CavemanCharlie wrote:
colliehauler wrote:
Who ever said our parents had more with less hours is looking back with rose colored glasses. It was a struggle for them just as it is a struggle today. Our expectations have changed. We want more material things today then our parents, that comes with a price. How much of your life are you willing to trade for those items.
Oh, I don't know about that.
I'm 56 and growing up my dad was able to purchase a 250 acre farm just buy going to work on it everyday. There were us 4 kids plus my mom who didn't work in town. She just took care of the house and helped out on the farm in the fall. We didn't have things as nice as people do now just because they hadn't yet invented a lot of those things yet.
These days if you want to farm you are going to need At Least 1500 acres, and your wife is going to work in town. And you are not going to live very well on that either. You would just be getting by and not getting ahead as my parents were able to do.
My parents went through the great depression, I think that qualifies as a struggle. They did not achieve prosperity until after WW2.
