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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rushmore, post: 25224069, member: 17011&quot;]My grandma was 18 when the stock market crashed in 1929.&nbsp; Few years later her uncle lost his farm and as a result her dad who worked for him was out of work.&nbsp; He found another job working for another farmer but had to move the family out of state to do so. The farmer who hired him was such a crook no one in the area would work for him even when jobs were scarce so he had to go to a neighboring state to find help.&nbsp; Eventually her dad started working for a nearby farmer whose son married her, my grandpa.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though Grandma was an adult by then she wasn&#039;t married so she had no choice but to go with them.&nbsp; If it had been up to her she would have stayed in Missouri.&nbsp; She was the type who would open Christmas wrapping very carefully then save it for next Christmas.&nbsp; She also saved used envelopes for scratch paper and write her shopping lists on it.&nbsp; My parents birthdays were one day apart so she would buy one card and give it them.&nbsp; That&#039;s how tight fisted she was.&nbsp; I kind of suspect she had PTSD from the Depression.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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