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- From: fsquared@eff.org (Fawn Fitter)
- Subject: Re: Fear of Debt
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.003519.2223@eff.org>
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1992Dec30.192426.11268@netcom.com> <1992Dec30.205341.2862@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:35:19 GMT
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- [comments about inherent fiscal conservatism of Depression-era parents]
-
- On the other hand, some of those Depression-era parents took fiscal
- insecurity beyond anal retentiveness. When we cleaned out my paternal
- grandmother's house after her death, we found hundred-dollar bills rolled
- into the handle of a hairbrush and folded up behind the plate covering an
- electrical outlet. We found three diamond rings (my grandfather did okay
- for himself and enjoyed spoiling my grandmother rotten) sewn into a quilt
- and a brooch stitched into the bottom hem of a curtain. We found a large
- garbage bag full of elastic she'd cut out of old underwear just in case
- she needed it. We found 20-year-old canned goods stored in a cabinet in
- the basement. To this day, we aren't sure we found everything she cached
- around the house; for all I know, the present owners are still finding goodies
- hidden in the plumbing.
-
- I can only wonder what growing up with that would do to a kid. My aunt
- seemed to turn out all right, but my father is as irresponsible with money
- as his mother was a hoarder. Go figure...
-