#one dozen

Day 24: One dozen

Here's something Valentine's Day themed 🌹 Inspired by the Haunted Mansion's Bride design ✨

23. Slow - Design claimed by https://www.deviantart.com/eldritch-aberrance 24. One Dozen - https://www.deviantart.com/karijinni 25. Tired - https://www.deviantart.com/halorocks1214

Inktober Day 24 -- One Dozen

pennies! We have Steve the paperboy at the grocery store after a hard day’s work. It’s particularly hard for him selling papers, as it was told in one of my favourite pre-war stucky stories “The Dud” by @nimmieamee . You can read it here on AO3. 

Just some numbers to put things into perspective. According to  the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics: 12 cents in the 1920s can buy you one of the items listed below:

5 lbs of potatoes

slightly over 1 lb of bread

close to 1 quart of milk 

slightly over 2 lbs of flour

about 1 lb of sugar. 

day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4 , day 5 , day 6, day 7, day 8, day 9, day 10,

day 11, day 12, day 13, day 14, day 15, day 16, day 17, day 18, day 19,