Growing up we wouldn’t heat the house at night. So when I woke up I’d just wrap a blanket around myself and walk around.
Still wake up at zero temps. 🥶
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I still do that
Was this to save money, or for environmental reasons, or for some health reasons?
My dad would LITERALLY leave all windows OPEN and we would LITERALLY wake up with SNOW in the house that we old then wipe up or sometimes have to shovel out!!!!! My father liked the house 🥶 so I also grew up walking around in a blanket 😂
Wow haha. We were just dirt poor and tried to save on electricity bills whenever possible.
It’s crazy to imagine how our parents put food on the tables back in the day. Now as an adult see how expensive EVERYTHING is I honestly don’t know how they did this. 🙏 We are the HODL generation!
Yeah my mom was an immigrant with 2 teen boys who ate nonstop. She worked shitty jobs just so we could barely get by. I can’t imagine how tough it must have been for her.
Thank God for moms like her 🙏 I always say moms are literal angels on earth. But shesshhh 2 boys 🥵 yeah that’s a lot of food to provide. I’m sure she is crazy proud of you now! I think when your children grow up to be smart, it’s the highest reward! 🫂🏆
Didn’t help that I gave her a lot of grief over nothing. We both have stubborn unwavering personalities so we clashed often.
I think only when we grow up do we realize we gave our parents way too much grief, i guess we have to go through these stages of life where we are rebellious and try to figure things out in our own ways. When we're kids, we often don't see our parents as people with their own struggles and uncertainties. We just see the rules and the discipline, not the reasons or the feelings behind them. 🥵
What’s crazier is that moment when you realize our parents were around our age when they had us—it's mind-blowing. They were probably feeling just as lost or unsure as we might feel now (except with a few kids). It makes you see the whole parent-child dynamic differently.
I suppose the rebellious phase is just part of growing up, isn't it? Testing boundaries, figuring out who we are. Fortunately I think most parents get that because they went through it themselves. They know it's just a phase, and we'll come out of it with a better understanding of the world, just like they did.
In a way, it's kind of comforting to think that our parents probably understood our rebellion more than we realized. They knew we were just trying to find our feet in the world, just like they had to do once upon a time. It's all part of this crazy cycle of life and growing up.
But the cool thing is, as we understand more about their journey, it can bring us closer to them. It's like this shared experience that we only really appreciate when we're a bit older and wiser.
Ooo.. We put it now.. As first thing we celebrate is New year's eve.. Then on the 7th of January we celebrate Christmas and on the 13th orthodox New year's eve.. 😂😂😂
It was the same in our house too. I’ve continued the tradition.
Hardens you up when you live like that as a kid. For us we didn't have heating/cooling, winters never get sub-zero here, but summers are hot and that was tough. But it makes you strong and able to accept a level of hardship others buckle under.
True. Takes a whole lot more to bring you down.