re: Let's Overanalyze "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2"

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in the first scene there are 10 pizzas for 15 people - 11 being children. Let’s do the math on the price and portions:

122.50 * 1.1162 (inflation) = 259.23 modern dollars

100 pieces = 6.7 slices a person

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Y'all don't understand how expensive Pizza used to be back in the 80s and 90s.

Even places like Pizza Hut used to charge about $8-$10 for a pie 25+ yrs ago.

Only around the mid-00s and especially the 08 recession did chains start selling cheap pizza. There also weren't places like Little Ceasars and Domino's attacking the college/lower income markets like they do today.

They may have overpriced the pizza slightly in Home Alone, but in a major, rich Chicago area suburb like that, not really. It also was probably just another factor to show how well off the McAlister family was.

Lots of things used to cost way more back in the day and they were a privelage to have. Store bought VHS tapes were like $30 in the early 90s. That's equivalent to about $50 now.

Vidoe games also used to be $60-$80. Electronics were also astronomical by today's standards.

That was before the market was flooded with bad NAFTA deals and China was let into the WTO and undercut everyone else's manufacturing costs.

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at the grocery store, Kevin bought a carton of orange juice, a carton of milk, loaf of bread, TV dinner, army men, big pack of toilet paper, large container of tide, snuggies drier sheets, mac & cheese, Reynolds wrap - all for 19.83

Modern prices
Milk - 4.00
OJ - 4.00
Wrap - 4.00
Tide - 12.00
Army men - 4.00
TV Dinner - 3.00
TP - 3.00
Mac and cheese - 3.00
Drier sheets - 4.00

41 dollars total - almost right at inflation, so…that’s accurate

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This should probably be updated