“They were very wise grandparents-—they would probably be appalled at today’s throw-away society.”
They were married in 1929. My dad came along one year later. They were a couple of youngsters just starting their life together, when the Great Depression began.
They already came from humble beginnings, but those years of hardship taught them lessons about frugality they never forgot.
My mom and dad are in their mid eighties, and are still some of the most thrifty people I’ve ever known. Dad can still squeeze a nickel so hard, it cries :-)
Your grandparents were the same age as my parents——married in 1930,my father died in 1938,leaving 2 young kids,and times were very,very tough-——but we had a superb mother.
We wasted NOTHING-—your grandparents would have been proud.
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