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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Tue May 14, 2019, 08:35 AM May 2019

Oh, you young people. You have no idea how good you have it nowadays.

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Oh, you young people. You have no idea how good you have it nowadays. (Original Post) DetlefK May 2019 OP

i LOVE Monte Python!!!!!... samnsara May 2019 #1

samnsara

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1. i LOVE Monte Python!!!!!...

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Tue May 14, 2019, 08:57 AM

May 2019

....when I was a child we were SO POOR my dad ( rest his soul) wired two 99c Xmas trees together to make one tree. We LOVED it!!!

Actually we werent any poorer than any of the other 1950s familys where dad was able to support 4 ppl on a min wage job and mom was a full time home maker.

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