I'm 83 yrs old and I know exactly what you mean and how to penny pinch.When I had my first child (59 years ago), a jar of baby food was 7 cents a jar. I had 7 dozen cloth diapers and some rubber pants to go over them. I had a "diaper pail" and rinsed the soiled diapers in cold water and then washed by hand in soap and hot water. I had a …
I'm 83 yrs old and I know exactly what you mean and how to penny pinch.When I had my first child (59 years ago), a jar of baby food was 7 cents a jar. I had 7 dozen cloth diapers and some rubber pants to go over them. I had a "diaper pail" and rinsed the soiled diapers in cold water and then washed by hand in soap and hot water. I had a clothes line in the back yard.Never used disposable diapers. If my husband and I needed a break, we traded babysitting with other young parents. Eating out was a picnic in the park. We took our two young children to parks with swings and other fun rides. I mixed powdered milk half and half with regular milk and it was just fine f it was cold. We never ordered take-out. It can be done. And, back then there were single parents who worked and, hard as it was, they made it. We can do it agin because we have to. Grandmothers will lead the way, but they have to be recognized as a resource for learning how to do things, not as a source of doing it for others.
We went the cloth-diaper route too - this was in '78 and '80. We couldn't afford a bassinet so we put our dresser next to the bed, padded the second lowest drawer with blankets and our babes slept there for as long as they fit. They did just fine, grew up and this grandpa has many happy memories now.
73-year old granny here, and have still never ordered takeout. Single parent with no child support that raised a male child to become a self-sufficient, financially stable, happily married, proud father and member of the Air Force serving as a physician assistant. Myself, my son and his wife are all dismayed and disgusted with the lack of spine continually displayed by the vast majority of our Republican Congress. So appreciate what the MeidasTouch Network has accomplished, and overjoyed that we finally have a democratically aligned network that we can depend on for the truth.
I had cloth diapers and Sears plastic pants -guaranteed for life- you could get new ones if they cracked. We were not rich. That was early 70’s. We had to stomp and save to make things stretch. We will not lose our country!
was this level of penny-pinching necessary just a year ago? we're being rolled by DJT's greed & self-indulgence, puffed up by his fellow-travelers - OMG, Lutnik lauding Apple tiny screw manufacturing, him, Bessent & the rest of the MAGA coterie who get to dip their beaks in the runoff from the big beautiful "deal making with 90, 190, 900 countries" tariff scam - yet another version of trickle down Reagan economics is all it is - virtue signaling might make some feel better, but we're being played for fools which gives MAGA an even longer runway to keep playing us
Patricia I agree with your ideas, as I grew up with my mom doing all of these things to make ends meet. I still wash and reuse plastic bags like she did, cut my own hair, make meals from scratch, among other ways to cut costs. I laughed out loud though when I read your comment about mixing powdered milk with regular milk, because my mom would say the same thing. But it wasn’t ever just fine, even when cold! 😁 The little undisolved granules that would cling to the glass, or worse to our teeth, was one thing neither I nor my brothers ever thought was fine!
We always drank it of course, because we had to have something to wash down her delicious homemade bread or fabulous desserts. I sure miss her. Thank you for bringing back good memories!
I lived in South Dakota during the powdered milk years and I found a brand called Flash which dissolved perfectly. I still save and reuse plastic bags from the stores, make my own bread and jam and never throw out any food. Soups are wonderful!
I'm 83 yrs old and I know exactly what you mean and how to penny pinch.When I had my first child (59 years ago), a jar of baby food was 7 cents a jar. I had 7 dozen cloth diapers and some rubber pants to go over them. I had a "diaper pail" and rinsed the soiled diapers in cold water and then washed by hand in soap and hot water. I had a clothes line in the back yard.Never used disposable diapers. If my husband and I needed a break, we traded babysitting with other young parents. Eating out was a picnic in the park. We took our two young children to parks with swings and other fun rides. I mixed powdered milk half and half with regular milk and it was just fine f it was cold. We never ordered take-out. It can be done. And, back then there were single parents who worked and, hard as it was, they made it. We can do it agin because we have to. Grandmothers will lead the way, but they have to be recognized as a resource for learning how to do things, not as a source of doing it for others.
We went the cloth-diaper route too - this was in '78 and '80. We couldn't afford a bassinet so we put our dresser next to the bed, padded the second lowest drawer with blankets and our babes slept there for as long as they fit. They did just fine, grew up and this grandpa has many happy memories now.
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73-year old granny here, and have still never ordered takeout. Single parent with no child support that raised a male child to become a self-sufficient, financially stable, happily married, proud father and member of the Air Force serving as a physician assistant. Myself, my son and his wife are all dismayed and disgusted with the lack of spine continually displayed by the vast majority of our Republican Congress. So appreciate what the MeidasTouch Network has accomplished, and overjoyed that we finally have a democratically aligned network that we can depend on for the truth.
I had cloth diapers and Sears plastic pants -guaranteed for life- you could get new ones if they cracked. We were not rich. That was early 70’s. We had to stomp and save to make things stretch. We will not lose our country!
Our mothers taught us well! Hopefully, we can be as successful!
was this level of penny-pinching necessary just a year ago? we're being rolled by DJT's greed & self-indulgence, puffed up by his fellow-travelers - OMG, Lutnik lauding Apple tiny screw manufacturing, him, Bessent & the rest of the MAGA coterie who get to dip their beaks in the runoff from the big beautiful "deal making with 90, 190, 900 countries" tariff scam - yet another version of trickle down Reagan economics is all it is - virtue signaling might make some feel better, but we're being played for fools which gives MAGA an even longer runway to keep playing us
Maybe not necessary, but it has always been a choice to live within your means.
Patricia I agree with your ideas, as I grew up with my mom doing all of these things to make ends meet. I still wash and reuse plastic bags like she did, cut my own hair, make meals from scratch, among other ways to cut costs. I laughed out loud though when I read your comment about mixing powdered milk with regular milk, because my mom would say the same thing. But it wasn’t ever just fine, even when cold! 😁 The little undisolved granules that would cling to the glass, or worse to our teeth, was one thing neither I nor my brothers ever thought was fine!
We always drank it of course, because we had to have something to wash down her delicious homemade bread or fabulous desserts. I sure miss her. Thank you for bringing back good memories!
I lived in South Dakota during the powdered milk years and I found a brand called Flash which dissolved perfectly. I still save and reuse plastic bags from the stores, make my own bread and jam and never throw out any food. Soups are wonderful!
You just described my life minus the husband. I was a single mom, times were tough but gosh darn it we made it.