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Cleaning out my old toolbox and found a receipt from 1998
I was sorting through the bottom drawer, you know the one with all the odd sockets and feeler gauges. Under a pile of old shop rags was a receipt from a parts store for a water pump. The price was $42.50, and that included the gasket set. I just bought the same part for a customer's Civic last week and it was over $200 before labor. Found it stuck to the back of my old timing light manual. Has anyone else dug up an old receipt that made you stop and think?
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cooper.taylor16d ago
Found a receipt from a diner in my glovebox last year for a full breakfast that cost $4.75. Stuff like that really shows how the cost of living has just quietly run away from us. Makes you wonder what normal prices even are anymore when a simple car part costs five times what it did. Feels like we're all just getting used to paying more for less without much say in it.
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My grandpa kept a file of his truck repair bills from the 80s. I saw one for a full brake job, parts and labor, that was less than just the rotors cost me last month. It lines up with what cooper.taylor said about the cost of living just creeping up while we weren't looking. I heard a guy on the radio saying wages haven't kept up with that kind of price jump for basic goods and services. It really does feel like we're on a treadmill where the speed keeps getting turned up.
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