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<blockquote data-quote="Ouachita" data-source="post: 1813964" data-attributes="member: 16802"><p>The last few post make me think about my grandparents. They were both born in 1917. They were born into the Great War, grew into adulthood during the Great Depression, and then went back to war.</p><p></p><p>They married shortly after the end of WWII, and lived on the same place until their death. Both very frugal, but not risk averse. Granddad started the first rural trash pickup service in our county. He also had a full service station and raised cattle and kids, along with peanuts and corn, all at the same time.</p><p></p><p>They got phone service before they got electrified. My dad graduated high school in 1963. Granny and granddad didn't spring for electricity until 1967. They lived in that house without indoor plumbing, and granny still cooked on the wood cook stove until 2004. That's when the family had to intervene and all pitched in to buy them a "proper" house.</p><p></p><p>It was an almost new trailer house with central heat and air conditioning. They had to get rid of the rotary dial phone about the same time. They both died within five years. </p><p></p><p>I think the family was trying to do a nice thing, but looking back, I think we robbed them of that reason to keep on living.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ouachita, post: 1813964, member: 16802"] The last few post make me think about my grandparents. They were both born in 1917. They were born into the Great War, grew into adulthood during the Great Depression, and then went back to war. They married shortly after the end of WWII, and lived on the same place until their death. Both very frugal, but not risk averse. Granddad started the first rural trash pickup service in our county. He also had a full service station and raised cattle and kids, along with peanuts and corn, all at the same time. They got phone service before they got electrified. My dad graduated high school in 1963. Granny and granddad didn’t spring for electricity until 1967. They lived in that house without indoor plumbing, and granny still cooked on the wood cook stove until 2004. That’s when the family had to intervene and all pitched in to buy them a “proper” house. It was an almost new trailer house with central heat and air conditioning. They had to get rid of the rotary dial phone about the same time. They both died within five years. I think the family was trying to do a nice thing, but looking back, I think we robbed them of that reason to keep on living. [/QUOTE]
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