Loose Ends: These days thrifty is no longer nifty

“Doing without” and “making do” are two traditional cost saving measures that one hears little about these days. The two time-honored traditions began in the earliest days of the area’s settlement and continued well through World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. Some local folks still practice a form of these cost-cutting measures, yet the continuation of such belt-tightening during tough times is not generally observed.
Local oral histories, as…