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The old-time art of thrift (Good Old Days)

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"The Old-Time Art of Thrift" is a series of people's warm recollections, usually one or two pages in length, of how they had to make do or do without in the first few decades of the 20th Century. Given to me by my ninety-two year old grandmother, who had her own share of stories to tell on the subject, this book is also chock full of drawings and pictures illustrating the culture and lifestyle from this era. This is easy reading, and certainly something that could be shared with children to help them appreciate life without television, microwave ovens, and video games. By depicting the camaraderie, ingenuity, and determination that people had to make it through sparse times, one is left with admiration for a time gone by.

I work in a nursing facility where we have the series of these books, (country wisdom,Art of Thrift, We made this country great, down on the farm) and the residents really like them. The stories, from the ones I have read, are very cheerful, written by an array of individuals and the pictures are beautiful. I can read these stories to higher functioning residents and they can comment on the story or share their won similar stories. Or I can read them to a lower functioning person just to hear the well worded stories and look at pictures.. There are also short poems in the books and there are 'chapters' from a single person (I think it may be the Author) Overall, I am glad my facility has this book, as well as the series, my favorite part being the memories or the residents that these stories prelude.

This was fairly interesting, but not anything I have not encountered in numerous other "old time" publications at Amazon. It wuld be more interesting to someone who was new to the subject