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Title: What could $100 buy back in 2010?
Post by: cryptothief on June 05, 2018, 08:13:04 AM

Using this Cost of Living (http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/pricebasket.html) website, here's what you could have bought with $100 back in 2010.

40 loaves of Sara Lee White Bread (enough for more than 600 slices of toast)
or
192 lbs of Russet potatoes (approximately 580 large portions of fries from McDonalds)
or
35 gallons of milk from Prairie Farms (Ben & Jerry's could rustle up 3 gallons of ice cream for you)
or
31 lbs of Hormel bacon (over 600 generous thick cut bacon sandwiches if you wanted to use some of that Sara Lee bread)
or
73 dozen eggs (that's one boiled egg a day for 876 days)
or
343 cans of Coke (3773 grams of sugar would be enough for 150 days of the recommended daily limit for women, or 100 days for men)
or
100 Scott toilet rolls (depending on your dietary habits, these should keep your bathroom visits sorted for over a year)
or
48 tins of Campbells Cream of Chicken Soup (these'll get you through a winter season's worth of cold weather)
or
33 large boxes of Kellogg's Cornflakes (that's a bowl of Cornflakes every day for 594 days)
or
34 Jack's Pepperoni Pizzas (that's Monday Night Football snacks sorted for a few months)
or
26 lbs of Ground Beef (invite the neighbours over and get the BBQ going for the 83 burgers you're going to be cooking)
or
36 Gallons of Gas (that would get your Mini Cooper from Vancouver down to Tijuana for an epic road trip - don't forget your passport)

And just for sh*ts and giggles, 2010 was the year of the Bitcoin pizza, when Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas in Jacksonville, Florida for 10,000 Bitcoin on 22nd May (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Laszlo_Hanyecz).

If you had decided to buy Bitcoin with your $100, you would have been able to buy around 25,000 of them, worth almost $187 million today.

Title: Re: What could $100 buy back in 2010?
Post by: sugarchrisp on June 08, 2018, 10:35:47 PM

You could've bought 25,000 bitcoins even in mid 2010.   D=  I didn't even know about it back then and even if I did I likely wouldn't have invested because I was a fool.