According to CPI Inflation Calculator, $5 in March of 1988 is roughly equivalent to $13.63 in January 2025 (no data is available yet for February). So you’re right.
ETA: I know you’re joking, and it’s a good joke. Just putting this here for anyone else curious /pos
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A $5 advance was a bargain, given all she had to go through.
5 dollars in 1988 was roughly* one mortgage payment.
(*I did not look up an inflation calculator)
According to CPI Inflation Calculator, $5 in March of 1988 is roughly equivalent to $13.63 in January 2025 (no data is available yet for February). So you’re right.
ETA: I know you’re joking, and it’s a good joke. Just putting this here for anyone else curious /pos
I am an inflation calculator and bought a house for pocket lint in the 70s, your math checks out
But the interest rate on that lint was 18%
If I was Calvin, I would make a deal where she would say I was particularly bad, and split the extra money with me.
I'm using this as evidence Calvin is smart but not wise.
Calvin will be an even bigger handful at 18.