My mother often said, "In the 1970s, a family only needed 10 yuan's living expenses a month." Is it possible?

197 1 year, there are eight people in my family, and I work alone in the mine. My salary is 46 yuan, plus 12 yuan's into the pit fee, as well as 6 yuan's night shift allowance, which makes a total of 64 yuan to support my family of eight.

That society is good. At that time, all my five brothers and sisters went to school, and because their families were poor, they were all exempted from tuition. The teacher and the students paid for the books together. Book fee: buy a big white paper to order a book, and then write it after you finish writing it in front.

The food you eat is 2 kg of white flour per person per month, with a score of 0.8 per kg/kloc-0, and 2 kg of rice per person per month, with a score of 0.4 per kg/kloc-0. The rest is rice noodles, 6 cents per catty. My family is in trouble and can't afford flour and rice. I trade a catty of flour and rice for a catty of rice noodles.

Small ones wear big ones, small ones wear small ones, and mend them.

But at that time, every family was like this, and the gap was not big. I don't think it's that hard. If compared with now, it is really a world of difference.

It is true that some families live in poverty and their monthly income is insufficient 10 yuan. No one laughed at anyone and no one was robbed. Everyone is devoted to patriotism and is in full swing for building the country!

This is impossible, I tell you from my personal experience.

1959 In March, I was born in an ordinary family of state-owned workers in Hengyang City, Hunan Province. The whole family has parents, an elder sister, a younger brother and me. My father works as a clerk in the unit with a monthly salary of 70 yuan. My mother doesn't have a formal job. She works as a temporary worker outside and earns about 40 yuan every month.

At that time, parents' monthly income was around 1 10 yuan. The life of a family of five people is about 20 yuan per person per month, which was passable in those days. Although not rich, basic food and clothing are still guaranteed. Specifically, you can eat three meals a day and often have fish. There will be a table of seven or eight dishes during the Spring Festival. In a word, I have never been hungry. Clothes can also keep warm, and several new clothes can be made every year, including cotton-padded clothes and shoes, which have never been frozen.

But that's all. I don't wear sweaters, shoes or bicycles until I am eighteen. In a word, there is nothing of value at home or on me.

If a family is only 10 yuan a month, it must be down and out, eating the last meal without the next meal, naked. I have a neighbor, whose father earns 57 yuan, whose wife has no income and has four children. Life is quite hard.

This sentence is unclear. How many people are there in the family? In the 1970s, a big family had many children and old people. There are more than a dozen people in a family, six or seven in a medium-sized family, five or six in a family, two or three in a family, and one lonely family cannot be generalized. If you are in the countryside, 10 yuan is enough for small and large households, and it is still a good household. The poor don't even have three or two dollars. As for salt to buy vinegar, they have to wait for money behind the chicken's ass. Ten dollars is definitely not enough for city people. City people live a good life and spend a lot of money, such as chicken, fish, eggs, rice, rape and so on. Therefore, in ordinary families, rural people live a rich life, and urban people are stretched. In a word, this question is too general to answer.

Your mother often said, "In the 1970s, a family only needed 10 yuan for a month's living expenses." This is not true! I live in the 1970s, so I should say, "In the 1970s, a family only needed 10 yuan for a month's living expenses". Although there are only two short words, it is wrong to lack the concept of average!

When we go out to eat, we will find that eating alone will be lonely and it is not easy to order. Not including lunch, of course. If two people are together, one meat, one dish and two meals, you can add a soup, and family life is the same. In the 1970s, the average family, mostly 3-5 children, ate simply, and the younger wore the older. At that time, the average living expenses were per person per month 10 yuan.

In the 1970s, a family's monthly living expenses only needed 10 yuan, which was quite good. At that time, money was solid, tickets were expensive and things were cheap. 10 yuan at that time was equivalent to about 200 and 300 yuan now. It is easier to get a salary at home, but it is more difficult for families with rural hukou. According to the old man, Lai seldom buys pickles, and only on holidays (such as Mid-Autumn Festival or Spring Festival) can he eat some meat to improve his life. White flour steamed bread is rarely eaten, and the usual staple food is generally sweet potato noodles and a small amount of steamed corn flour, such as Wowotou, pancakes, wild lai, leaves and bark.

Life at that time was very bitter, but I was very happy and carefree, living and working in peace and contentment!

Unlikely, unless the whole family doesn't have a formal job. At that time, workers were apprentices as soon as they entered the factory, 17 yuan, 3 1 _ 35 yuan after becoming a full member, and 56 yuan after graduating from undergraduate course. 1985 When I went to college, my father's salary was 102, and my mother was similar. Life is tense. It was a special era. Their wages are very low and they have some benefits, such as free medical care and housing allocation. Of course, housing distribution for ordinary workers is basically more difficult than learning from the West. Life was hard at that time. At that time, people who said they were good were basically uneducated people. Man's pleasure is to fight and do nothing. Most of the gap with the international community was pulled down at that time. It is the decades when the whole nation has been delayed.

In the city, an ordinary person can live on the living expenses of 10 yuan for one month, but it is impossible for the whole family to live on the living expenses of 10 yuan. The average worker's income is 7 1, and the salary before senior salary is 465438+9 in 0 yuan to 5 in 33 yuan. Trade unions in large units are entitled to give difficulties to families with temporary special difficulties. After discussion among the masses, the average income of the recipients is lower than 10 yuan. One-time payment to 10 is still a special case, such as being hospitalized at home ... it doesn't cost much, and it will be transferred to salary accounting after a little deduction.

One month1Is 0 yuan enough for a family of four? I think the family lived in the countryside at that time. In rural families in the 1970s, the grain stored at home was not counted as money in that month. It's not money to grow some vegetables in the plot and yard. Raising chickens, laying eggs and eating eggs are not money. I didn't buy new clothes and possessions that month, and I didn't suffer from disasters and diseases. Help yourself to some seasonings such as salt, tobacco and vinegar. 10 yuan is definitely enough. But if all these things that are not money are counted as money, it will definitely be more than 10 yuan. If you live in a town, all the means of subsistence are bought by spending money now, and it is also very difficult for a person to spend 10 yuan a month.

To sum up, in the 1970s, the living expenses of four people per month 10 yuan were definitely far from enough, whether in rural or urban areas.

After reading the title, I felt a little ridiculous and exaggerated. I've been there before, and I have a say. At that time, money was really used as money, not as expensive as it is now.

To be exact, in the 1970s, a person could support a family through work instead of ten dollars. At that time, wages were relatively low. The average person's monthly salary is about 30 yuan, and the higher salary is 60 to 70 yuan for a month (this standard is only for bureau-level or veteran cadres), but the price is low. Meat is only a few cents a catty, vegetables are a few cents to buy a lot, and three dollars can buy a washbasin egg.

Living conditions were particularly difficult at that time. Almost every family doesn't have enough food to eat by the end of the month. Fuel is supplied by ticket, and frugality is only enough for half a month. Poor families can't eat a meal of meat a month. So children are looking forward to the New Year (no matter how poor they are, they should buy some meat and fish for the New Year). At that time, the taste of Chinese New Year was particularly strong.

At that time, the country had to concentrate on doing great things, so since the president, the people have been living in poverty. This situation has gradually improved after the reform and opening up.

At that time, young people could never understand life at that time, and we old people felt that the wealth now was very different from that in the past (there were also people who lived in the 1960s and 1970s, especially those who now lived at the bottom of society). The present prosperity is based on the hard conditions at that time. Without the foundation of the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is absolutely impossible to change it by just one generation.

I think, since Pangu created the world, three emperors and five emperors, it is now in the highest and best period of people's living standards. We all know that we go to the market to buy food every day. We don't know what to buy or what we want to eat. This state has never existed in previous dynasties.