My grandparents lived through the great depression too.

They had a thing about food as well – particularly sweets.

I think sweets were a luxury for so long that they didn’t know how to act when treats were finally plentiful.

Even today it’s mostly old people shopping the candy aisle at Walgreens.

The “just in case something terrible happens” part makes me want to stash money in Dubai and Singapore.

$2.5 million in each place and you could get on a plane and fly away if it all got too bad.

I feel a bit like my grandmother. She lived through the Great Depression and some real hard times. Once you’ve been through that, it stays with you for a long time. I’m not sure it ever leaves really. So, I do feel joy now, but there’s still that nagging feeling that it might all go away. Even later in life when my grandmother knew there was really no possibility of her going hungry, she always had this thing about food. With Tesla, I decided to raise a huge amount of money just in case something terrible happens.”

-Ashley Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Amazon)