She claims that is why my grandmother’s tree goes up before Thanksgiving and goes down New Year’s Eve. My grandmother also told me that when she was young and they did any mischievous act, great grandma would throw shoes at them and made them pick the shoes back up. Nevertheless, my grandmother and her siblings all agree she was a great mother.
Likewise, due to the Great Depression, my great grandmother never truly trusted banks, she paid with cash for everything, even cars, and she never had a credit card. In addition to the effect the Great Depression had on her, she would never buy new clothes they always came from the Salvation Army, and loved traveling to rummage and garage sales. Other than that, she enjoyed fishing and vacationing in California, her last time California was at 92. She also used to raise and sell Canaries; she also used to nit quilts and baby clothes, and did