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The amazing part of that article is that the author makes his point with out realizing. it: His mother spent close to a thousand dollars on her living room in the 1950's yes, but her family's income was $7,500 a year... with today's average American family pulling in about 50,000-75,000 a year, you actually could buy an egg chair and a swan chair if you were willing to make the same financial commitment that the author's parents did.

Well stated Kristian...

...IMO, many folks raise their sights to invest their hard-earned money on a few items that will last a lifetime rather than spending it on roomfulls of cheap "space-fillers" that will be relegated to the land-fill in a short time.

Just being curious, I used a pretty interesting website to figure out the "relative value" of $959 using the "consumer price index" calculators that I found on the "Measuring Worth" website. $6,493.83. That amount is what Albo's mom, the Aretha Franklin of shopping would have to spend in today's dollars. Start dreaming and just waste a little time adding up the value of your lust items while you baste the turkey and open another bottle.

http://www.measuringworth.com/index.html

Martin, one of the owners, is in the process of making a custom piece for me. I stumbled on the shop by accident while walking around the neighborhood after moving in a few blocks away. He's a great guy and extremely friendly and I'm looking forward to seeing the end product. There is some great stuff there.

hey there! this is Mr Albo...first off, thank you guys for reading my weirdo column. I wanted to tell Hendrickb11 that i am OBSESSED with "measuringworth.com" and had all this stuff about it in the column but had to cut it for length reasons.

I agree that these items are, strangely, still within the same realm of affordability, but at the same time my parents world and our present world are very, very different: Not only were they buying overseas at an affordable time (Post war Europe was still getting back on its feet, flights were cheap, and probably their accomodations were, too) but in a larger sense, they were buying things at a time of complete trust in the strong american dollar, so they had no reservations. Now, our dollar is feeble, and also our confidence has been lowered...not only by our toxic economy but also by the fear-mongering propitiated by our media outlets...

It's just something to think about while typing in different years and price amounts into Measuring Worth. (I am so happy someone else is as addicted to that site as i am!)

xxx m