Took me a while to find actual numbers that could give good approximations of how true this is.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tenement.org&#x2F;encyclopedia&#x2F;housing_rent.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tenement.org&#x2F;encyclopedia&#x2F;housing_rent.htm</a><p>Turns out, it&#x27;s actually pretty accurate. But food was much more expensive, sucking up maybe ten days of income (and that&#x27;s 100% groceries, which is rare enough these days, I suppose). Clothing, though, that&#x27;s where you see the real change. Cheaper these days in non-inflation adjusted dollars than it was in the 1890&#x27;s, in you can believe it (maybe I buy fewer articles of clothing than most people, but likely not less clothing than people in 1890).