Coins for my kids ...

Explain it the way I did to my 15 year old niece, "This way, you will have something you can share with your kids". She seemed to grasp why I was sharing at that point.

 

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Yes. But, when I was young I looked at old people and thought "...how can anyone live that long..."? Now, looking back, I can see where I could have taken advantage of some of that experience. I used a lot of it but not as much as I could have.

 

Don't I know that. Lol When it was the seventies I used to think I'd be 46 when the next century arrived and I wondered if I be alive to see it.

 

Another thing. As a kid I stopped at least one time a day at each Mom & Pop stores to look through the cash register for coins I needed (or wanted). The old men were always sitting around smoking cigars and talking about all their ailments. I told myself many times that when I got old I'm not going to be sitting around talking about my ailments. Duh!

 

Yeah, I'm right there with you on that. As I get older I find myself saying, If I had only asked Grandpa, Uncle...etc...more and listened better!"

 

I would suggest if that old-timer is eating slices of fruit he's peeling or cutting with his ole timer or case XX...sit down and listen awhile...you may walk way with a whole new outlook on a whole buncha things

 

All we had when I was growing up was a radio, newspaper and talking. I spent as lot of time listening to the old people talk. A good deal of family and neighborhood history was passed that way. We had a few photos. A roll of film was expensive and it was generally on the order of 12 pictures a year. You didn't take one unless it was a real saving moment. I miss it, so laid back.

 

I was pretty much raised by my grandfather so I learned a lot from him especially as he was brilliant a retired college professor who grew up during the depression and was very capable of many things