In 1991, the country was in an agony of restructuring. There is no certainty in tomorrow, today and yesterday. He who remembers, remembers.
Mr the lion. My friend lives with his father, mother, two younger sisters and his mother’s grandmother.
A grandmother, or rather a grandmother over ninety, she hears poorly, for ten years she was not out on the street, barely walking through the apartment to the toilet and back. The income of the family is the salary of the parents of doctors and a small pension. Every day it becomes more hungry and stressed. And my grandmother often cried and cried, “God doesn’t give me death.” All my peers are already there, the children I have survived and only ruin the life of my granddaughter and her family.
In the evening, the whole family came to the family council in the grandmother’s room and the father began:
Not only do you not bother us, but vice versa. We wanted you.
Let us leave you alone and not worry, but we cannot live without your life.
The Experience. Grandma, take the business, from now on you will be a treasurer with us.
Your word is the law, or without a clear list of expenses we do not have anything.
is enough. Here are our two salaries, commander.

And the grandmother placed notes, wallets and pots with little stuff.
Every day, all the members of the family in the morning stood up to her in line to take money for pocket expenses.
The grandmother remarkably revived, she managed to roll out 120 rubles. On the new vacuum cleaner, especially since the parents raised the salary by 40 and 60 rubles. On weekends, the grandchildren (if they behaved well throughout the week) received fifty rubles for movies and ice cream.
A couple of years later, the old lady affairfully regretted the family: - how will you be without me, because you are all scattered...

She died happy, needed to her family, and never learned that all of her "family money" 400 rubles with pennies... would not be enough for one tram ticket that cost 10,000, and the money was already other.