I just got the latest Family Dollar store circular (4)
ooby_dooby: It contains a special price drop for 2 bottles of Pepsi Cola or Mtn Dew 20 OZ bottles for $3.50. Limit 4 bottles. That comes to $1.75 per 20 OZ bottle. Normally I buy Sams Club soda at Walmart for $0.62 for a 2L bottle. I have several empty 20 OZ bottles and I can fill 3.8 bottles from 1, 2L bottle. I did a little math and that works out to a savings of $1.57 per 20 OZ bottle of soda. Looking at it from another viewpoint that's about 18 cents per bottle instead of $1.75.
I never lived through the Depression but my mother did and I'm sure a lot of her frugality has rubbed off on me. Of course I learned on my own to survive under extreme poverty as a child. Finding and eating food from other peoples garbage wasn't uncommon for me and many of the kids I hung around with who were also always hungry. We were all garbage pickers and if we found a sandwich in the garbage we would break it in half and share it. We learned other ways to find something to eat as well. There was a Horn & Hardart Automat around the block from my house on 86th st.
They always had glasses with ice and a lemon wedge if anybody wanted iced Tea to go with their food. They also had 2 complimentary slices of bread if you were buying a bowl of soup or something. We would take the glass of ice to the water cooler & fill it and squeeze the lemon wedge into it. they had sugar bowls on all the tables and we would make our own lemonade. For something solid we would take the bread and using the free condiments also available, we would make a mustard and ketchup sandwich. I don't know if the managers ever saw us doing this but if they did they probably looked the other way knowing it may be the only thing we had to eat that day.
These days I wonder if my mother was aware of what I was doing to not starve, would she decide to stop drinking. I kinda doubt it.
I will never again feel hard done by because when I was a child we ate just boiled potatoes a bit too often. I never lived through the Depression but my mother did and I'm sure a lot of her frugality has rubbed off on me. Of course I learned on my own to survive under extreme poverty as a child. Finding and eating food from other peoples garbage wasn't uncommon for me and many of the kids I hung around with who were also always hungry. We were all garbage pickers and if we found a sandwich in the garbage we would break it in half and share it. We learned other ways to find something to eat as well. There was a Horn & Hardart Automat around the block from my house on 86th st.
They always had glasses with ice and a lemon wedge if anybody wanted iced Tea to go with their food. They also had 2 complimentary slices of bread if you were buying a bowl of soup or something. We would take the glass of ice to the water cooler & fill it and squeeze the lemon wedge into it. they had sugar bowls on all the tables and we would make our own lemonade. For something solid we would take the bread and using the free condiments also available, we would make a mustard and ketchup sandwich. I don't know if the managers ever saw us doing this but if they did they probably looked the other way knowing it may be the only thing we had to eat that day.
These days I wonder if my mother was aware of what I was doing to not starve, would she decide to stop drinking. I kinda doubt it.
Ooby thanks for sharing your poignant memories
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I learned to hunt, fish camp, make fires, and cook at a very young age. I have not eaten out of a garbage can that I remember...I have went int a restaurant and order a glass of water. Back in the day they used to have a bowl of crackers on the tables, and condiments (as you said) I have used the jelly on the crackers, and added catsup to the water to make tomato juice...I would thank them as I left.
As for your mother to stop drinking, most have to hit rock bottom in some fashion, before they will quit drinking. Hello Ooby.
As for your mother to stop drinking, most have to hit rock bottom in some fashion, before they will quit drinking. Hello Ooby.
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ooby_dooby: It contains a special price drop for 2 bottles of Pepsi Cola or Mtn Dew 20 OZ bottles for $3.50. Limit 4 bottles. That comes to $1.75 per 20 OZ bottle. Normally I buy Sams Club soda at Walmart for $0.62 for a 2L bottle. I have several empty 20 OZ bottles and I can fill 3.8 bottles from 1, 2L bottle. I did a little math and that works out to a savings of $1.57 per 20 OZ bottle of soda. Looking at it from another viewpoint that's about 18 cents per bottle instead of $1.75.
I never lived through the Depression but my mother did and I'm sure a lot of her frugality has rubbed off on me. Of course I learned on my own to survive under extreme poverty as a child. Finding and eating food from other peoples garbage wasn't uncommon for me and many of the kids I hung around with who were also always hungry. We were all garbage pickers and if we found a sandwich in the garbage we would break it in half and share it. We learned other ways to find something to eat as well. There was a Horn & Hardart Automat around the block from my house on 86th st.
They always had glasses with ice and a lemon wedge if anybody wanted iced Tea to go with their food. They also had 2 complimentary slices of bread if you were buying a bowl of soup or something. We would take the glass of ice to the water cooler & fill it and squeeze the lemon wedge into it. they had sugar bowls on all the tables and we would make our own lemonade. For something solid we would take the bread and using the free condiments also available, we would make a mustard and ketchup sandwich. I don't know if the managers ever saw us doing this but if they did they probably looked the other way knowing it may be the only thing we had to eat that day.
These days I wonder if my mother was aware of what I was doing to not starve, would she decide to stop drinking. I kinda doubt it.
My family was poor in the sense that we didn't have a lot of money but we didn't starve. We had a lot of property next door to our house. My father planted a vegetable garden with all kinds of vegetables and my mother canned them in pressurized Ball jars. If the jar lids didn't pop then we knew the jar wasn't pressurized and we couldn't keep the contents. When all the jar lids popped then we put the jars in a cellar that was always cold.I never lived through the Depression but my mother did and I'm sure a lot of her frugality has rubbed off on me. Of course I learned on my own to survive under extreme poverty as a child. Finding and eating food from other peoples garbage wasn't uncommon for me and many of the kids I hung around with who were also always hungry. We were all garbage pickers and if we found a sandwich in the garbage we would break it in half and share it. We learned other ways to find something to eat as well. There was a Horn & Hardart Automat around the block from my house on 86th st.
They always had glasses with ice and a lemon wedge if anybody wanted iced Tea to go with their food. They also had 2 complimentary slices of bread if you were buying a bowl of soup or something. We would take the glass of ice to the water cooler & fill it and squeeze the lemon wedge into it. they had sugar bowls on all the tables and we would make our own lemonade. For something solid we would take the bread and using the free condiments also available, we would make a mustard and ketchup sandwich. I don't know if the managers ever saw us doing this but if they did they probably looked the other way knowing it may be the only thing we had to eat that day.
These days I wonder if my mother was aware of what I was doing to not starve, would she decide to stop drinking. I kinda doubt it.
At the time we were a family of six, mother, father, sister, grandfather, grandmother. My father worked on the railroad for menial wages and my mother worked for a pharmaceutical company.
My parents went to a market where they sold half a cow cut into pieces for stews, roasts, steak, etc. It all went in a small freezer. When I was very young we had chickens that we sold including their eggs. My parents always found a way to make sure there was food on the table.
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I never lived through the Depression but my mother did and I'm sure a lot of her frugality has rubbed off on me. Of course I learned on my own to survive under extreme poverty as a child. Finding and eating food from other peoples garbage wasn't uncommon for me and many of the kids I hung around with who were also always hungry. We were all garbage pickers and if we found a sandwich in the garbage we would break it in half and share it. We learned other ways to find something to eat as well. There was a Horn & Hardart Automat around the block from my house on 86th st.
They always had glasses with ice and a lemon wedge if anybody wanted iced Tea to go with their food. They also had 2 complimentary slices of bread if you were buying a bowl of soup or something. We would take the glass of ice to the water cooler & fill it and squeeze the lemon wedge into it. they had sugar bowls on all the tables and we would make our own lemonade. For something solid we would take the bread and using the free condiments also available, we would make a mustard and ketchup sandwich. I don't know if the managers ever saw us doing this but if they did they probably looked the other way knowing it may be the only thing we had to eat that day.
These days I wonder if my mother was aware of what I was doing to not starve, would she decide to stop drinking. I kinda doubt it.