You've got plenty:
| Gallon of milk: | 83 cents |
| Dozen eggs: | 60 cents |
| Loaf of bread: | 30 cents |
| Chopped beef: | 53 cents |
| Frozen green beans: | 24 cents |
| Apples: | 39 cents |
| Peanut butter: | 29 cents |
| 5 lbs. potatoes: | 26 cents |
| 3 lbs. hamburger: | 89 cents |
| 2 lbs. cabbage: | 12 cents |
| 1 lb. bacon: | 35 cents |
| Total: | $4.80 |
If you lived in any of 10 states, there wasn't a sales tax, so you could pocket that 20 cents.
Today, you aren't going to make much of a dinner with your $5. You can buy bread for $2 and eggs for $1.54. Five pounds of potatoes cost about $3. Of course, today you should have more than $5 in your pocket, because wages eventually rise with inflation.
