supermarket and my primary job when price hikes were at their most extreme was to relabel price tags.  We were constantly raising prices.  The benefit to homeowners was their pay was increasing but like my family they had bought homes when they cost less numerically.  My parents built a home in '65 for about $16k.  But didn't have it finished completely until they took out a second mortgage in mid 70's.  Had it completely paid off in '84.  My dad made $35k in '77, equivalent of $119k in 2010 when I checked it on gov't inflation calculator.  Still questions why when I was making $40k with FedEx I wasn't doing extremely well.</p></blockquote><p></p>