We didn’t know we were poor. As word spread that a letter to Bennett would be answered with cash, people asked for more and more things.

It’s a great reminder to be thankful for what we have today. It seems so different than nowadays, doesn’t it?I really enjoyed reading some of the stories. (I guess that was the point, right?) There were no deer or wild turkeys then. That is so great that your grandmother wrote all of that down for you to read. '”“We learned to do so many things: wash, mend and sew our own clothes; grow and can food; plan ahead; stretch our money; keep warm; help each other. But no matter what they requested, the The mystery man refused to take credit for what he’d done—and no one knew who it was until he died.

We went to church, I walked about three miles to go and my Mom and I would chat with our neighbors. My son took 11 of our family to a local restaurant for lunch. And education…I think it’s something we take for granted that it’s available easily for at least 80% of us in America. BY … Those who had something to share gave what they had to those in need.

There were so many women dressing up their families in food packaging that they started holding national sewing contests where women would show off their feedbag dresses.When the flour companies noticed the trend, they redesigned their bags to give these families a little more dignity. The loan was completed.

We had our own orchard.

Mom put their names in a book and how much they bought.Some moved and never paid her back. When you ate a piece, it stayed with you. Running water?

My mother sewed from morning till night all that week, turning my dad’s frayed shirt collars and cutting her cloths down to fit me.When the salesman came back, she said she hadn’t changed her mind, she still didn’t want the machine. I think that is part of the difference between the parents. Mom was an excellent seamstress, but was short on funds for buying sewing material.A friend of Dad’s worked at an auto wrecking yard. Anyone so inclined could wander into the park and enjoy a classical symphony free of charge.The concerts eventually evolved into the Grant Park Music Festival. There are many millionaires today, but during the Depression one could scarcely be found.

Hubby’s parents (now deceased) had the attitude that they had done without for so long that when they could afford something, they were going to get it and enjoy it. Riding the Rails.

Parents sacrifice so much because they love their children – it’s good to see that you understand their love for you!THANK YOU, friend!!

My oldest brother had to go to school early every day and build a fire in the downstairs and upstairs stoves so the school was warm when it started.
We bathed in a large wash tub that was also used to wash our laundry…Naturally, this was before air conditioning. It was 14 feet by 28 feet, and by the time my youngest sister was born there, it contained two adults and eight children. He even tried to raise money for the country by leasing the mansion. There is so much to learn by studying the past. The child has read none of them.”By 1936, the program was delivering free books to 50,000 families across Appalachia. So many of us just don’t understand what you have written above.This is great – I too love to read stories like this. We really don’t have anything to complain about.Tell me! Very interesting stuff!So true, Tonya. As I got older, I delivered all three newspapers (Plain Dealer, News, Press) at old St. John Hospital before and after school.

He tried to copy Roosevelt’s He sent people anything they asked for. I read every single story and it sure does make you grateful for what we have today when so many went without.Exactly, Mackenzie!

We all used a communal dipper for a drink.”“Mom and her siblings, except for (her brother) Paul, only made it to sixth grade, and then it was only part-time. Throughout his time as prime minister, he and his wife refused to move into the mansion, unwilling to let the cost of running it eat up the budget.

Other people helped us, too. We also had to clean the two-room school every day after school. They sent the money to the New York Relief Fund as the tribe had requested.Sure, the money wasn’t enough to change anyone’s life—but the story was. It’s quite insane to think about all this. Back then, you’d be lucky to get from 50 cents to $1 each.Then, the meat was cleaned out and soaked in salt water and cooked, or there were people who would pay my dad 25¢ or 50¢ each for the meat.”“During the winter, we disconnected the refrigerator to save electricity and kept spoilable food in a window ‘icebox.’ You opened the window to put food in, and then closed the window to keep it cold. That would cool a pound of bologna… For a while before we had electricity, we heated the irons that we used to do the ironing on the cook stove.

The best thing was that they were generous to people who were poor. These were used in the washing machine.


His writing also appears on a number of other sites, including The Onion's StarWipe and Cracked.com. I remember an orchard on Libby Road where we picked apples that my grandma peeled for use in pies and sauces.Chickens provided meat for Sunday dinner and eggs for breakfast. She received eight hundred dollars for eight months of teaching plus five dollars a month for being her own janitor.We would go to a neighbor’s house near the school and get a bucket of water each day. We ate very comfortably because we ate from our own supplies. On Saturday and Sunday, I would shave old men patients at the hospital.”“We were a family of eight and my father was a carpenter.

He said he hadn’t realized how many buildings were in a lumberyard, but finally another bill was paid and he had made another friend.”“My dear mother would cause us to laugh with tears when she would tell about the census taker who received a negative to every question: Do you have inside plumbing? Our family and our good name was what mattered.”“I feel sorry for the younger generation, as they don’t know how to make do with nothing. Everything was put to use. These people were stuck with the lot they had. We would be doing just fine if everyone was still like that.I so agree, Pauline!!!!


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