Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Miriam, that was a nice story about your mom making do with what she had. I remember as a child my Aunt had a heavy wool coat and the story goes that she saw a coat in the shop window that she liked so sketched a picture of it then took an old Army or Navy blanket and made the coat.I don't know if she was not able to afford the coat or just wanted to make one.
Do you know my mom never let on we were poor. She grew up on a farm in southern Wisconsin during the depression. Knowing my mom she was making do because she wanted the money for something else. Whether she needs to or not she can pinch a penny until Abraham Lincoln has bruises on his eyeballs. When I went to school I saw all the kids that had much less than I ever did.
Do you know how copper wire was invented???
Two Scotchmen a tuggin' on a penny...
history lesson for the night eh?