Re: Did you grow up in a frugal family?
Ima, my mom will be 59. She had no indoor bathroom until she was in highschool. They had running water in the kitchen.
Grandpa was a coal miner sometimes and a migrant picker other times (they moved back and forth from Oklahoma to California). My mom lived with her grandmother a good portion of the time so she could have a bath without having to carry the water and she could have a job.
My grandfather never learned to read. My grandmother never made it past 6th grade.
They weren't lazy, they just did the best they had (I'm not saying your friend's dad wasn't lazy).
I think that growing up like that is part of the reason my mom wasn't more frugal. She finally had the chance to have "things". When my dad married my mom, he did a lot of work on my grandparents house for free, including adding the permanent bathroom. She told me she ate homemade bread all her life and was soo excited to be able to afford soft, white bread from the store. She can't understand how I can prefer chewier breads (which are not necessarily more frugal).
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