[Oe List ...] FW: Story of Denver Religious House

[Judy Lindblad]

Dear Lynda,

What a great and well told story!

As you have noted "Guardians" had a chance to get in on the "fun" produced
by missional thriftiness.  I remember many in-kind excursions to local
businesses in Schenectady and Cincinnati as I was assigned to help provide
for food and even construction needs.  I can still remember Marian
Karpoff's term for some vegetables and fruit we received...."Just this side
of rotten".

Being thrifty and stretching our sense of still useable items was a gift we
have received from the Order.

Thanks, Judy and Norm Lindblad


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Lynda Cock <llc860 at triad.rr.com> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Story of ****Denver**** Religious House****
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> We learned to live simply in Religious Houses.  We needed people out on
> the road recruiting courses, raising money, setting up programs, and
> working with communities, so as few people as possible were assigned to get
> real jobs to pay the bills.  Sometimes that meant that our food budget
> provided only rather basic foods.  We worked hard, but there was also a
> dynamic of celebration that seemed to magically appear from time to time.
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> Dear Guardian Lee Sugg was helping watch over us when he won a $1000
> grocery buying spree in a local store contest and presented it to the
> Denver House.  Some of us old skinflints thought of a whole year's worth of
> oatmeal or grits, but our always-hungry-youth saw this as a special gift
> that should be honored by also getting special treats.  With a little help,
> they cased the grocery store to find out some key luxury items that would
> add a little zip to the daily fare.  Special requests were for good cuts of
> meat and seafood that we could freeze.    ****
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> I can't recall the exact details, but I think we could have four persons
> with a cart or carts going in different directions in a maybe 20 minute
> time span.  Whatever we could get in those carts up to $1000 was our
> take-home prize.  I recall that it was after the store had closed so the
> aisles were all ours to race in without interference.  Our fastest runners (Larry
> Hamje was one) were the designated shoppers with the rest of us cheering
> from the sidelines and pointing the way to things we thought should be in
> the carts.  The store manager was the announcer over the speaker system
> giving us the On Your Mark, Get Set, and GO signals, as well as calling out
> the remaining time.  I don't recall how we came out money wise, but I
> recall it was close and we were breathing deeply as the cash register rang
> up sub-totals.  What a grand time we had loading up Lee's pick-up and
> heading back to the house to sort through those bags and bags of
> groceries.   What a great party we had with some of the special cheeses and
> meats and fruits that we picked up.  I think Martha Lee Sugg also bought
> some good wine soda to go with our goodies.  What wonderful food we enjoyed
> from the pantry and freezer for many months. ****
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> Thank you to all the magicians in our corporate lives who knew the needed
> dynamics of a winning team.  ****
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> This memory was sparked by finding a photo of Lee Sugg being presented the
> winning ticket for the shopping spree which I am passing on to Martha Lee.  Someone
> probably has a photo of the truck load of groceries and may have
> corrections or additions to this story.      ****
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