Comments on: Eating Steak On A Sawdust Budget http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/sawdust-budget/ The online recovery of an incidental survivalist... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gabriel... http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/sawdust-budget/#comment-9492 Gabriel... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:36:11 +0000 http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-9492 <strong>Yaw smatmc raincoaster.</strong> No doubt... if you ever get a chance there's a book called "Ten Lost Years 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived The Depression" by a Vancouver reporter named Barry Broadfoot (1973), it actually manages to put my grandmother's teeth thing into perspective to the time period. I wr<a href="http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/ten-lost-years/" rel="nofollow">ote a review of it ov</a>er on Cultural Sn:afu... I included a few quotes from people who survived the Great Depression. There are actually two stories that I've heard regarding her teeth, and both come from her. One is the insanity that was the Great Depression out on the Prairies I've written about above, the other involves a kick in the jaw from a horse instead of a cavity but the end result was the same. But the cavity story was the latter so that's what I'm going with. Either way it's pretty messed up, and doubly so since in both stories she doesn't get her first full set of dentures until she was just 18, or just before. The more I think about this the more I think I'm just going to ask her again... Yaw smatmc raincoaster. No doubt… if you ever get a chance there’s a book called “Ten Lost Years 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived The Depression” by a Vancouver reporter named Barry Broadfoot (1973), it actually manages to put my grandmother’s teeth thing into perspective to the time period.

I wrote a review of it over on Cultural Sn:afu… I included a few quotes from people who survived the Great Depression.

There are actually two stories that I’ve heard regarding her teeth, and both come from her. One is the insanity that was the Great Depression out on the Prairies I’ve written about above, the other involves a kick in the jaw from a horse instead of a cavity but the end result was the same.

But the cavity story was the latter so that’s what I’m going with. Either way it’s pretty messed up, and doubly so since in both stories she doesn’t get her first full set of dentures until she was just 18, or just before.

The more I think about this the more I think I’m just going to ask her again…

]]> By: raincoaster http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/sawdust-budget/#comment-9491 raincoaster Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:21:57 +0000 http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-9491 Your grandmother has a good excuse for turning out twisted. Not perfect, but good. Ewwwwwwwwwww! Your grandmother has a good excuse for turning out twisted. Not perfect, but good.

Ewwwwwwwwwww!

]]> By: Soire http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/sawdust-budget/#comment-9489 Soire Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:49:29 +0000 http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-9489 It never ceases to amaze me how little $15 can get you in a restaurant, and how much it can get you in a grocery store. When my 1st child was born, we were given a deep-freezer. This is handy because a boiled chicken carcass can make 4 meals of chicken soup, after having given my family 2 meals of chicken in itself. I also make large batches of breads, muffins, spaghetti sauce etc when the money is good, and freeze the hell out of it for the times money is tight. Means I worry less when the time for groceries comes and the boy has been laid off, or something else has gone kaboom... it's one of the best things we were ever given, that freezer. When all else fails just start chanting "This too shall pass." It never ceases to amaze me how little $15 can get you in a restaurant, and how much it can get you in a grocery store.

When my 1st child was born, we were given a deep-freezer. This is handy because a boiled chicken carcass can make 4 meals of chicken soup, after having given my family 2 meals of chicken in itself. I also make large batches of breads, muffins, spaghetti sauce etc when the money is good, and freeze the hell out of it for the times money is tight.

Means I worry less when the time for groceries comes and the boy has been laid off, or something else has gone kaboom… it’s one of the best things we were ever given, that freezer.

When all else fails just start chanting “This too shall pass.”

]]> By: alruiceis http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/sawdust-budget/#comment-9488 alruiceis Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:34:30 +0000 http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-9488 I should drive my mom over to your Canadian abode and have her teach you some foraging skillz. She (like almost all Asian women) is notorious for spontaneously stopping on the side of the road to gather some weedy looking plants for dinner. No matter how prickly and strange the plant looks, it always tastes good with the spices she chooses to mix with them. It's kinda like watching Man vs Wild live but with a small Korean woman in place of Bear Grylls. I should drive my mom over to your Canadian abode and have her teach you some foraging skillz. She (like almost all Asian women) is notorious for spontaneously stopping on the side of the road to gather some weedy looking plants for dinner. No matter how prickly and strange the plant looks, it always tastes good with the spices she chooses to mix with them. It’s kinda like watching Man vs Wild live but with a small Korean woman in place of Bear Grylls.

]]> By: zoom http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/sawdust-budget/#comment-9487 zoom Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:08:11 +0000 http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-9487 Excellent post Gabriel. Excellent post Gabriel.

]]> By: thordora http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/sawdust-budget/#comment-9486 thordora Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:48:53 +0000 http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/?p=1422#comment-9486 I swear, the next time I'm down that way, BAD BAD BAD things will happen if you don't stop talking about that wasp... I wish I had a shot of the GIANT spider I just saw outside... I swear, the next time I’m down that way, BAD BAD BAD things will happen if you don’t stop talking about that wasp…

I wish I had a shot of the GIANT spider I just saw outside…

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