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Budget Categories That Our Grandmothers Didn’t Have To Worry About

When talk of saving money comes up, it usually leads to talk of the “good old days” when things were simpler and less expensive. Many people reminisce about the days when a stamp was ten cents, a loaf of bread was twenty-five cents, and a gallon of gas was fifty cents. Oh, the good old days, indeed. Not only were things less expensive then, we had far less on which to spend our money. Money went further simply because we had fewer temptations and “necessities.”

I was going through my files in Quicken the other day and looking at the budget categories I have set up. I noticed something: Most of these categories are things that my grandmother would not have had to worry about. In fact, my mother wouldn’t have worried about most of them, either. Many of the categories I deal with today are inventions of the past thirty to forty years or so. You can argue as to the necessity of any of these items (many of them are merely nice additions to our lives rather than true necessities), but there can be no denying the damage that they have done to our finances. Where once food, shelter, and clothing were just about the only budget categories a family had to balance, now there are many more to worry about. If you have most of the these items (and a lot of people do) it probably means that your income (which likely has not kept pace with the number of things/services available to buy and use) is stretched to the breaking point. No wonder the good old days sometimes seem so attractive.

Here are some things that most of us spend money on that our forefathers would not have had in their budgets.

Cell phones

We got by for many years without constantly being in touch and forking over $100/month for cell phone plans and $300 for phones. Yes, they are convenient but they are also big money drains, particularly if you buy a full featured phone and the unlimited plan that goes with it. Your forefathers would have made do with a landline phone or, let’s go really retro, a snail mail letter.

Video games

You not only have to buy the console, but you have to keep it supplied with games. And then there are all the fun accessories that go with it that you want to have. Even if you buy on sale or used, it’s still money spent that your grandmother would likely have deemed foolish.

As a kid, going to a restaurant was a big deal. We went maybe once or twice a year and I only got fast food a few times per year. My grandparents only went out to eat in the later years of their marriage and then only once or twice a year as a special event. In days gone by you ate at home or at another person’s home, so having a budget category for “eating out” was unheard of. The notion of going to a restaurant every week or multiple times per week would have seemed wasteful to my grandparents. (My grandmother would also have assumed you had no talent in the kitchen or that, “Something is wrong with you if you can’t cook.”)

Convenience foods

My grandmother made food from real ingredients, most of which she grew herself. A box of Kraft Mac and Cheese, a Lean Cuisine, or a Twinkie would not have constituted real food to her. As such, she would have saved a fortune by not buying overpriced convenience foods.

Entertainment (and the associated equipment)

Most of us have an allowance in our budget for Netflix, Blockbuster, Best Buy, gaming websites, access to special web content, or our iTunes account so we can rent and buy our entertainment. But back in the day you listened to the radio or, on rare occasions, went to see a movie on the big screen. Entertainment was not a budget line item. It was a rare thing to pay for any sort of entertainment. Entertainment usually consisted of families getting together for a group dinner, going to a church social, or watching some locals who had talent perform. Maybe the odd carnival or trip to the circus that was saved for all year. All of this was free and a big deal because it didn’t happen often. Today we expect to be entertained every minute that we’re not working and we pay dearly for it, both in purchasing the entertainment and buying the home theater equipment to show it to best advantage.

My grandparents finally bought one car. They never had two or three (or more cars). One car was what they could pay cash for and reasonably maintain, so one was what they had and it served them just fine. Today, families have multiple cars and that just multiplies the expenses associated with them. Yes, they make getting around easier, but cars are big money sinks. By the time you buy the car, pay taxes, maintenance, insurance, and registration fees, and then fill it with gas (and pay for parking if you have to) you’ve eaten a good chunk of your budget. And that’s just having one car. If you have more than that you can quickly find yourself drowning in car expenses. I still say that if you live in an area where you can get around without a car, you’re one lucky person. I wish I could.

No doubt that computers have made things easier and the Internet has opened up a world of communication and information possibilities that we’ve never had before. But they are expensive and many families have more than one computer. You have to buy the computer, then buy and update the software, and buy peripherals to print and store data. Even buying cheaper models is pricey by the time you have it all set up. And then if you want to connect to the Internet, you’ll likely have to pay a monthly fee for the privilege. This is something my grandmother and mother never had to deal with.

High end clothes, handbags and shoes

My mother made a lot of my clothes and my grandmother made just about everything that my mother and her siblings wore until they left home. You didn’t have a closet full of clothes, instead you had one good outfit for each season and a couple of outfits for every day. What was bought was simply serviceable; nothing was high end or trendy. Today we have the ability to buy designer everything, at grossly inflated prices. And those of us who seek to compete in the style category have a much bigger clothing budget than any of our forefathers would have dreamed of. Even if you buy cheaper clothing, we still buy so much more of it than we really need that our closets are bursting. If my grandmother walked into some of these houses where the closets are jammed or someone has to have three closets for all their stuff, she would have had an apoplexy. In her day, you just didn’t waste money like that on so much that is unnecessary.

Cable/Satellite TV

As with entertainment, above, the idea of paying for TV would have appalled my grandmother. There was too much else to do to watch a lot of TV in the first place, and what you did watch could be obtained for free with rabbit ears. Paying for specialized programming would have seemed foreign. If you wanted to learn how to cook, you cooked. If you wanted sports, you went out and played. You didn’t watch others do it on TV.

Security systems

They may make us safer (a debatable point), but it wasn’t something our forefathers had to worry about. Either crime was low so you didn’t worry about it and you left the door unlocked when you left, or you got a big dog or a shotgun and dealt with the problem yourself. The idea of paying a company to monitor a box on your wall would have seemed silly.

Credit cards

In days gone by you didn’t have to worry about credit cards because they didn’t exist. Or, if they did, they went only to the very wealthy or very responsible. Everyone didn’t have credit card debt to deal with. You saved up and paid cash, or maybe a store would extend you credit if they knew and trusted you. Otherwise, it was cash up front. Even when I was a kid my parents didn’t have credit cards until I was almost ready to leave home, then my dad finally broke down and got one for travel. But the idea of doing all your shopping on credit would have been appalling to my grandparents. Debt repayment wasn’t a line item in their budget.

Private schools

If you even went to school, and that wasn’t always a given, you went to whatever school the state offered. Private schools were only for the very wealthy. Now we send many of our kids to private school, at great expense to ourselves. We say it’s because they get a better education, but plenty of people from my parents, grandparents, and even my own generation turned out rather brilliant on public education in a one room schoolhouse. The money may buy you a better education (debatable) but it’s not something that would have been a line item on most budgets fifty years ago.

College used to be for the very wealthy or the genuinely gifted. Now we expect everyone to go to college, even if the kid can only pull a D average and has no interest. We scrimp and save (or rack up tons of debt) to get a kid through school because it’s “the right thing to do,” but our forefathers would have said, “If he doesn’t want to go, or isn’t interested or gifted enough to do well, or if we can’t afford it, then junior can go in the military or get a job.” You can debate whether or not college is necessary, but the fact is that it’s an expense we all worry obsessively about today, but that previous generations would have considered only briefly and then moved on.

Child care

I’m not going to get into a political debate about women in the workplace, but the fact is that we now spend thousands per year on child care that our grandmothers would have provided at home. When I was a kid, either mom stayed home or you stayed with some other female relative like an aunt or older cousin. A daycare or a nanny was something that only the very wealthy used.

Almost everyone I know has a budget item for vacations. But up until recently, the idea of a vacation being anything other than a trip to grandma’s or a trip to the local shore or mountain campground or budget hotel was deemed extravagant. Trips to Europe or Disney World, cruises, or frequent jaunts across the country were for the very wealthy or the frivolous. But now we all want to see new places and take expensive vacations. And many of us do, either saving for them or incurring debt. Vacations didn’t used to be a budget category. They were trips to inexpensive, nearby locations or to visit family, if you even went anywhere at all.

Many of us pay large monthly fees for lawn care, housecleaning, car detailing, and pet care. In the good old days, you did this work yourself (and pets for sure weren’t the budget drains they are today). If you didn’t do it yourself, you paid a neighbor kid a few bucks to do it and he was glad for the work. But now we’re so busy we can’t do things ourselves and no kid will work in your yard for a few dollars. So these services have now become line items in our budgets.

Most of the things we spend money on today are not strictly necessary to survive. In fact, everything on this list could be taken away and not affect your ability to live. You might be inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but you would still survive. This is why, when tough financial times strike, writers like myself and others urge a return to the basics. Despite the proliferation of things on which to spend money, food, shelter, and clothing (basic, not designer) are still the only necessary items on a budget roster. If you pare your budget down to just those three things when times get tough, you’ll probably be amazed at how much money you can save.

Our grandmothers and mothers were able to make ends meet much more easily than we can, at least in large part, simply because they didn’t have the choices we do. Their lives were pretty basic and it kept money management simple. Today there is so much we want and think we need (thank you, Madison Avenue) that it’s becoming more and more difficult to make ends meet. There is something to be said for the good old days. Sometimes too much choice isn’t a good thing.

What else do you find contributes to the decimation of your budget that your forefathers didn’t have to deal with?

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13 Responses to Budget Categories That Our Grandmothers Didn’t Have To Worry About

  1. Another budget category that wasn’t needed when I was a teen-ager, but was a separate expense by the time my daughter graduated: driver’s education classes.

    That’s right. In many places where driver’s ed was once a high school class and free to the students … it’s now an out-of-pocket expense for the families.

  2. Jennifer says:

    I thought of one more after I wrote this: Homeowner’s Association dues. Most of my relatives would have been appalled at the idea of paying someone to police your property, but today it’s hard to find a place that doesn’t have an HOA.

  3. Eleanor says:

    Your comment about convenience foods brought back a memory of my grandmother. When she reached the point that grocery shopping was becoming an overwhelming task, my Mother thought she’d help out by purchasing a variety of frozen meals which my grandmother could simply heat and eat. My grandmother had a FIT and told my Mother on no uncertain terms that she was NOT eating prepared foods and my Mother could take those things back to the store. She shortly thereafter moved to an assisted living center where she could eat “real food” in the dining room.

  4. A Marino says:

    OUTDOOR LIVING AREAS: Our parents and grandparents were fortunate if they could furnish their home much less furnish the outside with high-end furniture, expensive barbeque cooking surfaces, outside refrigerators, outside canopy (unless it was for a special party or wedding).

    TECH EQUIPTMENT: Most parents today furnish their college bound kids with computers, TV’s, MP3’s, etc. So, there would have to be a category for that outside of the college fund.

    WEDDING AND SPECIAL DAY FUNDS: Our families never gave away a bag with goodies to incoming guests who were attending parties. I guess this would be under the wedding list, but I just see it as another add-on for the categories.

  5. Tara says:

    It seems to me that a lot of those savings required women to have pretty much NO leisure time. Women still have statistically less leisure time then men. Who knows, if men picked up more of the cooking, sewing, maintenance, child care etc, maybe we could all have more leisure time *and* more savings.

  6. Jackie says:

    My grandparents have a minivan (to hold my Grampy’s oxygen tank) and a little beater truck to haul limbs and whatnot to the city compost. For awhile though, they just had the minivan. My Grammy is out and about quite a bit with her various groups and my Grampy threw a big fit about how she’s leaving stranded at home when she has the vehicle most of the day. Now, my grandparents are fairly 1950s standard in many ways, but as my Grammy has gotten older she bucks the 1950s system more often. She pitched that fit right back in his face by reminding him of all the years when she was home by herself with their 5 children with no car to get around while he was on the road selling. lol, it was pretty funny once the dust settled. They did buy that truck, but only because it served two purposes: 1) an extra vehicle to get around in and 2)as a work truck to haul things that are too big or dirty for the minivan. :)

    Another budget buster for me are all the gift giving occassions: birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Mother/Father’s Day, Boss’s Day, Valentines, etc. Way back when, middle to lower income children might have gotten one gift on a birthday, maybe 2 or 3 on Christmas and that was pretty much it. Now, my nieces and nephews get probably 20 gifts each at Christmas and maybe 5 or 6 at their birthdays, plus cash. Plus, a basket and small gift at Easter, plus candy at Valentines, etc. Plus, the stuff they get throughout the rest of the year for no reason. Kids 50 years ago didn’t get this much largesse unless they came from pretty affluent families or were unusually spoiled.

  7. Tom says:

    One came to my mind after reading this…I am pretty sure my Grandmother didn’t have a Quicken category for whether or not to upgrade Quicken every year :)

  8. asmom says:

    Health Insurance: If you got very sick you died often from simple stuff that today could be cured in your doctor’s office.

    High Utility Bills: In the winter, they lit a fire and froze their butts off when they walked out of the room. In the summer, they roasted.

    I don’t mind paying a little more. I would hate to sew my own clothes and I like the idea of traveling. What in the heck is the point of saving money but for some of the modern conveniences?

  9. baselle says:

    Sports equipment/gym membership – you usually got a lot of exercise living your daily life. I got into a discussion once about the fact that gym muscles are for looks rather than for the doing. For example, take stacking hay bales in a barn. Its about the same motion as a bicep curl, but 20 reps and 3 sets in a usual workout would only give you 60 hay bales. A hay wagon usually had hundreds of bales.

  10. Granddad says:

    ? To Tara ?
    Being over 50 I have been around awhile and I have seen a lot.
    Never before have I seen men doing more cooking, cleaning, childcare, and other domestic chores as I have witnessed now days.
    I have seen them grocery shopping with their children, without the wife or mother. And a lot of the children are still in diapers which is why so many of the men restrooms have diaper changing facilities in them now (in case you didn’t know that). :)

    There have been movies made from “Mr. Mom” to “Daddy Day Care” that poke fun, but it has become a reality.

    When I and my spouse were raising our children, we worked separate shifts so that one of us was constantly home.
    Believe me, I did my share of the cooking, cleaning, diaper changing, etc., AND saving money. Now I am doing the cooking, cleaning, diaper changing, etc. with my grandchildren.

    Anyway, I just feel that you did not give the male species a fair shake with your comment and I wanted to share my thoughts with you on the subject and hopefully open your eyes, if not but just a bit.

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  12. minny says:

    Compared with my mother and grandmother the extras I pay are to run a car, have the internet. In the 1950’s and 1960’s here in Britain few had cars and there were no home computers.

    We have a caravan bought cheaply because it is 20 years old. A sailing boat which was 39 years old when we bought it – but people had these things back then. These provide vacations and leisure activities as we are retired.

    I eat different food – but I make it myself – convenience food tastes strange and I like to know what I’m eating.

    We rarely eat out and never eat fast food.

    I have a cell phone but use pay as you go and it costs me about $50 a year, the phone itself was very cheap to buy. This goes for both of us, in fact our daughter gave us one of our cell phones.

    I don’t make clothes as they are cheaper to buy now – in fact in real terms both food and clothes are much cheaper now than they were in the 50’s and 60’s. Now we have more competition and the generic and cheap brands of basic foodstuffs.

    We don’t pay for extra channels on the TV. We have a cheap computer and will use it until it dies. We only replace any item when it dies or wears out.

    We use the library and from time to time buy cheap DVDs.

    Many of the additional items we have that were not in 50’s and 60’s budgets are mainly chosen and are not necessary. Many of the new techie stuff is having a bad effect on the family – each in their own rooms, family meals neglected.

    It is such a shame.

  13. Cindy M says:

    It’s sure good not to have to be politically correct; you can sure save quite a bit that way and very much enjoy your everyday life with a little planning ahead, imagination and keeping your eyes open. In order to work at home, I do have to have highspeed internet, and I keep a tracfone for babysitting the grandnephews and so I’m always available for my aging mother who lives nearby; both of these I’d do without but can’t right now. On the plus side, I personally do without a car (can use my mother’s to run the kids if necessary), do 99% of my own cooking using very little convenience food, no cable TV, do my own yard work, cut my own hair. My latest “fun” has been discovering a place in my community that offers free clothes and some household goods; I donate things and have taken things I can use and would volunteer there if I had more time to do so. On the days we babysit, we’ve got the grandnephews enthused about what we do for entertainment, and it hasn’t hurt them a bit; great parks system here, visiting some relatives, cooking together and checking out other nearly freebies. I think we are all just so spoiled these days we don’t know how to enjoy fairly simple things and are working are rear-ends off for expensive things that don’t necessarily bring all that much happiness. I think my grandmothers would be proud of me, ha-ha.

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Today was the first full Eagles practice of training camp, and we're absolutely loaded with notes, so let’s just skip any kind of intro and get right to it.

• I timed 8 plays during an Eagles hurry-up session today, from the whistle on one play to the time the offense was legally set on the next. The times, in seconds: 13.7, 12.4, 9.8, 12.7, 13.3, 15.4, 9.8, 11.7. That’s an average of 12.35 seconds, which is very impressive. They achieved 9.8 seconds twice, which is incredibly fast, especially for the first day of camp.

Think about that from the defensive coordinator’s perspective. You want to make a substitution? Forget it. Want to think of your next defensive play call, get it in to your middle linebacker and have him communicate it to the rest of the defense? Good luck. Want to scan the field, assess all the matchups, be able to point out mismatches, and adjust pre-snap if you don’t like what you see? Ain’t happening.

We don’t know what the 2013 Eagles are going to look like yet, but there’s a pretty good bet that there are some teams around the NFL, and possibly some good ones, who will be ill-equipped to handle that kind of pace.

The added side bonus of running such fast paced sessions during practice is that the Eagles’ defense has to face it as well. When they start playing teams that run a far slower pace, making pre-snap adjustments could seem like a breeze.

• There were plenty of opportunities to watch the OLBs in pass coverage today. Not that “Best OLB in coverage” is a position, but if the Eagles had a “Best OLB in coverage” competition similar to the starting QB competition, Connor Barwin would be named the winner, as in right now. That’s not to say that Barwin is a stud in coverage. There was one play in which Brent Celek ran a post pattern, and he simply ran away from Barwin, although he did play the pass well on other occasions that didn't require a straight-line sprint. At a minimum, Barwin is functional, and looks the most comfortable, by far.

Here’s my scientific ranking of the OLBs in coverage, through the first full day of practices.

Cole did have a nice play as a pass rusher today. He used a nice inside rip move to get past Jason Peters for a sack. He’s way behind Barwin in terms of pass coverage for sure, but at least he didn’t look completely lost in that regard. Graham, however… Yeesh. Not pretty.

• Under Andy Reid, whenever the Eagles ran 1-on-1 drills, as in WRs vs CBs for example, all the WRs would line up, and all the CBs would line up, and every player would have a lot of "standing around" time in between reps. Under Chip Kelly, they run 1-on-1’s simultaneously back-to-back on two different fields, meaning that there are 4 groups of 1-on-1 drills going on at once. It looked a little like this:

That would be 4x the reps for everyone.

• At the conclusion of run plays, the running back will often “finish the run” by running down the field an extra 20-30 yards, even after he’s been two-hand touched several times. A defender will often try chase the runner down, and rip the ball out. It’s rare that the defender is successful in jarring the ball loose, as the runner can typically feel someone running at them from behind. They know it’s coming, so they tighten up on the football.

Today on such an occasion, Bradley Fletcher ran down Bryce Brown from behind and popped the ball out. I don’t think Bryce felt him coming. Perhaps that is part of the problem with Brown's fumbling issues. Maybe he just doesn’t feel the contact coming, and therefore isn’t tightening up on the football when a defender is near.

• On the second day of rookie practices (Wednesday), Zach Ertz had two drops that I saw. Early in today’s practice, he had another one. He made up for it later in the day. On one deep ball down the sideline, he went up high for a ball against Kenny Phillips and Brandon Boykin, and made the play. Then later, a pass was thrown behind Ertz, and he extended as far back behind him as he could while falling to the ground to make the catch. Highlight reel quality.

Ertz was widely regarded as one of the top 2 TEs in the NFL draft this year, and a website by the name of Second Round Snaps did a detailed comparison of Ertz and the other “Top 2” TE, Tyler Eifert. They made the case that drops were an issue for Ertz in college, as he dropped passes with double the frequency of Eifert.

That is something to continue to watch as training camp progresses. Ertz is making plays in between those drops, but the drops have to stop.

• Ifeanyi  Momah had a play today worth noting. He was the target of a long pass down the sideline that was thrown high, where Momah could use his 6’7 frame to go up and get it. Based on the ball placement, Brandon Hughes had no chance of defending it, and he committed a pretty clear pass interference penalty. Tall receivers can often be beneficiaries of long P.I. penalties, as long as they compete for the football.

• Russell Shepard had two diving catches today. One was on a short laser that he had to react quickly to. The other was about 20 yards down the field. Shepard was often the last guy off the field during OTAs and minicamps, taking as many reps as he could get on the Jugs machine. It may be paying off for him.

• James Casey made several catches over the middle today. My first impression of him would be to say that he looked “smooth.”

• Jason Kelce had two bad snaps today. They were both high. I don’t recall that being a problem for Jason in the past. Dallas Reynolds also had a bad snap. He rolled a grounder to Michael Vick.

• You know how Jason Avant does that little “hands to the sky” thing whenever he makes a catch in games?Sometimes he does a much more restrained version of that in training camp.

• Brad Wing hit two bombs today. One had a hang time of 5.0 seconds. Another was 5.3 seconds. However, he’s very inconsistent. He had a bunch of shankopotamusses. Or is it shankopotami? Whatever. He just hit a number of crappy punts. Donnie Jones wasn’t perfect today either, but he was more consistent. Jones’ best hangtime on the day was 5.1 seconds, by my amateur stopwatch skills.

• The punt returners were Jeremy Maclin, DeSean Jackson, and Damaris Johnson.

• I loved DeSean Jackson’s energy today. He was dancing to the loud music while waiting to shag punts, and he made a great play as a receiver. DeSean was running down the sideline, and the CB had good position. It looked like the CB had the only realistic chance to make the catch, so DeSean turned into a defensive back himself. He jumped and backhanded the ball to knock it away, but when the ball took a surprise bounce up in the air, DeSean stayed with it and made the catch as he was falling to the ground. Play of the day.

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Nancy Sherman, the soldiers’ philosopher

20091102+Nancy+Sherman_0018Professor Nancy Sherman has worked with the US military for over 20 years, and has written several books on military ethics, including Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind; and The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds and Souls of Our Soldiers.

How did you come to teach philosophy in the military?

Through a crisis on their part. The US Naval Academy had a cheating scandal. Back, in the 1990s, 130 electrical engineering midshipmen were implicated in cheating on a major exam. They seemed to have got it in advance. These individuals were all brought before various kinds of honour boards, and as part of the ‘moral remediation’ they wanted an ethicist onboard. That was me. After two weeks they asked me to set up an ethics course. One thing led to another, and eventually I was selected as the inaugural distinguished chair of ethics at the Naval Academy.

How did you find teaching in the military?

My dad was a WWII vet, didn’t talk about it much. I was a child of the 60s, many of my friends were conscientious objectors. Now, I was in a place where there were marines and officers who had fought on the Mekong Delta. It was an eye-opener, to see the other side of a conflict that was very formative for me. I hadn’t really met my peers who had served. I learned a lot from them.

1897893_762289500447958_1645314971_nThe Naval Academy is a different sort of university. It’s uniformed. Everyone is Ma’aming and Sir-ing. They’re trying to figure out what rank you are. They were used to a very hierarchical universe. And a lot of Navy people are engineer-focused. They want bottom lines. Discussions without clear endings, or deliberative questions without easy right and wrongs, shades of grey, all of that was not something they were comfortable with.

But you discovered they have a natural interest in Stoic philosophy.

Yes. The course took them through deliberative models and major ethical theories – Aristotle, emotions, deliberation and habits; Kant and universalizability; Mill and Bentham, and notions of maximizing utility. When we got to Stoicism – Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius – they felt ‘this is the stuff I know: suck it up, truck on, externals mean nothing to me. I can’t get back for my wedding because I’m on a ship, well, it’s beyond my control.’

One of the greatest officers in their midst was Admiral James Bond Stockdale. He’d endured seven years in the Hanoi Hilton [the north Vietnamese prison], two of them in leg-irons. He’d been given a little copy of Epictetus when studying at Stanford. He committed it to memory and it became his salvation. That’s a well-known story in the military.

You met and interviewed Stockdale several times. What was he like?

He had a kind of James Cagney voice. And you couldn’t tell when it was him talking or when he was quoting Epictetus. It was seamless. You sometimes thought you’re in front of an impersonator. He had a noticeable limp in his left leg, from when his plane crashed in Vietnam, and Epictetus also had a limp in his left leg. So there was a physical kinship and perhaps a spiritual kinship too.

Are the Stoics widely read in the US military? I came across quite a few Stoic soldiers when researching my book, particularly in the Green Berets – I didn’t come across any in the British military.

The Roman Stoics are read by officers and commanders, not so much by enlisted men. How they come to it is an interesting question. I think in the Marines and Navy, probably through Stockdale’s influence on the curriculum – he was head of the Naval War College on Rhode Island. Also these are popular writers, easy to read. Everyone understands stoic with a little s.

How useful or appropriate is Stoicism for soldiers?

51h1oiS7REL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_It has curses and blessings. It fits an idealized model of invincibility, of external goods not mattering. I can expand the perimeter of my agency so that the only thing that matters is what I can control – namely my virtue. It meshes with what we know to be pretty natural responses to constant threat. As Stockdale once put it, you’re ‘as cagey a Stoic as you can be’. He was a cagey sage with his captors – this won’t touch me, this won’t affect me.

With that goes the notion that your emotions can be fully controlled and you can turn them off, essentially. Anything your emotions attach to in sticky and graspy ways is dangerous, because they can destabilize you, they can make you mourn and grieve. So there’s the idea of not missing something – a cigarette, your child, your spouse, or your buddy who gets blown up next to you. It’s useful armour. That’s the blessing.

The curse is it can be a way of not feeling, or as a lot of soldiers tell me, you feel ‘dead to the world’ – they can’t feel anymore. And that’s awful. You come home and you have this gorgeous child, and a family you want to adore, and you can’t even feel joy because you’ve turned off your emotions in certain ways. That is an absolute curse.

The Stoics were giving salvation for tough times. It’s a great philosophy for tough times, I’m not sure it’s a great philosophy for everyday living. It’s always good to feel more in control, but it’s not good to think that luck and the vicissitudes of the world can’t touch you or that you can’t show moral outrage, love, grief, and so on.

Do some soldiers manage to put on and take off that Stoic armour?

No, that’s really hard. This is a question about ‘resilience’ – the million-dollar-word in the military right now. The idea of resilience is you can bounce back. We have 2.4 million soldiers coming home from war. They can’t bounce back on their own. They can’t bounce back just with their families. They need a community that gets it. They need to know that we’re not just saying ‘thank you for your service’. They need enormous amounts of trust, hope, medical attention. Above all they need emotional connection.

There’s an idea in Stoicism that your loyalty to the Logos, to the ‘City of God’, comes before your loyalty to the state. The Stoics were quite individualistic, probably not great team-players. How does that fit in with the very strong collective or conformist ethos of the military? What if you’re asked to do something that doesn’t fit with your virtue?

The best service-member will never check their conscience at the door. It will be with them all the time. That’s not just Stoic. That’s any moral philosophy – you do the right thing. Your virtue is your guide. If you have an officer, a commander, who is giving you unlawful, immoral, bad advice, and it’s even part of a system – of torture for example – the moral individual will question that, whatever philosophy they have.

Major Ian Fishback
Major Ian Fishback

One of my friends is Ian Fishback, he now teaches at Westpoint and is going to do a Phd in philosophy at Michigan. He’s a special forces major. He served eight years or so in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was at Abu Ghraib and didn’t like what he saw there. He wrote at least 50 letters to command about what was going on. He got no answers. He finally wrote to Senator John McCain, who’d been a POW with Jim Stockdale, and said ‘this is what I’m seeing’. He went public. He blew the whistle. And from that came a referendum that was put before congress. To know Ian is to know that he is thoughtful. He is conscientious.

To be in the military is hard for the thinking soldier. All the people I work closely with, all my PhD students from the military – they have to accept some of the absurd of a career in the military, but you can’t accept some of the missions. You pick your battles. And it may be a career-ender. You face the possibility that you’re not going to be a yes-man.

How well is the military coping with PTSD at the moment? How big a problem is it?

the-untold-war-inside-the-hearts-minds-and-souls-of-our-soldiersWe don’t really know the numbers, but some say there’s maybe 30% incidence of PTSD in soldiers coming home. It’s a central issue which the Americans are taking on in various ways. The Pentagon, and in particular General Peter Chiarelli, wants to drop the D from PTSD. They argue it’s not a disorder, it’s an injury with an external cause. They want to destigmatize it.

Secondly, there’s vast efforts to deal with the suicide peak – for the first time in record-keeping, the rate of suicide in the military exceeds the comparable rate for young male civilians. It’s not always after multiple deployments. Often the precipitating factors have to do with coming home, with difficult family relationships at home. It’s very complex. Some would like to find a ‘biomarker’ for suicidal tendencies.

There aren’t enough mental health workers, that’s pretty clear. And there’s still stigma, still a sense that it’s weak not to be able to handle losing your buddy.

Also, traumatic stress has a moral dimension, often. It’s not just a fear symptom. It’s also that you keep going back to the situation and thinking ‘I should have done that, I wasn’t good enough, I let someone down’. It’s complicated what morality is in the complex of war. You’re in a lethality and violence-soaked environment, increasingly in population-centric environments. There’s a lot of grey area – who’s the enemy, are they a voluntary or involuntary human-shield, and so on.

I read the military isn’t doing a great job at keeping track of what treatments for PTSD actually work.

Well, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy seems to be the leader. But you’re talking about populations that are heavily medicated, on sleeping pills, on anxiety pills, on pain-killers. And that affects their ability to change their thinking.

What do you think of Martin Seligman’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness programme [ a $180 million programme introduced in 2010 to teach resilient-thinking skills to all service-members, to try and prevent PTSD occurrence]?

This was introduced in 2009 / 2010 when the suicide rate was going up. They needed something fast. As one army psychiatrist said to me, they expected broken bodies, they didn’t expect broken minds. I think Seligman’s work has been shown to be effective in populations of children in tough neighbourhoods. He had not done previous work with combat lethality-saturated environments.

Emotional intelligence is a great thing, being able to talk about things soldiers don’t typically talk about is great. You need forums, you need lots of time. My understanding is you get two hours training twice a year when you’re not deployed. That’s not a lot.

Some military psychiatrists worry that the programme could further stigmatize those who still develop PTSD. If you’ve gone through the preventative programme and you still can’t sleep at night, you’re still racked by guilt, you may feel even worse. Prevention is one thing, but you can’t further stigmatize those who are traumatized. Still, I applaud the armed forces for realizing that mental health is critical for soldiers’ health.

You still work with soldiers now?

I have a lot of veterans enrolled in my classes in Georgetown. I’ve been working with soldiers for 20 years now. They’re my buddies. Next year I have a book coming out about soldiers coming home, called Making Peace with War: Healing the Moral Wounds of our Soldiers, which involved a lot of long interviews with soldiers. My heart goes out to folks who are trying to morally process really complicated issues.

To go back to the beginning, you initially started work with the military because of an ethical crisis, which they thought could be solved with an ethics course. Do you think ethics courses really do improve people’s ethical behaviour?

I think these courses have enormous value. Not when they have sets of right or wrong answers, but when you have small enough groups where you can have discussions. Finding time to think, when you’re not on the spot, is really powerful. It goes into the unconscious and is part of your reserves for hard times.

If you’re interested in the application of Stoicism in modern life, including the military, come to the Stoicism Today event on November 29 at Queen Mary, University of London.

The great PTSD conundrum

Why do 20% of American soldiers develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and only 3-5% of British soldiers? It’s one of the great conundrums of contemporary psychology / psychiatry – and one of the most contentious, touching as it does on sensitive issues of our countries’ moral characters, and how well our governments care for their soldiers.

Dan Collins, who took his life in 2012 – a year in which the number of suicides among serving soldiers quintupled compared to 2010

The question was revisited this week by a moving Panorama documentary called Broken by Battle, made by Sunday Times journalist Toby Harnden, who won the 2012 Orwell Prize for his book Dead Men Risen, about his time with the Welsh Guards in Afghanistan. The programme traced a sharp rise in the number of suicides among troops who served in Afghanistan, and suggested the Ministry of Defence is not doing enough to help soldiers coming home with PTSD.

Toby tells me:

While I was in Helmand, I’d see instances of ‘battle shock’, where soldiers would freeze in battle, curl up into the foetal position, and be helicoptered away. I’d wonder what would happen to them. I’d heard a bit about PTSD, but I wondered if it was real or some slightly nebulous condition like Gulf War Syndrome. But out in Helmand I got to know staff sergeant Dan Collins, who developed PTSD and subsequently killed himself.

The Panorama programme explores how Dan was sectioned in an NHS mental care facility, and what a blow that was to his pride as a brave soldier (the Army used to have its own psychiatric facility but closed it). We are then shown Dan’s last words, recorded on his phone when he had left his wife and retreated to the hills, self-exiled from human society. We see him, desperately alone, wearing his military kit and the bandana he wore in Afghanistan. He apologises to his mum for being ‘a bit selfish’ in killing himself, and asks for a full military funeral. We’re told that, shortly afterwards, he hung himself from a tree.

Toby says:

After writing Dead Men Risen, I moved to the US, and saw the staggering statistics of PTSD and veteran suicide in the US armed forces. They had clearly identified a huge problem there, while in the UK armed forces, the attitude seemed to be ‘nothing to see here’.

So why the dramatic difference in PTSD rates among US and UK veterans? This is where it gets controversial. UK military psychiatrists like Simon Wessely, director of the King’s Centre for Military Health Research, suggests it’s because the British army is older, has more officers and fewer reservists, and shorter tours of duty – all of which implies that if the US did things differently, it would have a much lower level of PTSD among its veterans. US military psychiatrists bristle at such suggestions, and point out that US soldiers were in much heavier fighting in Iraq – only 32% of UK soldiers reported coming under small arms fire, compared with more than 90% of US soldiers.

US psychiatrists also suggest that cultural differences play a role, and that the British ‘stiff upper lip’ means that (in the words of a New Yorker blog) British veterans are ‘less likely to be told they have PTSD. They are more likely, in turn, to end up abusing alcohol or to be given the less controversial diagnosis of clinical depression, according to William Nash, a retired U.S. Navy psychiatrist and co-editor of an influential cross-cultural anthology on PTSD, ‘Combat Stress Injury: Theory, Research and Management.’

Harnden’s view, meanwhile, is that the Ministry of Defence wants to limit its financial liability for PTSD, so it is deliberately underplaying the scale of the problem. His documentary explored how the MoD don’t keep track of PTSD levels among discharged soldiers, nor of suicide statistics once soldiers have left the Army (although a report will be published on that next year). He also showed how veterans often fall between the cracks of the MoD and the NHS. We have a minister for veterans, Mark Francois, but apparently he doesn’t have responsibility for veterans’ healthcare (so what does he do?). The US has a Department for Veterans and the Pentagon spends a huge amount trialling new therapies for PTSD, both in treatment and in prevention.

Simon Wessely of KCL says the Panorama programme was one-sided

Harnden also points out that the Kings Centre for Military Health, our main source for PTSD incidence in British soldiers and veterans, is mainly funded by the MoD. The head of that Centre, Simon Wessely, retorts that the Panorama programme was one-sided in its exploration of the issue, and that its ‘shock horror’ statistic that more veterans committed suicide last year than were killed in Helmand is sensationalist rather than statistically meaningful. Simon also suggests that the reason PTSD incidence appears to be going up in UK troops could be because stigma about it is slowly being reduced – which is a good thing.

Both, ultimately, want to help British soldiers, and if PTSD is rising among our troops, that may be because of the intense fighting in Afghanistan in the last few years. So how could the MoD do more for our soldiers and veterans? The families of soldiers who committed suicide have drawn up a petition, which has seven demands:

1) Medical notes should be automatically passed onto GPs after a soldier is discharged. (This is to try to get the MoD and NHS to link up better).

2) The Army should carry out mandatory welfare checks on soldiers every six months after being discharged as per the recommendations of the ‘Fighting Fit’ mental health policy paper drawn up by Dr Andrew Murrison MP.

3) There should be residential units to treat all serving soldiers and veterans suffering with PTSD.

4) Serving soldiers should be able to access NHS services.

5) To reduce waiting lists for veterans seeking help for mental health related issues. Waiting lists are currently too long and it should not be left to charities to deal with this problem.

6) Soldiers should be able to ask for help with mental health issues without it going on their permanent Army records.

7) Soldiers’ families should be informed about the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) and other mental health related illnesses.

You can sign the petition here.

Permission to be hurt

If there is still a ‘stiff upper lip’ in the British military, then I’d suggest that the military (and all of us) need to broaden our conception of male strength, to incorporate the Stoic idea that being strong means knowing how to take care of yourself, rather than taking out your problems on yourself and those around you. That definition of ‘Stoic’ is not the same as denying or bottling up your feelings, which is how some people misinterpret stoicism.

Personally, I was diagnosed with PTSD when I was 20, and I bottled it up for years out of a sense of shame at my weakness and foolishness (there was nothing heroic about my wound – I’d done too many drugs). Funnily enough, one of the things that helped me come to terms with my woundedness was a book about shell-shock by my great-grandfather, Lord Moran, called Anatomy of Courage.

My great-grandad, who served as a doctor in the Somme trenches

My great-grandfather was a doctor serving in the trenches during the Somme. I was particularly touched by one passage where he admitted his own fear and woundedness. He wrote of how, during the Somme, the man next to him was obliterated by a German shell: “I had a feeling as if I was physically hurt though I was not touched, the will to do the right thing was for a moment stunned…The war had never been the same since, something in the will had snapped…At the time I do not think I was much frightened, I was too stunned to think. But it took its toll later. I was to go through it many times in my sleep…Even when the war had begun to fade out of men’s minds I used to hear all at once the sound of a shell coming.”

My great-grandad went on to do great things – he was Churchill’s doctor during the War – but what touched me was that brave moment of vulnerability and candour in his writing. Even though there is a vast difference between him getting shell-shock in the trenches, and me traumatizing myself with LSD, it still seemed to give me a sort of permission to be wounded.

In other news:

Talking of the stiff upper lip, this excellent short essay by GK Chesterton argues that the stiff upper lip was invented by decadent aristocrats in the Edwardian era and that actually manly Brits are fine with sobbing like babies.

Cary Cooper, guru of well-being at work at Lancaster University, has published a massive book called Well-Being: A Complete Reference Guide. So that’s that sorted then.

Here’s an interesting initiative:

City AM, of all places, looks at the revival of the liberal trivium in education and business.

Daniel Dennett gives an interesting interview on religion, why Jesus is a good role model and why we need secular places that make us feel special and loved.

This week I’ve been pondering whether and how ecstatic / revelatory experiences can be ‘tested out’.

Danny Fox of Frieze considers pretentiousness with reference to Eno and Paris is Burning.

The Stoned Age: were cavemen on drugs? Would the Bronze Age have happened quicker if they weren’t?

Finally, the LA Review of Books reviews an interesting-sounding book by Dutch philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, arguing for a spirituality based on the idea of practice, with the goal of saving humanity from itself. Interesting – although the Nietzchean / Foucaultian idea of spirituality as care of the self, which Sloterdijk draws on, is highly individualistic and ignores the idea of religion as relational – as a relationship not just with your self but with your community and God. It also, perhaps, ignores ecstatic experience and the idea of people feeling a connection with God.

However, the title of the book, You Must Change Your Life, hints at the idea of hearing a divine voice – it comes from a brilliant poem by Rilke, where he stands in front of a headless statue of Apollo, god of prophecy (on the right), and seems to hear a voice telling him ‘you must change your life’. Is that his own projection, or the God speaking to him from the ruins of antiquity? Here’s the poem, ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’ in translation:

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,
gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:
would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

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I am traveling to HK in a week and I was wondering if my iPhone with AT&T would work there. I was planning on keeping it shut off to avoid roaming charges but would like to find out if it would even work in case of an emergency.
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Early Autumn

Just an old one from last Autumn!

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This is one of those images that makes you repeat yourself. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Rob

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#1 Mon March 5, 2007 7:53pm

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Great shot Julie. Superb lighting and colour.
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#2 Mon March 5, 2007 7:56pm

Ahh, I was wondering just how bad the global warming was on your side. Then I thought you finally got out of the house. No matter, it's a very pretty shot. Is it meant to be slanted like a hill? It looks good either way. The lighting is perfect. Smile
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#3 Mon March 5, 2007 7:57pm

A really lovely Autumn Scene Julie..well taken......Jimmy.
#4 Mon March 5, 2007 8:02pm

Wonderful light and wonderful colour!....where have you been hiding this one?...saving it for a rainy day I bet!..lol............beautiful shot Julie!..........Ken
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#5 Mon March 5, 2007 8:05pm

this is great well done
#6 Mon March 5, 2007 8:18pm

Julie W
Thank you all very much for your lovely comments......and yes Amanda it is on the side of a hill ! LOL Smile

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. Wink
#7 Mon March 5, 2007 8:22pm

This is lovely Julie. The tones, lighting and composition are all just perfect.

Well done!
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#8 Mon March 5, 2007 8:38pm

Lovely Julie,super shot
#9 Mon March 5, 2007 8:54pm

What a lovely photograph - I can hear the leaves scrunching underfoot. Perhaps lacks sharpness? Composition and colours are yummy, and you've captured a mood. Hang on! Isn't it meant to be Spring there now?
#10 Mon March 5, 2007 9:13pm

#11 Mon March 5, 2007 9:23pm

Lovely image Julie......well done.

> John
#12 Mon March 5, 2007 9:25pm

Wonderful composition and lighting. A realy nice shot. Smile
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#13 Tue March 6, 2007 9:03am

Beautiful lighting, I like the way it's dappled throught the leaves! Smile D.
#14 Tue March 6, 2007 12:57pm

Julie W
Thanks to you all, such lovely comments Smile .....Julie
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. Wink
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#1075441 - 03/22/05 12:45 AM Re: Photos- my practice space
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Originally posted by IgnorantHusband:

Thanks!! Looks like it works but fills the whole screen..

You need to use PhotoShop, Paint, Compupic, or some similar graphics program to resize the image to usually not more than 640 pixels wide. There is supposed to be HTML code that can by typed in as well, to leave the image as is, but force it to display smaller, but I have never been able to make the usual HTML code work here.

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As promised pictures of my practise keyboard at work (the gym)...unfortunately, guys the Eric prydz gals had just been working out in their skimpies and I'd been out to lunch and missed them! :rolleyes:

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Lee \:\)

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#1075443 - 03/24/05 08:11 AM Re: Photos- my practice space
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here goes :- you had an extra space at the end

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Thanks apple \:D ...thats better \:\)

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Huh? What? I thought you all were kidding. Do you practice piano at a gym? Or is there live music for the aerobics class or something?
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Wow that would make for some interesting acoustic effects!

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Hi ShiroKuro

I own the gym...so I exercise (pardon the pun) the right to practise there whenever I jolly well feel like it. ;\)

Although as a general rule I have some in-ear phones that I wear when practising during quieter times (say in the afternoons) so as not to upset (and lose) too many of my members.

Although I will crank it up and play for anyone who is interested in hearing how I am getting along...which amazingly has cured me of many of my initial performance nerves. \:D

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*starts to drool* (lol)

all of ya'lls pianos are so B-E-A-utiful! some day i will get a grand piano or baby grand, and i will post it! so everybody reading this is a witness that i will some day get a piano! \:D right now, all i have is a Yamaha keyboard (full length..all 88 keys) i will post a pic of it if i ever take one (which i really need to do lol) it is in a corner of my room which makes it convinient for me and gives me a little private practice space of my own ;\)

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wow.. I'd find it very difficult to practice at the gym.
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Here's my piano. It's an old picture, but I'm too lazy to get the digital camera and take a new picture. \:D

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well, i'm sorry to hear that. i would complain a little myself, but it's gotten old. nor is this the time or place.

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I'm actually playing catch-up a bit here; this was last week's recipe for Barefoot Bloggers.  Even though I made something similiar over the summer for Project Pastry Queen, I was still looking forward to trying this version.  As far as I'm concerned, you can never make too much French toast.  Challah baked in custard is never a bad thing.  Since Ina's recipe makes enough for 8, and there are only 2 people in my house who can eat eggs, I wanted to cut it down quite a bit.  I really liked the idea of serving it in individual ramekins, so I adapted her recipe to fit my needs.

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  • pinch of salt
  • confectioners' sugar and maple syrup, for serving
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Lightly spray 4 ramekins with cooking spray.

In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs.  Whisk in the milk, maple syrup, orange zest, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.  Gently fold in the challah cubes, and combine well.  Divide the bread and custard among the ramekins.  Allow to soak for at least 10 minutes.

Place the ramekins on a baking sheet, and cover with foil.  Make slashes in the foil with a sharp knife to allow steam to escape.  Bake 30 minutes, then remove the foil.  Bake an additional 20-30 minutes, until the pudding puffs up and the custard is set.  Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly.

Dust with confectioners' sugar and serve hot with maple syrup.

HCM said...

This look like a wonderful Sunday morning breakfast treat! I can’t wait to try it!

Anonymous said...

wow ,Bread Pudding nicely presented.

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