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bhikkhu

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27. Habits die hard

Wed Jan 21, 2015, 01:34 PM

Jan 2015

My grandparents saved everything, and lived like they were dirt poor long after they weren't. My mom was raised that way, and I grew up that way. My grandma saved breadbags and wove them into area rugs. We shopped at garage sales, and slept under quilts made from recycled nightrobes. I had enough clothes to fill a small dresser most of the time, but most of it was hand-me downs. When pants got too short my mom sewed a bit more on the bottom. Torn knees got those big iron-on patches. When socks had holes they were darned. It wasn't a big deal. Things really started to change in the 70's, but it took a long time.

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Am I cynical for not believing that everybody on Joni Ernst's school bus... [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 OP

I can't believe she had bread bags man! sharp_stick Jan 2015 #1

"We used the entrails of a Tauntaun to stay warm on the way to school" KatyMan Jan 2015 #6

It reminds me of the fella who said he walked to and from school uphill two miles every day./NT DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 #2

Don't talk about my pops that way rbrnmw Jan 2015 #11

... after feeding the chickens and slopping the pigs! ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #22

they all must knew each other rbrnmw Jan 2015 #25

That was Bill Cosby, by the way. Orrex Jan 2015 #12

it was actually a lot of our Grandpops and pops who told that tale rbrnmw Jan 2015 #16

They should sue ol' Bill for plagiarism. Orrex Jan 2015 #18

why not he being sued for everything else? rbrnmw Jan 2015 #24

LOL Orrex Jan 2015 #26

Aw come on! You don't believe her? Avalux Jan 2015 #3

She's not old enough to have lived through the Depression and Cleita Jan 2015 #4

I still kinda do that hfojvt Jan 2015 #7

Exactly. unrepentant progress Jan 2015 #10

I do the same and can't remember when I last bought a box of ziplocks. eom Cleita Jan 2015 #13

Habits die hard bhikkhu Jan 2015 #27

Bread bags were pretty common where I'm from (Pennsylvania) in the 70's-- TwilightGardener Jan 2015 #5

Same here -- Central NY in the late 1960s unrepentant progress Jan 2015 #9

If she wanted to talk about poverty she could talk about the 1.6 million Americans... DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 #15

Because for her and her ilk 2naSalit Jan 2015 #19

Yes. And that's the kind of criticism I would expect. unrepentant progress Jan 2015 #29

The guffaws are because people don't believe that a whole bus full of kids pnwmom Jan 2015 #37

She didn't mention a word about boots. She said she wore them over her SHOES pnwmom Jan 2015 #36

Everyone wore them, according to her Mariana Jan 2015 #38

She's full of shit notadmblnd Jan 2015 #8

She claimed it was due to poverty so it would never have been all of them. In saying this she jwirr Jan 2015 #14

Probably most of them did. Yo_Mama Jan 2015 #17

If "The breadbags go over the shoes, which go inside the boots." how did she see them? DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 #23

That's not how she described them -- she mentioned no boots, and she said pnwmom Jan 2015 #34

Who said you were? NCTraveler Jan 2015 #20

That whole story was bullshit gopiscrap Jan 2015 #21

Link please Munificence Jan 2015 #32

What tom foolery is this? Sheepshank Jan 2015 #28

I grew up in Ohio, 1970s ..and we used bread bags. LeftinOH Jan 2015 #30

Inside your shoes or encasing them? pnwmom Jan 2015 #35

Then she was on the 'special' bus. LeftinOH Jan 2015 #39

We have yet to get a satisfactory answer to that./NT DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 #40

Her family could afford bread bags? greatauntoftriplets Jan 2015 #31

True that, Moon Boots= Everyone has to wear breadbags or have wet freezing toes. n/t kickysnana Jan 2015 #33

I don't care whether they did or not. winter is coming Jan 2015 #41