50 Cheap Ways People Stayed Warm During the Great Depression
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- 50 Cheap Ways People Stayed Warm During the Great Depression
The Great Depression was one of the toughest times in modern history and winter was especially brutal, as many couldn’t afford proper heating or supplies. But, people got creative and resourceful, finding inexpensive ways to stay warm. These 25 strategies were born out of necessity to survive in the cold
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0:00 Intro
00:20 Heating Bricks Or Stones
01:40 Burning Alternative Fuels
03:09 Diy Charcoal
04:22 Outdoor Layering
05:30 Fireless Cookers
06:50 Upcycling Fabrics
08:24 Community Bonfires
09:33 Stuffed Shoes
10:51 Draft Stoppers
12:09 Homemade Insulation
13:29 Sunlight Utilization
14:39 Scrap Wood Collection
15:54 Heating Indoors While Cooking
17:11 Shared Beds
18:23 Layered Bedding
19:40 Knitting Wool Garments
20:56 Building Small Fires Outdoors
22:09 Layering Clothes
23:26 Closing Off Rooms
24:40 Thick Curtains Or Blankets
25:49 Hot Drinks
26:59 Warm Meals
28:08 Oil Lamps
29:27 Using Wood-burning Stoves
30:37 Huddling For Warmth
31:37 Frog Eye Salad
32:51 Dandelion Salad
33:42 Bean Sandwiches
34:52 Mushroom Ketchup
36:09 Coddled Eggs
37:20 Boiled Carrot Sandwich
38:11 Coffee Soup
39:25 Slumgullion
40:47 Goetta
41:58 Potato Pancakes
42:51 Potato Peel Soup
43:58 Frog Eye Salad
45:11 Panrsnips Fritters
46:31 Prune Pudding
47:08 Pickled Pig Feet
48:17 Egg Butter
49:32 Hog Jowl And Beans
50:46 Salt Pork And Milk Gravy
51:50 Milk Toast
52:41 Willted Lettuce Salad
54:00 Deviled Kidney
55:23 Bean Soup
56:08 Split Pea Cakes
57:31 Goetta
58:43 Wilted Lettuce Salad
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01:01:06 Hasty Pudding
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I wear my quilted jacket to bed. Feels like a comforter that stays on. 😊
Great for those late night potty stops too!
As kids we put bread bags on out hands and feet before going out in the snow. Our boots usually leaked and our mittens were homemade and got soaking wet in no time. Now...if you're going to be out in the cold for any length of time... surgical gloves under mittens or gloves will go a long way to keeping you warm.
Coal that feel from locomotives was a resource. The corn cobs mostly came from shelling dry corn for animal feed or corn meal.kids slept together in all seasons. Goose down as well as feather beds. Plus people could endure a lot more cold and suffering was a way of life. Quilts for sure a craft for draping across doorways to limit the area needed to be heated. Twisting hay or stored grass was fed into stoves. Many of these existed before the depression and decades later.
My mother and uncles used to walk the railroad tracks after school for usable coal. Even one extra small bucket or a can made a difference. Grandma and the three children lived a full year in a WWI surplus Army tent in northeastern US. Grandpa deserted and there was no welfare of any sort. People were proud and would rather go hungry than accept charity from churches or private people. It was very true that what didn’t kill you made you stronger. Lots of people from this generation lived long lives. My grandmother lived to 103, mother to 98, father to 96, a great aunt to 104. A few are still with us. I have three uncles and aunts still living at 94, 97, 96, and aunts, 95, 99, 97. My next door neighbor is 101. There’s another woman in town who just celebrated her 105th birthday. All but one uncle are mentally sharp. He’s in a facility for patients with dementia. The rest are at home with family, friends, or carers.
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Where did your family live in the depression? We are British and many of our friends and family members who lived through the major hardships of two world wars and the 50s and 60s when much was stil hard to afford or even source lived well past age 100. They were rural dwellers from birth to grave and most never had piped water, indoor toilets or electricity in their homes.
Do you think with the easier lives now lived, we are less resilient to illness and earlier death? It seems a myth to me that we live longer than those born between the 1880s and 1920s did.
Burlap was not made into clothes. Flour sacks were and they were made of cloth not burlap.
Wood stove or cook stove that doubles as both. Same with coal stove if coal is readily available. (If desperate, save your and your dog’s 💩 to dry!) Lots of wool, heavy cotton. Move to a warmer climate! The newspaper trick really does help, likewise cardboard cutout insoles. Visit the laundromat and take the dryer lint for batting. Wear a hat, scarf, and cover your feet. Think, layers, layers, layers. Sleep together for warmth. If you’re alone, get a dog or cat to sleep in your bed. My dogs keep my top and back warm and my cat makes a great hot water bottle for my feet.
A word of caution! A lot of these hacks certainly work, but many are a fire and carbon monoxide hazard. Educate yourself if you use them.
I sleep with my dog and 3 cats to stay warm. We all cuddle
My aunt told me that when it was freezing temperatures, her & my dad being little kids went to bed wearing their snow suits & a mattress was put against the wall to keep the small house warmer while their parents took turns keeping the wood stove roaring.
I grew up eating many of these Depression foods and still make some. I didn’t know they were poor people’s Depression era foods until I formally studied the Depression in college. They’re still just “normal” to me. You forgot tapioca pudding and as an extender to ground meat. Tapioca pudding we called “fish eye pudding.” Yum! 😋 I love prune pudding! Almost any baked good can be sweetened with prunes or beets. Honey, maple syrup, and molasses also make good sweeteners. Don’t forget Karo syrup, light and dark. My Mom loved pickled pig’s feet and my Dad was partial to salted cucumber sandwiches and flaked codfish patties.
@mariekatherine5238 Fish Eyes And Glue, YUMMMMMMMY YUMMMMMMMY IN YOUR TUMMMMMMMMMY. 🐟👀🐠👁👁🐡👀
I've slept with many a newspaper wrapped brick to my feet.
And today the majority no longer have those skills
People need to layer clothes to keep warm in the winter.
Beans on toast is famous for England,watch click for TAZ
So halfway through this video it starts with depression recipes...this is interesting, but how is this staying warm?
I’m okay with it.. maybe you can take the good with the bad and just accept it.
I think it was more of an inquiry as opposed to a sarcastic comment.@@allipat401
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