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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That we used to add lenghts to our jeans as we grew taller.
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Man does that bring back memories.  My mother always got me jeans that were 9-12 inches too long.  Then she would tuck the legs inside and hem them.  As I grew, she would let out the legs, so I always has these white lines around my pant legs from the shin down where the edges had gotten worn before being let out.  I wore a pair of jeans until they were really worn out and had at least two holes (the first hole was patched) somewhere (usually the knee).    Then the legs were cut of and I wore cut-offs for shorts or swimming in the summer.  The legs were saved to make patches for future rips.

Other things...my mother used to coupon and we would go to stores and buy up large quantities of items on sale, then store them in the basement.  Sunday morning was the time to go through the paper to find all the coupons that we would use.  We would spend the time to drive to three different grocery stores so that we could buy only the things that were on sale at each.  We would buy things in the large economy sizes and then separate them into smaller portions to use.

My dad used to raid the office for office supplies that we used for school supplies.  But back then, we had one pencil for each semester, we would get one large loose leaf binder for the whole year, and one tablet of paper that would last most of the year.  we made subject separators from the cardboard that came on the back of the tablet of paper.

We were a one car family, but Dad carpooled with 2 others and only had to drive about twice a week so Mom had the car the days that Dad didn't drive.

We're a Chinese American family, so ate a lot of stir-fry and such that didn't include a lot of meat.  Typically we used about 1/2 lb of meat for our family of five for a dinner (lots of veggies and rice in our meals).

Used a lot of hand-me-downs.  I remember that I frequently wore my brother's clothes and shoes and only got new shoes when I wore out shoes before I fit the next size.

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