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To: GeronL
The whole family picked cotton during some points.

Been there and done that and from a very early age. I have a photo of me picking cotton into a burlap sack my mother sewed a shoulder strap on when I was about 6. We didn't have running water and the outhouse was 75 feet from the house. My folks lost their small Calif farm in 29 or 30 and had to move into basically a abandoned home.

118 posted on 11/18/2011 8:56:02 PM PST by tubebender (I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.)
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My Dad called them “toe sacks”.


140 posted on 11/18/2011 9:10:23 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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I was just today, thinking which was worse a trip to the outhouse in July or January?


283 posted on 11/19/2011 3:46:14 AM PST by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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