"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
> I spent most of my life living like you, then in middle age I suddenly
> smartened up about being overly frugal... everyone dies the same, but it's
> all about how we live... and everyone lives differently. It was very
> stressful being careful not to use an extra dish, glass, fork, or spoon,
> and even more stressful being driven to wash every utensil immediately or
> it would pile up where it looked like slob city. It's amzing how we adopt
> frugality from our parents... my parents had to die before I treated
> myself to a dish washer. I bet you ration how many sheets of TP you
> permit yourself, and you use both sides. LOL You wanna talk frugal, my
> father insisted that only he knew how to properly close a water spigot, if
> over tightened one millionth of a foot pound the washer would wear out a
> day sooner. Maybe Victor can help, I can't write Russian, my father's
> favorite word was "Jholahver" or some such transliteration.

Those are common traits among those that lived during the Depression and the
World Wars when every tiny thing counted. We have a woman at work that was
in Austria and Switzerland during the war. Some days they ate flour soup as
their only meal. She wastes nothing and buys nothing she can make instead.
Some of her clothes are decades old, but till look in great shape because
they are good quality and she takes care of them. Not many of us here have
gone to bed hungry as was common back then.