I didn't arrive til '61 but Mama (1923) told me all about it. She had two dresses, both from feedsacks. One she was wearing and the other was on the line drying with the laundry so she could wear it the next day. She was the first girl to live past infancy but had 6 older brothers (and that from parents who started out with a two room house and one of the rooms was the kitchen/dining room) and a younger sister a couple or three years later. Grandpa added two more rooms so the girls would have one separate from the older boys. The cooking fire was outside the back door until the extra two rooms were built. They lived in that house until 1953 when some of the boys built Grandma a new one (Grandpa had already passed) in the side yard.