What are your memories of economic misery?

[El Pinko]

What are your memories of economic misery?

[stray cat]

1. Roomates by necessity plus 3 paper routes and a full time job/student

Grocery trips were a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter with a decision that velveeta was too expensive to buy. However, that wasn't a hardship because I knew it was temporary - meaning a few years. Otherwise I've been pretty lucky

[gollygee]

2. I remember my parents going on strike in the mid 70s

it was not the merriest Christmas.

[cosmik debris]

3. Nixon's Wage and Price Controls

August 15, 1971.

Another monumental disaster from a republican who hated socialism, but practiced it as needed.

[NightWatcher]

4. while better now, as a kid we didnt have too much, just barely enough sometimes

We took in a border, often ate breakfast for dinner, have eaten more generic SPAM than I'd like to admit, and tons of other small things to get by.

I dont care what the economists said, our family had our own problems. Everything ultimately comes down to the affect on the local family. Some people are doing great (I've a family member who's a millionaire), and some arent doing good at all right now (I've family on food stamps).