DailyComic@sh.itjust.worksB to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago06 October 1989sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1image06 October 1989sh.itjust.worksDailyComic@sh.itjust.worksB to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square12linkfedilink
minus-squarevolore@scribe.disroot.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoOnly five dollars? I know it’s 1989 money, but… Only five dollars? Rosalyn, you could squeeze them for double that!
minus-squareNinja876@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoin 1989 5 bucks is worth around 13.50 today. Also babysitters were a heck of a lot more affordable then, that 5 bucks possibly 2 hours pay. Heck in the early 80’s I think my mom paid around 2 bucks an hour for my brother and I.
minus-squarevolore@scribe.disroot.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agosure, but this is Calvin we’re talking about watching.
minus-squareNinja876@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoOh I get that, you have to wonder how many babysitters they went thru before Rosalyn?
minus-squarewjrii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoIIRC, other Rosalyn arcs reveal she’s already well above market rate. $5 may have just been the marginal bump for this specific indignity.
minus-squaremmmm@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoOr that she wanted to buy bitcoins with that. /s
Only five dollars? I know it’s 1989 money, but… Only five dollars? Rosalyn, you could squeeze them for double that!
in 1989 5 bucks is worth around 13.50 today. Also babysitters were a heck of a lot more affordable then, that 5 bucks possibly 2 hours pay.
Heck in the early 80’s I think my mom paid around 2 bucks an hour for my brother and I.
sure, but this is Calvin we’re talking about watching.
Oh I get that, you have to wonder how many babysitters they went thru before Rosalyn?
IIRC, other Rosalyn arcs reveal she’s already well above market rate. $5 may have just been the marginal bump for this specific indignity.
Or that she wanted to buy bitcoins with that. /s