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**geasurpacerma** · 11-07-2007, 12:55 AM

I agree. If you talk to your grandparents they talk of "the good 'ol days." When actually if you do historical research, "the good 'ol days" were not really so good. My grandparents grew up in the Great Depression. My parents during WWII. So what was it that was so good? Perhaps family ties were stronger. But economically speaking the rest was in the toilet.

Paul

Paul, I have to agree with Andreas here. People might not have had as much money as they do today - which might not be true at all because people are so much in debt with all these consumer loans that they are losing their houses and land to the banks - but what they had they cherished. I remember my mother's clothes from Greece - beautiful English cashmere wool suits with white lace blouses. People back then kept their good clothes for Sunday and they bought or had new clothessewn once a year, just before Easter. I have photos of my parents and my grandparents and they look so elegant and grand. The difference is that we waste our money on a thousand things, whereas they saved for just one good thing.

The most important difference though is that they had simpler lives and they had fun. Our new god is stress. And according to an English university report we have all become hypochondriacs, forever going to doctors and having tests. My grandparents all lived to over 90 years of age, except for my father's mother who died after giving birth to twins and not being taken care of properly afterwards. My father's father had never gone to a doctor in his life and when he broke his leg at 92 he refused to have a doctor come and attend to him. It will mend, he said. And it did. Need I say he also had a jug of his own wine under his bed while he was waiting for his leg to mend!!!!!!! He recovered, walked perfectly and died 4 years later. He died of old age - arteriosclerosis - hardening of the arteries.

11-07-2007, 12:55 AM	#40
geasurpacerma Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 325 Senior Member	I agree. If you talk to your grandparents they talk of "the good 'ol days." When actually if you do historical research, "the good 'ol days" were not really so good. My grandparents grew up in the Great Depression. My parents during WWII. So what was it that was so good? Perhaps family ties were stronger. But economically speaking the rest was in the toilet. Paul Paul, I have to agree with Andreas here. People might not have had as much money as they do today - which might not be true at all because people are so much in debt with all these consumer loans that they are losing their houses and land to the banks - but what they had they cherished. I remember my mother's clothes from Greece - beautiful English cashmere wool suits with white lace blouses. People back then kept their good clothes for Sunday and they bought or had new clothessewn once a year, just before Easter. I have photos of my parents and my grandparents and they look so elegant and grand. The difference is that we waste our money on a thousand things, whereas they saved for just one good thing. The most important difference though is that they had simpler lives and they had fun. Our new god is stress. And according to an English university report we have all become hypochondriacs, forever going to doctors and having tests. My grandparents all lived to over 90 years of age, except for my father's mother who died after giving birth to twins and not being taken care of properly afterwards. My father's father had never gone to a doctor in his life and when he broke his leg at 92 he refused to have a doctor come and attend to him. It will mend, he said. And it did. Need I say he also had a jug of his own wine under his bed while he was waiting for his leg to mend!!!!!!! He recovered, walked perfectly and died 4 years later. He died of old age - arteriosclerosis - hardening of the arteries.
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