True story - in the mid-1930's at the height of the depression my grandfather several times a day during the winter would send my 6-year-old father and his three sisters aged 9 to 13 down to the railroad crossing to throw rocks and snowballs at the steam locomotives as they passed by. The engine crews would retaliate and try to hit the kids by throwing lumps of coal at them. Once the locomotive had passed, the kids would gather up the lumps of coal that had been thrown at them and take it home to fuel the stove used to heat the house with.
I have gone hungry and was homeless for a while when I was young. It is something I wish for no one and I have compassion for those that have or are going through that now. When you are hungry you learn to eat anything and appreciate it. I once found a bag of navy beans in an abandoned house. I had never cooked beans before. I fired up a sterno can and followed the directions on the bag. That was the greatest thing I had ever tasted in my life. My brother refused to go hungry, he turned to robbery and has spent 33 years behind bars for it. My wife cooks navy beans whenever I am depressed about things and we eat it together. My favorite food in the world! She saved my life by loving me and taking me in when she found me. People say the most important thing in the world is Family and they are right. I had no family when I was young but I do now thanks to my wife. Her and my children are the only thing that matters.
I also have been homeless and hungry. It is amazing what you would eat after not having anything for one week. It was in the 70s, I had just graduated from college on the honor roll. I could not find a job and nobody would help me financially. It was a hard lesson, but I learned more being homeless than in college. This can happen to anybody. Your “luck” can change at anytime and everything go wrong. I don’t judge homeless people, it could be me or you next time. Help the homeless if you can!
I hate to break it to you Toto, but this ain't the 70's anymore... The signs at the zoo specifically tell you not to feed the animals.... And you have a college education?
Panhandlers are everywhere. I've lived out of car, 6mo, did not beg to anyone. Frugal is an important word. Those less fortunate than me, no car, no SOcial Security, can go to the many agencies, churches, even some stores will offer food, soupkitchens feed people everyday. Nice home now and when I'm out homeless beg with scams. I do not donate to them. Donate to those agencies that provide for legitimate homeless folks. Be careful around desperate scammers!!
Red Cross and Oprah charities have boards who make over million a year. Give to those who help. If a local church has food bank that’s where it will do the most good.
My great grandfather would order hot water at a diner and put some ketchup in it to make tomato soup & dumpster dived. He became an orphan (8yo) while migrating from Lebanon, so survived with kindness of people of NY, in 1899. Lived until 99yo and was a successful restaurateur.
I've heard of folks having to do that, they'd order a cup of tea save the tea bag and use the hot water with crackers/ketchup for a cup of soup, I can't imagine that being very filling but that's pretty resourceful
My Grandmom was a black woman during the depression. She could cook from raw goods, raised pigs and chickens, butcher fish and animals, make quilts & clothing. She had a massive garden and did canning. She networked with other women of all colors to trade eggs and other produce. She made & sold ice cream too. My grandpa worked hard but my Grandmom was a beast at survival. #Mary Frances of southern Virginia
Kimberley B She sounds like the kind of woman I'd love to know. My dad grew up during the depression and had to drop out in the 8 th grade to help his family(11 kids). She had willpower, intelligence, knowledge, courage and a strong will to survive. She is definitely an inspiration to anyone who says you can't do something.
You were so lucky to have a grandmother such as yours Mine died young and my mother grew up in an orphanage but in the 70 s my husband and myself took ourselves to the country and raised 5 children growing a lot of our own food. I think we are facing the same thing now
Was born dirt poor in eastern Kentucky in 1950. My dad had severe mental problems and was sent to a hospital where he would be for years. Mom tried to feed us kids which numbered 9. I trapped rabbits at 7, worked any job I could get and bought food. Stole coal off a train car from time to time to heat in winter (not proud of that). Government commodities helped feed us but didn't do it all. A local church delivered a box of food one cold snowy night which I will never forget since we hadn't eaten in about 3 days. I am now middle class living in a nice home. I haven't forgotten my young life and I am a dedicated prepper with a freezer and two refrigerators full. I will not see anyone go hungry.
My dad almost starved to death during the depression and had seizures because of malnutrition. They were a family of nine in the 1930's. He told about if they had food in the winter it was sweet potatoes, white potatoes, onions and cow milk. Cornbread was a treat. At 87 and hardly can walk, he still gardens.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 God wants people to garden. Being able to grow our own food is one of His greatest gifts to us. Seeking God is great, but it's well known that He helps those who help themselves.
Community, hunting, foraging, blacksmithing, milling, weaving, sewing, mending, gardening, etc etc- all things the current society doesn't value, those are the things that really matter when society collapses. Thank you for posting this video! Al's my grandfather was a doctor during the depression- he and my grandmother saw it coming and prepared and stocked up what they believed they'd need. That taught me a lot about paying attention to the signs of the times.
I value these things because they're a great way to live a more sustainable life. The more things you can learn to do for yourself the less you have to rely on systems that could fail at any moment, and the more you appreciate everything you have and all the possibilities there are. I'm grateful I learned to sew as a kid and I'm hoping to start an outside garden when I have more money. Until then, I'm researching how to forage and purify water, as well as first aid and upcycling things I have. As many ways as I can to live off the land and use what I have to the fullest extent. It's tough that current society doesn't prioritize these skills, but as people see how they aren't being treated right by the government, they workplace, the banks, etc, they are slowly shifting to relying on themselves, and taking power back into their own hands.
They were very astute! If you listen to the videos of Lynette Zang, an economist here on RUclips, , she and many others are predicting a crash that will be as bad or worse than 1929. She's the only one though, who strongly advises to prepare by taking your money out of the bank but also the stock market, treasuries, bonds, annotates or any other fiat currency. It will be worth zero. Instead she says to buy gold and silver which hold their value (gold has for 6,000 years and is accepted globally!). Gold is high but silver is reasonable now. Both will skyrocket in a crash. She has a farm where she's been growing food and recommends on stockpiling food, water and other necessities. She saw the handwriting on the wall in the 2008 plunge and started prepping then. She explains exactly what is happening that the government won't tell you!
My grandparents lived in the city in New Jersey , she always kept a pot of soup on the stove she boiled chicken or beef bones added what every she could find including young dandelion greens to the mix and made her own bread . Men flooded to the city trying to find work , there wasn't any . They would go banging on doors begging for food to eat . Grandma "NEVER" turned them away ! A bowl if her soup with a hunk of bread , she gave them to eat on her back porch . She said some of the men cried when she gave them this meal ! ! . . . 💖
I've been going through some rough times but this comment has really lifted my mood. Your grandma was an angel, it just goes to show what a little humanity can do in the worst of times
@@joshuas.686 Joshua , I'm so sorry to hear that life is treating you roughly . You did a great job on the video . It's a true reminder how tough we can be when things seem impossible ! I'v prayed for you and want to encourage you . We're faced with such difficult times in our lives , what makes an individual a stand out like those people who lived and survived the Great Depression" , was their ability to carry on sometimes just moment by moment . You can do this . You can be an inspiration to others who are hanging on by a thread , during these dark days ! . . 🌻
@Nature Of The Beast Just an FYI ? Even the bones from a chicken , beef or hame can be slow cooked over low heat and make a delicious broth . You'd be surprised what you can eat if your hungry enough . . 🍵
I pray that people will be this kind when the SHTF. I'm afraid that too many have become so obsessed with prepping and having enough for themselves, that they have no compassion or empathy for others and would rather shoot than share! 😢 🙏🏻❤
My grandma lived through the Great Depression and it wasn’t until I was older I understood why Grandma never threw out left overs it was because she knew what it was like to be hungry. She was an amazing woman grew up in a two bedroom farm home with 11 siblings. I asked her one day how did they all stay in such a little home. Her answer was well precious you see the smaller the house the closer the family. And they were! I would look for something to eat in her cabinets and didn’t see anything but oh no grandma would throw me a simple delicious meal. We don’t have to have it as hard as they did back in The Great Depression. Prep, Prep,and Prep!
My mom tried to teach me so much about reusing things. Nothing went to waste. She would remove buttons and zippers from worn clothing. The clothing was used to patch, extend, expand, remake other clothing especially for the growing children. If it couldn't be used for anything else, it was used to make a quilt. A roll of paper towels was a luxury for her and would last about a year. So many times I didn't understand her. She passed about two years ago from pancreatic cancer. I miss her so much. But now I go through my sewing supplies, finding the elastic from undies, they are perfect for the masks we now are required to have. The buttons, zippers and so much more is now being used. I hear her sweet voice inside of my head telling me, I told you you'd need that one day. All stay safe.
I know how to sew but the material cost more than buying the whole item at Walmart these days thrift stores have gotten way more expensive since the upper-middle-class found out about them and the material used for today's clothing and blankets doesn't last sometimes not even through the first wash things will wear out faster than they did back then
@@australianwoman9696 Thankyou so much for the thoughts. She taught me so much. One thing that she made, that I get compliments and questioned about often. I had some nice towels that had worn out on the ends. She trimmed the worn part, used the elastic from my husband's worn out fruit of the looms, folded the towel and sewed the ends to be able to pull the elastic through and secure together making arm covers for my couch and chairs. The arms of the furniture stayed clean and the covers are easy to wash. 😊🌹🦋🌹
@Anthony 223 Throughout the 10-year Depression people needed all the necessities: shelter, clothes, shoes, etc. They had to scrimp and scratch out everything possible to survive. They learned to make do, but frequently had to do without. After things changed because of the New Deal, that generation continued to not waste anything. Our parents and grandparents passed those values onto the next generations.
@Anthony 223 Take a lesson from those who survived it and living now and sharing to the wise that will listen. There are non so blind, than those who refuse to see. I'm living with the same conditions, I would fix it if I could. I can't, but I need to figure out how to survive it. I do hope that you figure something out. I pray, that helps me.
It's honestly weird that I came across this today. Just earlier today, and I'm being dead serious, I told my husband that I've been thinking a lot lately about something my grandfather used to say to us. He told us all as we were older and having our kids that if there was just one thing in life that he could teach us it's that history repeats itself. Then he'd say, you have a family and if you dont have a stock pile of non-perishables, such as canned foods and seeds to plant then you're doing it all wrong and you better pray you never have to regret it. So I said this to my husband today and told him for some reason it's been weighing on my mind, I can here my grandfathers voice saying to me, you're doing it all wrong and history repeats itself. Then tonight this video pops up. Coincidence?? Idk but it makes me feel like it might be time to reevaluate the way we grocery shop.
It's called " being moved by the Holly Spirit " don't ignore it , It's been going on for some time with the men and women in my church. Some are well to do , others not . I am a known Marksmanship instructor even the Pastor bought a handgun and showed up at my range. He had never owned a firearm before.
I am glad that I have a farm. I am blessed that my parents taught me how to farm. How to can, garden, raise pigs, rabbits, cows, how to sew, trim hooves, help with birthing, and how to put my faith in God. I lost my mom, a year ago, August. She taught me a lot and I miss her. I still have my little 83 year old daddy. I am always learning new things.
Wow God bless you... Very interesting I've always wanted to live the farm life it's just my daughter grandson and I in this world it's very hard but I always pray. Take care.
I very much want to live on a farm In the middle of nowhere because I know for a fact that stuff is coming in the next 10 years that will be hard if I’m not off the grid
My dad was born the year it started. My mom born two years later. Their childhood WAS the Great Depression and it formed their psyches. I was born in 1956 and I was raised in the Great Depression because my parents carry it to this day. My dad passed 2 years ago but my mom still talks about it.
Exactly! I was born in '48. My parents went through the depression and carried some of it with them, and some trickled down to me and on to my daughters. You don't forget lessons learned. You store up food when you can, you never throw anything away if it still has some value, and you help others whenever you can!!
@@pegatheetoo1437 My parents were young children during the Depression. My grandparents weren't too bad off (not rich though) but pinched pennies and lived frugally. My grandfather passed and then my grandfather maybe 10 years later. When my mother and her siblings went to clean out her home to sell it, they discovered that she was a hoarder and had saved everything! A friend's mother was like that too. She saved every single magazine and newspaper (among other things )that she had read! There were stacks and stacks of them all over the house - these people had money too! The Depression had a profound effect on people!
@@Woof728 I collect old Life and Look magazines. They are a great look back at American and world history. Don't throw away things like that. Have a good day.
It’s almost like you had a feeling we’d be in this situation again. My son is 26. He’s an old soul. He’s been hunting and prepping for awhile. He kept telling me for the last couple years of years that something was going to happen. He was right. He’s smarter than I am ! I’m so proud of him!
Good for you:) History repeats itself. So many I know have known this would come for 2 decades. Probably because we read the Bible ( Revelations). Things will get worse. Good you have your son:) Do you know Christ? Eternity is coming. Jn 3:16 God bless you:)
My grandfather lived through the depression and World War II and he had 6 children and he had a grocery store in the basement and enough toilet paper for decades. I’m a prepper like both my grandparents and my family made fun of me until coronavirus came along. Recently I had a financial loss and thank god I have everything I need stored away 🙏
I'm the same way but do not know if any of my family had hardships like that (I am from another country and my grandmother was privileged, as a young person she never went hungry). They used to make fun of me but I am the resource for information on anything now. I am also a registered nurse.
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I’m 73 my parents grew up in the depression. We grew up poor in a major city. As society has moved ever closer to collapse I have been stocking up. Bartering, sewing, gardening, canning, making do thankfully are skills My generation have. I pity anyone under 50 today. Many wouldn’t know how to survive. Seem like the younger generations can’t wait for us older folks to pass away, they need to remember when we pass that knowledge goes with us. Trying to share survivor skills with whomever will . Unfortunately, many are so screen addicted they either do not have the time or desire to get their hands on learning. I applaud everyone who has or is willing to put in the time to learn. Many like myself are more than willing to share our knowledge and experience. Just last week my 12 year old granddaughter visited for a week. She wanted make a dress for a niece. We had to start with learning to thread a hand sewing needle. Needless to say she had absolutely no experience with fabric, notions, patterns…..didn’t know what a thimble or pinking shears were. Sadly over the course of a week, even though she wanted to sew, her main focus was her phone and/or I-pad…….when she wasn’t on-line she was totally lost. It was VERY frustrating to dedicate time and patience in trying to share when the student(my granddaughter was mentally checked out and couldn’t wait to escape back to technology. She was so eager to show me how fluent the web is about sewing skills and what goggle says about sewing but was almost unwilling to pick up the scissors. It is the disconnect between knowledge and hands-on skills that is the real issue. I congratulate everyone out there in you-tube land that has taken the time and effort to embrace both hands-on experience and media learning. You will be the survivors going forward. Still I am Praying for the future of America.
@chubbynugget That came to mind when he was talking about people having lost the ability for sewing and mending their own clothes, etc. Huh? Nah, you're just not paying attention to the teenagers. If you browse DIYs on RUclips or whatever social media thing, it's full of high-school age girls with sewing machines, altering and customizing garments they pick up at thrift stores. I don't think it's ever been trendier to know how to sew since it was necessary to make all your clothes yourself lol.
Don't pity, my 15 year old has been sewing for 4 years now. She cooks dinner at least 3 times a week as she has kept 150 years worth of family recipes. She can hunt, fish, shoot, has a black belt in taekwondo, and is one hell of an Archer. This kid even knows how to change the oil in her truck, change a tire, the car battery, etc from watching and learning from her grandfather. She has her own bank account and refuses to rely on her debit card. Her box garden flopped this year but that hasn't stopped her from building an additional box and taking a gardening class from our local plant shop so she can go for it again next summer and start her canning project. My gen Z (Zoomer as I call her lol) is a force to be reckoned with and smart. Don't discount their knowledge and skill, they just might surprise you :)
People south of 50 often don't have opportunity to be self-sufficient because the government has taken all the resources to achieve this away from us. Then they tell the people older then 50 that we are a useless, hopeless good for nothing lot, basically kids having kids expecting them to provide for them. This is how the powers that be keep us all isolated so they can divide and conquer.
This guy is prob the only prepper ive heard of talking about helping other people and his neighbours...Usually other preppers talk about turning their best friends and some say even turning family away because they didnt prepare.....This chap is legit and you can tell hes a decent human!
My grandpa used to tell me about when he was 12 years old and left home on a boxcar to find work during great depression. His mother was a widow of 8 children during the great depression he lived til 78 and was a humble man that loved the Lord.
@@countryfriedent How was the Lord not humble brother? He left heaven and the entire universe and became a man to suffer death on a cross for you and me. He could have spoke a word and sent legions of angels to slay his accusers but humbled himself.
@@m4nny_143 yeh well I said it a month ago. Every day takes us further away into the depths of utter dispair and mark my words, world hunger. The hunger games hay?
That's sure what it feels like. Two incomes a renter and still barely get by. Things will get easier if I stick with my career. But looking for tips to make these hard times easier
My parents went through the depression. My father would never eat soup and said he’d had enough to last him a lifetime during the depression. Growing up I always had good home cooked meals made from scratch. My mother would make the best casseroles out of leftovers. No food was ever thrown away. They were very frugal. There was an old saying that one could “squeeze a nickel ‘til the Buffalo sh**” and it was true, they could. Every penny counted for something. My grandmother taught me to sew my own clothes, quilts, etc and I learned to cook from scratch which I still do today at 73. I can raise my own vegetables in my garden and know how to preserve/can them. So many of these ways are becoming a lost art and it’s sad to see it happening. Is the fast paced materialistic society we live in today really worth it? I’m beginning to think not.
I've met 60 year old women in the store who didn't know how to work a pressure cooker or which flour already had baking powder in it. They were 30 years older, so I was sure they'd know, so i asked them. Part of the blame is their own parents not teaching them. Teach your kids everything you know. My own parents didn't and expected me to know without being told.
An interesting read. My parents said they had had enough of rabbit to last a lifetime as during the Depression (in Sydney) when men, known as rabbitos, would walk through the streets carrying loads of dead rabbits to sell. Men would also walk thr streets selling fish they had caught. They would try and make money any way they could. They were cheap. They would never touch rabbit in later years. Like you, I can look after myself, and my mother who is 98 still NEVER throws any food away. You are so right. The old way of living is becoming a lost art.
I totally agree with you. My grandparents lived through the depression and had a corner grocery store and also had a farm they grew vegetables on for the store. They were not rich by any means and thankfully they did not want for anything. But they did not buy anything either. The good Lord was watching over them. But you are so very right about so much will be lost as older people pass on. It is so very sad. I am a grandmother 👵🏼 of 6 grandchildren. Thankfully my one child knows exactly what is going on in the world. They are in their 2nd year of becoming Homesteaders. They limit the children’s tv time and my older grandchildren love to read and read to their siblings. Their parents are selective on what they read. Except for the baby and the next youngest, everyone works in the garden, planting seeds and plants and pulling weeds. I feel Technology has ruined the younger generation the most. I have an I phone but have come to dislike it. I waste too much time on it. I remember making my children’s clothing when they were babies and up to maybe age 5. I sewed teddy bears and dolls when they were little. They loved their toys. I used to go to a farm to pick vegetables and strawberries, but I blanched and froze a lot and would make preserves. I used to make scrap quilts, but tied the blocked. Growing up, a girl I knew lived with her grandmother and she crocheted. I asked her grandmother to teach me and she did. My first project was a vest and than afghans. I can’t do anything fancy but I can make them. It really saddens me what is happening in the world and to our country. I hate to think about all the great knowledge our grandparents and even our parents had that will be lost forever.
My mother was raised in the depression. The stories! The sense of helping others. I have to share 1 that stuck with me. My Granddad would order a cup of tea for lunch for a nickel. He'd save the bag & pour catsup in the hot water for tomato soup. That was his lunch. He & my Nanna raised 3 ladies. God bless them. He never once complained. He never EVER spoke poorly of another person & he never once declined when I asked him to take me fishing. He hitchhiked across the country playing fiddle for the silent movie houses & delighted all 21 of his grandchildren with true stories of those adventures. Ive reassessed what wealth really is.
Greg Jacques Lucifer's Jizz Gargler - lol you’re obviously not old enough to understand what is character building and what is an entitled little bitch. Buckle your seatbelt tight, because you’re about to struggle with the new reality we are all about to encounter...
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein
Yes, stock up on food and water now, keep your money out of the bank, get out of the stock market and buy gold and silver! Gold is globally accepted and hasn't lost its value in 6,000 years!
I just turn 90 this Dec. 13th! And I've lived in this time! I still live with, raising my own food hunt and fish! Chop wood for heat and I still don't have electricity! Raised 12 children, with just what we could do! I'm not rich with Money but with love No matter who you were Evey one came together for each other! My mommy made her kids go out to the filled and gather rocks ,she put it in a pot of hot water! She called it love soap! Iowa's rased on the reservation for people everywhere was hurting and it was bad on the reservations!
I wish i would know you I live on a reservation in french part of Canada I am lucky i have some money but i do not know how to work with my hands I went hunting for the first time with my brother last fall I will try to grow a small garden next spring I guess i should buy some tools to be able to chop wood for next winter I miss my ancesters Take good care of you
@Kate Lane: I am 72. I started to food stockpile in 2018. 2020 Covid hit and I really got serious about having food and water at home. I have toilet paper and helped neighbors who couldn’t find it in my area of Colorado. Now we ‘share and network’ as neighbors on our street. We each have certain skill sets. This works for us. I start to make soups in Late August and freeze them. Then I share homemade soup, chili, cornbread, other breads monthly plus casseroles with 4 other elderly neighbors on my street. We pool our resources. We all are in Social Security and limited incomes. Don’t be isolated. Please. We have no family here. So our neighbors are now the family. Our church family also helps. It’s my husband, me, the big dog. I’ve learned not to cut ourselves off. We all need help. We all need interaction with others to get more ideas on how to survive the current 2021 situation. We will make it! Buy more blankets. Buy more water bottles. Do what you can now. This is the 2 things that concern you. Shop at Dollar stores and discount stores. You will find canned goods there. But mostly, don’t be isolated. There is help available! Take care! Pat in Colorado
Many years ago I had to move back in with my Mother and disabled brother, because I couldn't find a job in the town where I lived. Times pass, and I still live with them, because it's cheaper for all of us, and being older, we keep an eye on each other. It used to depress me, but I now realise it's for the best.
GazB85: Yes, and no. The OP is right. Most people nowadays can’t handle being without WiFi. I grew up watching the computer and Internet evolution take place so I can be fine without it. My kids on the other hand go crazy if they don’t have wifi and a screen to watch. They won’t read books or just “be bored.” My wife got them addicted to it all much to my frustrations.
This is very true. The other side of that, however, is how much of our lives seem to now require the internet to function. Just walk into a retail store when their network is down and you’ll watch the entire store virtually grind to a halt.
My parents grew up during the Depression. I learned so much from observing my grandmother. She had a third grade education then worked in the cotton mills. She went through the Spanish influenza, WWI, the Depression, WWII. She had twelve brothers and sisters and only six of the kids lived to adulthood. She was always cheerful. Her life was simple. She didn´t drive, she had a vegetable garden, she washed all the clothes by hand. She kept her life simple. She was always cheerful and joking around. She kept it simple. She did not allow her circumstances to define her. She enjoyed all of her little chores around the house. She was inclusive. You could stop by her house anytime and you were welcome and she would offer you a bowl of vegetable soup. This is the time when we can show up everyday with a smile on our faces, an offering of food and companionship. Let´s all show up for each other.
It would be great if people today would be like that they are too narcissistic only caring about the self. It’s going to be interesting to see how well many people act when they find out their smartphones can’t be charged by candlelight
When you have very little the love from family and friends means more. I have been prepping but not for myself I would do anything for my family and friends
All I’m going to say is that I’ve taken the lessons my grandparents learned and passed on to my parents to heart and using them for now. Folks may think I’m crazy but I see where we are heading. I’ve got cash set aside in my possession, seeds and everything to garden set aside and I’m just waiting. I see the cycle returning with the hyperinflation, devaluing of the dollar, and all the food processing plants mysteriously burning down.
My mother in law saved twist ties that come on loaves of bread. We found them in a metal band-aid tin. She never got over the depression mind set. I loved her so much.
My aunt saved plastic bags, foil, wrapping paper, paper clips, all sorts of stuff. She never got over the Depression, and her attic was full of saved stuff. Us kids slept on her back porch on hot nights. She grew a garden.
My grandma saved everything! When we visited she would check the trash to rescue things we threw away! When her home was cleaned out, their was a lot of crazy stuff she saved!
I know. I don’t want to argue with you. I believe we’re like minded people. I live in Amish country and have met many through my line of work. I have been blown away by what I have seen over the years.
Yep, the Amish people are a good model. Many of us skoof at them now. But, that is how you want to end up living if things really got bad! Housing, food, water, businesses, order, safety, community, Really, it is not to bad, when you look at it.
Something told me about this a long time ago.. i had bought 1 ww2 gas mask on random because it looked bad ass.. over time i lost it and moved, but i always moved light and still do to this day. i went and got another gas mask only to lose it again sadly, but NOW im going full out and keep it in a safe place for good if needed... funny the things life lets you see early on when you are young
@@x2gaming149 Make sure the filter in that mask is good enough to stop SARS-nCov2 particles, and make sure you don't share them with loved ones when mask is off.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost!
I am now 76. Before I was even born, my grandma would have my dad, who was a kid help her find and pick wild fruit, enough to make five pies. She would spend much of the days, as amount of flour and fruit would allow baking pies. She was related to a couple store keeper brothers who would sell these pies for 5 cents each, asking nothing in pay. My dad told me me grandma did this for several years. Impossible to imagine in this day and age.
My grandparents went through the depression so mom raised us on potato soup and navy beans with salt pork. I know how to cook and bake with very little. I’m grateful for growing up the way I did because I learned the basics in life and that has helped me through the hard times
The depression left a lasting impression on my late dad. We lived in a large city, with a tiny backyard, but the amount of fruits and vegetables our 30x40 garden and two pears trees produced was amazing. Knowing genuine hunger day in and day out was something Dad, never wanted us to experience. I could write paragraphs about the resourcefulness and thriftiness of my dad, I guess he was prepper almost 6 decades ago, before anyone used the term. One of my Pops favorite sayings, one I live by is, "Use it up, wear it out, make it due, or due without." Bless my Dad and all those folks who lived through the depression, and "made do" without resorting to crime.
@Dawn Swan . .thank you for posting this about your dad. Mine was born in 1928..there were hard times but my grandpa always had a garden that my dad helped with. People learned how to survive back then without resorting to crime.
Too many people believe they are too good, and don't deserve to have to make do. Those are the ones today who go out stealing and looting and now, their crimes are accepted. Instead of teaching them to become the valuable and useful adults they are capable of being, we are telling them that we accept them as the useless , hopeless beings they are!
Well...my grandparents and parents trusted banks because of FDIC. Unfortunately, part of my family lore became "don't trust the stock market." As a result, they could have turned hundreds of thousands into tens of millions -- but missed out.
DON'T TRUST ANYONE OR ANYTHING EVER!!! EVERYTHING CAN GO BAD AT ANY MOMENT!!! STAY INDOORS AND SUCK YOUR THUMBS THE WORLD IS A SCARY PLACE!!! And then we die and none of it mattered anyway.
@@GetMeThere1 You are delusional. During the Great Depression previous rich people were committing suicide after losing it all and the banks would close with people's money one day and never open again, which meant people lost all their savings. Robin is right. I have saving in the bank for things like my property taxes, which I pay in February or March so it's not in the bank for long and the rest is in my house in a fireproof safe in a secret place, until things improve. FDIC can't cover more than a small fraction of money in banks, it is an illusion.
I was raised by my grandparents, he was born in 1923 she in 1925. He would always say” It might not be in my lifetime but it’s going to happen again, you just watch and see”.They both saved anything that might have a use in the future.
I’m Hispanic & a lot of those traits are strong in the family. My grandmother is the queen of our big family, she is the oldest of 12 by 6 years so her whole life is taking care of loved ones & teaching life skills that everyone should have. Passed down by her grandma on to cook, how to sew, to clean especially the boys so the girls don’t have too, how to maintenance & repair the thing we use around us, making stuff from junk to use like making a BBQ pit from a old oil pipeline pipe, cutting grass without a gas powered lawnmower or fixing one that someone leaves out for junk, have trees of all kinds to eat from such lemon, pecan, orange, plums, grapefruit and then seeds like watermelon, cantaloupe, peanuts etc. She said we must know theses things so we never have to rely on ANYBODY. Don’t kill animals, unless you raised it yourself its whole life & it is going to feed the family & not just for one day. I don’t know understand why people want concrete beneath them makes no sense but we don’t get to choose what life we want to be born in, so enjoy the one you have because my grandma has a older sister but she was just never born. Have a good life my friends & thank you to whoever took time to read this.
my hispanic grandma lived until 102 and taught me very valuable lessons. She was a millionaire when she died and lived off $300 per month. In here little 600K 2 bedroom house in Van Nuys she bought for 3K.
Dewey Oxburger You are very fortunate to have been given time that most people will never be given.🙏🏽 I could only imagine all the lessons & stories she had from her good life.❤️
Scary thing is that both of my paw-paws said that a great depression will happen again and it'll be worse. Knowing how to survive off the land is key to survival. Hunting, fishing, raising your own livestock and gardening.
Both my parents grew up during the depression. My father said people didnt even lock their doors and windows. This time it will be a bloodbath; its not going to be close to the same thing.
Yeah, I tried to find a way to go back to the REAL lifestyle (gardening and so on) last year but my parents didn't want to help. Now I don't care about them that much, I'll try my best but family does not mean anything anymore, if you don't want to help then don't stand on the way at least. Bloody stupid people making this life such a mess. And how crazy and brainwashed everyone is.
@@МарияНиколова-ф7ю I have gardened for 3 years and have found these foods to work really well: 1. Basil 2. Onions 3. Lettuce (grow this in the fall) 4. Corn (with tons of water and sunlight) 5. Roma tomatoes specifically (other types have all rotted) 6. Sunflowers (these can be grown in weird areas other stuff doesn’t fit. Just make sure they don’t shade edible plants. Easy 7 feet tall) 7. Tap maple trees and boil sap until you have syrup (silver maple trees work too!)
Y'all were lucky to be in the USA during the 30's. The story's my grandma has told me about her childhood in Poland during this time and a bit later has left me eternally grateful. God bless the USA.
my grandpa doesnt want to talk about it but I was told he dug ditches for the nazis and acted as a gofer for the soldier to survive. if my grandpa wasn't street smart, I wouldn't have been born. Hes still alive and still tends a farm. still gets up in the morning, puts on his boots and gets to work. solid guy. todays men are pathetic and weak in comparison.
@@someguyyoudontknow263 surviving is our number one instict...glad he made it.... can't imagine being invaded like that. Dad was an Island Hopper in WWII..
My grandma told me they read about the depression, it was bad for the city folks but she said it didn't effect them because they lived on the farm and were self-sufficient. This has always stayed in my mind, try to be as self-sufficient as possible.
Gene Holt but I totally agree with your point. I’m just saying in the event of a major collapse, everything is lost. All that being said I lived and survived through what in my experience was a depression. The down turn of 2008 was horrible but not anything like the Great Depression. My wife and I had started a business in 2005 and had a baby we moved into my parents garage and lived there for 6 years before we were able to turn things around. I managed to keep my business intact and my wife finished school with her masters degree from U.C.Davis
Young Thug Leak Station foolish outlook. If the economy tanks, today will be no different than 100 years ago. Young people today think that “modern tech” will somehow save them from desperation and starvation when they’re broke, there are no jobs, and the government is bankrupt. Society devolves back to basic subsistence by default. Just look at Venezuela or any other modern society that was rich in recent decades, but are now forced to eat their own pets to survive.
@Young Thug Leak Station no it isn't.It is always a good rule of thumb to take prudent advice from people who were successful and came before us. Having large stockpiles of gold and green cash will never go outta style. Hate to break it to you. Maybe you don't have any? LOL. I have castle walls of 100's and 150 ounces of gold and I feel just fine, thank you.
Another characteristic of the Depression Generation which we have lost is a sense of reality and that reality guiding our decisions and actions. I’ve noted in Social media and other areas during COVID or natural disasters the inability of folks to face the fact that rather than whining about when will the electricity come back or when will we get more toilet paper, we should be facing the real possibility that we may never see these things again. As we said in the Army,” Hope is not a method of ensuring success”.
My mom grew up in Nebraska at this time. They lived on a farm but the dust bowl destroyed it and the animals. They almost starved to death. I am living on an acre of land in the desert and we have identified the plants that are edible are used for medicine. We are extremely poor and get food from the food bank. We dehydrate much of our food or can or ferment it. We also share with neighbors and help them. Basically doing what you just said.
When my husband and I both lost our jobs in 2008 my mother gave me her cookbook from the depression era. It got us through. I learned how to make out on practicality nothing. Tips and tricks is what can help.
My great grandfather got me into the mindset of prepping. One of my favorite phrases she taught me that she used from that era, "use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" is a phrase I still use today when it comes to my preps.
My grandparents said that as well. I was a kid in the 70s and my grandparents got me a lawnmower, spotted me a can of gas and gave me a way to help support myself. At 9 I spent my summer mowing lawns and the money I made I used to buy my school clothes. Other kids got to go on vacation and hang around at home. I was taught to survive.
My grandfather told me the same story about not understanding it was a depression because they were poor. Said they bought coffee and sugar from the store and that was about it. They lived in a shack with a lot of shared family land way out Wayne, WV. I learned a lot from that man about hunting and gardening.
My grandfather used to say "if you have no more than one month's debt and no less than one year's food, you'll be just fine." Sad that we don't even follow that, let alone all the things you mentioned here.
It is impossible to grow in your own back yard in many states. The cost of water is too high. Some states have outlawed gathering and storing rainwater. Many states have outlawed the amount of money you can use without government consent. All laws and restrictions were in Democratic areas and states.
@@WayneDome-dm8iu that stuff only lasts as long as long as the tyrants have power. There are many of us who are armed in in places like IL. Gov Pritzker was even somehow convinced to consider the gun industry as essential.
Robert Jones Must be because it’s being searched and viewed by so many the algorithms will rank it higher and put in more feeds. More surprising they haven’t been censoring it like anything else of use
@@wefukthenwo At least with the 1930's depression people were able to physically meet to help each other and work. Now we have an invisible, communicable enemy giving incentive to be the "Lone Wolves" the video author warns us about becoming.
This is great advice. I'm a Katrina survivor, & I've learned that you can't shoot your way out of a disaster, you can only 'share' your way out. Good Luck⚜✌
@@deegreeeen8612 The problem with your argument is that I received far more than I gave. It's just another unsubstaiated 'truth' that only exposes itself as prejudice in reality. I pity your blind selfishness.
@@deegreeeen8612 I'd agree, but during April of 2020 I had young kids ride up to me while I was working in the yard and offer me a roll of bathroom tissue if I needed it. I didn't as I had enough already, but did share a roll myself with the postal worker who was asking around if anyone had seen some in stores. Nearly had tears in their eyes when I came out the next day with a roll in a 'discreet' bag for them. Kindness and gratitude are powerful things.
@@veganconservative1109 As long as it's a toilet roll and not £36000, I agree. That was a nice gesture but it didn't have a consequence that would throw a spanner in the works of your life. We live and learn, it's all good character building stuff as my father used to say. All the best.
It wasn’t the New Deal that got our ancestors through the Great Depression, it was strong families and strong communities working together. I sometimes think that is why the government and big business want to destroy the family so that we are dependent on them for sustenance and survival.
It was WW2 that got us out of the great depression as much as anything , and fueled the economic tidal wave of prosperity that lasted in this country until the early mid 70s when the energy crisis began .
About 15 years ago when I was a new nurse I was taking care the sweetest little old lady. She was adorable! When dinner was delivered it came with a pretty napkin. She said it was too pretty to use and wanted to know if she could keep it. It was just a paper napkin. She was just adorable because she thought it was so important. It's weird how we've gone to holding to holding onto a paper napkin to tossing out $1000 phones because they are a year old. Just crazy.
Hhhhmmn ... thats where I got that ! My mom grew up in depression era .. decades later .. she never used anything nice or pretty , but saved it or stored it away .. I have to really push through this thinking ..to be able to not do the same ..
@@HawkGTboy I don’t doubt it I’m only 22 and when I was like 5 my neighbors both had tattoos on em. One time another neighbor had a crazy German Sheppard that chased after the old man and I guess he had concentration camp flashbacks cause he started bawling
Things were really bad in Australia too my grandma and her whole family shared their resources her wage went from 1 pound per week before to 7.6d but she was lucky she had a job (scullery maid at the local school) they took in boarders her brothers worked when there was a ship in. And I think Her older sister took in sewing. Her dad had only one arm after a harvester mangled it as a boy. So the work he did was limited. The point is they had to work very hard and be resourceful to survive. Family/community is a resource you can't do without. I can relate to the cans of food too we found some dating back to the 1960s more than 20 years old she threw out nothing! And my grandfather was the same when he died we found boxes and boxes of old magazines in the roof which we started to burn turned out there was a $50 note in each one. He didn't tell a soul! My grandma flew to England and Holidayed for 3 months spoiling my cousin and still had money left over when she came home. I grew up on stories about the great depression.
Everything you watch is about going it alone. Everybody's tips are about going it alone. You're a breath of fresh air. Nice to see somebody talking about coming together as a community
He doesn't do it for survival. He does it because it's ingrained in his psyche. He also spent over 30 years with the highway department finding things at the side of the road.
I dumpster dived for 10 years starting around 2002 because I KNEW the economy was gonna collapse and all this food was going to waste anyway. I wanted people to see me so then when they were forced onto food stamps they knew it was not as bad as me dumpster diving.
My parents were born during the Great Depression. They taught me so many valuable lessons in life. I watched them provide for themselves & their 2 sons on 1 wage. We had 2 cars (fixed by my dad) & we lived modestly. You made do with what you had & were thankful for it. My dad would we use the same paper bag for his lunch for the week as he was raised that way.
We live in a very different culture now. There are many, many more people so the need will be greater, and we have far more dependence on manufactured goods so have lost our "homemaking" skills. It would be a nightmare.
My dad borned in 1913 went thru tough times!! He would always have a lot of sacks of potatoes , beans and rice. Even in modern times he never changed.hard life marks you forever!!preparedness pays off !!!
My mother say the same thing. She lived through WW2, and German Occupation. We helped eachother back then she told me. One day one of her friends didnt come to school. Her dad was arrested by the Germans, and the family was poor. The teacher said that everyone should share half their lunch, and my mother and the teacher went over to the family, they hadnt had food for days.. My grandmother was definitely a prepper. When she died, we found food everywhere.
This is not a joke. People prepare food for the next 90 days everything is getting worse in United States. Hope your learned something from this video, get money in your pockets not in the bank.
There are many places not taking cash because of the covid virus...cash carries lots of germs...no cash is spreading like wildfire right now...we had cash and lots of places won't except it now...so we spent the cash on pop machines...there only taking debit cards now
You should investigate germ theory. Cash has been around how long? Digital crypto on the way. If your a good citizen you will keep what they give you for the month. SMH
Keep in mind if you remove your $$ from the bank and store it In your house, home insurance won’t cover that if there’s a fire or theft or something. Be careful!
My mother went thru the Great Depression. Had to quit school in the 3rd grade to go to work in the fields. My father did not own his own pair of shoes, underwear or cloths until he joined the military for WW2. He had to share his cloths with 15 other kids. A piece of bread and a class of milk was all they had to eat. Sometimes they had to go a day or so without eating so others could eat. He was over 6 foot and weighted under 115 lbs when he joined the military . The Depression was tough. All those values were passed along to me. I have never been in debt and save 20 percent or more of my wages.
I know someone who was a kid during the depression and was poor anyway . He said his mom would rub lard on their feet at night so they wouldnt get frostbite
my grandfather was 135lbs when he joined, He was a 6'2" good size man. I cant believe he was that light. Im the same size and I weight 210. Hell when he died I bet he was over 180.
@@mmafreaks4871Hard physical work and lack of food will keep you slim. The average weight of a man a hundred years ago was about 145 lbs. But they were twice as strong as men today. My grandfather was a logger. They did everything by hand and mules. He was barely 140 lbs when he was long from pictures I have seen of him but he cut down trees all day for 50 years using a ax and whip saw. Very physical work. I have heard that loggers burned around 8000 to 10000 calories a day. That's almost as much as a bear eats.
Old folk are true survivors they know the score and are rich with tips ideas and ways to thrive in a depression. I love listening to old folk with their tales of how they coped and managed to stay fed and healthy 👍😉
Absolutely spot on! My dad still to this day acts like the Great Depression is still here.. My grandmother only knew one thing when saving her money... FDIC...I don’t think she even knew what that stands for but wouldn’t bank without it. She remembers going down to the railroad tracks and picking up coal that would fall of the hopper cars when the engineer would “ accidentally “ start the train with a jerk so some people could stay warm.
FDIC didn't do the trick in 2008; it was the prime points that gave the Fed some leverage. The next economic emesis is going to bring us to our knees-- in a firing position. Americans will not go thru another Depression or even a Recession like the last one. Can't blame folks. The pols & corporateers have played w/ our lives long enough. Gonna be a hot time in the old towns that night.
Grandma canned alot. I was always snapping green beans for her. She also had two fruit trees in the backyard. We always had apricot and plum jelly. Miss you so much Grandma. Love Heidi
I remember my grandparents’ endless stories about the depression. Thankfully my grandfather had great skills and they made a living with bartering building for food. Awesome lessons from them.
When I was a young boy my grandmother and I were walking along and she spotted a brass nail laying on the ground. She bent over and picked it up and placed it in her pocket. I asked her why she picked such a thing up and she responded that she might need it. When we got home she pulled out a Folgers Coffee can full of odd nails and dropped it inside. A couple of weeks later my grandmother had a picture she wanted to hang in her living room and of course went to her can of nails. Reaching in she pulled out that nail and hung the picture then explained that event though she didn't need it when she found it she still found a use for it. Life lesson learned.
@@jjhatnm No that is exactly what the people who survived the depression were. I recently have helped clean up a farm that was owned by a person who lived through the depression. This man KEPT EVERYTHING, except maybe used toilet paper.
My Grandfather did the same with all the rubber bands that the mailman would drop as he entered the street and took out a new bundle of mail. "Perfectly good rubber bands" he would say. I found an A4 envelope stuffed full of them in his drawer.
Jeff K ALOT of people are going to die. That’s just a fact, However unfortunate it may be. People are going to gut each other without a moments hesitation after a few days of no food
@Timothy Mckee more like the lawyers and those who run insurance industries (car, life, house, medical ..how much insurance do we actually need??? most of the money spent on them goes to waste anyway)
Im going into my 50's I was raised with my grandparents, and I loved how I was raised - hearing this explains A LOT of why and how I was raised. We had those big gardens, grandma canned and we ate most our meals from what we grew. Our neighbor kept heards of beef cattle and we bartered and traded. Grandma taught me to bake and sew, she made most of my clothes when I was wee little. Thank you for sharing, this brought light to why maybe my grandparents were like they were. XOXO
@@thenewbrazy9997 Funny how the weird uncle every body avoided suddenly becomes the go to guy. Not to help him, but to get from him. My go to response has become "You'll figure it out." Like I'm going to be able to tell you in 10 minutes what I've learned by study, practice, and paying attention for the last 55 years. lol.
The funny thing is if you grew up poor, you already know what to do to survive. I don’t know what will happen in the next few weeks due to Coronavirus but just know we will get through this ❤️
I grew up poor, and I know how to survive, but that doesn't mean that I or we will get through this. I already have a job loss, as do many others. Some of us will not get through this. Praying, hoping, and wishing aren't the same as doing. This is no time for memes or emoticons.
@@JT-lt5gr you will get through this. Did you applied for unemployment? Are you taking advantage of the different companies that are on demand of new workers? Vision how you will survive this and become aggressive in seeking a job. You got this! Most importantly Do Not Loose Hope. God is able. Trust the Lord!
Me to I only had a pair of shoes for the whole year and if I was lucky every end-of-the-year my daddy took us to Buy clothes for the whole family I'm very used to have little but I also know that God is my Shepherd I will not panic I will only trust in the Lord to give me the strength and the wisdom to do the right thing and to go through whatever happened😏
I grew up in Poland during the communist era and my grans had their own garden plot and they were living fairly frugal although had money. 30 years later I am fairly chilled out about what is ahead of us because I can do a lot of stuff myself and since 2008 my wife and I been preparing food and learning how to live on a budget. When SHTF you will see lots of folks running like headlless chicken and going mad about the situation. Buckle up, the ride will be bumpy.
I am a Master Technician and I remember my first team leader telling me back in the depression he fixed his Model T. The engine needed a bearing for the crankshaft. He couldn't get it. He soaked a piece of a leather belt in oil and shaped and shaved it to the thickness needed and used it to get by. Those engine run low rpm so I could see it working for a while.
My parents both grew up on farms during the great depression. The impact on them was passed on to me in the way I was raised. We grew ahuge garden, canned, raised livestock and butchered our own meat. I still live in the country , and can take care of and feed my family! The U,S. today is not prepared to survive a great depression scenario.
My grandmother lived Way back in Appalachian Mountains and was completely self-sufficient including making her own soap, she also traded with people on the mountain for items. One year she needed a few items She couldn’t get on the mountains so she took a few days and traveled to the nearest town only to find out they were years into the depression. What’s a depression she asked😂 She said she was horrified to find out people were living as they were. It also scared her so, she took back to her Mountain sanctuary 😂
My parents went through that period. Dad served in WWII. Mom did USO and seamstress. My wife says I'm the cheapest man on earth and I don't throw away anything... Everything gets repurposed.. .. Thanks mom... Thanks dad....stilll love you both
@Mr Mutza I retired from city life construction companies in Florida and DC to rural western KY farm life. 1/2 hour to grocery store... 1 hour to a mall. None of my neighbors are struggling farmers. And, our weather is great, the soil is good and the people are honest.
@Mr Mutza not sure what you mean.. John Prine is from up near you in Illinois. I'm in farm and chicken barn country. Near the Mississippi River. Lots of food. Middle of nowhere as my friends call it
My mother kept worn tires in the backyard, and resoled our shoes. And this was in the 70's. We'd walk around the neighborhood at night, looking for fruit trees that hung over walls. Bringing home bags of over ripe fruit.
Back in the early 80’s I used to work with the elderly as a “Care giver”, mostly doing chores for them. One thing that surprised me at first was the amount of them who used to save cash under their mattresses. I’d be halfway through making the bed , lift it up and see , in some cases, thousands stashed away. I gave up asking why because they always brought up that year ,1929, and usually with a wry smile on their face basically said“ I’m not gonna get caught out the next time.!” A nightmare security wise I could see their total mistrust of banks, rather risking burglary than having the bank do the theft instead. I’ve heard some talk on preparedness sites saying it’s essential to have a good amount of actual coin and paper (money) stashed away because you never know, your card won’t be working at any ATM or Bank in certain scenarios. Some folks mock the elderly....I think we should listen more; they’ve got a lot to teach us.
The paper means nothing if the banks collapse. Form large armed groups and build up a food, meds, ammo and seed bank. Be there for each other. Pray till your knees hurt. God and only God can get you through this
Behind closed doors, our Australian politicians have signed bail-in laws to protect the banks by stealing savings. Once again, banks are not safe. With zero interest on your account, why would anyone keep significant funds in the bank? Significant risk with no reward. At least having precious metals is some sort of hedge.
@@starseeds7376 Me since this current president took office. Just as I predicted, and unfortunately as long as he is in office it will get worse. He knows nothing, sees nothing, hears nothing, except his desire to be re-elected and couldn't care less if we all, especially older citizens just died off.
My mom used to tell the story about living in a "commune" community during the Great Depression. They had a room where all the shoes were kept. If you found a job and needed shoes/boots, you went the room and checkout what you needed. At the end of your job, you brought the money to the accountant, and you returned the shoes, cleaned and polished to the storage room, ready for the next person. They bartered pretty much what they grew in excess from the different backyard gardens that everyone maintained. In the end, they made it through, no loss of property or people. Everyone stayed the course because everyone had each other's back. As for making through with friends and family, it is always good to put together a list of who is good at what (medical, hunter/butcher, communications (knowledge of radios, morse code, etc) , who has medical issues (sleep apnea, mobility, sight/hearing), who has phycological issues (fear of heights, fear of small places, fear of insects/snakes, etc.)
I heard a story about a woman during the Mexican Revolution of 1928. She gave food to a neighbor when she had very little herself. The neighbor did not want to take it but was desperate. She told her neighbor to take the food. She said she had enough for the day. That's faith, hope and charity all rolled into one beautiful true Christian sentiment.
Ambrose McLaren my great grandparents did this. My great grandma cooked for people passing through. She had a mark on her house that people would recognize as friendly.
I'm just afraid that if in today's age, if we were to give to a neighbor during the next great depression, they might in turn break into your home and steal because they know you have, especially if they don't have anything. Many would kill if they knew you have, just to keep their own family from dying of starvation. Now days, we don't really know our neighbors.
Kevin. I am sorry for the loss of your dad. I pray you allow God to wrap his arms around you and comfort you in your time of need. It is great you learned from your dad. God bless you.
I'm 57, both of my parents were born just before the depression.. saving and repurposing everything was a part of my life growing up. I appreciate your video about this!
My channel isn't about prepping but we do almost everything you mentioned! How-to's, gardening, tools, carpentry, etc..... Glad this came up in my stream. There is a plethora of knowledge and skills that are being lost on an annual basis.
True story - in the mid-1930's at the height of the depression my grandfather several times a day during the winter would send my 6-year-old father and his three sisters aged 9 to 13 down to the railroad crossing to throw rocks and snowballs at the steam locomotives as they passed by. The engine crews would retaliate and try to hit the kids by throwing lumps of coal at them. Once the locomotive had passed, the kids would gather up the lumps of coal that had been thrown at them and take it home to fuel the stove used to heat the house with.
Brilliant lol
How very clever! and funny too!
Now that is genius, lol!
Weaponized children have arrived. Lol
That’s freaking smart❣️
I have gone hungry and was homeless for a while when I was young. It is something I wish for no one and I have compassion for those that have or are going through that now. When you are hungry you learn to eat anything and appreciate it. I once found a bag of navy beans in an abandoned house. I had never cooked beans before. I fired up a sterno can and followed the directions on the bag. That was the greatest thing I had ever tasted in my life. My brother refused to go hungry, he turned to robbery and has spent 33 years behind bars for it. My wife cooks navy beans whenever I am depressed about things and we eat it together. My favorite food in the world! She saved my life by loving me and taking me in when she found me. People say the most important thing in the world is Family and they are right. I had no family when I was young but I do now thanks to my wife. Her and my children are the only thing that matters.
God had compassion on you
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I agree
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It helps you appreciate what you have now though.
I also have been homeless and hungry. It is amazing what you would eat after not having anything for one week. It was in the 70s, I had just graduated from college on the honor roll. I could not find a job and nobody would help me financially. It was a hard lesson, but I learned more being homeless than in college. This can happen to anybody. Your “luck” can change at anytime and everything go wrong. I don’t judge homeless people, it could be me or you next time. Help the homeless if you can!
sometimes its hard to know who actually needs help or are just scamming the system.
I hate to break it to you Toto, but this ain't the 70's anymore... The signs at the zoo specifically tell you not to feed the animals.... And you have a college education?
Panhandlers are everywhere. I've lived out of car, 6mo, did not beg to anyone. Frugal is an important word.
Those less fortunate than me, no car, no SOcial Security, can go to the many agencies, churches, even some stores will offer food, soupkitchens feed people everyday. Nice home now and when I'm out homeless beg with scams. I do not donate to them. Donate to those agencies that provide for legitimate homeless folks.
Be careful around desperate scammers!!
@@jeev4divine That's a good idea to donate to the agencies. Sometimes I feel a bit helpless with all the begging.
Red Cross and Oprah charities have boards who make over million a year. Give to those who help. If a local church has food bank that’s where it will do the most good.
My great grandfather would order hot water at a diner and put some ketchup in it to make tomato soup & dumpster dived. He became an orphan (8yo) while migrating from Lebanon, so survived with kindness of people of NY, in 1899. Lived until 99yo and was a successful restaurateur.
Wow what a story its incredible what people can persevere through
A biography of your great grandfather would be so choice.
Nowadays people slightly depressed and ends with suicide
🙏🏻
I've heard of folks having to do that, they'd order a cup of tea save the tea bag and use the hot water with crackers/ketchup for a cup of soup, I can't imagine that being very filling but that's pretty resourceful
My Grandmom was a black woman during the depression. She could cook from raw goods, raised pigs and chickens, butcher fish and animals, make quilts & clothing. She had a massive garden and did canning. She networked with other women of all colors to trade eggs and other produce. She made & sold ice cream too. My grandpa worked hard but my Grandmom was a beast at survival. #Mary Frances of southern Virginia
I KNOW THAT'S RIGHT!!!
Kimberley B - your grandmom was a gem. Learn from her
Kimberley B She sounds like the kind of woman I'd love to know. My dad grew up during the depression and had to drop out in the 8 th grade to help his family(11 kids). She had willpower, intelligence, knowledge, courage and a strong will to survive. She is definitely an inspiration to anyone who says you can't do something.
Black people are usually pretty good at surviving under harsh condition. It may actually come in handy.
You were so lucky to have a grandmother such as yours Mine died young and my mother grew up in an orphanage but in the 70 s my husband and myself took ourselves to the country and raised 5 children growing a lot of our own food. I think we are facing the same thing now
Was born dirt poor in eastern Kentucky in 1950. My dad had severe mental problems and was sent to a hospital where he would be for years. Mom tried to feed us kids which numbered 9. I trapped rabbits at 7, worked any job I could get and bought food. Stole coal off a train car from time to time to heat in winter (not proud of that). Government commodities helped feed us but didn't do it all. A local church delivered a box of food one cold snowy night which I will never forget since we hadn't eaten in about 3 days. I am now middle class living in a nice home. I haven't forgotten my young life and I am a dedicated prepper with a freezer and two refrigerators full. I will not see anyone go hungry.
Thank GOD. 😊
My dad almost starved to death during the depression and had seizures because of malnutrition. They were a family of nine in the 1930's. He told about if they had food in the winter it was sweet potatoes, white potatoes, onions and cow milk. Cornbread was a treat. At 87 and hardly can walk, he still gardens.
A truly amazing man by the sound of things xx
My great grandfather died from pellagra in SW Virginia during the 1930s.
There are people his age who stopped gardening. It is not for everyone. God is in charge. Seek Him.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 God wants people to garden. Being able to grow our own food is one of His greatest gifts to us. Seeking God is great, but it's well known that He helps those who help themselves.
@@sargee97 Thanks ruclips.net/video/y2JIz01MKho/видео.html
Community, hunting, foraging, blacksmithing, milling, weaving, sewing, mending, gardening, etc etc- all things the current society doesn't value, those are the things that really matter when society collapses. Thank you for posting this video!
Al's my grandfather was a doctor during the depression- he and my grandmother saw it coming and prepared and stocked up what they believed they'd need. That taught me a lot about paying attention to the signs of the times.
I value these things because they're a great way to live a more sustainable life. The more things you can learn to do for yourself the less you have to rely on systems that could fail at any moment, and the more you appreciate everything you have and all the possibilities there are. I'm grateful I learned to sew as a kid and I'm hoping to start an outside garden when I have more money. Until then, I'm researching how to forage and purify water, as well as first aid and upcycling things I have. As many ways as I can to live off the land and use what I have to the fullest extent. It's tough that current society doesn't prioritize these skills, but as people see how they aren't being treated right by the government, they workplace, the banks, etc, they are slowly shifting to relying on themselves, and taking power back into their own hands.
They were very astute! If you listen to the videos of Lynette Zang, an economist here on RUclips, , she and many others are predicting a crash that will be as bad or worse than 1929. She's the only one though, who strongly advises to prepare by taking your money out of the bank but also the stock market, treasuries, bonds, annotates or any other fiat currency. It will be worth zero. Instead she says to buy gold and silver which hold their value (gold has for 6,000 years and is accepted globally!). Gold is high but silver is reasonable now. Both will skyrocket in a crash. She has a farm where she's been growing food and recommends on stockpiling food, water and other necessities. She saw the handwriting on the wall in the 2008 plunge and started prepping then. She explains exactly what is happening that the government won't tell you!
Two things to remember
1 You can't eat money
2 Government can't print food.
Robert Watts Beautifully put!
Thanks.
But you can sure grow it seeds will be a thing
Exactly put
Can you imagine if the government printed seeds into money so you can grow food?
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without -- an old saying from the Great Depression.
This is how it is where I am now. You starve here it's because you are way too picky. Food is everywhere here.
@@GEAUXFRUGAL same where I'm at...
@@melissajennings8999 70380?
Annie Oeth
"...ain't nothin left in this old world I care about......one, two, three shake your body down....."
@@GEAUXFRUGAL oh, are you a cannibal based in Beijing?? 🤣🤣
My grandparents lived in the city in New Jersey , she always kept a pot of soup on the stove she boiled chicken or beef bones added what every she could find including young dandelion greens to the mix and made her own bread . Men flooded to the city trying to find work , there wasn't any . They would go banging on doors begging for food to eat . Grandma "NEVER" turned them away ! A bowl if her soup with a hunk of bread , she gave them to eat on her back porch . She said some of the men cried when she gave them this meal ! ! . . . 💖
I've been going through some rough times but this comment has really lifted my mood. Your grandma was an angel, it just goes to show what a little humanity can do in the worst of times
@@joshuas.686 Joshua , I'm so sorry to hear that life is treating you roughly . You did a great job on the video . It's a true reminder how tough we can be when things seem impossible ! I'v prayed for you and want to encourage you . We're faced with such difficult times in our lives , what makes an individual a stand out like those people who lived and survived the Great Depression" , was their ability to carry on sometimes just moment by moment . You can do this . You can be an inspiration to others who are hanging on by a thread , during these dark days ! . . 🌻
People ask me what Id do if I dont own a gun to defend my food? ID SHARE IT!
@Nature Of The Beast Just an FYI ? Even the bones from a chicken , beef or hame can be slow cooked over low heat and make a delicious broth . You'd be surprised what you can eat if your hungry enough . . 🍵
I pray that people will be this kind when the SHTF. I'm afraid that too many have become so obsessed with prepping and having enough for themselves, that they have no compassion or empathy for others and would rather shoot than share! 😢 🙏🏻❤
My grandma lived through the Great Depression and it wasn’t until I was older I understood why Grandma never threw out left overs it was because she knew what it was like to be hungry. She was an amazing woman grew up in a two bedroom farm home with 11 siblings. I asked her one day how did they all stay in such a little home. Her answer was well precious you see the smaller the house the closer the family. And they were! I would look for something to eat in her cabinets and didn’t see anything but oh no grandma would throw me a simple delicious meal. We don’t have to have it as hard as they did back in The Great Depression. Prep, Prep,and Prep!
Got a nice little farm here in Ohio a few cows be safe baby doll
Any eastern North Carolinians here?
@@doloresdonahue4349 Yes! Haven’t lived there in decades, but always proud of my Southern heritage.
My grandfather used to yell at me for only putting half a can of water in the Campbells soup, instead of a whole can.
My mom tried to teach me so much about reusing things. Nothing went to waste. She would remove buttons and zippers from worn clothing. The clothing was used to patch, extend, expand, remake other clothing especially for the growing children. If it couldn't be used for anything else, it was used to make a quilt. A roll of paper towels was a luxury for her and would last about a year. So many times I didn't understand her. She passed about two years ago from pancreatic cancer. I miss her so much. But now I go through my sewing supplies, finding the elastic from undies, they are perfect for the masks we now are required to have. The buttons, zippers and so much more is now being used. I hear her sweet voice inside of my head telling me, I told you you'd need that one day. All stay safe.
I know how to sew but the material cost more than buying the whole item at Walmart these days thrift stores have gotten way more expensive since the upper-middle-class found out about them and the material used for today's clothing and blankets doesn't last sometimes not even through the first wash things will wear out faster than they did back then
I completely relate to your mom. I live like I'm in 1932.
@@australianwoman9696 Thankyou so much for the thoughts. She taught me so much. One thing that she made, that I get compliments and questioned about often. I had some nice towels that had worn out on the ends. She trimmed the worn part, used the elastic from my husband's worn out fruit of the looms, folded the towel and sewed the ends to be able to pull the elastic through and secure together making arm covers for my couch and chairs. The arms of the furniture stayed clean and the covers are easy to wash. 😊🌹🦋🌹
@Anthony 223 Throughout the 10-year Depression people needed all the necessities: shelter, clothes, shoes, etc. They had to scrimp and scratch out everything possible to survive. They learned to make do, but frequently had to do without. After things changed because of the New Deal, that generation continued to not waste anything. Our parents and grandparents passed those values onto the next generations.
@Anthony 223 Take a lesson from those who survived it and living now and sharing to the wise that will listen. There are non so blind, than those who refuse to see. I'm living with the same conditions, I would fix it if I could. I can't, but I need to figure out how to survive it. I do hope that you figure something out. I pray, that helps me.
It's honestly weird that I came across this today. Just earlier today, and I'm being dead serious, I told my husband that I've been thinking a lot lately about something my grandfather used to say to us. He told us all as we were older and having our kids that if there was just one thing in life that he could teach us it's that history repeats itself. Then he'd say, you have a family and if you dont have a stock pile of non-perishables, such as canned foods and seeds to plant then you're doing it all wrong and you better pray you never have to regret it.
So I said this to my husband today and told him for some reason it's been weighing on my mind, I can here my grandfathers voice saying to me, you're doing it all wrong and history repeats itself. Then tonight this video pops up. Coincidence?? Idk but it makes me feel like it might be time to reevaluate the way we grocery shop.
stock foods and home supplies and barter items
Just curious on how far you've come in the 5 months. Hopefully your in a much better place now. Prep on!
Get your money out of the bank and divest it, such as Silver & Gold, property etc
It's called " being moved by the Holly Spirit " don't ignore it , It's been going on for some time with the men and women in my church. Some are well to do , others not . I am a known Marksmanship instructor even the Pastor bought a handgun and showed up at my range. He had never owned a firearm before.
New great depresion already started.
I am glad that I have a farm. I am blessed that my parents taught me how to farm. How to can, garden, raise pigs, rabbits, cows, how to sew, trim hooves, help with birthing, and how to put my faith in God. I lost my mom, a year ago,
August. She taught me a lot and I miss her. I still have my little 83 year old daddy. I am always learning new things.
Amen
May God Bless you Ms Ellis and your father.
Bless you Elizabeth and your daddy greetings from Dublin Ireland ☘
Wow God bless you... Very interesting I've always wanted to live the farm life it's just my daughter grandson and I in this world it's very hard but I always pray. Take care.
I very much want to live on a farm In the middle of nowhere because I know for a fact that stuff is coming in the next 10 years that will be hard if I’m not off the grid
My dad was born the year it started. My mom born two years later. Their childhood WAS the Great Depression and it formed their psyches. I was born in 1956 and I was raised in the Great Depression because my parents carry it to this day. My dad passed 2 years ago but my mom still talks about it.
Exactly! I was born in '48. My parents went through the depression and carried some of it with them, and some trickled down to me and on to my daughters. You don't forget lessons learned. You store up food when you can, you never throw anything away if it still has some value, and you help others whenever you can!!
@@pegatheetoo1437 My parents were young children during the Depression. My grandparents weren't too bad off (not rich though) but pinched pennies and lived frugally. My grandfather passed and then my grandfather maybe 10 years later. When my mother and her siblings went to clean out her home to sell it, they discovered that she was a hoarder and had saved everything! A friend's mother was like that too. She saved every single magazine and newspaper (among other things )that she had read! There were stacks and stacks of them all over the house - these people had money too! The Depression had a profound effect on people!
@@Woof728
I collect old Life and Look magazines. They are a great look back at American and world history. Don't throw away things like that. Have a good day.
It’s almost like you had a feeling we’d be in this situation again. My son is 26. He’s an old soul. He’s been hunting and prepping for awhile. He kept telling me for the last couple years of years that something was going to happen. He was right. He’s smarter than I am ! I’m so proud of him!
J0e Biden thankyou.
J0e Biden I figured that 😂
Most of my family aren't preppers just my mom and I I'm 12 now and I wish to be a prepper when im older
Luke Boswell good thinking sweety!!
Good for you:)
History repeats itself. So many I know have known this would come for 2 decades. Probably because we read the Bible ( Revelations).
Things will get worse. Good you have your son:)
Do you know Christ? Eternity is coming. Jn 3:16
God bless you:)
'The more you know, the less you need" ~Aboriginal Proverb.
@@wegapaul3616
The wet sweatin' people?
“Only invest in a stock market that has a fence” - Aboriginal Proverb
If that's true then by their own admission they didn't know much.
Nope...
From the group of people that never established the link between the act of sex and pregnancy... and couldn't invent anything beyond sticks.
My grandfather lived through the depression and World War II and he had 6 children and he had a grocery store in the basement and enough toilet paper for decades. I’m a prepper like both my grandparents and my family made fun of me until coronavirus came along. Recently I had a financial loss and thank god I have everything I need stored away 🙏
I'm the same way but do not know if any of my family had hardships like that (I am from another country and my grandmother was privileged, as a young person she never went hungry). They used to make fun of me but I am the resource for information on anything now. I am also a registered nurse.
grasshopper...and the ant. Be the grasshopper girl!
@@lucasgaeta3403 You do realize the grasshopper was the lazy, evil villain, right?
Good for you. Do not listen to the naysayers. Better to be safe than sorry
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Preparing for the Impending Great Depression: Strategies for Thriving During The Great Reset. Wondering about the right timing for stock investments? Curious about the timeline for a complete economic recovery? Puzzled about how some individuals are generating over $450k in profits within months in the current market scenario? These questions have left me perplexed.
Yes, a good number of folks are raking in huge 6 figure gains in this downtrend, but such strategies are mostly successfully executed by folks with in depth market knowledge
A lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember couple summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of utmost qualifications. She's helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $275k to $850k.
How can I participate in this? I sincerely aspire to establish a secure financlal future and am eager to participate. Who is the driving force behind your success?
Certainly, there are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with ‘’Vivian Jean Wilhelm” for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive.She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
Thank you so much for your helpful tip! I was able to verify the person and book a call session with her. She seems very proficient and I'm really grateful for your guidance
I’m 73 my parents grew up in the depression. We grew up poor in a major city. As society has moved ever closer to collapse I have been stocking up. Bartering, sewing, gardening, canning, making do thankfully are skills My generation have. I pity anyone under 50 today. Many wouldn’t know how to survive. Seem like the younger generations can’t wait for us older folks to pass away, they need to remember when we pass that knowledge goes with us. Trying to share survivor skills with whomever will . Unfortunately, many are so screen addicted they either do not have the time or desire to get their hands on learning. I applaud everyone who has or is willing to put in the time to learn. Many like myself are more than willing to share our knowledge and experience. Just last week my 12 year old granddaughter visited for a week. She wanted make a dress for a niece. We had to start with learning to thread a hand sewing needle. Needless to say she had absolutely no experience with fabric, notions, patterns…..didn’t know what a thimble or pinking shears were. Sadly over the course of a week, even though she wanted to sew, her main focus was her phone and/or I-pad…….when she wasn’t on-line she was totally lost. It was VERY frustrating to dedicate time and patience in trying to share when the student(my granddaughter was mentally checked out and couldn’t wait to escape back to technology. She was so eager to show me how fluent the web is about sewing skills and what goggle says about sewing but was almost unwilling to pick up the scissors. It is the disconnect between knowledge and hands-on skills that is the real issue. I congratulate everyone out there in you-tube land that has taken the time and effort to embrace both hands-on experience and media learning. You will be the survivors going forward. Still I am Praying for the future of America.
You need to find someone to pass your knowledge on to. It may save many lives.
@chubbynugget That came to mind when he was talking about people having lost the ability for sewing and mending their own clothes, etc. Huh? Nah, you're just not paying attention to the teenagers. If you browse DIYs on RUclips or whatever social media thing, it's full of high-school age girls with sewing machines, altering and customizing garments they pick up at thrift stores. I don't think it's ever been trendier to know how to sew since it was necessary to make all your clothes yourself lol.
Don't pity, my 15 year old has been sewing for 4 years now. She cooks dinner at least 3 times a week as she has kept 150 years worth of family recipes. She can hunt, fish, shoot, has a black belt in taekwondo, and is one hell of an Archer. This kid even knows how to change the oil in her truck, change a tire, the car battery, etc from watching and learning from her grandfather. She has her own bank account and refuses to rely on her debit card. Her box garden flopped this year but that hasn't stopped her from building an additional box and taking a gardening class from our local plant shop so she can go for it again next summer and start her canning project. My gen Z (Zoomer as I call her lol) is a force to be reckoned with and smart. Don't discount their knowledge and skill, they just might surprise you :)
Also stock up on cheap vitamin d and vitamin c supplements.
People south of 50 often don't have opportunity to be self-sufficient because the government has taken all the resources to achieve this away from us. Then they tell the people older then 50 that we are a useless, hopeless good for nothing lot, basically kids having kids expecting them to provide for them. This is how the powers that be keep us all isolated so they can divide and conquer.
This guy is prob the only prepper ive heard of talking about helping other people and his neighbours...Usually other preppers talk about turning their best friends and some say even turning family away because they didnt prepare.....This chap is legit and you can tell hes a decent human!
Excactly, if you get your friends, neighbors, and family working together you can survive almost anything. Be like an ant colony🙌
My grandpa used to tell me about when he was 12 years old and left home on a boxcar to find work during great depression. His mother was a widow of 8 children during the great depression he lived til 78 and was a humble man that loved the Lord.
Too bad the "lord" isnt humble
@@countryfriedent How was the Lord not humble brother? He left heaven and the entire universe and became a man to suffer death on a cross for you and me. He could have spoke a word and sent legions of angels to slay his accusers but humbled himself.
I'm in a boxcar hotel right now, lol
Nature is true equality and still not enough for the entitled leftists.
@@countryfriedent my friend, he is the greatest example of "humble". ❤️
Who else is here because we're about to enter the great depression... again...
Me
We’re already in it …
@@m4nny_143 yeh well I said it a month ago. Every day takes us further away into the depths of utter dispair and mark my words, world hunger. The hunger games hay?
@@yvdmerwe6876 scary stuff…
That's sure what it feels like. Two incomes a renter and still barely get by. Things will get easier if I stick with my career. But looking for tips to make these hard times easier
Nothing will change until we can raise a generation that is happy with what they have ...
@TreesPottingchic These Leaders are CRAZY wise words if everyone thought like that there would be plenty left for those less fortunate x
We can start by not being a bunch of entitled overconsuming, overprocreating boomers who burn the world down. :)
@@aryastark3148 I agree we know the price of everything and the value of nothing
Greed for more unfortunately is always going to be around
because of Hollywood and the media (now internet and phone) that will never happen
My parents went through the depression. My father would never eat soup and said he’d had enough to last him a lifetime during the depression. Growing up I always had good home cooked meals made from scratch. My mother would make the best casseroles out of leftovers. No food was ever thrown away. They were very frugal. There was an old saying that one could “squeeze a nickel ‘til the Buffalo sh**” and it was true, they could. Every penny counted for something. My grandmother taught me to sew my own clothes, quilts, etc and I learned to cook from scratch which I still do today at 73. I can raise my own vegetables in my garden and know how to preserve/can them. So many of these ways are becoming a lost art and it’s sad to see it happening. Is the fast paced materialistic society we live in today really worth it? I’m beginning to think not.
I've met 60 year old women in the store who didn't know how to work a pressure cooker or which flour already had baking powder in it. They were 30 years older, so I was sure they'd know, so i asked them. Part of the blame is their own parents not teaching them.
Teach your kids everything you know. My own parents didn't and expected me to know without being told.
An interesting read. My parents said they had had enough of rabbit to last a lifetime as during the Depression (in Sydney) when men, known as rabbitos, would walk through the streets carrying loads of dead rabbits to sell. Men would also walk thr streets selling fish they had caught. They would try and make money any way they could. They were cheap. They would never touch rabbit in later years. Like you, I can look after myself, and my mother who is 98 still NEVER throws any food away. You are so right. The old way of living is becoming a lost art.
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I totally agree with you. My grandparents lived through the depression and had a corner grocery store and also had a farm they grew vegetables on for the store. They were not rich by any means and thankfully they did not want for anything. But they did not buy anything either. The good Lord was watching over them. But you are so very right about so much will be lost as older people pass on. It is so very sad. I am a grandmother 👵🏼 of 6 grandchildren. Thankfully my one child knows exactly what is going on in the world. They are in their 2nd year of becoming Homesteaders. They limit the children’s tv time and my older grandchildren love to read and read to their siblings. Their parents are selective on what they read. Except for the baby and the next youngest, everyone works in the garden, planting seeds and plants and pulling weeds. I feel Technology has ruined the younger generation the most. I have an I phone but have come to dislike it. I waste too much time on it. I remember making my children’s clothing when they were babies and up to maybe age 5. I sewed teddy bears and dolls when they were little. They loved their toys. I used to go to a farm to pick vegetables and strawberries, but I blanched and froze a lot and would make preserves. I used to make scrap quilts, but tied the blocked. Growing up, a girl I knew lived with her grandmother and she crocheted. I asked her grandmother to teach me and she did. My first project was a vest and than afghans. I can’t do anything fancy but I can make them. It really saddens me what is happening in the world and to our country. I hate to think about all the great knowledge our grandparents and even our parents had that will be lost forever.
I hate our world. We're think we're so advanced not knowing how stupid we are
My mother was raised in the depression. The stories! The sense of helping others. I have to share 1 that stuck with me. My Granddad would order a cup of tea for lunch for a nickel. He'd save the bag & pour catsup in the hot water for tomato soup. That was his lunch. He & my Nanna raised 3 ladies. God bless them. He never once complained. He never EVER spoke poorly of another person & he never once declined when I asked him to take me fishing. He hitchhiked across the country playing fiddle for the silent movie houses & delighted all 21 of his grandchildren with true stories of those adventures. Ive reassessed what wealth really is.
Jim Mascaro a favourite saying of mine is “none so rich as the poor”!
Lovely! Your post made me happy even!
Greg Jacques Lucifer's Jizz Gargler - lol you’re obviously not old enough to understand what is character building and what is an entitled little bitch. Buckle your seatbelt tight, because you’re about to struggle with the new reality we are all about to encounter...
It’s sad to know people aren’t like that anymod
Greg Jacques Lucifer's Jizz Gargler wut?
We need to get back to the old ways. They shared with neighbors and saved everything...I thank God for the lessons
During good times you only have to be good at one thing, after a depression you have to be good at every thing.
Barry Thacker very well sai
If s xx xx xxo@@elliesquires2753xx xxxxxx
This is going in my memorable quotes file. Thank you!
Very Well Said.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Don’t take anything for granted be prepared.
Amen.
Yes, stock up on food and water now, keep your money out of the bank, get out of the stock market and buy gold and silver! Gold is globally accepted and hasn't lost its value in 6,000 years!
I just turn 90 this Dec. 13th! And I've lived in this time!
I still live with, raising my own food hunt and fish! Chop wood for heat and I still don't have electricity! Raised 12 children, with just what we could do!
I'm not rich with Money but with love
No matter who you were Evey one came together for each other!
My mommy made her kids go out to the filled and gather rocks ,she put it in a pot of hot water! She called it love soap!
Iowa's rased on the reservation for people everywhere was hurting and it was bad on the reservations!
I wish i would know you
I live on a reservation in french part of Canada
I am lucky i have some money but i do not know how to work with my hands
I went hunting for the first time with my brother last fall
I will try to grow a small garden next spring
I guess i should buy some tools to be able to chop wood for next winter
I miss my ancesters
Take good care of you
We have the same birthday 🥳
Amazing! You can be proud of you for sure. Greetings from Berlin Germany 💗🫂💗
God bless you. I'm only 75:-) and have never been so lost or afraid for the future. Heat and water my most concerns...
@Kate Lane:
I am 72. I started to food stockpile in 2018. 2020 Covid hit and I really got serious about having food and water at home. I have toilet paper and helped neighbors who couldn’t find it in my area of Colorado. Now we ‘share and network’ as neighbors on our street. We each have certain skill sets. This works for us.
I start to make soups in Late August and freeze them. Then I share homemade soup, chili, cornbread, other breads monthly plus casseroles with 4 other elderly neighbors on my street. We pool our resources. We all are in Social Security and limited incomes.
Don’t be isolated. Please. We have no family here. So our neighbors are now the family. Our church family also helps.
It’s my husband, me, the big dog. I’ve learned not to cut ourselves off.
We all need help. We all need interaction with others to get more ideas on how to survive the current 2021 situation.
We will make it! Buy more blankets. Buy more water bottles. Do what you can now. This is the 2 things that concern you. Shop at Dollar stores and discount stores. You will find canned goods there.
But mostly, don’t be isolated. There is help available!
Take care!
Pat in Colorado
Many years ago I had to move back in with my Mother and disabled brother, because I couldn't find a job in the town where I lived. Times pass, and I still live with them, because it's cheaper for all of us, and being older, we keep an eye on each other. It used to depress me, but I now realise it's for the best.
Good move! Community is important. Just stock up on food and water. It's 2 yrs. later and the economy is heading south!
People were also far more tough back then.
Nowadays, people have temper tantrums if they don't have Wi-Fi.
But Wi-Fi is life!!!!!
GazB85: Yes, and no. The OP is right. Most people nowadays can’t handle being without WiFi. I grew up watching the computer and Internet evolution take place so I can be fine without it. My kids on the other hand go crazy if they don’t have wifi and a screen to watch. They won’t read books or just “be bored.” My wife got them addicted to it all much to my frustrations.
@GazB85 We have far more technology now than back then. Yes, times has changed alot. Humans have changed. 2Tim 3
This is very true. The other side of that, however, is how much of our lives seem to now require the internet to function. Just walk into a retail store when their network is down and you’ll watch the entire store virtually grind to a halt.
The irony.
My parents grew up during the Depression. I learned so much from observing my grandmother. She had a third grade education then worked in the cotton mills. She went through the Spanish influenza, WWI, the Depression, WWII. She had twelve brothers and sisters and only six of the kids lived to adulthood. She was always cheerful. Her life was simple. She didn´t drive, she had a vegetable garden, she washed all the clothes by hand. She kept her life simple. She was always cheerful and joking around. She kept it simple. She did not allow her circumstances to define her. She enjoyed all of her little chores around the house. She was inclusive. You could stop by her house anytime and you were welcome and she would offer you a bowl of vegetable soup. This is the time when we can show up everyday with a smile on our faces, an offering of food and companionship. Let´s all show up for each other.
Beautiful and true.
I like your story thank you for sharing!
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It would be great if people today would be like that they are too narcissistic only caring about the self.
It’s going to be interesting to see how well many people act when they find out their smartphones can’t be charged by candlelight
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Me & my Old Lady are poor as hell, & we have friends in the same boat. We treat each other like family & we help each other out.
Remember ..those who are used to going without ...will fare much better than the
Entitled
Because poor people know what it's like to do without.
When you have very little the love from family and friends means more. I have been prepping but not for myself I would do anything for my family and friends
They ARE family. Not like family. Family isn't just blood related. The worse people are your blood
@@helloly my mom is my best friend.
All I’m going to say is that I’ve taken the lessons my grandparents learned and passed on to my parents to heart and using them for now. Folks may think I’m crazy but I see where we are heading. I’ve got cash set aside in my possession, seeds and everything to garden set aside and I’m just waiting. I see the cycle returning with the hyperinflation, devaluing of the dollar, and all the food processing plants mysteriously burning down.
My mother in law saved twist ties that come on loaves of bread. We found them in a metal band-aid tin.
She never got over the depression mind set. I loved her so much.
My aunt saved plastic bags, foil, wrapping paper, paper clips, all sorts of stuff. She never got over the Depression, and her attic was full of saved stuff.
Us kids slept on her back porch on hot nights. She grew a garden.
My grandma saved everything! When we visited she would check the trash to rescue things we threw away! When her home was cleaned out, their was a lot of crazy stuff she saved!
My grandma saved bread bags they make great lunch bags
My mom developed that hoarder mindset from growing up with grandparents that lived through it. I understand your comment soo much its scary lol
I save them now!! I'm 56, the youngest of 8 kids. My Mom grew up during the GD. She taught us all a lot.
Just look at what the Amish are doing. Lots to learn from them. They could not care less, if the system goes down.
Most of them own guns just like us.
I know. I don’t want to argue with you. I believe we’re like minded people. I live in Amish country and have met many through my line of work. I have been blown away by what I have seen over the years.
Rudy Priepke, please give us an example?
@Damnit Bobby lol we have some here
They don't ride buggies anymore. Cars, ac ,all kinds of modern things. Just like every one else
Yep, the Amish people are a good model. Many of us skoof at them now. But, that is how you want to end up living if things really got bad! Housing, food, water, businesses, order, safety, community, Really, it is not to bad, when you look at it.
If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.
Boy scouts..."Be Prepared" ;-)
Sounds good
Something told me about this a long time ago.. i had bought 1 ww2 gas mask on random because it looked bad ass.. over time i lost it and moved, but i always moved light and still do to this day. i went and got another gas mask only to lose it again sadly, but NOW im going full out and keep it in a safe place for good if needed... funny the things life lets you see early on when you are young
@@x2gaming149 Make sure the filter in that mask is good enough to stop SARS-nCov2 particles, and make sure you don't share them with loved ones when mask is off.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost!
I am now 76. Before I was even born, my grandma would have my dad, who was a kid help her find and pick wild fruit, enough to make five pies. She would spend much of the days, as amount of flour and fruit would allow baking pies. She was related to a couple store keeper brothers who would sell these pies for 5 cents each, asking nothing in pay. My dad told me me grandma did this for several years. Impossible to imagine in this day and age.
My grandparents went through the depression so mom raised us on potato soup and navy beans with salt pork. I know how to cook and bake with very little. I’m grateful for growing up the way I did because I learned the basics in life and that has helped me through the hard times
Oats is also relatively cheap
cheap yet delicious though
@@ismailmiah1446 Yes, and filling.
@@continentalgin Yeh and has fantastic nutritional needs....oats /rice/lentils/nuts/seeds are essential cheap and power foods.....
@@nemeninemeni I put 1 cup oats/4 tea spoon peanut butter/milk /little chocolate powder blended. ...it's awesome power shake ....
The depression left a lasting impression on my late dad. We lived in a large city, with a tiny backyard, but the amount of fruits and vegetables our 30x40 garden and two pears trees produced was amazing. Knowing genuine hunger day in and day out was something Dad, never wanted us to experience. I could write paragraphs about the resourcefulness and thriftiness of my dad, I guess he was prepper almost 6 decades ago, before anyone used the term. One of my Pops favorite sayings, one I live by is, "Use it up, wear it out, make it due, or due without." Bless my Dad and all those folks who lived through the depression, and "made do" without resorting to crime.
Your confused
@Dawn Swan . .thank you for posting this about your dad. Mine was born in 1928..there were hard times but my grandpa always had a garden that my dad helped with. People learned how to survive back then without resorting to crime.
@@JaneH3675 True! They may have been poor, but they had honor. They knew once a good name is lost, it's lost for good.
Too many people believe they are too good, and don't deserve to have to make do. Those are the ones today who go out stealing and looting and now, their crimes are accepted. Instead of teaching them to become the valuable and useful adults they are capable of being, we are telling them that we accept them as the useless , hopeless beings they are!
I've always followed my grandparents advice. DON'T TRUST BANKS!
Plus, whats an FDIC guarantee when the currency becomes face value
Well...my grandparents and parents trusted banks because of FDIC. Unfortunately, part of my family lore became "don't trust the stock market." As a result, they could have turned hundreds of thousands into tens of millions -- but missed out.
DON'T TRUST ANYONE OR ANYTHING EVER!!! EVERYTHING CAN GO BAD AT ANY MOMENT!!! STAY INDOORS AND SUCK YOUR THUMBS THE WORLD IS A SCARY PLACE!!! And then we die and none of it mattered anyway.
@@GetMeThere1 You are delusional. During the Great Depression previous rich people were committing suicide after losing it all and the banks would close with people's money one day and never open again, which meant people lost all their savings. Robin is right. I have saving in the bank for things like my property taxes, which I pay in February or March so it's not in the bank for long and the rest is in my house in a fireproof safe in a secret place, until things improve. FDIC can't cover more than a small fraction of money in banks, it is an illusion.
@@carmenortiz5294 Thanks Carmen. I'm afraid you're a bit too stupid to even bother replying to, however. Have a nice day though!
it's August 2022 now. This video is even more important than when it was posted
I can cook...sew...garden...fish...can....make candles...soap...im mid 40s country girl....and im appalled by how helpless people are today
sharon strech My mom worked in a cotton mill when she was around 12
sharon strech Some can't even sew a button on their clothes!!!
We can tx. UBER or face book ourselves.
@@NotAFeminist976 God BLESS grandma.😂
im in my mid 40s...i know how to do all of that and canning,sew,and im a guy...it how you were raised i guesd
I was raised by my grandparents, he was born in 1923 she in 1925. He would always say” It might not be in my lifetime but it’s going to happen again, you just watch and see”.They both saved anything that might have a use in the future.
I’m Hispanic & a lot of those traits are strong in the family. My grandmother is the queen of our big family, she is the oldest of 12 by 6 years so her whole life is taking care of loved ones & teaching life skills that everyone should have. Passed down by her grandma on to cook, how to sew, to clean especially the boys so the girls don’t have too, how to maintenance & repair the thing we use around us, making stuff from junk to use like making a BBQ pit from a old oil pipeline pipe, cutting grass without a gas powered lawnmower or fixing one that someone leaves out for junk, have trees of all kinds to eat from such lemon, pecan, orange, plums, grapefruit and then seeds like watermelon, cantaloupe, peanuts etc. She said we must know theses things so we never have to rely on ANYBODY. Don’t kill animals, unless you raised it yourself its whole life & it is going to feed the family & not just for one day. I don’t know understand why people want concrete beneath them makes no sense but we don’t get to choose what life we want to be born in, so enjoy the one you have because my grandma has a older sister but she was just never born. Have a good life my friends & thank you to whoever took time to read this.
my hispanic grandma lived until 102 and taught me very valuable lessons. She was a millionaire when she died and lived off $300 per month. In here little 600K 2 bedroom house in Van Nuys she bought for 3K.
Dewey Oxburger You are very fortunate to have been given time that most people will never be given.🙏🏽 I could only imagine all the lessons & stories she had from her good life.❤️
We in America have alot to unlearn. Family values in America has been chipped away by greed.
@@nosomnesmentitisunt2043 ego is the foundation of greed. that I AM BETTER THAN YOU attitude.
Scary thing is that both of my paw-paws said that a great depression will happen again and it'll be worse. Knowing how to survive off the land is key to survival. Hunting, fishing, raising your own livestock and gardening.
Both my parents grew up during the depression. My father said people didnt even lock their doors and windows. This time it will be a bloodbath; its not going to be close to the same thing.
Yeah, I tried to find a way to go back to the REAL lifestyle (gardening and so on) last year but my parents didn't want to help. Now I don't care about them that much, I'll try my best but family does not mean anything anymore, if you don't want to help then don't stand on the way at least. Bloody stupid people making this life such a mess. And how crazy and brainwashed everyone is.
A “bloodbath”? Really? Well, good luck then.
@@gwarlow it will be in the large cities, less populated areas will be better
@@МарияНиколова-ф7ю I have gardened for 3 years and have found these foods to work really well: 1. Basil 2. Onions 3. Lettuce (grow this in the fall) 4. Corn (with tons of water and sunlight) 5. Roma tomatoes specifically (other types have all rotted) 6. Sunflowers (these can be grown in weird areas other stuff doesn’t fit. Just make sure they don’t shade edible plants. Easy 7 feet tall) 7. Tap maple trees and boil sap until you have syrup (silver maple trees work too!)
@@maggiethedruid9010 wonderful.
Y'all were lucky to be in the USA during the 30's. The story's my grandma has told me about her childhood in Poland during this time and a bit later has left me eternally grateful. God bless the USA.
I hear that! Ruthless Germans....
my grandpa doesnt want to talk about it but I was told he dug ditches for the nazis and acted as a gofer for the soldier to survive. if my grandpa wasn't street smart, I wouldn't have been born. Hes still alive and still tends a farm. still gets up in the morning, puts on his boots and gets to work. solid guy. todays men are pathetic and weak in comparison.
@@someguyyoudontknow263 surviving is our number one instict...glad he made it.... can't imagine being invaded like that. Dad was an Island Hopper in WWII..
It's not the same anymore, things are getting worse not better. Read your Bible for it tells you, it's time for things to happen.
@@alicemueller5836 got faith?...
Your very right...it is getting WORSE. ... Take care
My grandma told me they read about the depression, it was bad for the city folks but she said it didn't effect them because they lived on the farm and were self-sufficient. This has always stayed in my mind, try to be as self-sufficient as possible.
Gene Holt hard to be self sufficient when the bank forecloses your home and you don’t have any land to work.
Gene Holt but I totally agree with your point. I’m just saying in the event of a major collapse, everything is lost. All that being said I lived and survived through what in my experience was a depression. The down turn of 2008 was horrible but not anything like the Great Depression. My wife and I had started a business in 2005 and had a baby we moved into my parents garage and lived there for 6 years before we were able to turn things around. I managed to keep my business intact and my wife finished school with her masters degree from U.C.Davis
You are a survivor.
Sheila T. Yes
My Great Aunt said the same thing.
Great to see RUclips suggesting videos like this. Really hammers down the situation we are in now
Those who are watching this. Take note, get ready. A wise man stores food, a fool devours all
He who fails to prepare prepares to fail.
Dead Fox most Americans do store food.
In their gut ofc
its taco Tuesday...and its cold outside....im eating
I got a bottle of wine and some pills.Should the worst befall us , I am ready.
Amen. God's word.
I had Depression-era parents, and am so glad they taught us very well!
Pass on the info!
Then it's time to get ready, read your Bible it's all in there.
My mom always rinsed out the box of laundry soap to get every grain. Don't waste drop.
Me too as my parents were raised poor.
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March 2020 and this is gold I'm taking notes
Young Thug Leak Station right this generation doomed lol
Young Thug Leak Station Spoken like a true young thug. Dumb.
Young Thug Leak Station foolish outlook. If the economy tanks, today will be no different than 100 years ago. Young people today think that “modern tech” will somehow save them from desperation and starvation when they’re broke, there are no jobs, and the government is bankrupt. Society devolves back to basic subsistence by default. Just look at Venezuela or any other modern society that was rich in recent decades, but are now forced to eat their own pets to survive.
@Young Thug Leak Station no it isn't.It is always a good rule of thumb to take prudent advice from people who were successful and came before us. Having large stockpiles of gold and green cash will never go outta style. Hate to break it to you. Maybe you don't have any? LOL. I have castle walls of 100's and 150 ounces of gold and I feel just fine, thank you.
@@-SonZetta- It's how idiots like myself can easily become multi millionaires. These are the dipshits and losers of today with nary a brain cell.
Another characteristic of the Depression Generation which we have lost is a sense of reality and that reality guiding our decisions and actions. I’ve noted in Social media and other areas during COVID or natural disasters the inability of folks to face the fact that rather than whining about when will the electricity come back or when will we get more toilet paper, we should be facing the real possibility that we may never see these things again. As we said in the Army,” Hope is not a method of ensuring success”.
My mom grew up in Nebraska at this time. They lived on a farm but the dust bowl destroyed it and the animals. They almost starved to death. I am living on an acre of land in the desert and we have identified the plants that are edible are used for medicine. We are extremely poor and get food from the food bank. We dehydrate much of our food or can or ferment it. We also share with neighbors and help them. Basically doing what you just said.
When my husband and I both lost our jobs in 2008 my mother gave me her cookbook from the depression era. It got us through. I learned how to make out on practicality nothing. Tips and tricks is what can help.
Mind sharing some of those tips?
I would love seeing this book.
Yes please, would you very kindly share some tips
I find interesting people think this things will never happen, even though they happen often.
@@aFeverishFiend This is a good channel for learning. ruclips.net/user/DepressionCooking
My great grandfather got me into the mindset of prepping. One of my favorite phrases she taught me that she used from that era, "use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" is a phrase I still use today when it comes to my preps.
My grandparents said that as well.
I was a kid in the 70s and my grandparents got me a lawnmower, spotted me a can of gas and gave me a way to help support myself. At 9 I spent my summer mowing lawns and the money I made I used to buy my school clothes.
Other kids got to go on vacation and hang around at home.
I was taught to survive.
Your great grandfather was a wise woman.
Isaac Westling i didn't understand can u explain
My grandfather told me the same story about not understanding it was a depression because they were poor. Said they bought coffee and sugar from the store and that was about it. They lived in a shack with a lot of shared family land way out Wayne, WV. I learned a lot from that man about hunting and gardening.
My grandfather used to say "if you have no more than one month's debt and no less than one year's food, you'll be just fine."
Sad that we don't even follow that, let alone all the things you mentioned here.
adam rushing good idea
It is impossible to grow in your own back yard in many states. The cost of water is too high. Some states have outlawed gathering and storing rainwater. Many states have outlawed the amount of money you can use without government consent. All laws and restrictions were in Democratic areas and states.
@@WayneDome-dm8iu that stuff only lasts as long as long as the tyrants have power. There are many of us who are armed in in places like IL. Gov Pritzker was even somehow convinced to consider the gun industry as essential.
Scary that RUclips is putting this in everyone’s feed
Robert Jones
Must be because it’s being searched and viewed by so many the algorithms will rank it higher and put in more feeds.
More surprising they haven’t been censoring it like anything else of use
It's probably because we are headed into the greatest depression imaginable. The big reset has begun. 8(
@@wefukthenwo At least with the 1930's depression people were able to physically meet to help each other and work. Now we have an invisible, communicable enemy giving incentive to be the "Lone Wolves" the video author warns us about becoming.
..so true blue scary😢
Robert Jones not scary just expected, RUclips’s job is to keep you on RUclips as much as possible just like Fakebook
This is great advice. I'm a Katrina survivor, & I've learned that you can't shoot your way out of a disaster, you can only 'share' your way out.
Good Luck⚜✌
Nice idea but people have no honour, you'll just give all your stuff away.
@@deegreeeen8612 The problem with your argument is that I received far more than I gave. It's just another unsubstaiated 'truth' that only exposes itself as prejudice in reality. I pity your blind selfishness.
@@souljahroch2519 It's experience.
I pity the fool...
@@deegreeeen8612 I'd agree, but during April of 2020 I had young kids ride up to me while I was working in the yard and offer me a roll of bathroom tissue if I needed it. I didn't as I had enough already, but did share a roll myself with the postal worker who was asking around if anyone had seen some in stores. Nearly had tears in their eyes when I came out the next day with a roll in a 'discreet' bag for them. Kindness and gratitude are powerful things.
@@veganconservative1109 As long as it's a toilet roll and not £36000, I agree.
That was a nice gesture but it didn't have a consequence that would throw a spanner in the works of your life.
We live and learn, it's all good character building stuff as my father used to say.
All the best.
My parents as kids lived thru the depression and correct they lived like it never changed .
It wasn’t the New Deal that got our ancestors through the Great Depression, it was strong families and strong communities working together. I sometimes think that is why the government and big business want to destroy the family so that we are dependent on them for sustenance and survival.
That's TRUE!
Illegal Aryan You hit the nail on the head. They learnt more from the Depression. They acted more deceptively and cunningly.
Of course they do
It was WW2 that got us out of the great depression as much as anything , and fueled the economic tidal wave of prosperity that lasted in this country until the early mid 70s when the energy crisis began .
Your chat name is very funny. And you are right.
About 15 years ago when I was a new nurse I was taking care the sweetest little old lady. She was adorable! When dinner was delivered it came with a pretty napkin. She said it was too pretty to use and wanted to know if she could keep it. It was just a paper napkin. She was just adorable because she thought it was so important. It's weird how we've gone to holding to holding onto a paper napkin to tossing out $1000 phones because they are a year old. Just crazy.
Hhhhmmn ... thats where I got that !
My mom grew up in depression era .. decades later .. she never used anything nice or pretty , but saved it or stored it away .. I have to really push through this thinking ..to be able to not do the same ..
I use my phone until it literally dies...I refuse to get a new phone just because its new. It's too dang expensive.
I never got rid of anything that didn't still work.
Dad lived it, and spent the rest of his life saving money and hoarding canned food: It had THAT effect on people. Fear...real fear.
@@batbarasobczak351 Doubt.
@@HawkGTboy I don’t doubt it I’m only 22 and when I was like 5 my neighbors both had tattoos on em. One time another neighbor had a crazy German Sheppard that chased after the old man and I guess he had concentration camp flashbacks cause he started bawling
PTSD will do that
Not in a meaning of it being a bad thing
Things were really bad in Australia too my grandma and her whole family shared their resources her wage went from 1 pound per week before to 7.6d but she was lucky she had a job (scullery maid at the local school) they took in boarders her brothers worked when there was a ship in. And I think Her older sister took in sewing. Her dad had only one arm after a harvester mangled it as a boy. So the work he did was limited. The point is they had to work very hard and be resourceful to survive. Family/community is a resource you can't do without.
I can relate to the cans of food too we found some dating back to the 1960s more than 20 years old she threw out nothing! And my grandfather was the same when he died we found boxes and boxes of old magazines in the roof which we started to burn turned out there was a $50 note in each one. He didn't tell a soul! My grandma flew to England and Holidayed for 3 months spoiling my cousin and still had money left over when she came home. I grew up on stories about the great depression.
Everything you watch is about going it alone. Everybody's tips are about going it alone. You're a breath of fresh air. Nice to see somebody talking about coming together as a community
My wife's father is 91, owns his own home, has a retirement and still dumpster dives. It's amazing what businesses and people throw away.
He doesn't do it for survival. He does it because it's ingrained in his psyche. He also spent over 30 years with the highway department finding things at the side of the road.
I use to do the garbage run @ a job I had. I got a really nice washer one time. Boxes of books, lots of stuff that people just dropped off.
One man's garbage, is another man's treasure!
I dumpster dived for 10 years starting around 2002 because I KNEW the economy was gonna collapse and all this food was going to waste anyway. I wanted people to see me so then when they were forced onto food stamps they knew it was not as bad as me dumpster diving.
Excellent!
My parents were born during the Great Depression. They taught me so many valuable lessons in life. I watched them provide for themselves & their 2 sons on 1 wage. We had 2 cars (fixed by my dad) & we lived modestly. You made do with what you had & were thankful for it. My dad would we use the same paper bag for his lunch for the week as he was raised that way.
I have to agree with your grandma which, is why I decided I need to learn as much as I can for myself. No one seems to come together anymore.
Sadly, it’s so true. The love of many has waxed cold.
Oh they WILL when times get medieval on them! People will change their attitudes when push comes to shove! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
We live in a very different culture now. There are many, many more people so the need will be greater, and we have far more dependence on manufactured goods so have lost our "homemaking" skills. It would be a nightmare.
My dad borned in 1913 went thru tough times!! He would always have a lot of sacks of potatoes , beans and rice. Even in modern times he never changed.hard life marks you forever!!preparedness pays off !!!
My mother say the same thing. She lived through WW2, and German Occupation. We helped eachother back then she told me. One day one of her friends didnt come to school. Her dad was arrested by the Germans, and the family was poor. The teacher said that everyone should share half their lunch, and my mother and the teacher went over to the family, they hadnt had food for days.. My grandmother was definitely a prepper. When she died, we found food everywhere.
People are not the same now. Most will not help.
@@paulrichards2365 You say that like neighbors weren't snitching on each other back then.
That was a smart teacher who save that family.
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This is not a joke. People prepare food for the next 90 days everything is getting worse in United States. Hope your learned something from this video, get money in your pockets not in the bank.
There are many places not taking cash because of the covid virus...cash carries lots of germs...no cash is spreading like wildfire right now...we had cash and lots of places won't except it now...so we spent the cash on pop machines...there only taking debit cards now
You should investigate germ theory. Cash has been around how long? Digital crypto on the way. If your a good citizen you will keep what they give you for the month. SMH
marilyn ross - I only pay with cash and give my cash a quarantine after Withdrawn from bank
Keep in mind if you remove your $$ from the bank and store it In your house, home insurance won’t cover that if there’s a fire or theft or something. Be careful!
@Denise Angelus Villalobos bitcoin is the answer.
My mother went thru the Great Depression. Had to quit school in the 3rd grade to go to work in the fields. My father did not own his own pair of shoes, underwear or cloths until he joined the military for WW2. He had to share his cloths with 15 other kids. A piece of bread and a class of milk was all they had to eat. Sometimes they had to go a day or so without eating so others could eat. He was over 6 foot and weighted under 115 lbs when he joined the military . The Depression was tough. All those values were passed along to me. I have never been in debt and save 20 percent or more of my wages.
I know someone who was a kid during the depression and was poor anyway . He said his mom would rub lard on their feet at night so they wouldnt get frostbite
God bless.
my grandfather was 135lbs when he joined, He was a 6'2" good size man. I cant believe he was that light. Im the same size and I weight 210. Hell when he died I bet he was over 180.
Wow your mother makes my mother sound like she was rich
@@mmafreaks4871Hard physical work and lack of food will keep you slim. The average weight of a man a hundred years ago was about 145 lbs. But they were twice as strong as men today. My grandfather was a logger. They did everything by hand and mules. He was barely 140 lbs when he was long from pictures I have seen of him but he cut down trees all day for 50 years using a ax and whip saw. Very physical work. I have heard that loggers burned around 8000 to 10000 calories a day. That's almost as much as a bear eats.
Old folk are true survivors they know the score and are rich with tips ideas and ways to thrive in a depression. I love listening to old folk with their tales of how they coped and managed to stay fed and healthy 👍😉
My dad was a kid during the Great Depression.. He told a joke that behind every set of rabbit tracks you would find 5 sets of human tracks..
Absolutely spot on! My dad still to this day acts like the Great Depression is still here.. My grandmother only knew one thing when saving her money... FDIC...I don’t think she even knew what that stands for but wouldn’t bank without it. She remembers going down to the railroad tracks and picking up coal that would fall of the hopper cars when the engineer would “ accidentally “ start the train with a jerk so some people could stay warm.
FDIC didn't do the trick in 2008; it was the prime points that gave the Fed some leverage. The next economic emesis is going to bring us to our knees-- in a firing position. Americans will not go thru another Depression or even a Recession like the last one. Can't blame folks. The pols & corporateers have played w/ our lives long enough. Gonna be a hot time in the old towns that night.
Grandma canned alot. I was always snapping green beans for her. She also had two fruit trees in the backyard. We always had apricot and plum jelly. Miss you so much Grandma. Love Heidi
I remember my grandparents’ endless stories about the depression. Thankfully my grandfather had great skills and they made a living with bartering building for food. Awesome lessons from them.
I thought my name was "getwood" until I was 12.
Strange, I thought my name was changed to "gotwood" when I turned 12... hmm...
Ha ! I have three kids that think that's their names 😁
Lmao
@@thomasgrey6309 😆😆😆
So funny
When I was a young boy my grandmother and I were walking along and she spotted a brass nail laying on the ground. She bent over and picked it up and placed it in her pocket. I asked her why she picked such a thing up and she responded that she might need it.
When we got home she pulled out a Folgers Coffee can full of odd nails and dropped it inside.
A couple of weeks later my grandmother had a picture she wanted to hang in her living room and of course went to her can of nails. Reaching in she pulled out that nail and hung the picture then explained that event though she didn't need it when she found it she still found a use for it.
Life lesson learned.
"Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."
Did she find the picture too?
We call them hoarders now. Just kidding lol!
@@jjhatnm No that is exactly what the people who survived the depression were.
I recently have helped clean up a farm that was owned by a person who lived through the depression.
This man KEPT EVERYTHING, except maybe used toilet paper.
My Grandfather did the same with all the rubber bands that the mailman would drop as he entered the street and took out a new bundle of mail. "Perfectly good rubber bands" he would say. I found an A4 envelope stuffed full of them in his drawer.
The real scary thing is we have three time the amount of people in the U.S. now. And there are a lot less farms and people that can do for them self.
Jeff K ALOT of people are going to die. That’s just a fact,
However unfortunate it may be. People are going to gut each other without a moments hesitation after a few days of no food
@Timothy Mckee International bankers*
@Timothy Mckee
more like the lawyers and those who run insurance industries (car, life, house, medical ..how much insurance do we actually need??? most of the money spent on them goes to waste anyway)
Ya they all think they are "moving out here" not unless you own something now. I OWN outhere
A lot of lazy, uneducated people now.
Im going into my 50's I was raised with my grandparents, and I loved how I was raised - hearing this explains A LOT of why and how I was raised. We had those big gardens, grandma canned and we ate most our meals from what we grew. Our neighbor kept heards of beef cattle and we bartered and traded. Grandma taught me to bake and sew, she made most of my clothes when I was wee little. Thank you for sharing, this brought light to why maybe my grandparents were like they were. XOXO
Definitely want this guy as my neighbor.
What would you do to help him?
@@johnvanegmond1812 pfft ill help him end it early unless he gives me all his resources, shotgun style
@@thenewbrazy9997 Funny how the weird uncle every body avoided suddenly becomes the go to guy. Not to help him, but to get from him. My go to response has become "You'll figure it out." Like I'm going to be able to tell you in 10 minutes what I've learned by study, practice, and paying attention for the last 55 years. lol.
So much White Privilege in the 30s, lol
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That's what's going on regarding. People getting help now not later. Be safe world.
That was filmed a year ago, it sounds so up-to-date with the current pandemic and society meltdown
Jan 25 2021 😳🥺😳🥺
@@michaelleahy123 lol, me too
The funny thing is if you grew up poor, you already know what to do to survive. I don’t know what will happen in the next few weeks due to Coronavirus but just know we will get through this ❤️
I grew up poor, and I know how to survive, but that doesn't mean that I or we will get through this. I already have a job loss, as do many others. Some of us will not get through this. Praying, hoping, and wishing aren't the same as doing. This is no time for memes or emoticons.
@@JT-lt5gr you will get through this. Did you applied for unemployment? Are you taking advantage of the different companies that are on demand of new workers? Vision how you will survive this and become aggressive in seeking a job. You got this! Most importantly Do Not Loose Hope. God is able. Trust the Lord!
Me to I only had a pair of shoes for the whole year and if I was lucky every end-of-the-year my daddy took us to Buy clothes for the whole family I'm very used to have little but I also know that God is my Shepherd I will not panic I will only trust in the Lord to give me the strength and the wisdom to do the right thing and to go through whatever happened😏
@@JT-lt5gr Sometimes that is all you get ! Make do!😐😞❤
I grew up in Poland during the communist era and my grans had their own garden plot and they were living fairly frugal although had money. 30 years later I am fairly chilled out about what is ahead of us because I can do a lot of stuff myself and since 2008 my wife and I been preparing food and learning how to live on a budget. When SHTF you will see lots of folks running like headlless chicken and going mad about the situation. Buckle up, the ride will be bumpy.
I am a Master Technician and I remember my first team leader telling me back in the depression he fixed his Model T. The engine needed a bearing for the crankshaft. He couldn't get it. He soaked a piece of a leather belt in oil and shaped and shaved it to the thickness needed and used it to get by. Those engine run low rpm so I could see it working for a while.
My parents both grew up on farms during the great depression. The impact on them was passed on to me in the way I was raised. We grew ahuge garden, canned, raised livestock and butchered our own meat. I still live in the country , and can take care of and feed my family! The U,S. today is not prepared to survive a great depression scenario.
Craig Witte they will learn
My grandmother lived Way back in Appalachian Mountains and was completely self-sufficient including making her own soap, she also traded with people on the mountain for items.
One year she needed a few items She couldn’t get on the mountains so she took a few days and traveled to the nearest town only to find out they were years into the depression. What’s a depression she asked😂 She said she was horrified to find out people were living as they were. It also scared her so, she took back to her Mountain sanctuary 😂
Wise woman..
I can’t tell you how much I loved this recounting of your Grandmother
My family is from E KY/TN, self sufficient! Farmers/coal miners.
@@republicunited2183 we could be relayed 😂
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My parents went through that period. Dad served in WWII. Mom did USO and seamstress. My wife says I'm the cheapest man on earth and I don't throw away anything... Everything gets repurposed.. .. Thanks mom... Thanks dad....stilll love you both
@Mr Mutza I retired from city life construction companies in Florida and DC to rural western KY farm life. 1/2 hour to grocery store... 1 hour to a mall. None of my neighbors are struggling farmers. And, our weather is great, the soil is good and the people are honest.
@Mr Mutza not sure what you mean.. John Prine is from up near you in Illinois. I'm in farm and chicken barn country. Near the Mississippi River. Lots of food. Middle of nowhere as my friends call it
@Mr Mutza small world... I'm an hour south of Paducah KY. This is God's country.
Me too. My parents lived with their extended families and lived by this rule " Use it up, wear it out, get it repaired, make do, do without"
WWll was yrs after the depression!!
My mother kept worn tires in the backyard, and resoled our shoes. And this was in the 70's. We'd walk around the neighborhood at night, looking for fruit trees that hung over walls. Bringing home bags of over ripe fruit.
Back in the early 80’s I used to work with the elderly as a “Care giver”, mostly doing chores for them. One thing that surprised me at first was the amount of them who used to save cash under their mattresses. I’d be halfway through making the bed , lift it up and see , in some cases, thousands stashed away.
I gave up asking why because they always brought up that year ,1929, and usually with a wry smile on their face basically said“ I’m not gonna get caught out the next time.!”
A nightmare security wise I could see their total mistrust of banks, rather risking burglary than having the bank do the theft instead.
I’ve heard some talk on preparedness sites saying it’s essential to have a good amount of actual coin and paper (money) stashed away because you never know, your card won’t be working at any ATM or Bank in certain scenarios.
Some folks mock the elderly....I think we should listen more; they’ve got a lot to teach us.
It's something to have if things go moderately bad.....but if government completely falls, that money is just useless paper.
Amen Michael Nixon. The old folks Know what they are talking about
So true.
The paper means nothing if the banks collapse. Form large armed groups and build up a food, meds, ammo and seed bank. Be there for each other. Pray till your knees hurt. God and only God can get you through this
Behind closed doors, our Australian politicians have signed bail-in laws to protect the banks by stealing savings. Once again, banks are not safe. With zero interest on your account, why would anyone keep significant funds in the bank? Significant risk with no reward. At least having precious metals is some sort of hedge.
Who else is watching this during the Covid19 lock down?
Everyone
We all are. Even here in the Caribbean region.
Me but i knew this Channel before
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@@starseeds7376 Me since this current president took office. Just as I predicted, and unfortunately as long as he is in office it will get worse. He knows nothing, sees nothing, hears nothing, except his desire to be re-elected and couldn't care less if we all, especially older citizens just died off.
11 months later and this is more relevant than ever
My mom used to tell the story about living in a "commune" community during the Great Depression. They had a room where all the shoes were kept. If you found a job and needed shoes/boots, you went the room and checkout what you needed. At the end of your job, you brought the money to the accountant, and you returned the shoes, cleaned and polished to the storage room, ready for the next person. They bartered pretty much what they grew in excess from the different backyard gardens that everyone maintained. In the end, they made it through, no loss of property or people. Everyone stayed the course because everyone had each other's back. As for making through with friends and family, it is always good to put together a list of who is good at what (medical, hunter/butcher, communications (knowledge of radios, morse code, etc) , who has medical issues (sleep apnea, mobility, sight/hearing), who has phycological issues (fear of heights, fear of small places, fear of insects/snakes, etc.)
I heard a story about a woman during the Mexican Revolution of 1928.
She gave food to a neighbor when she had very little herself. The neighbor did not want to take it but was desperate.
She told her neighbor to take the food. She said she had enough for the day. That's faith, hope and charity all rolled into one beautiful true Christian sentiment.
Ambrose McLaren my great grandparents did this. My great grandma cooked for people passing through. She had a mark on her house that people would recognize as friendly.
cynthia lindsey They are surely now enjoying the recompense for their charity. May they rest in prace.
God help is to imitate them.
That's great and all. But no religion/praying will help us
I'm just afraid that if in today's age, if we were to give to a neighbor during the next great depression, they might in turn break into your home and steal because they know you have, especially if they don't have anything. Many would kill if they knew you have, just to keep their own family from dying of starvation. Now days, we don't really know our neighbors.
I'm 6o , my dad passed away last year. He was a Jack of all trades. Old school drilled in me by memories.
Kevin. I am sorry for the loss of your dad. I pray you allow God to wrap his arms around you and comfort you in your time of need. It is great you learned from your dad. God bless you.
I'm 57, both of my parents were born just before the depression.. saving and repurposing everything was a part of my life growing up.
I appreciate your video about this!
My channel isn't about prepping but we do almost everything you mentioned! How-to's, gardening, tools, carpentry, etc..... Glad this came up in my stream. There is a plethora of knowledge and skills that are being lost on an annual basis.