What does $1 even buy these days? Maybe get a couple of carrots if you're lucky?

Look at what you could do with $1 in 1900:

• Ten Boxes of Cereal
• Nine Cans of Campbell’s Soup
• A Toddler’s Tricycle
• One Pound of Chocolate
• Four Containers of Toothpaste
• Enough Movie Tickets For The Whole Family
• 100 Postage Stamps
• The Kodak Brownie Camera
• Nine Bottles of Wine
• One Case of Coca Cola
• Ten to Twenty Magazines
• A Five Pound Bag of Sugar
• A Gallon of Milk
• Seven-and-a-half pounds of steak
• Twelve 2-Pound Cans of Sweet Corn
• 70 Pounds of Potatoes

https://historycollection.com/30-things-you-could-buy-for-1-in-1900/29/