Re: Did you grow up in a frugal family?
Yes and no.
We lived in a small town so some of the frugal-ness was just location (I know that sounds strange, but if designer clothes aren't available, you don't have them).
JCPenney was designer clothes for kids in my school. Eventually Izod and then Guess were the big things - but even then no one expected people to have more than 1 or 2 items.
But we all had cars. You couldn't get anywhere without a car, so all the kids had beaters.
My mom did can and my dad did grow a huge garden (3 actually, one at home, one at the farm and one at his aunt's). My grandmother canned and made her own jelly. But neither of them taught me to can. That's something I'm going to have to teach myself.
But, we always had plenty of clothes. We always had a new car. We went out to eat fairly regularly. We didn't worry about saving electricity, etc.
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