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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3961705, member: 27832&quot;]My Mom was born in 1928. She used to say that her earliest memory was of <i>her</i> mother holding her, standing on the front stoop, watching her father come home -- and her mother calling out, &quot;did you find any work today?&quot; The answer was usually &quot;No&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>My grandparents were borderline well-off when they were married, with several thousand dollars in the bank. They lost it in the great crash. From that time on, they <i>always</i> had cash hidden around the house.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those same grandparents started me and my brother in the hobby. Collecting came easily to people who lived through the Depression, and had to learn to cling to whatever they could get.</p><p><br /></p><p>I watch my own children shopping at thrift stores, and readily taking things they&#039;ve grown tired of back to those same thrift stores. I honestly can&#039;t say whether what they&#039;re doing is better or worse than what I was brought up to do. But I <i>hope</i> this is a sign that they won&#039;t succumb to the hoarding instinct as my wife and I did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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