December 22, 2020January 7, 2021Other eras Was living on a South Dakota farm in the 1930s closer to life in the Viking Age than what life is like today? In recent years I have been exploring the Viking Era. You can see lots of posts on my blog about finances and […]
December 7, 2020December 7, 2020Other eras “An Ulvog Journey” – Tales of growing up on a South Dakota farm in the 1930s and 1940s. Casting my CPA eye on the 1946 probate document for my grandfather’s estate led to a series of previous posts describing what […]
February 19, 2020February 19, 2020Other eras Raising watermelons as cash crop. One source of cash on my grandparent’s farm was raising watermelons, going to town, then selling them for cash. That provided a […]
January 6, 2020January 6, 2020Other eras More thoughts about life on a farm in 1946 Been thinking more on what life was like on the farm after my grandfather passed away. Consider the cash expenses again – […]
December 30, 2019January 3, 2020Other eras Observations of life on a farm in 1946 Life was hard after my grandfather passed from this vale of tears. Any way you look at the income and expenses it […]
December 27, 2019December 8, 2019Other eras Guess at value of 1946 estate expressed in 2019 dollars The values assigned to my grandfather’s estate when it was probated are listed here. My determination of a adjustment factor of […]
December 23, 2019December 8, 2019Other eras Adjustment of prices from 1946 to 2019 Is there some way to adjust the prices described in my grandfather’s 1946 probate document into today’s dollars? Developing some way […]
December 20, 2019December 2, 2019Other eras Consumer price index from 1940 through 2019 For an indicator of the changes in prices from the World War 2 era through today I pulled CPI information from the […]
December 2, 2019November 30, 2019Other eras Economic life on a farm in 1945: family size This is the seventh in a series of posts exploring the economic life of a 1940s era farm in South Dakota. My […]
July 22, 2019Other eras Picture of life on a South Dakota farm based on what can be seen in a probate document In 1945 my paternal grandfather departed this vail of tears. The probate document filed for his estate the next year provides a […]