Posted on 10/15/2016 10:03:10 AM PDT by Teotwawki
“I suppose that happens to every generation. I can recall my granddad using pet phrases that totally mystified me.”
I can still here my grandmother,way back in the 40s,telling us kids to go out and sit on the piazza.
She meant porch,of course,and I have not heard anyone use that word in that way since then.
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I’m having a hard time recalling any of the unusual sayings my grandparents used, but one thing I heard them say over and over, was, “waste not, want not.”
When I was little, that made no sense to me, but I understood it as I got older.
My grandmother used to occasionally use the term, ne’er-do-well. I had to grow up before I figured that one out.
Oops, “hear” in my post.
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““waste not, want not.”
They were very wise grandparents-—they would probably be appalled at today’s throw-away society.
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“They were very wise grandparents-—they would probably be appalled at today’s throw-away society.”
They were married in 1929. My dad came along one year later. They were a couple of youngsters just starting their life together, when the Great Depression began.
They already came from humble beginnings, but those years of hardship taught them lessons about frugality they never forgot.
My mom and dad are in their mid eighties, and are still some of the most thrifty people I’ve ever known. Dad can still squeeze a nickel so hard, it cries :-)
Your grandparents were the same age as my parents——married in 1930,my father died in 1938,leaving 2 young kids,and times were very,very tough-——but we had a superb mother.
We wasted NOTHING-—your grandparents would have been proud.
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Oh yes, I’m familiar. My parents spent a good part of their growing up years without electricity, running water, indoor plumbing. Until the TVA & REA, they used oil lamps, fireplaces, wood stoves, pumps/well water, ice boxes, and outhouses. Even after, it was years before my great aunt & uncle had a pump handle at the kitchen sink, and 1947 before they had indoor plumbing (created a septic tank from a cistern and built a bathhouse on top of it). I’m looking at one of the oil lamps my mother used as I type.
“fossil word” is a fossil phrase.
You know what’s crazy?
When I attempt to save my work, the icon I click on is a floppy disc.
Tin foil hats made of aluminum. Conspiracy theorists been doing it wrong.
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