Sign of the Time from a Shoe Shine

It has been a while since i have blogged...why, simply put busy. DPHA ( decorative plumbing and heating Assoc.)show was very slow. Is it people dont want to spend the money to come, dont have the money to spend,just arent interested because they think companies arent doing anything new? Well i am not sure what the reason was but it was slow. The amount a company has to spend to do a show like this is high, betweeen labor rates to move in products, the costs of hotels and flights etc..traffic is a must without it, it becomes a money loser. However thats enough of the soap box and onto the SHOE SHINE BOX.
I was helping my mom clean some things out of her home a while ago and there was one thing i wanted from the home that was my Dads. When i was a kid my dad had a shoeshine box that for whatever reason intrigued me. My dad past away a little over 2 years ago and the Shoe Shine box stood out in my mind, hoping it wouldnt get thrown out. Luckily that show shine box was still there and filled with my dads wax and polishes. As i pulled a pair of shoes out this AM i noticed they needed a little shine, so out came dads box. I opened the box and found a shoe shine cloth with wax built into it. As i read the cloth i noticed it was a give away, an advertisment. It was for Union Center National bank, this cloth had to be at least 20 to 25 years old. As i look at the cloth it says " 3% interest on savings accounts". I laughed and chuckled to myself ...a sign of the times 3% on a savings account 20 years ago... a 1/2 of a percent today if your lucky.
Is this a sign of the times how is it that 20 years ago we made more money with our money? Where are we heading? I think there is nowhere to go but up.