Froken and especially Froken?s mum, will you nod happily at the idea of your grandchildren and great grandchildren having to continue having so much fun?
I?m a mum and a gran too, and I?ve tried to make a lot ok and ?fun? that?s not, because we make the best of what we have to do, but as they grow older they get taught to sing a different song.
Foraging does eke us out here; we?re reliant on it and go a lot further than blackberries, fruits and leaves, along with yellow labels, bun fights, skip diving, (most food skips are now bleached and padlocked here) replacing collars and cuffs, turning sides to middle, weekly patching and darning, and there?s little I can?t make, and we've sorted ourselves so we can get out past our officially unsafe lead polluted food sources (we have a blight notice) and to better ones, and we preserve everything and live of much of it all year round, but it all takes up a huge amount of time keeping us surviving the situation, that could be better spent trying to get out of it.
I could write the book on ?Frugality made fun? but I won?t because it will only encourage people to think it?s ok.
We?re resourceful and prioritise education and anything that will give my dc?s and dgc?s a way out of this trap of spreading far too little far too thin for far too long that goes back several generations, and I?m determined to change it. As I know the apple never falls far from the tree, I?m changing the tree's attitudes.
One of my dc?s made me a present that says; ?My mum has made so much from so little for so long, she can now make anything from nothing.?
Underneath is a post it note that says ?Now learn everything you can and aim high if you don?t want to end up just like her.?
Rethink the message you're sending down the family line if you don't want to be nodding approvingly at your grandchildren living hand to mouth too.