"I save everything, just about. When I had cancer, I lost a lot of weight and my sweatshirts were a little big, but I saved them and I still wear them. If I cook a pot of beans, I eat [some of] them, and then I freeze them and eat them later. I try to be very saving.

"When I was really little, we did not have electricity. We went to the well and drew water. My daddy would chop the wood, and we'd warm by the fireplace. I had something that I wore for Sunday -- you didn't wear that to school, you wore it to church. Then you had school clothes that my mother made. Sometimes I had to wear my brother's coat to school: It was warm, and I didn't have any gloves.

"I didn't know any other way. Like going to school, we didn't have the money to buy lunch in the lunch room, which at that time was called a soup kitchen. So I carried my lunch or did without until I got home, and whenever I carried it, it was an egg and a biscuit.

"Yes, I am a saving person, and I think that's why."