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You will find the things one does to survive are far more interesting than all the modern things that we expect today.
[Except for the internet]

When we moved to Kingman, I had normal jobs and even went back to selling real estate, had my own office and still found that at home, I wanted the basics and did not go back to the ‘shopping for the latest’ that was so normal in San Diego.

My family wants me to get rid of my junk, we had a real set to over it a couple years ago...

My brother did admit, that after he got home and thought about my refusing to let him haul it all to the dump, cause it was old, that he had taken a good look at his garage and yard and decided that my stuff was no different than all the car parts he had saved, ‘just in case’.

LOL, how well I remember the wringer washer and what a blessing it was, after using a rub board.

I had one in Wellton in the 1970’s, as we hauled water and could not afford to waste it.

You are lucky that you found a man who is able to do so many things, it will be very important if times really do get as hard as it looks like they will.

We don’t realize how many people are homeless, I do, as I listen to the police scanners and hear the officers talk about the groups that have set up camps in the river bottoms.

It is heart breaking to hear them talk of those that simply lay down on the sidewalks and go to sleep.

When we went to california, in the 1930’s as fruit tramps, we lived in the car and in a tent and later a plywood shelter that Dad put on a car axle and called a trailer, 2 beds and a camp stove, but it was shelter and a home that he took with us when we moved.

We lived in the river bottom at San Diego, near the old mission, for quite a while, until the war started and he went to work in the ship yards and as a mechanic in San Ysidro, where the Gov. was building an airfield.

Yes, I have been there and done that and more...LOL