OUR FAVORITE MENU!

We lived in various kinds of places when I first went to Business School and worked out in the 40's. I lived with my sister until she married and we had a very tiny furnished apartment and did most of our own cooking. One time, we rented a room and it was room/board situation. Other times, we would just rent a room and eat out.

One year we ate at a favorite restaurant for our evening meal, as we rented a room and it didn't come with meals. Each time we would look over the menu, but almost always, we would select Grilled Halibut, potatoes, vegetable and desert & coffee. On rare occasions, we would decide to select another meal. We always were disappointed and wished we had selected our "Ole Stand-by". Talk about variety, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THAT WORD MEANT! You know to this day, when we go back to where we lived, we invariably go to this restaurant and order Halibut. The same owners family still run the restaurant and HALIBUT there is the VERY BEST. Even now our daughters and their spouses like to go there to eat.

The cost is quite a big difference now. To get the luncheon halibut today, I think it is about $10.00 and about $16.00 for the dinner. Back then it cost about $.40 or at the most $.45 cents. Quite a difference-but the quality and taste remains the same. Our paychecks back then wasn't so great, so it was just as hard to pay for the forty cent meal as it was to pay now the ten dollar meal/$16.00.

We didn't have a car, so we had to get an apartment/room close to a bus line. I soon learned that dad's money went a lot further than my money. We didn't save much, but we didn't go in debt either.

After the war, even apartments were hard to find, since so many from the war was looking for housing for themselves and their new bride.

My sister's husband had one year of college left and the housing available in college towns were as rare as hen's teeth. Now that is quite rare!

Wisdom--Coming through the depression years made us quite appreciative of what we had, and content in our circumstances. Hebrews 13:5b says, "and be content with such things as ye have".