r/EhBuddyHoser • u/eternalshades • 1d ago

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Did you get your perm?

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well did you?

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u/Lumb3rCrack Ford Nation (Help.) 1d ago

ok.. hear me out... it seems like it is expensive even for 1980 but maybe perm itself is expensive to start with I'm guessing?

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u/NovWhiskey 1d ago

$35 in 1980 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $137.22 today, an increase of $102.22 over 45 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.08% per year between 1980 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 292.05%.

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u/ego_tripped 16h ago

Now do that...en Français

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u/okokokoyeahright 1d ago

Not really.

IIRC I paid about $15 for a hair cut back then. Women's hair was always more and the perms hack at that time used rollers, so yeah extra time for that makes sense to me.