Billy,
My pop was like that. We went into the courthouse (which is where the stores are, and still are today, Cumberland aint a town, but a county, and still, nary a stop light in the county lol) anyway...we went there once a week. Went to Farmville, which is a town, once a month.
We was lucky iffin we got a penny fer a piece of penny candy. After we sold our baccer at the auction, we would go to a little general store on the way back and got some ice cream fer helpin with the crop. Other than that, it was yer birthday er Christmas fore you got a toy. I never knew what a coke (er soda pop as some of ya'll might say) till I was 12 yrs old.
We were never what I'd call poor. We ate, we stayed warm and we got medicine when we was sick. Oh, and we worked our friggin butts off....lol
Pop was just frugal. Oh, how I wish it was like that today.
BTW, it sounds as if mom was a wonderful gal and you and your children were blessed to have her. She could be a role model fer many of us.
