What are some nuggets of knowledge your parents/grandparents passed onto you from the Great Depression?

The jewish controlled federal reserve bank caused it, so they could buy up all the prime real estate at cents in the dollar and cause as much suffering as possible to the dumb feck sheep.

Worked well, as it will this time..

Go back to sleep sheep.

I have wanted to kick myself for not asking more questions of my 103 year old grand mother, and my 91 year old mother and 84 year old father, thy have all passed now, guess I thought I would always have them with me. Many question I have now. The elders are a good resource that we should value.

Life's a big shit sandwich...and everybody's gotta take a bite.

Take care of your things so that they don't break or wear out.

Buy one quality item that will last years rather than a series of cheap ones.

Your school clothes/dress up clothes and shoes were treated with respect; removed and hung up when you got home and replaces with play clothes and shoes so that they would last longer. You didn't dare get your good clothes dirty playing around in them. Back then, washing clothes was a big deal so you didn't wash something after wearing it for a few hours. Most people had less than 5 outfits period, so you had better believe that they were never thrown on the floor in a wad!

Things were maintained and/or repaired because it was not a cheap Wal-Mart goods disposable society back then.

The banks did everything possible to take land away from farmers. Gov imposed laws that made farmers lose their farms. Ex: they dropped the paying price for milk and made many farmers dump milk in the ditches. Gramps raised potatoes also and the gov said in order for you to sell potatoes you have to buy 40 bushel totes to put them in. The totes were higher than what they could get selling the potatoes so they would dump em in a pile on the farm to rot because of the gov's policy.

Food prices at the grocery were high and city folk starved even though farmers had lots of food to sell at cheap prices.

In other words the gov was intentionally trying to starve people into accepting the bankers will.

Victory Garden, Rabbgits, pigs, goats, and chickens.

East Los Angeles and all of So Cal.

Also he said that children were barefoot until the dead of winter to save money. People had dirt floors in their house, many wore cardboard shoes, nothing was ever discarded....no such thing as trash. Lots of rabbits, Quayle, chickens, livestock raised. Said a couple of years before he passed that after his generation passed that we would be slaves to the gov.

Every person who lived in that time that I knew hated the gov and said they did the devils work

Yep what he said

These two alone are very lacking in our current society:

Young boys were taught essential skills by their fathers on home maintenance and repair as well as for the automobile. By the teen years, young men were very capable having been mentored for years by fathers, grandfathers, and uncles.

Young girls learned homemaking skills at an early age. By the teen years, they could manage cooking, cleaning, and sewing almost as well as the mother. Grandparents taught skills as well. My mother's mother taught me how to sew on her sewing machine by the age of 12. By the same age, my father's mother had taught me how to crochet blankets and such.

Again what he said.

Yep this too....

Not to waste food. Or else!

They had a more localized economy back then. I'm afraid this time would be quite different.


Unfortunately.


Other than that - soup beans and bake your own bread. :)

Never TRUST what this government has to say (ever!) and to fend for yourself.

and potatoes will sustain you indefinitely.

Get a cow or you may have to eat artificially colored lard on your potatoes !

Don't let any food go to waste. Feed scraps to animals (chickens or pigs on the farm or dogs/cats) or put it on the compost heap to provide nutrients to next year's vegetable garden.

Plant a variety of fruit trees and berry plants (straberry plants, blackberry or raspberry bushes) in your yard the first year you own your home. Always plant at least one citrus tree (or be sure to grow tomatoes) for a source of vitamin C.

Keep a box or two of bees if you are so inclined. They are not difficult to keep, the honey is a good free source of sugar, the bees pollinate your fruit trees, vegetable plants, and flowers as needed, and the extra honey can be filtered (through cheesecloth), boiled (to kill any bacteria/mold/yeast), and stored in jars with wax on top in a dark cool place until it is needed.

Never buy a new car; pay cash for a good used car and keep it maintained and use it for at least 200,000 miles. Donate any car you replace to charity.

Combine trip/errands to one morning/afternoon, go the speed limit, try not to brake when unnecessary, walk or bicycle to nearby destinations, and keep your tires properly inflated to save on gasoline costs.

Grow a vegetable garden every year. Can what you have in excess (fruit and vegetables) to eat over the winter. Always share some with your neighbors.

Keep crystals in the freezer so there is never a need to defrost it.

Keep the thermostat on 68 year-round and use oscillating fans in bedrooms at night. Use screens on doors and windows. Shut off A/C (or heat) and open doors/windows to let the breeze through on nice days/evenings.

If the A/C goes down in the summer (or you have none), sleep in moist sheets out on the porch to make your own air-conditioning.

Never cross the desert during the day; always cross the desert at night; you can hang a block of ice out the window from your car if you have no A/C.

Never travel without extra water, choclate bars, emergency blankets, sand (or a bag pf kitty litter) and a shovel in your car.

Make your own summer fly catchers by placing some raw meat in a glass jar with fine metal mesh secured on top (the flies get in but are too fat to get out); hang your fly catchers around the house above doorways.

Get rid of ants in the house using vinegar.

Never throw anything of future use away; keep it filed with like things in labeled jars and boxes in an organized fashion in your garage or work room.

I'm sure there must be more...

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Never give up your gold or your guns

watch Red Dirt Rising - the movie.
Never give your dad lip or he will give you a split lip
Always take care of your car's engine
Don't mess with divorcee's - you don't know where they've been
Build it, they will come

Waste not, want not.

My mom (now mid-80s) was way ahead of the green movement. She used junk mail envelopes for shopping lists, hung our laundry out in the sun to dry, took our shoes in to be re-soled instead of buying new ones, only allowed us girls to own one purse at a time. She had this old petrified gourd that she would stretch a sock over to darn holes in the sock. I wish I had that gourd now, LOL. I wouldn't know how to darn a sock, should have paid attention.

That, along with letting NOTHING go to waste. She also has a cookbook from World War II that lists all the substitutions for basic ingredients in case you couldn't get any at the time.

My mother (who was a child during the depression) oft repeated the phase: make do or do without.

Use it up
Wear it out
Make it do
Or do without

A number of the children and grandchildren of depression era parents/grandparents, live by this rule, and state sponsored media calls them hoarders.

Oh and jars, save wide-mouth jars like pickle jars, wash them thoroughly and use them to store leftovers instead of plasticware. Now we all know that plastic leaches toxins, stick with glass.

I heard that often from my grandma before she passed. She was a teenager during the depression.

Waste not,want not.

From my Granny, many years ago....

Long Slick, Slim Feller'.
Pull His Cock, and Hear Him Beller!

What is it?

My mum had a giant wooden egg she'd use for darning socks over. According to her EVERYTHING could be mended or fixed.

She'd never throw a thing out either, just in case it might have some use - including the plastic tags for bread, rubber bands, paper clips, etc.

THAT was the rest of it - I knew I was missing part of the slogan...

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