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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 73824" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>This stuff makes me shake my head. </p><p></p><p>I recall cigs costing 50 cents a pack. lol I think it was that when I started smoking.</p><p></p><p>Eating out was a rare treat in our family growing up. Maybe a couple of times a year, and only because my stepdad decided to splurg. He had the right, he'd worked two jobs since he was 13. And Mom worked too. But we didn't have a sitter. Older kids watched the younger kids and there was h*ll to pay if someone got hurt or into trouble while parents were gone.</p><p></p><p>I didn't eat at Mc Donald's til I was 12, never tasted pizza til I was 13, and it was homemade not from a pizzaria. A special treat was getting to have a picnic at the neighborhood park in the summer with pbj sandwiches, chips, and shasta soda pop by the case. :grin:</p><p></p><p>Most of the time our meals were ham 'n beans with cornbread, buiscuts and gravy, fried potatoes, mac 'n cheese, or rice. Meat was something to be worshipped we saw so little of it. It was expensive. Veggies came out of the huge garden we worked our fannys off in each year.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My kids rarely got to eat out too. Cable would be shut off in the summers to save money and encourage outside play. Air conditioning is a treat. (still, and it better be over 90 degrees) Santa and grandparents gave gifts at holidays and bdays with a limit. Only 5 at xmas, 2 for birthday. All gifts had to be run past me first. If somewhere is close enough to walk there, they walked there, including the mile to school each day....</p><p></p><p>See I've already started their lists for them.....lol :wink:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 73824, member: 84"] This stuff makes me shake my head. I recall cigs costing 50 cents a pack. lol I think it was that when I started smoking. Eating out was a rare treat in our family growing up. Maybe a couple of times a year, and only because my stepdad decided to splurg. He had the right, he'd worked two jobs since he was 13. And Mom worked too. But we didn't have a sitter. Older kids watched the younger kids and there was h*ll to pay if someone got hurt or into trouble while parents were gone. I didn't eat at Mc Donald's til I was 12, never tasted pizza til I was 13, and it was homemade not from a pizzaria. A special treat was getting to have a picnic at the neighborhood park in the summer with pbj sandwiches, chips, and shasta soda pop by the case. [img]:grin:[/img] Most of the time our meals were ham 'n beans with cornbread, buiscuts and gravy, fried potatoes, mac 'n cheese, or rice. Meat was something to be worshipped we saw so little of it. It was expensive. Veggies came out of the huge garden we worked our fannys off in each year. My kids rarely got to eat out too. Cable would be shut off in the summers to save money and encourage outside play. Air conditioning is a treat. (still, and it better be over 90 degrees) Santa and grandparents gave gifts at holidays and bdays with a limit. Only 5 at xmas, 2 for birthday. All gifts had to be run past me first. If somewhere is close enough to walk there, they walked there, including the mile to school each day.... See I've already started their lists for them.....lol [img]:wink:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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