Poor woman and she had the unfortunate circumstance of being married to an adulterer too.
My Mother would say: "We have no money, we have to think".
She was a Depression baby and I guess I'm am a Depression grand baby.
We "reduce, reuse, recycle". Not in a pushy greeny way, though.
I didn't always have the latest fashions but paid off my condo mortgage early.
"I guess I had that going for me"!