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Date Posted: 08:28:26 04/01/08 Tue
Author: Joan
Subject: Re: The Waltons and their stuff
In reply to: Nancy in VA 's message, "Re: The Waltons and their stuff" on 11:03:13 03/30/08 Sun

What old clothing? If things were being passed down from kid to kid, including from girls to boys, and boys to girls, what could possibly be left to make quilts from?

Besides, none of those quilts looked like they were made of old, ragged clothing. Looked like brand-new cotton to me. :)

There are all kinds of reasons they could have had all that stuff around. But then you remember that they had all this stuff hanging around, and when John needed something, he hocked his wedding ring????? Why not sell one of the quilts, like Olivia (or was it Grandma) did in one of the episodes? Wedding rings don't have much gold, except for retail value to engaged couples. Plain gold wedding rings are almost worthless.

Why not sell the piano?! It's not like Olivia wouldn't notice the missing wedding ring.

I know they said that John hunted to provide meat. Unless he was bagging deer constantly, he would have had to hunt a *lot* to feed 11 people, including 3 grown men and 2 teenage boys.

Vegetables for 11? Have you ever seen the size of their garden? We a similar garden, and it wasn't enough to feed a family of 6 (1 man, I woman, and 4 small girls) for a year--not even close.

C'mon. It's all preposterous. They were the richest poor folk I've ever seen.

My father always said that about their house, too. He was born in 1931, so he remembers the Depression and War years. No one had that much junk hanging around.

Someone said that it was stuff accumulated through the generations. But wouldn't have stuff have been divided up between the kids, generation after generation? Wouldn't at least some of it have been lost or broken? And yet, there was all that stuff--an ever-changing collection.

I think someone just got carried away with putting things in that looked like Depression era do-dads. They really went wild. Someone must've been bored. :)

I can remember my mother saying that she really wanted ice skates for Xmas one year during the war. Her mother warned her that that would be all she would get. Mom got them and was never sorry. I have them today.

My husband, a WWII baby, had 2 pairs of pants for school, and one for Sunday. They never owned a car.

In contrast, during the Depression, Jason had a harmonica, a piano, and a guitar. John Boy was given 50 books! The girls had many dresses.

It--the amount of stuff--really wasn't realistic, if they were trying to portray a poor, depression-era family.

Joan

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