General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I am one of the baby boomers. Born shortly after the war ended.

I was one of a family of seven kids, so as you can probably imagine we were not a well off family by any means.

Both food and money were in short supply and my mother had to be very frugal with both.
Like most families in those times, cheap cuts of meat were used for meals, all bulked up with staples like spuds,barley, veg and bread. Nothing was wasted, even the bones and chicken carcasses were used to make soups, stock.

I seem to have reverted back to that frugal way of thinking.

Even to the extent of adding a little water to my milk to make it stretch further, saving all my slivers of soap and squeezing them together Lots of other small savings too.

Not knocking the younger people as most will never have experienced shortages in their lifetime.
And there is an element who seem to live on fast food and takeaways, which are far from cheap. And money now being in short supply, I was wondering if any of them had naturally adopted a more frugal approach to how they are living and do you suppose they will appreciate just how easy they have had things up to now.

Probably be a big shock to them.