dawson5
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as far as I know, we never did the powdered milk but my mom would keep it on hand for "just in case."
both sides of grandparents had huge gardens, we would spend weekends at each of them helping out. my mom filled our freezer with it. i still love the taste of fresh frozen peas.
my mom knew how much we loved lucky charms but they cost a lot, even back then. she made her own with store brand alpha bits and colored marshmallows. we still knew the difference.
lots of kool-aid in the summer. frozen popsicles made from that.
my grandparents are children of the depression. my grandmother can make a penny cry. to this day she still washes out ziploc bags and wipes off foil, puts them back in the drawer. also had the odd assortment of margarine containers for storing things. my grandfather would turn bread bags inside out to store ice in. he's been gone for a few years now and he left my grandmother reasonably well off. they never had to do these things but i'm sure it sat in the back of their minds that it could happen again.
I hated those iron on patches for the knees. I know why she did it but still hated them. I have done it to my boys but I would iron them on the inside right after we bought them, it made the pants last longer and they didn't have that patch on the outside.
both sides of grandparents had huge gardens, we would spend weekends at each of them helping out. my mom filled our freezer with it. i still love the taste of fresh frozen peas.
my mom knew how much we loved lucky charms but they cost a lot, even back then. she made her own with store brand alpha bits and colored marshmallows. we still knew the difference.
lots of kool-aid in the summer. frozen popsicles made from that.
my grandparents are children of the depression. my grandmother can make a penny cry. to this day she still washes out ziploc bags and wipes off foil, puts them back in the drawer. also had the odd assortment of margarine containers for storing things. my grandfather would turn bread bags inside out to store ice in. he's been gone for a few years now and he left my grandmother reasonably well off. they never had to do these things but i'm sure it sat in the back of their minds that it could happen again.
I hated those iron on patches for the knees. I know why she did it but still hated them. I have done it to my boys but I would iron them on the inside right after we bought them, it made the pants last longer and they didn't have that patch on the outside.
you.
My mom made something called tomato dumplings which were made with bisquick and canned tomatoes. We ate a lot of bean soup and corn bread. We did not eat meat every day--more like twice a week--once on Sunday (roast) and maybe some roasted chicken another night. Lunches for me were white bread, cheese and mustard with a piece of fruit in a brown bag. I never had a cookie or twinkie. I know that lots of kids who's families had more money than my family were on a free lunch plan. My parents wouldn't dream of doing that. We ate at Howard Johnson once a year and maybe McDonald's once a year. (This is after the older three kids were grown and my parents were slightly more comfortable) We also had chipped-chopped ham sandwiches and chips a couple of Sunday nights each month. I remember having spam and vienna sausages with apples in the car when we traveled to relatives houses (our only vacations). I dressed from K-Mart and garage sales but my mom always bought me one good pair of shoes for school. For birthdays I got things like one sleeping bag. That's it. I didn't get Barbies because my sisters who were 10-12 years older passed their toys down to me. 
