Re: Did you grow up in a frugal family?
I don't think my Mom could have grasped the meaning of the word, even if you had shown it to her in a dictionary or something...Father was into avoiding conflict, so he gave in to anything she/us wanted...the times when we didn't have money (during the war, for example), we had to make do without luxuries, but it was understood that this was just a temporary thing, not a way of living- my parent's motto might have been "spend it while you have it, you can't take it with you anyway"...so (trying) to be frugal is really an up-hill battle for me!
...what's weird is that my grandmother was very good about handling money, but, somehow, that didn't get passed over to my Mom...
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