Old 07-08-2025, 02:30 PM
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Feather3
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I remember all those things.

I bet very few of today's kids eat like we did in 60's. I was born in 1957. My father, brother & I lived with my Grandparents. They were born in 1888 & 1892. They grew up on farms & went thru the Great Depression, Spanish Flu, etc. We had a huge garden. We canned a lot & froze a lot. I remember being 5 years old, sitting on a stool at the kitchen sink, peeling blanched peaches & putting them in jars. Snapping green beans to be canned. My Dad & GF hunted & fished, so we ate a lot of squirrels, ground hogs(wood chucks), deer, catfish, pigeon,etc. Store bought meat like beef, chicken, turkey & ham was usually only purchased for holidays. We went to a local farm for milk & you had to take your own containers. Picked wild berries in season for jams & pies. We lived in a small town, not on a farm. One old B&W TV. One rotary dial phone. Hand me down cloths or made our own. One pair of shoes for school, one pair of sneakers, rubber boots for winter. They all had to last a year or you wore them with holes. Christmas was usually one or two small gifts. Second hand bicycles were spray painted to look new. We had chores to do & got no allowance. Everyone in town new everyone & if you did something wrong you knew your parents would be told about it. There were no vacations, no amusement parks, etc..

Kids today have no clue.
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