"She worked two or three jobs at a time," McGraw told The Associated Press in 2004. "I can remember being 11, 12, 13 years old and getting up at 12 o'clock at night and my mom sitting at the kitchen table with the bills spread out everywhere and not even knowing I was there with her head down crying. And then the next day the VCR being gone. It's stuff you grow up with, but you learn a lot from that.""
If he is 38, then, according to this, his parents had a VCR sometime between 1979 and 1982. VCRs were not cheap back then.
Since he thinks Clinton was bloody wonderful, I guess that he thinks that the government should offer "income support" so that folks don't have to sell stuff to pay the bills...
If he is 38, then, according to this, his parents had a VCR sometime between 1979 and 1982. VCRs were not cheap back then.
You’re right, VCRs cost about $800-1,000 bucks back then.
Apparently his mom was working 3 jobs to keep them up to their elbows in high-end electronics.
Wasn't Tim's Dad the late Tug McGraw who played major league baseball for 20 years? He had to be making some serious good money for that time. Were Tim's parents divorced? That statement doesn't sound right.
What's a divorced mom doing buying expensive non-essential technology back then anyways...I would have been crying too at the thought of those bills!
That would have been at least a months salary for that VCR back then.
And Bill Clinton watched black churches burn when he was a kid.
If he is 38, then, according to this, his parents had a VCR sometime between 1979 and 1982. VCRs were not cheap back then.
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Good catch. You are so right; VCRs were a few hundred in those days. Apparently, him mother was as foolish with her money as she was with her favors.
I should have read through all the posts before I posted my first response. I just jumped in at the spot where WKB pinged the MS ping list. My first thought when I read that quote was that it was a Bubba-esque remembrance. My mother spent about $200 to $250 on our first VCR in 1983. I have tapes of the 1984 Winter and Summer Olympics. I only remember one other classmate having a VCR. Hers was a Betamax. Within two or three years, all my friends' families bought one as the price dropped.