Mom used to grocery shop in Tyler. I'm thinking it was a very stressful thing for her as she would make a list, stick to it, and carefully add the cost as she went from store to store to get the "specials". Dad would give her a dollar amount and no amount of need would allow exceeding that cash allowance.
As yonkers, we would go with Mom, but I don't remember (and hope we didn't) rag on her to buy kid stuff as she toiled to buy sustenance for her brood?
Today your ranch hand motored to Leander to "grocery shop". Mom would have been overwhelmed by the sheer size of the store, the incredible selection, and just the number of shoppers?
Economics allow us to buy "nice to have" in addition to "have to have" stuff, but there is still the memory of scrabbling to manage feeding a family with the scarce dollars available.
I reckon that feeling shall always be?
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