21. Thirty Pounds of Laundry Soap
You could do a lot of laundry for a dollar back in 1900. For just one dollar, you could buy 30 pounds of soap for your laundry. Compared to today, this is actually a great deal. While we can get bottles of not-so-great detergent from the dollar store, they don’t always give you that fresh smell. Keep in mind that laundry was a very laborious process back then that involved hand-scrubbing and hanging by hand. It was such hard work that a lot of women could make a living from doing their neighbor’s laundry.