My Mother, the Frugal Finn

Author(s)

Sharon Love Cook

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

5-9-2021

Abstract

"I'm a frugal Finn," my mother often announced by way of explaining her thriftiness. Frugality was in her Finnish genes, she claimed. Nonetheless, she sometimes carried it too far.

Keywords

Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton

eCommons Citation

Cook, Sharon Love, "My Mother, the Frugal Finn" (2021). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 648.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/648