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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
No doubt in most households both parents work now. It is not just the cost of living, or the wages. We lived in very modest houses, mostly rentals or base housing that was a crappy barracks type house, because we moved often. Dad was a Air Force officer. Not well paid and he often worked 80 hours weeks, never a penny of overtime, never a single Christmas bonus.
The big difference for today, the standard of living. We did not have an air conditioned house until I was in high school. We had one car. We did NOT have cable TV, internet and cell phones that cost 50 to 100 bucks each per month. We almost never ate out. Mom cooked at home. We did not go on cruises, or fancy vacations to Disney world.
The cost of living was way lower, and the standard of living was much lower. We never worried about going hungry, or being homeless. But we did not have designer clothes, and all the frills and electronics of common middle class citizens of today.
We did not have color a TV until 1967. And it was just one set. We had just one phone line and one phone.
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But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
My Dad used to say to me, 'Money doesn't buy you happiness.'
He was right. I was happier then and I had nothing. We used to live in this tiny old house, with great big holes in the roof ...
(That's a Monty Python reference for you darned kids)