Looking at the previous tweet in the thread this one quotes, it talks about trying to get a £600 donation.<p>But that was in 1938. Using the Bank of England's inflation calculator[0] that works out to be £39,671 in 2018 prices.<p>£1,150 (the total in the tweet) works out to be £76,037 in 2018 prices.<p>Though not a <i>huge</i> amount by modern fundraising standards, that's hardly "really sweating the next thousand dollars"<p>[0] <a href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator" rel="nofollow">https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...</a>