[ SECRET POST #3752 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3752 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I read those books when I was a kid and I don't remember any of this.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Maybe I'm misremembering but wasn't there an incident where someone didn't switch on the crockpot and spoiled dinner? And they were eating pancakes for dinner, not necessarily because they were awesome (not that Ramona knew that) but because they were a cheap meal?

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NAYRT

I remember that part so well! It really stuck with me because, up until then, all the books I'd read had parents who didn't fight. I remember Ramona feeling the same way I felt when my parents fought. Wasn't there also a chapter where the dad gifts Ramona and Beezus erasers and there's an acknowledgement that the family doesn't have much money to spare? I also remember them washing their hair in the sink to save money.

[skeletal_history]

There's also the incident where they eat cow tongue (super cheap cut of meat) for dinner and the girls freak out. IIRC their mom says something about it being on sale or something to that effect.

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[(Anonymous)]

Since I just finished this yesterday, I can confirm the struggles with money are present throughout the series and get particularly rough in Ramona and her Father. Like everything else it's done realistically which is so refreshing when you're used to "poor" characters on TV with huge houses and $700 t-shirts.

[(Anonymous)]

And didn't they eat the jack-o-lantern pumpkin even though Picky-picky had been nomming on it?

[el_regrs]

I remember several food-related scenes, so maybe that was one of them?

I also remember the parents challenging the girls to make dinner because they complained about eating tongue.

Oh, but money issues? I remember something about Mr. Quimby losing his job and buying the girls gummy bears, which they eat while listening to their parents talk about the situation.

Hahaha, all these memories coming at me after twenty-something years or so. Pardon me.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember reading about that crockpot incident when I was a kid! Which Ramona book is that in?