Indeed.
Generally, those people lived through the Great Depression and remember having absolutely nothing. Since then they have saved everything for the next time they will have to “make do” because of government caused depression & famine.
I think you are right. Either the depression or maybe sometime in their lives when they had nothing or almost nothing.
Not going to be caught that way again.
>> Generally, those people lived through the Great Depression and remember having absolutely nothing. Since then they have saved everything for the next time they will have to “make do” because of government caused depression & famine.
That’s my late father to a “T”. BREAD sacks! Boxes of them, all neatly rolled and tied. Among other things.