I flew to Europe and back in 92 for $2,200 while today I can still go there for that same amount or even less.
1n 82 a computer system for home or school with a memory of 64K bytes, a single diskette drive and its own display, was priced around US $3,000. Today you can buy a system 100000 times more powerful than that for much less.
Thanks to technological advances and the made in China factor cloths, shoes, tools, TVS and a paraphernalia of other things are much cheaper today than in the past.
By the way, the CPI is an INDEX where property, gold, and other assets, are not even included.