I was scraping the last bit of peanut butter I thought about what Grandma told me about the depression.
Gpa made $190 a year teaching and that only for the nine months he taught. So in the summer he drove a taxi. This was before he took the civil servants test and became a weatherman for the government.
Grandma loved to sew and she was very good at it. Our clothes were fitted and lined. She taught me how to sew and I will always regret that I didn’t get her to teach me about altering patterns.
She told me during the depression, money was so tight, she even sewed underwear for her, Gpa and mom. All I could think is that, my family would be very unfortunate if I had to make their underwear.
Once when mom was in high school, she and grandma were remaking / updating her dresses. There were dresses everywhere.
Um, Gpa got in trouble when he made a comment on the number of clothes he saw. I guess he thought they had gone on a shopping spree.
NOT Housebound 