We were about half the median household income for Frederick in 1993 (scroll down a ways). Lots of scraping by and getting gifts/loans from grandparents to keep the lights on, day-old bread, and dented cans.
We never took vacations, either, but for completely different reasons. My vacation growing up was Dad picking me up in his truck when he was in the area, riding with him while he worked, and him dropping me off the next time he was in the area. I don't think my mom's ever really taken a vacation. We took short trips to the beach (Chincoteague, I think) when I was too little to remember, and once my mom's whole family rented a house on the Outer Banks for a week, but that was like 15 people splitting one house. And possibly slightly off-season. But that's it. Her vacations were mostly what we now call staycations, where she'd just not go to work, maybe spend the day in the garden, or, later, spending a day or two with me when I got back from college.
I have no idea what sort of measures my mom wants. I don't feel comfortable asking her, because she has the maturity of a child when discussing death. At Thanksgiving, when my grandparents were explaining that they wanted to donate their bodies to science and what that would mean for funeral arrangements, etc, Mom suddenly said that when she got old/sick, I'd stand over her bedside and chant "pull the plug!" So fucking inappropriate, holy fuck.
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Date: 2012-04-09 02:51 pm (UTC)From:We never took vacations, either, but for completely different reasons. My vacation growing up was Dad picking me up in his truck when he was in the area, riding with him while he worked, and him dropping me off the next time he was in the area. I don't think my mom's ever really taken a vacation. We took short trips to the beach (Chincoteague, I think) when I was too little to remember, and once my mom's whole family rented a house on the Outer Banks for a week, but that was like 15 people splitting one house. And possibly slightly off-season. But that's it. Her vacations were mostly what we now call staycations, where she'd just not go to work, maybe spend the day in the garden, or, later, spending a day or two with me when I got back from college.
I have no idea what sort of measures my mom wants. I don't feel comfortable asking her, because she has the maturity of a child when discussing death. At Thanksgiving, when my grandparents were explaining that they wanted to donate their bodies to science and what that would mean for funeral arrangements, etc, Mom suddenly said that when she got old/sick, I'd stand over her bedside and chant "pull the plug!" So fucking inappropriate, holy fuck.