Did you grow up in a frugal family?

[cercis]

Oh yeah, this was a rural area. I remember my grandmother being on a party line for her phone well into the 1980s. She also got 3-4 channels (depending on the cloud cover) and last I heard, that area still didn't have cable.

When I was a kid, the town had a post office, a general store, a baptist church and a headstart (which was in the 2 room school my mom attended for k-8). Outside of town, there were at least 2 other churches. So, it's rural, but it isn't exactly boonies. The general store and headstart are now closed. The townpeople turned the headstart into a community center and do pie suppers, etc there. Of course, most of the people in the town and the church are related to me (my mom's sibs, their kids and grandkids and my mom's cousins and aunts and uncles).

It was a town built around coal mining. When the coal mines closed, the town started dying. It's sad.

[elcheapo]

Heck no my mother could spend money faster than my father could make it. I vowed never to be like that

[Ima saver]

Good for you elcheapo. I never saw my mother buy herself anything. She made do with what she had and taught us to do the same.

[Lostsoul33]

My mother spends money quite freely too. She always has. If she wants something, she just goes out and gets it. She doesn't even price around. I am much different from that. If I want something, I think about it for a few days. If it's a bit ticket item, I search around and read the reviews. Actually my entire family is made up of impulse shoppers. It's a hard mindset for me to change but I am aware of it and definetely don't want to be an impulse shopper.