Excellent!
"I am very interested in the development process of learning to save, it's fascinating ..."
Yes, agreed. "Learning ..." It is sad how much lack of awareness and understanding there is these days of what used to simply be "common sense" ...
I hope there will be some nice reports at EOM, of the value experienced of those applying some of your list of recommendations!
P.S. Written by someone whose parents grew up in the Great Depression. Hmmm. I wonder what they told him ... 🙄😉
Okay, so you probably had the make do and mend legacy that we had in the UK after the 1939-1945 war. I grew up with you never threw anything away. It was either squirrelled away in a cupboard until it was needed or it was passed on to someone else to help them. My fridge has just broken down, I struggle with the idea that it needs replacing in nine years - I grew up with the idea that you buy things (white goods, furniture) once and they last a lifetime. I had my first electric sewing machine for 42 years and was annoyed then when it expired! I did have good use from it, though 😍
Yes, @shanibeer, that definitely captures the general idea. Here is a story, from my mother, which tells you all you need to know about my upbringing (in regard to our subject this morning):
Pretty close to the story I heard. More than once ... 😉
My grandmother, in turn, was the granddaughter of a Prussian military officer, who emigrated here in the 1850s and fought in our Civil War. While she passed in the '60s, my impressions of her linger still. Leaving me with no doubt as to whether or not my mother was ... "exaggerating" ...
I can believe it! I too was told I was cutting too much potato with the peel (although I didn't have to go back to the scrapings). I think @phoenixwren would enjoy this thread 😍
(Big smile here) ... You two ladies are a hoot! (@phoenixwren) Somehow we have "veered off course," from our focus on saving money to how deeply we cut into the uhhh ... "meat" ... of our vegetables!? 🙃
Oh wait! No! No, we didn't ... My dear mother is still amongst the living. And I can assure you right now, she is nodding in agreement ...
hahahaha. I legitimately didn't know potato peelers were a thing for many years. In our house, when we scraped carrots before eating, we didn't use a peeler, we used a serrated steak knife, so that way it only took the barest shaving where the dirt wouldn't wash off. xD