On Monday, December 15, 2014 6:22:44 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> 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

We didn't eat butter back then because it was more expensive and for health reasons. That's fine with me - I'm not a big fan of the stuff these days either.

Our family's style was that of no-style. We were not interested in any kind of displays, or into decorating the house much. My room had a desk and a chest and a small bookcase. We never had any carpeting. When my father remarried, his Swedish wife did decorate the place but it's still a sparse style..

Those are nice 50s style furniture but it's not too Danish. I have a couple of 60s Danish chairs in my office and they are just beautiful, graceful, stuff. It really wasn't meant to hold 300 plus pounds of ex-footballers in the form of a sales rep. That guy was a little too excited about his product and he broke my chair and it was never the same again. The chairs were given to me by my friend. Now if I can just get my grubby little hands on their Danish desk! It's a wonderful piece. The top looks like it's floating on air.

>
> >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.

It's a good system of household money management.

>
> > 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.

That would be heaven for me.

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