OPINION: Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, I now understand why my father was so frugal. When he saved rusty nails and smashed soap ends back together, he was trying to save money.
My father had plenty of habits that irritated my mother. But nothing irritated her more than “Marty being cheap.” As a child, I didn’t understand it either.
My father also saved things. He wore the same plaid flannel shirts year after year, one on top of another, even indoors. In the basement shop, when I was invited, he took long, thick crooked nails that had been pulled out of boards with the claw end of the hammer and smashed them with the fat butt end, so they straightened out like new.
He didn’t explain to me why he was doing any of those things. He didn’t explain anything, except, rarely, American politics. He was a silent man. In the middle class, where my husband and I had slowly risen to occupy a fairly secure place, saving money had begun to seem odd. It was “cheap,” just as my upwardly mobile mother had said, even before the postwar boom really got started lifting our boat.
How I see my father’s frugal habits now Plenty of people are replicating some of my dad’s frugal habits. Anyone with any sense now wants to save electricity, because so much of it still comes from fossil fuels. Everyone goes around smoothing down the dimmers.
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