[ar15saveslives]

> Of course that made them, for that time, unusable! So he had to toss them.

Honest question: your mother didn't bother to work anywhere, why couldn't she help him?

And I like this "he had to toss them", as they lived apart, and it wasn't a family's loss.

[dang]

An "honest question" wouldn't use a loaded phrase like "didn't bother". This is a nasty form of personal attack, and those are not allowed here. Since you followed it up with something even nastier, we've banned this account.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406978 and marked it off-topic.

[CompanyLaser]

She was an artist. Making money isn't a requirement for something to be work.

[loco5niner]

Huh, I think I'll become an artist. It sounds nice.