| Summary: | flour-barrel In the past there were many extended families that had no household accounts. There was but the company account and to this were charged all the food, clothing and other articles purchased by the father for the group. They would all 'eat out of one flour barrel,' both in the sense that they shared what had been purchased for all and, literally, in that the family head would open a barrel of flour which all would use until the contents were consumed. see cited qoutation GMS Feb 81 Used I Used I Used I
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