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Posted by John S-B on December 12, 2006 at 15:41:22 from (64.12.116.74):
In Reply to: OT Hard Times posted by Steve From Arkansas on December 12, 2006 at 07:14:54:
At one time when I was a kid we lived in a house with a coal furnace. Not one of the fancy one's with a stoker either. My step dad would get a load of whatever was cheap, and to supplement the coal he would go to a truss factory and fill up the back seat and trunk of the car with the wood scraps to burn. One other time I remember going to the grocery store with him to buy food for Thanksgiving dinner but he only had two bucks. While looking around for the best deal he found a twenty on the floor in the store. Back then that was a full spread for a family of six. I don't remember the bad stuff as much, we did'nt have much stuff but we usually had enough to get by.
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