After tax, in many places you have to work a _decade_ at the median wage for a house (or in some places considerably more). And yet people buy those.

Domestic appliances really have gotten dramatically cheaper relative to earning power, pretty much everywhere. Have a look at some old prices and compare to median wages; it's really fairly dramatic for most stuff.

I am Norwegian, our kroner are somewhat less sought after than the Danish krone.

As for the cost in 1950, I have no idea except what my grandmother told me - but the 7,000kr average annual pay I looked up at the bureau of statistics.

My paternal grandmother, though, upon hearing my maternal grandmother had a freezer already in 1950, was green with envy - they had not got one until the end of that decade.

I guess being an early adopter came at a price back then, too.

I found this [0] story (In Norwegian only, use your translation service of choice), where it is observed that a freezer cost 'several months' wages' for a worker, and that adoption didn't take off until down payment options were introduced in the early sixties.

Interestingly, I found another couple of historical prices on consumer electronics:

A 21" black-and-white TV set in 1960: NOK 2,200 (two months' gross wages)

Tandberg 1/4" reel-to-reel tape deck (Also 1960): NOK 880 (Just shy of a month's wages)

'Cheap' 26" colour TV, 1993: Three weeks' wages

VHS recorder, also 1993: Another three weeks' wages.

Sony Walkman, also 1993: A week and a half of wages.

It is ridiculous how prices have come down in later decades.

[0] https://forskning.no/forbruk-hus-og-hjem-moderne-historie/dy...

Some context - I’m assuming that OP is Norwegian:

2000 Norwegian kr (NOK) = 198 USD

2000 Swedish kr (SEK) = 191 USD

2000 Danish kr (DKK) = 296 USD

2000 Icelandic kr (ISK) = 15 USD