$104

One day a classmate, Chris, came into our 4th grade class bearing a brand new Snoopy (Peanuts) lunchbox. Lunchboxes, back then, were a thing - I had a Batman lunchbox, as I recall. Anyhoo, we inquired about how he obtained it, and as his story goes his mom had gone grocery shopping the day before and spent $104 dollars in one fell swoop which included the lunchbox. Chris was quite happy with his windfall, though he told us that his parents got into a huge fight about the amount of money spent, which didn’t seem to bother him at all.

$104 was quite a large amount of money in those days, even for adults. Sort of like going grocery shopping now and spending $1000.