Luckily I was young and didn't have much to lose. We didn't experience hyperinflation, maybe something like 40-50% change in prices. I was hourly at the time but it took a while before I felt like my purchasing power was back to being on-par with what it was prior. When people started to feel prices were rising, everyone ran out to buy electronics -- tvs, stereos, anything. The hope was they'd be able to re-sell them at a good price. I've learned that inflation is uneven - it doesn't uniformly increase prices everywhere. In the US I just watch the charts of M1.