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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 533271" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>What I always found fascinating about my Great Aunt was that NONE of her sibs were anything like that. They all lived through the Depression and they were all frugal to some degree. But they NEVER did the hoarding kinds of things. Lots of times gifts were given away, even back to the giver the next year. Her house was always in great shape and she was an amazing woman. At age 88 she painted her entire basement. The roller was 'too heavy' so she daughter it wtih a 4 nch brush. Not a huge house, but a good sized one! At age 90 she finallyhired someone 'for the lawn'. She paid the kid next door 50 cents to start the mower. It was hard to pull and she didn't want to spend hundreds on a new mower when hers was 'perfectly fine'. When her placee to keep whatever got too full, she donated it to the church for a sale or family in need. She flat out refused to have a coffeemaker or microwave or air conditioner. My mom made a couple trips to see her where she brought all of those and she did talk her into an air conditioner, but never the others. Coffee was iether instant or made iwth an old percolator that sounded like it was going to erupt at any moment. </p><p></p><p>It was the paper towels (the lady who was hired to check on her insisted, as did her doctor - she wasn't able to run the old maytag well (her washer was the old old hand crank kind with wringers!) and first cutting each depends PAD into 3 pieces because she 'didn't need all that' and then drying them out that was what bothered us. The rest? Was just her way and no one fussed. </p><p></p><p>But I bet NONE of your relatives was as frugal as she was. when I was 12 we visited her before we moved to OK. At one point my mom and bro (dad was at home) went to run some errands and I stayed home with my aunt. I asked something about her husband, who was dead. So she took me to 'see' him. We went into the basement, she opened a file drawer and introduced me. His ashes were in a gallon size ziploc bag. She told me she splurged when he died. She bought a new box and used a new ziploc bag instead of one she had washed out (a box lasted her about a year - a SMALL box). This was a BIG splurge and showed how much she cared. She spoke to him as though he was there.</p><p></p><p>NO ONE in the family believed me for about a decade. Then my bro went to visit her and he got to 'meet' our great uncle. he called me and could NOT stop laughing, lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 533271, member: 1233"] What I always found fascinating about my Great Aunt was that NONE of her sibs were anything like that. They all lived through the Depression and they were all frugal to some degree. But they NEVER did the hoarding kinds of things. Lots of times gifts were given away, even back to the giver the next year. Her house was always in great shape and she was an amazing woman. At age 88 she painted her entire basement. The roller was 'too heavy' so she daughter it wtih a 4 nch brush. Not a huge house, but a good sized one! At age 90 she finallyhired someone 'for the lawn'. She paid the kid next door 50 cents to start the mower. It was hard to pull and she didn't want to spend hundreds on a new mower when hers was 'perfectly fine'. When her placee to keep whatever got too full, she donated it to the church for a sale or family in need. She flat out refused to have a coffeemaker or microwave or air conditioner. My mom made a couple trips to see her where she brought all of those and she did talk her into an air conditioner, but never the others. Coffee was iether instant or made iwth an old percolator that sounded like it was going to erupt at any moment. It was the paper towels (the lady who was hired to check on her insisted, as did her doctor - she wasn't able to run the old maytag well (her washer was the old old hand crank kind with wringers!) and first cutting each depends PAD into 3 pieces because she 'didn't need all that' and then drying them out that was what bothered us. The rest? Was just her way and no one fussed. But I bet NONE of your relatives was as frugal as she was. when I was 12 we visited her before we moved to OK. At one point my mom and bro (dad was at home) went to run some errands and I stayed home with my aunt. I asked something about her husband, who was dead. So she took me to 'see' him. We went into the basement, she opened a file drawer and introduced me. His ashes were in a gallon size ziploc bag. She told me she splurged when he died. She bought a new box and used a new ziploc bag instead of one she had washed out (a box lasted her about a year - a SMALL box). This was a BIG splurge and showed how much she cared. She spoke to him as though he was there. NO ONE in the family believed me for about a decade. Then my bro went to visit her and he got to 'meet' our great uncle. he called me and could NOT stop laughing, lol. [/QUOTE]
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