I am the late life child of a late life child who remembers my mother talking about growing up in the Great Depression of the 20th Century. She told about her father taking 50 cents to the bank each week to pay the interest on their mortgage and eventually their family did lose their house in town and had to move to the ramshackle farm house they owned several miles out of town. I remember her recollection of how the stress of providing for his family (they had nine children) took a great toll on her father.
With the recent economic events of the past weeks, I wonder if our lives will be changing to reflect the past my mother experienced. Yes, we have government deposit insurance and the minimum wage now, but in the practical living of life what will it mean? What things that we have come to see as necessities will now become frivolities?
Will we sacrifice....
Fancy coffee
Cable TV
Internet access
DVD rentals
Cell phones
A second car
Meat at every meal
Maybe things will go on as they have, or maybe we will have to re-learn the skills of our not too far away ancestors.
