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Thread #89271 Message #1683145
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
02-Mar-06 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: How poor have you ever been?
Subject: RE: BS: How poor have you ever been?
Apparently there were times in the 50's when mum had 2 shillings (20 cents) to feed 2 adults & several kids, but I don't remember them.
Dad was an electrician in business with a mate & they went bankrupt a few years after I was born. I believe his mate left & dad worked 3 jobs to pay back the money when he didn't need to, leaving his family short.
When she married mum had moved in with dad & his widowed father who died a few year later when I was 2 months old. He was intestate & dad's sister who owned a house, with her husband, said she didn't want a share of the house.
She changed her mind 5 or 6 years later (dunno why) & the lovely brick house was sold, & dad never spoke to her again, and we moved into a small unsewered weatherbord house in a distant suburb.
I don't remember much about these days, I might ask my sister if she knows more.
Life was better in my late teens, when my parents had the lease of a service garage (gas station to some readers)
sandra