# How to Approach Concessions Required of Us as We Age

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 4, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-approach-concessions-required-of-us-as-we-age/1017878 "2025-05-04T23:54:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-approach-concessions-required-of-us-as-we-age/1017878/121 "2025-05-13T13:58:57Z")

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> [@chappachula](#):
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> Usually people who pasted each photo onto the album page, also labelled it

No the pictures are not labeled on the album pages. She would have written on the back of the picture. And that’s something else she could do, if she comes across a picture with no labeling, she can do it as she’s removing them. She has lots of spare time.

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**Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-approach-concessions-required-of-us-as-we-age/1017878/122 "2025-05-14T16:19:15Z")

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> [@Railer13](#):
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> Unfortunately, none of us took the time to look at Mom’s albums before she passed, so that wasn’t an option for us. Quite frankly, I wasn’t even aware that she had put together so many albums.

When my dad passed, his widow shipped me his ‘big box of photos’ - very familiar from my childhood, as we’d groan when he brought it out and set up the slide projector during cousin visits. We’d always rebel long before he got to the bottom of the box…where I found a daguerreotype of a young man the spitting image of my brother, panning for gold. I inquired about having it professionally cleaned and the case restored - the pros suggested I might like to settle for a high-resolution scan and a surprisingly generous offer from a museum. It very nearly got thrown away un-noticed.

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**Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-approach-concessions-required-of-us-as-we-age/1017878/123 "2025-05-14T19:04:55Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Meanwhile in Europe and the UK the latter half of the 1940s and well into the 1950s were all poverty and privation and unemployment. They were rationing butter not because there was a war on, but because there simply wasn’t nearly enough butter to go around, and being the raging commies they were, they didn’t want the rich to simply bid up the price and get all of it.

Well, I’d they were primarily rationing because they wanted more exports and to acquire more dollars, not because of a lack of supply - except where controlling ingredients/materials/production that wouldn’t let producers produce what they wanted to increase supply (again because they wanted to export said things for dollars).

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