I feel that stamps should cost 22 cents. This is probably the result of the perfect trifecta of me hating change, forgetting how old I am, and being cheap.

Apparently first class stamps were 22 cents back when I was 8 years old and didn't go up until I had just turned 12.

And now today it's going to take 44 cents to mail a letter.

Wow, I feel old. Stamps have doubled in my lifetime. Actually they've gone up threefold since I was born and they were 13 cents. They've doubled since I can remember!

In 1985 Time Magazine's cover price was $1.95. Now to buy it on the newsstand it'd cost you $4.95! That's more than doubled in the last 24 years.

Yep, everything seems to cost a little too much these days. Did you see that the national edition of the Sunday New York Times is going up to $6 in June?

Six dollars for a newspaper! Shoot, you could mail thirteen letters with six dollars!