Question: "Do you throw anything away today?"
"No. I should. I should throw more things away, but [laughs] no, I don't. When we moved to town eight years ago, three years ago, we did throw a lot of stuff away. We couldn't handle it in this house that we live in, now. We couldn't find a place. But otherwise, I'm conservative. I keep things because I might need it tomorrow."
Question: "Is that a legacy of the Depression?"
"I think it stuck. I think it caught on."
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Herman Goertzen says he has lived his whole life on farms near Henderson, Nebraska. He grew up on a farm and went to school in a one-room rural school. Later he married and started his own farm. He and his wife had four children. He was one of the early groundwater irrigators in the state and served on the local co-op board. He has remained very active in the Mennonite Church.
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