On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:35:30 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
wrote:

> On Friday, December 12, 2014 6:38:30 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> > "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > On 12/11/2014 6:43 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> > >> On 12/11/2014 6:23 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> > >
> > >>> I have always used butter in many things, and always in mashed potato
> > >>> I have never believed the stories about it when they were trying to make
> > >>> us buy pretendy butter instead. Nothing beats the real thing
> > >>>
> > >> All through my childhood my mother used margarine because it was less
> > >> costly.
> > >
> > > My mother totally bought into the healthier thing, but knowing her,
> > > the cheaper thing was a big factor, too. Not knocking her, just
> > > saying.
> >
> > Cheapness was a big factor in those days, and sometimes in these too.
>
> Lack of money was a factor too. OTOH, I guess you could say that my mom was cheap. we didn't have no stinkin' butter or fancy foods. My room and our house was pretty sparse - it was sorta like a monastery.

My Mom used margarine too, but I think margarine was in fashion back
then. Kind of like EVOO is now. As far as sparse decorations, that's
the way my house was too... I think it was the style back then.
Wasn't it called Danish Modern or something like that? My mother
didn't take the style full on, but you could certainly see the
influences at our house. My dad's couch looked very similar to this
one. except it was straighter - no modern swoop or legs that spayed
out. Very stark and I absolutely hated that style.
http://retrorenovation.com/wp-conten...-furniture.gif

>The local style here was the wife controls the household money and she was socking a lot of it away in savings bonds.
>
That too.

> These days, I wish that I could live in a household like that once again.

Not me! I am in the "cleaning out" phase of life, but I definitely do
not want my house ever to be that bare. Yuck.

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