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To: JDN who wrote (212866)	7/21/2007 7:53:39 AM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794043

Your youthful encounters of the character building kind sounds so familiar to me, JDN. Did you and I live in the same house without knowing it? And maybe we are even kinfolk. There were so many living in my house when I was growing up that I didn't even know all of them. Sounds like you were among them as your experiences as a youth growing up in the Great Depression matches mine exactly. But we seem to have made the best of it and wound up with much to be thankful for. RIGHT! To bad this modern generation missed out on so many character building experiences. That explains a lot as far as I can see.

To: JDN who wrote (212866)	7/21/2007 1:16:09 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 794043

That's how my father grew up. He didn't live with inside hot & cold water and an inside toilet until he joined the Army in 68. My grandparents were literaly dirt poor.

To: JDN who wrote (212866)	7/21/2007 1:40:12 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 794043

JDN....You must be a 1940's child of the West as well. My sisters and I had all the conveniences of inside plumbing, washing machine, no dishwasher, etc...BUT our Aunt and Uncle didn't....and our Grandparents, lived up the lane, and had just built an inside toilet to go along with the bearclaw cast iron victorian BIG bathtub..... They were so very proud of finally having enough funds to put on that new room!!! She kept the old coal stove all of her life by choice, but Dad and Mom bought them a refrig (to replace the oak ice chest) and a freezer (the wonder of wonders) AND a washing machine. Grandma LOVED that machine. It meant hours of labor freed up....especially on a farming ranch. Lots of dirty clothes from the guys, and no more wash boards, and carrying water outside to wash the stuff in the tubs, then get all of it in to the rinse tubs, then wring everything with two sticks twisting the clothes..... The first machine he got her was the round one that sloshed everything around, then clothes put through the wringers, into two tubs, then clothes put out on the line to dry.... Then they were taken down, and ironed. Everything, even the mens socks.... She was quite particular about her laundry. I remember that they did the washing one day, the ironing on the next day, and the baking on a day. Shopping in town on a day. And stuff like house cleaning, or canning etc on a day.... In thrashing season, she and my Aunt cooked for maybe as many as 20 hungry men for dinner (we call it lunch now)...two to three meats, a couple of kinds of potatoes, couple of veggies, homemade breads, and always a dessert. They sometimes had a salad for 'supper'....and a much lighter meal for supper than 'dinner at noon'..... As for now, get out and find something you really enjoy. Be a volunteer for a museum, or Vet's hospital, or whatever it is you want. Guarantee you will meet people you have something in common with....and will have fun doing it...