A friend sent me this article from People about Jimmy and Rosalynn Carters’ thrifty lifestyle, and it cracked me up with delight. Their grandson Jason said (in 2011):
“They were super excited — legitimately excited! — when the Dollar General store opened in Plains. They buy their clothes there.
My grandparents, their microwave is from 1985," Jason, a former state senator, added. "It goes tick tick tick tick! It takes 12 minutes ticking down to pop popcorn, because why would you buy a new microwave?
The point is that nothing is easy, and why should it be?”
BELOW: Eleanor Rosalynn Smith (later Carter) at twelve
" [Rosalynn's parents] Edgar and Allie Smith were neighbors of the Carters, and in the summer of 1927, Lillian Carter helped deliver their first child, Eleanor Rosalynn. Jimmy, then a 3-year-old, and newborn Rosalynn met just a couple days later for the first time."
A good lifestyle and a life lived well.
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful young girl she was too
GZ: I thought so too.
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