Hi All,

So here is a bit of an interesting personal finance story for you all.

Earlier this week, I went to my uncles house. He had a bunch of stuff from my late grandfather…including his weekly budget from 1941. Being a huge personal finance fan, I thought I’d share it here.

He was using old fashioned cursive writing, so the writing is a bit hard to make out, but the prices are pretty amazing. In September of 1941 my grandfather received $196.50 in income. He paid 40 dollars in rent, 5 cents for postage, $1.34 for cigarettes, $2.12 for drinks and $1.50 for dry cleaning.

There are also some medical expenses, such as 72 cents for quinine, and some grooming expenses like 85 cents for a haircut and shoeshine.

What’s interesting is about my grandfather’s budget is, he wrote down everything.  And, a lot of the thing he spent money on such as shoe repair and periodicals, are significantly less popular these days.

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James Hendrickson is an internet entrepreneur, blogging junky, hunter and personal finance geek. When he’s not lurking in coffee shops in Portland, Oregon, you’ll find him in the Pacific Northwest’s great outdoors. James has a masters degree in Sociology from the University of Maryland at College Park and a Bachelors degree on Sociology from Earlham College. He loves individual stocks, bonds and precious metals.

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