Here's an interesting page from #history: a letter from #benjaminfranklin to his daughter
https://founders.archives.gov/....documents/Franklin/0
Enjoy these lines, which indicate frugality:
"I therefore send all the articles you desire that are useful and necessary, and omit the rest; for as you say you should “have great pride in wearing any thing I send, and showing it as your father’s taste;” I must avoid giving you an opportunity of doing that with either lace or feathers. If you wear your cambric ruffles as I do, and take care not to mend the holes, they will come in time to be lace; and feathers, my dear girl, may be had in America from every cock’s tail."
