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<blockquote data-quote="Roadking Larry" data-source="post: 4026061" data-attributes="member: 2833"><p>My parents, aunts and uncles were all "children of the depression". </p><p>Make do, make it yourself, fix it yourself, reuse, repurpose, or do without.</p><p>15 years ago my uncle (dad's brother in law) took ill and passed away leaving my Alzheimer's patient aunt alone on their remote 120 acre farm. Both of their children had dies young decades before. Myself and a cousin from another aunt were the only ones willing to step up and take care of things. We began what was almost a 2 year clean up project before my aunt passed and the farm was sold at auction. Two 40' roll-offs filled with useless crap, probably could have filled two more. Every box and receipt for what was probably every small appliance or power tool they had ever owned dating back to the early '70s. Boxes of sales receipts for livestock and grain bought and sold over the years dating to the '50s. If there was any possible way an item might possibly, someday, somehow be useable it was probably kept. </p><p>The house was always neat and orderly. The "stuff" was stored in a more or less orderly fashion in a variety of outbuildings and sheds, the barn, the big shop, the attic....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roadking Larry, post: 4026061, member: 2833"] My parents, aunts and uncles were all "children of the depression". Make do, make it yourself, fix it yourself, reuse, repurpose, or do without. 15 years ago my uncle (dad's brother in law) took ill and passed away leaving my Alzheimer's patient aunt alone on their remote 120 acre farm. Both of their children had dies young decades before. Myself and a cousin from another aunt were the only ones willing to step up and take care of things. We began what was almost a 2 year clean up project before my aunt passed and the farm was sold at auction. Two 40' roll-offs filled with useless crap, probably could have filled two more. Every box and receipt for what was probably every small appliance or power tool they had ever owned dating back to the early '70s. Boxes of sales receipts for livestock and grain bought and sold over the years dating to the '50s. If there was any possible way an item might possibly, someday, somehow be useable it was probably kept. The house was always neat and orderly. The "stuff" was stored in a more or less orderly fashion in a variety of outbuildings and sheds, the barn, the big shop, the attic.... [/QUOTE]
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