🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Sears and Roebuck: "For $753.00 we will furnish all the material to build this eight room house..."

[TerryP]

 

[Krimson]

$25,350 today, I'd say that was a good deal. $53k for it to be completed. Can't buy a shed for $35 a square foot today.

 

[TerryP]

$25,350 today,

Where'd you get from?

 

[Rsedge72]

1906 $753.00. = 2025 $25350?

Cumulative rate of inflation is something like 3200%. I think that’s what he was referring to

 

[Rsedge72]

1906 $753.00. = 2025 $25350?

Cumulative rate of inflation is something like 3200%. I think that’s what he was referring to

Actually closer to 3150% according to us labor dept

 

[TerryP]

1906 $753.00. = 2025 $25350?

Cumulative rate of inflation is something like 3200%. I think that’s what he was referring to

It's $1 to mid $30's I believe. A buck is probably $36 now

 

[Krimson]

Where'd you get from?

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