I must be a Redneck

Posted by JDseller on March 27, 2012 at 08:30:43 from (208.126.196.144):

Reading Dave's post below reminded me of the time me and the wife hauled some stuff home from a sale. It would have been in the late 1970s when I had a 1969 Ford Galaxy 500 convertible.(The only other thing we had to drive was a 1952 Chev pickup) It was between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We had gone to Madison WI. to see sister. Her sister got called into work so we left just a short while after we got there. On the way home I stopped in Mt. Horeb to get gas. There was a household auction going on next to the gas station. While I was getting gas the wife went over and was watching the sale. Things where not selling very well. She bought a queen size bed with mattress and box springs still in the new plastic,$25. Then they got to the kitchen stuff and there was a antique walnut corner cabinet. She got it for $40.

So here we where with a queen bed and a huge corner cabinet with just a car to haul it home on. I put the top down on the car. I then laid the mattress on the trunk and back seat up to the front seats. Then put the bed frame on the mattress. I then put the box springs on top of the bed frame. She had bought a lot of old bedding so we where able to wrap the frame so it did not get scratched. Then to top it all of I laid the corner cabinet on top of the box springs. I did buy a rope to tie it all on with.

So here we where with the furniture stacked five feet tall on the trunk and back seat. The side windows would still go up. So we put them up and turned the heater on high and took off for home. It was really not too bad as that car had the best heater of any I have ever owned. Then to just make it better it started to snow about half way home. Just powdery stuff it did not hurt anything. We did get quite a few stares when we went through down town Dubuque. LOL.

We slept on that bed until her cancer made her need a bed that would raise the head up. Daughter still uses the bed frame. That corner cabinet was a real antique. She refinished it and it shines. It is in perfect shape. She had it appraised just before she died. The guy said it would easily bring $5000-6000.

We laughed about that trip home for many years. We did not started out with much but we did alright. We loved each other and raised five kids. I kind of feel sorry for the kids today that don't get to grow with each other when they get married. They are starting out with more things but fewer ties of growing together.

I can remember going to work with just a simple ham sandwich, apple and jug of water because I did not have the money to buy a can of pop for lunch. I don't mean that I would not spend it I mean I did not have a quarter to buy a pop in my pocket.

I remember making the farm payment in the early 1980s and not having ten dollars left in the bank. I had five growing kids at home. So it was push the harness and make darn sure there was money there the next grocery day. We made it but not many women would live like that today. She would make do with whatever we had. Lots of dried beans, ham bone and cornbread there for a while. We always had meat because we had beef and pork we raised but boughten things where few and far between. They where good times really.

Replies:

• Re: I must be a Redneck Nancy Howell 11:01:53 03/28/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck oleclint 19:42:21 03/27/12 (1)
  • Re: I must be a Redneck JDseller 21:16:11 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck Mark - IN. 19:38:21 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck Edd in KY 19:05:36 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck Bigmarv1085 19:01:13 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck oldtanker 15:37:58 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck Billy NY 14:07:44 03/27/12 (1)
  • Re: I must be a Redneck ChrisinMO 18:14:08 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck Erik Ks farmer 13:29:58 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck barnE 11:56:33 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck 37Chief 10:57:19 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck mss3020 10:04:50 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck Tom in TN 09:27:45 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck dave2 09:07:06 03/27/12 (1)
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• Re: I must be a Redneck jimlll 08:53:30 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck Marc_FL 08:52:56 03/27/12 (0)
• Re: I must be a Redneck Mark W. 08:44:32 03/27/12 (2)
  • Re: I must be a Redneck JRSutton 09:01:52 03/27/12 (1)
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