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I remember an uncle that always drove the same kind of cars~~one old black station wagon used a nail instead of key in the starter
My parents were VERY thrifty - my brother and I called them tight LOL! Just before school started my mom would take us to Wilmington Dry Goods (which sold irregulars before irregulars were the in thing) and get me 5 blouses (Mom made my skirts) and a pair of shoes for school. We went to Robert Hall to get my dad a new suit and I was treated to a Sunday School dress. You could fit my clothes into a 12" closet. I wore them until I outgrew them or they fell apart, whichever came first. We only got toys on Birthdays or Christmas and at Christmas we got maybe 2-3 toys. I had mainly books - still love books. I thought I was deprived until years later when I realized they had paid cash for my college education and I didn't owe a dime. They definitely had their priorities in order.
My parents were VERY thrifty - my brother and I called them tight LOL! Just before school started my mom would take us to Wilmington Dry Goods (which sold irregulars before irregulars were the in thing) and get me 5 blouses (Mom made my skirts) and a pair of shoes for school. We went to Robert Hall to get my dad a new suit and I was treated to a Sunday School dress. You could fit my clothes into a 12" closet. I wore them until I outgrew them or they fell apart, whichever came first. We only got toys on Birthdays or Christmas and at Christmas we got maybe 2-3 toys. I had mainly books - still love books. I thought I was deprived until years later when I realized they had paid cash for my college education and I didn't owe a dime. They definitely had their priorities in order.
He had his priorities set. Did he ever marry/have children? I'm sure you'll want to share this with them too 
I remember when our family would walk once a week down the Dairy Queen together - my little sister was still pretty young.
We all ordered our ice cream but my sister didn't know what she wanted & asked the lady what kinds of ice cream she had.
(31 flavors) LOL
So, the poor lady literally listed every single flavor of ice cream they had.
My sister thought a minute and then said "I'll have Vanilla".
my whole family about collapsed. after all that effort she went thru, my sister just gets plain vanilla!
(sorry, probly just funny to me becuz I was there)
DQ was the favorite ice cream stop in our town~my dad always seemed to get a rootbeer float; to this day I cannot see what is good about melted ice cream in rootbeer
He also would get malts~not shakes. I remember one time I went in to get (this was before drive-thru) stuff and he made me take his malt back in because there wasn't any in it. Then he started telling me to tell them to put extra malt in his...strange one my daddy
MrJim - it's positively unAmerican to dislike Root Beer Floats - they are such a yummy combo of creamy drink and root beer dessert! Ha ha ha. I have a huge bottle of rootbeer in my fridge as I write this and Breyer's vanilla in the freezer "for such a time as this"! LOL!
And nothing's better than malt in a milk shake - it's really hard to find these days!
I believe I would like your dad!
