When you think as far back as you can remeber...........?

Question

What is the cheapest price YOU remember the cost of a pack of cigarettes AND a postage stamp costing?

oops! That's "remember" lol

I remember cigarettes being .30 cents a pack and my parents complaining about them, and I remember 6 cent stamps!

Answer 1

I smoked Winston's when I was in High School at 25 cents a pack....when I went into the Air Force, they were $1.20 a carton at the Commissary...I remember when stamps went from 2 cents to 3....I paid 12 cents a gallon for Leaded Gasoline in west Texas..God I'm Old, and Ugly too I might add.........#####

Answer 2

Cigarettes were 50 cents in the machine and I don't remember the cost of a stamp. School lunch was 25 cents a day.

Answer 3

I can remember when a pack of cigarettes were 24 cents because we took out an insurance policy on my husband and I remember the agent saying that would only be a pack of cigs a week. Postage, I remember being 7 cents a 1st class letter.

Answer 4

I Think can remember an 8 cent post card and maybe a 17 cent stamp. Of course I was a mere Babe in the Cradle.

Answer 5

Cigs were about 35 cents a pack when I started smoking in the late sixties. They were just over a buck when I quit smoking on Sept. 29th, of 1982. A postage stamp was a whopping seven cents. Back then the mailman made two deliveries a day.

Answer 6

I don't know...I have never known how much a pack of cigarettes were. last I remember was a 25 cent stamp..I think

Answer 7

I remember $.13 stamps.

I also remember my dad swearing to quit smoking once a carton of cigarettes hit the ridiculously price of $5/carton. (CARTON, mind you, not PACK). Must have been around '77, '78?