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Old 08-09-2011, 05:15 AM
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BarbM32
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: In the Hills of Arkansas
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I am looking at my soon to be 80thBD so I remember the Depression, no jobs, no money, doing WITHOUT, breadlines, homemade everything if you were fortunate to have the basics. This is what we are being promised now.
All I can say is stock up your fabrics, your groceries if you can, prices will increase, stores will close and jobs will be fewer. Unemployment will affect everyone somehow. My FIL supported his entire family, parents, siblings and his own immediate family. He was the only one with a job and it was with the railroad making $200 a month.
When I closed my fabrics stores a few years back my husband insisted I save too much fabrics. Since then I've had a couple of sales for a $1 yd for at the time I purchased was high price fabric. I still have more pieces than the fabric shops. Watching our sad economy I intend to enjoy what I have left. While I would love to have newly designed fabrics I just buy a fat quarter or two and be thankful I have on hand what I do. So sorry to rain on your coffee this AM but it has been raining very hard here and all night long, yeh, yeh, yeh, we need it.
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