Love this! My grandparents shared stuff they knew with me when I was young so I know how to garden, cook, can, sew including draping, construction and tinkering just to mention a few things👍 my motto- use it up, make it last, make it do, or do without.
Mine too. My mothers parents lived thru it and my Dads parents did plus they lost everything in the 1936 flood in western Pennsylvania. Strong people and I'm glad I got their blood in me.
Karin Reck : My grandfather told me when he was 12 (around 1932) he would have to hunt rabbit for meat and if he didn't have any ammunition for his 22,he would chase the rabbits down with a stick and beat them with it. Knowing my grandfather the way I did,I believe him.
ebayerr the neighbors chickens would land in his yard, I'd chase them his way. He'd snatch one and wring its neck, meat for a week. P.S. he'd give neighbor scraps to feed chickens.
In the 30's 21% of the population lived on farms and a high percentage of city dwellers were recently off the farm. Today less than 2% of the population does. This is what makes a current day depression so much more dangerous. Excellent video.
My mother was born in the Smoky Mountains during the depression. She did everything from growing her garden to canning. Making fresh butter homemade cheese raising rabbits and chickens so even though we were poor we never went hungry. She made candles soap made me my blanket when I was 5. I turn 60 in August and still have and use it today. It fits our king size bed. She made a lot of projects and sold them. On 3 occasions she used the money for a long distance trip from California to Tennessee and instead of motels we camped in every State. These generations today have lost so much knowledge from that generation.
Thanks for posting your story here. It doesn't sound to me like you were poor at all. Prosperity is not only measured in terms of how much "cash money" you have, right? You had loving care, healthy food, safe shelter, and the Great Smoky Mountains as your back yard. Not bad at all, I say. :-)
@TrustkillProductionz I was just discussing those books with a friend the other day. We read them all decades ago. Some of the stuff in there is correct, but not all of it. Some good stories in there, though :-)
@@noelkosobucki9722 I would like to add bread twist ties, carrot ends, onion ends for replanting, rip clothes, your hair, your dogs hair for the garden, shoe laces.... i could go on..
I live in the log cabin built by my grandfather in 1950. He and my grandmother grew up during the Great Depression. I've found layers of canned peaches, between newspapers, buried in the back yard. We always thought it was odd that grandmother collected lots of weird stuff. We had to wait until she was in the hospital before we tried to throw away some of the things she collected. At her funeral, her son, my uncle, called her a "survivalist." I miss her and my grandfather very much.
@@bedstuyrover maybe the paper was to keep mud and dirt from sticking to the cans? And the ground was possibly a secret storage spot. Maybe in case someone came to steal? Just a guess.
As a US Marine I saw living conditions like this in most locals that I was deployed to. I don't judge them, I'm thankful for my luxuries and know that I can survive without'm if I have to.
I wasn't a Marine. 1984, at 19, I was a missionary in Thailand. Lived two years out of two suitcases. Some things I learned there built on my fathers words to "utilize your resources". Like eating little fish. Mindset is important. Amazing what you can learn by paying attention. You mentioned a big key of not judging. Lots of American west pioneers died from scurvy under pine trees because they were to "civilized" to eat like the locals. Pine needle tea is loaded with vitamin C. I have a well paying job, own my house, and am that kook down the street that eats weeds and five inch blue gill. Keep smiling. Peace.
@@johnvanegmond1812 love that part about "eats weeds and 5 inch blue gill" have some curly dock and black berry salad with my catfish or blue gill around our pond
Thank you for your service! My son is a US Marine but hasn't been deployed yet. I worry about him the least of all my kids because of his survival training.
//A TRUE SHORT STORY OF A FEW FAMILY MEMBERS BUT NOT ALL\\ My Forefathers/Great Uncles knew what the depression was like & fought in ww1 & 2 as gunner,a Lancaster bomber,a medic, a Cold stream guard,a cop & submarine officer. My impression of memories growing up proved they were all very strong willed, loved life,understanding to others feelings & helpful to others. I remember how they were,acted or told me things about life & how tough life can be & how good we have it. My great uncle Ernest was a medic in ww1 & knew the horrors of war but only mentioned it to my Mum. He told us a story one time during the depression of how he saw people lined up outside a bank that he had his savings in (Wpg.Mb.). He got in line only to find out the bank was closing but he was able to get his money out just in time before the bank closed the doors to many other unfortunate ones. He was always a kind,friendly Uncle,self reliant,a woodstove for cooking & heating his small cabin.Had a great garden to grow his own food for sealer jars,knew how to harvest animals,a taxidermist,a landscaper,played the piano & sang like a pro.A collector of many things from some cruises around the world.His small cabin in hillside beach was somewhat of a "little museum" to the local church. Always optimistic & friendly to all who knew him.//My Gran & Grandad were born in England & forced to migrate to Canada in 53 when Canvey island flooded. Both passed away in 01 & 03. Gran told me how little the rations were during ww2 when she looked after my Dad & his sister. Buzz bombs would get threw over London, floating around till the engines quit then dropped out of the sky & exploded close by. German fighter planes firing guns over their gardens & her having to open the windows when the aircraft gun in the soccer field started blasting away,firing at planes overhead. Food was scarce while she sewed clothes & made parachutes for extra money & food. Meanwhile, Grandad was front line gunner in the Royal Army when his platoon was surrounded & captured in Italy & became a p.o.w for 2.5 yrs. before the war ended. He made it out alive after malnutrition & slaving in a copper mine for 12/14 hrs a day. They both ran a garden business afterwards in England & had many friends,a nice house & furnishings till Canvey island flooded in 53.++Gran told me "the only person you can count on is yourself, don't depend on anyone else but don't be afraid to ask for help if you have too". Grandad never left any food on his plate and they told us to do the same. They always had extra food in the pantry,a torch & predictable in life.//Lessons taught me to do things myself, feed & protect my daughter & family. Don't be wasteful of food or water,save & store foods, preps, emergency items,keep weapons handy, & fight for our lives if bad guys threaten us! // Hope This Relates & Best Wishes To Honorable Ones!\\
After the depression was over, those that lived thru it, like my parents, never trusted Credit Cards as they became popular later on. For financial preparation and survival, stay away from Credit Cards..
Respectfully disagree... While you should pay off the monthly balance every time, cc's are handy in many situations (used responsibly). You should have cash in case the grid goes down, yes, but also having a cc gives you another payment option. If you're shopping as a shtf scenario starts you can put a ton on your cc, stock up, you might never have to pay it back (if society collapses). Having the goods will be more important than having no debt after a societal collapse. Right!?
@Mr. Sarcastic I am with you all the way. A man told me in 1964 that never let anyone charge you Compound Interest Never!! As it is Illegal. They can only charge you Straight Interest only. That man was a Real Jew. When we purchased a 43000. truck in 2015 we paid 5000.down and 2500 Interest from a Bank.
Sometimes I think we are door-slammers with history. "Glad that's over. Thank God it won't happen again. We'll just shut the door and get on with life. Upward and onward." So I think you're right. We don't always take the time to try to understand the why of it.......and learn from it.
bryan piper but where are them ole greybeards?? What we have now is spoiled narcissistic entitled Silent and Baby Boomer Generation that have ruined this country! Taking all they could get to ease their way into the grave! Not caring about the 3 Generations that are following them into godless lawlessness and chaos!
My grandparents also lived through the depression and the Dust Bowl here in Ft Worth, TX. They were farmers with very young children. They had no running water in the house and no electricity most of the time. Banks were foreclosing on farms left and right and our family eventually lost theirs. They were able to keep a small piece of the property and they were able to grow some of their own food but still sometimes didn’t have anything to eat. Neighbors would help out others when they could. My family gratefully accepted help many times and also graciously helped others many times as well. My granddad immediately diversified and became a carpenter. He worked very hard to support his family. He always maintained a very large fruit and vegetable garden his whole life and also farmed honey bees. Growing up we always enjoyed the fresh food he grew and fresh honey was a staple in our home. Chewing on that honey comb was heaven to me. I still have some of his honey in my cupboard to this day. It’s hard not to open it and spread some on a peanut butter sandwich (as he often did) or enjoy it in a hot cup of tea. One of my granddad’s favorite stories was actually witnessing a police chase with Bonnie & Clyde. He remembers he and his brother cheering on the gang because they hated the banks that they were robbing so much. They were local folk heroes at that time. This incident happened before they killed anyone and became the murderers they’re now notorious for. My grandma taught herself how to can so they could stretch the food supplies through rough patches. She could can just about anything but her Bread & Butter Pickles were the best. I wish I’d taken the time to learn those valuable skills from her. Thanks for sharing.
Thank YOU for sharing. It was fun reading what you wrote. Never eat that honey. You can pass that down for generations and it will will be a great story for your great grand kids to tell.
Greg M Thanks for your nice comments. No...I’ll never open that honey. Too many happy memories are inside of that jar. My Mom has several jars for my kids and grandson. We’re going to have them in our family for years to come. Thanks again and God Bless.
Great Video! My Dad was born in 1920, and his father died in 1929 right before the crash. His mom was left to provide for him and his 6 brothers through the dust bowl and great depression. He never forgot what things were like, and he never trusted the banks or the stock market till the day he died. He never forgot how hard things were as he was growing up. The difference back then was that people were kind and neighborly, and did as best they could to help each other out. Things are different now. People dont have practical skills any more, and they have an entitlement mentality. Hard to imagine how these people are going to react if/when conditionls like the Great Depression come back around.
I can sew, knit, crochet, quilt, spin weave and dye. I have a host of "old" skills from growing up with depression era Grandparents and a "war-baby" mother. I garden, dry, can and so on. Believe me, today's millenials are gonna go hungry.
No they won't go hungry, push comes to shove and they will kill the old folks or anyone they see fit to rob. They have zero skill sets except staring at digital devices all day. They can't form a coherent string of sentences in order to negotiate a friendly transfer of goods so they will just take what they want or sit down and bawl about the situation until someone feels sorry for them. I'm 60 next year, city dweller all my life but Mom was born and raised on the farm in 1929, Dad was raised on a farm, born 1925. Both knew how to do many things but Mom didn't carry her learned talents very far after high school. Dad's college and military service enhanced his. Sadly, at home with Mom taught me only to love musicals and cook, very little crocheting stuck with me... 'Burb girl 😞. I had nothing but weekend farm visits to grandparents to tell my kids. Out of my 3 children, All over 30 with 3 kids each, one is well on her way to being a self sufficient, grow their own, chicken raising, crafting, canning, bread making girl that in these later years, I yearn to be myself. My youngest is raising her kids on karate classes and take- out twice a day. And my oldest child, my only son, behaves like he is homeless. He is so hard working, back breaking work, endless hours, highly motivated, empathetic to old or disabled and works for pennies on the dollar. But gets no where because of a life time of terrible choices. His nick name is MacGyver. He would have survived the depression, his first sister would have too but the baby sister will be sitting on the doorstep screaming and crying when the SHTF. Videos like this should be standard fare in schools and at home. Long story short...it's NEVER TOO LATE TO START LEARNING.
You'd best believe it's coming. The "elites” have deemed that the world has been over populated (some since the late 1600s). A UK snob named Prince Phillip claimed, if he could be reincarnated, he would return as a killer virus. He happened to own a majority share of a food conglomeration(scary thought). Ted Turner has expressed similar sentiments saying the world should reduce it's population to a billion. To that, many say" all of you first". Governments, unfortunately, are mainly comprised of self serving power mongers who lick their chops over the holdings of others. The only cure is to remove them quickly, allowing them to live in the muck which they help to create.
One difference between then and now is credit card debt. Not only will there be no money for food, there'll be a bunch of creditors who want to be paid. A lot of people are in debt but living like they have plenty because visa allows it for quite a while. During the depression everyone was poor and you knew it. I got a sense of community when my grandma would talk about the depression. Stone soup, playing cards, surviving with what you had because there were no lines of credit to keep up appearances.
@douglas carpenter That is simply not true. He not only has done nothing for the poor, but everything he himself has derives from his father originally All of it.
Very well said. People now are soft. My grandpa was on his own when he was only eight years old. He worked on a farm in Six Mile SC for room and board.
My dad was the cabin boy on his uncle's ship, but he missed the boat and was stranded in Toronto, Canada. He was ten, and had to survive for two years until his uncle returned from England. He would unload trucks of vegetables all day just for a bag. Then he, and the men would go to a local church, give the priest the vegetables and he would make a stew to feed them all.
It may fall on those of us who have these skill to teach those who weren't fortunate enough to have been made to learn. Maybe we were taught for a reason,not only to save us but others as well.
The one extra thing people could hold is silver. But the skills are most important. Been learning about self reliance since 25 years now. I feel very confident.
If you look up “Great Depression cooking” on yt you will see a woman, who’s grandson started filming her recipes before she died (passed 2015) but the channel is still up I love watching her and listening to her wisdom
My grandfather grew up in the hollars of Kentucky back in the depression.. I will always be grateful to him for instilling in me when I was a young man growing up in the country all the things he learned and to be morally upright, fear GOD and help your neighbor.. Hunting/trapping and preserving meat, canning vegetables from the garden, mending what ever needed mending was my way of life and I owe it all to him and all the other old timers where I was raised.. God bless you and Im Subscribed🙏🇺🇸
Excellent video Sooth. I am 68 and my parents lived through the depression and I am one who lives frugal, I garden, do woodworking, plumbing, electrical work and rarely hire anyone to do things. I love it when you mentioned cleaning a rabbit, I learned how to do that when I was 8 years old from mu sister's mother in law an old ozark farm woman.
This brought back my childhood Sunday afternoons listening to the elders talk, never complain just sit and talk about the difficulties of yesteryear! Hey thank you Sootch
Great video because the wisdom you shared is so relevant today. Savings are scarce among people. Prepared attitudes are weak and self reliance is absent. But worse off, self isolation is the worst weakness, even among families. Being in the home industry, i feel another major collapse coming soon. Just like 2008, people are not ready. This is not fear mongering, just trying to not repeat the past. You mentioned that in the Great Depression, people slept in cars. That is already happening. I guess that we can all live on less. That is a lesson we all need to accept.
My great grandfather lost his dad at the age of 14 (bowel obstruction) in 1933, got married to my granny when they were 17 and had my grandmother and her brother out in the boondocks or the woods here in southern ky.. said their shack didn’t even have a floor it was just dirt. He wound up being lucky enough to have work because he was so mechanically inclined and super smart that the owner told his workers that even though he was young they were to listen to him because he knew what to do! He was lucky for that and was able to help others, we still have their ration stamps too .. they don’t make em like him or my granny anymore ❤️
In The Great Depression people survived by being resourceful, bartering, learning things and working together. In the next one they will survive by finding resourceful people who have stuff, and killing them for it. It's sad, but it's who we are now.
My Mother and Father lived in fear of starvation and lack all my life - and imparted that fear to me. My Grandpa lost his restaurant because he couldn't turn away the starving masses. My father-in-law lost everything he saved ($5,000) when the banks closed their doors and stole our savings. And indeed, we have no family or community anymore to last through this again. We must try to love and care for each other as best we can.
My mother’s father was a farmer they always grew food for the family first. Then to sell, so the cows and chickens ate after the kids. Corn bread and milk was dinner many nights like we would eat spam and Mac cheese or jar Spaghetti today. Smoking meat, and canning was the rule of the day. I love to smoke meat like Thad! My other grand father was a rail road man out of Fremont Nebraska. Not sure of his job but it paid the bills. That’s all that matters right was just re-reading going home and when Morgan came home and made Spam for breakfast it focus my mind so much of my life, as Span has been at each event of our life as a family. Earthquakes, power outages, first dinner in a new house. Even camping trips steaks are great. But sometimes pot food is better. Info in Italy sun dried tomatoes are like poor peoples food and have been for years. They are only a recent addition to popular dinning go figure. My father and mother worked the war years as cook and waitress, so some of their recipes were iffy to say the least. And yes my mom could cook anything and make it eatable. SOS was common with pressure cooked taters whipped or so other way. Peace
This is a really great video. My parents went through the depression and passed down their concern to me as I was growing up, teaching me to not depend on the government or anybody else for my survival, but to learn the skills necessary to live.
Don, thanks for sharing. It brings back stories my parents (as kids) & grandparents shared with my sister and I about the 'hard times' of the Great Depression. We have it so good now compared to then.
My aunt was from Venezuela and said doctors walked the streets looking for any work they could find! This was before the country collapsed! Be prepared the worst situation!
Best video yet. So many people don't even know about the Great Depression. As I watch this video I'm sitting in my daughter's backyard with her chickens. She has 20 or so. My payment for taking care of the house and animals is getting to keep all the eggs I gather. So far 5 dozen and I have 5 days to go. I love your outtakes.
Back in the 80's I knew a guy that made sandals out of blown out semi tires he found on roadways. Just think about getting 20,000 miles out of your sandals!
@Erich Von Wachter I used to have a pair of plain Teva recreational black sandals. My dad was visiting one time and saw them on my feet and called them something like "Cong Feet". He was in country 70-72.
@@fbnflaviusbroadcastingnetw6786 You know you are incorrect, of course? California has more poor people because we treat them relatively well. No abuse, in California they may be poor, but they aren't beaten, robbed, and chased out of town.
@douglas carpenter and so you will believe that, until Trump succeeds in taking away your health insurance and you wind up living on the street....wondering why rich people are all so mean to you.
I have been watching you for years now and you have always had common sense and well reasoned advise but what I truly respect is your compassion, community commitment and shared humanity......this video and your homeless video are 2 of your best.....Thanks for sharing.....
Excellent...absolutely right. I learned gardening, powerless living, medicines...life is so much better when family works together. I sure wish my own family felt the way I do. Its be so good if people could all put their skills together. Peace could thrive.
My grandparents were born in 1911 and were teenagers during the depresion. They married and my grandfather sold potatoes and milk that they produced on a small farm they rented. They had a garden on the small lot they bought in 1935. where they raised vegetables till they died in 2002. Grandma canned most the food they ate. She made most of her kids clothes.
My Grandfather was a WW1 veteran. After the war, he became a postman, walking a route with a huge leather bag delivering the post. He had 9 people he was supporting from 1930 on. He owned 3 rental houses, he had 3 each one acre gardens he grew all the family produce in. My Grandmother would put it up in Mason jars. My Grandfather also raised rabbits, chickens, and honey bees...ever hear of Burleson honey? That was my Granddaddy! He continued to garden and my Grandmother continued to can the produce up until the mid 1970s. I asked my Grandmother once why she didn;t just go to the grocery store and buy tinned foods. She said that would "cost cash money." Im proud to be related to my Grand parents. They were such positive role models. Sootch, you talk about your Grandmother talking about how people helped each other back then. One of my earliest memories was of my "Gokha." Gokha was not his real name. He was an elderly neighbor of my Grandparents. When his wife passed away in the late 30s, he moved into my Grandparents house to live because he was unable to care for himself. So there was my Grandfather, my Grandmother ,my Great Grandmother ,Gokha, and uncles Gene and Daniel, aunts Winona, Mildred, Mary, and my mother , Sarah. OOps, there were 10 people living there.
Did you say Burleson honey? Burleson? The famous Burleson? Never heard of it. You really thought we would? That's the saddest thing I've heard all week. Did he invent bees or something?
roger komula Don’t be such a knob, I’m from England, never heard of it, why would I; but, I took the time to google it, and it seems to be quite an established product in America, a fifth generation family firm from the South West! Something to be proud of belonging to.
Thanks for posting this. It warms my heart. Beware the ones who always want their own way... flies in the ointment they are. I came from a community where children were taken in. Many of them the family just left them behind. People were not left for authorities to gather up. Most of those children grew up realizing eventually that they they were just too different to be a brother or sister of the family they were part of. Just the fact that someone took them in as one of their own so they had family and thus a greater chance of survival matters and is an example of what is truly important in life.
Interesting observations you make. Grandma and Grandpa... Piece work ground auto valve cylinders, kept and sold chickens, eggs, Boston Terriers, and song birds, put wood bottoms in rusted out metal trash cans for folks to get more use out of... Mom came after Grandpa got a good job driving a garbage truck so she learned to sew and go to school. From the garbage pick up behind restaurants, Grandpa collected a full set of silverware from cast outs we still have some of around today. Mom taught me how to sew and cook. Dad taught me what devotion to family can be. The air force taught me how to wrench. I can skin a squirrel... Hoping for the best for everyone.
My Dad said the most important firearm and bullet in his childhood depression days was the single shot .22 lr. They went out and took squirrels and rabbits with it to supplement their diet.
Yea, my dad said that too. They refitted the spent sells as arrow heads so they weren't afraid of losing arrows. 22s are Light, cheap and alot more dangerous than ppl think.
My dad was born during the great depression. My grandma made sure that all the girls of the family knew how to sew and quilt as well as cook and can food and how to garden. I thank the Lord that my grandma was there to teach me all of this.
You are so right my friend I agree with you 100% back then people helped each other I think this time around people are going to be looking out for themselves which is what's going to cause a lot of rioting in fighting and killing because people are looking out for themselves and their own families but I hope that's not the case I hope people will walk together because if we work together civilization will slowly come back.
I remember the stories my family told about the Depression. As you point out, they all lived together in one house. My great-grandmother made beer in the tub, had card games, sold plates of food and made beauty products. My dad had an apple cart and sold horse manure for people to garden with. In fact, I still own two 'laundry' woodstoves they used. They are about 130 years old and keep my shops warm in winter. Like you said, teamwork is the key.
I know an old guy who was a kid in Greece at the end of WW2. The Nazis shipped all the food back to Germany and let the Greeks starve. This guy remembers his mother making grass soup, water lemon juice a bit of garlic and GRASS. Interestingly enough now that he is old grass soup evokes memories of his mother's love. His wife makes it for him on his birthday.
My grandma was given away to a farm family as an indentured servant. The $ was sent back to family. She was only 11. She had 12 other brothers and sisters. She literally put cardboard in bottom of the hole in shoes. She died a very wealthy person. She worked hard and taught me many life lessons! She paid half 5 grandkids college. Miss her, but still have her lessons.
Good video, one of the few videos that are realistic and useful in the real world. But be aware of the people too, not only food. During extreme conditions people may (will) change and even your friends/neighbors/relatives could turn against you, perhaps all of them are good persons now but under high pressure some of them may become dangerous (even for themselves) if they are unable to handle it.
My grandmother was a depression baby, #11 of 13 children, she grew up on a farm in California. She raised me since I was 2 and taught me so much about cooking, sewing, gardening but not canning.
John 12:8 KJV For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. The other commenters is correct. You can't get others sober/wakeup, then others has true opposition, and others seems to accept this way of life.
I live on a working cow/calf operation & I shoe horses for a living. I love the lifestyle, we grow a garden, trade farrier work for beef ,eggs, cars etc.. We just went through a major blizzard in eastern Colorado, the wood stove kept the house @ 75 degrees & the pot of chili bubbling, & the snowbank outside the door kept the Coors cold. We lost power for quite awhile, but we were ready.
25% unemployment, 75% working. Many thought is was worse than it was. Today would be a whole different scenario. Stay prayerful friends and love one another. Oh, and do not fear.
My dad told me his parents didn't have much but there was always food on the table. Grandma kept chickens and had a big garden. She fed everyone that was over at meal times, no one was turned away. Sure those folks only came by to eat, more often than not they'd bring a dish to share, a story to tell or a song to sing.
Cash on hand at home is key in an emergency. Remember the bank holiday in Greece when the government forced all the banks to close. As Ferfal says cash is king!
Doesn't even have to be a big thing to warrant having cash on hand. Here in my town last Thursday, the ATMs and card readers quit and the gas stations were cash only. Made things rough for those who were "card only" people. 4:30 AM and no breakfast or beverage like you normally have.
kenneth-the agenda is to make it a cashless human society and economy. I think if cash is available anywhere, it will become a black market, shadowy, system of exchange, if or when things hit the fan! Lots to think about, and lots of scenarios to consider.
I was born ten years after the depression. I spent a lot of time at my grandmothers as a child. She had a wash tub and scrub board and actually took in neighbors wash to make money. No refrigerator but she did have an ice box. She'd walk to the store every other day and buy a block of ice to keep the ice box cool to hold the days meal. In the back yard she grew a small garden because by then she had to work it all by hand. She had an old treadle sewing machine that she could get up to a speed that was almost scary. For christmas I'd usually get a new pair of homemade pajamas as toys were too expensive. I was really proud because one year another relative gave her a used mans shirt and she cut it down to my size. At christmas time her brother who had a little money would go to the farmers market and buy several extra large apples and oranges and give them to us. My grandmother had a couple of fig trees and we had a pear tree so each year she'd can dozens of jars of preserves. I haven't had a pear preserve since. She'd also can squash in tomatoes each year to enjoy all winter. As a senior today I don't can much produce anymore but I still can dry goods to give them a longer shelf life. I do grow a good portion of vegetables and some fruit for the wife and I. One thing I hang on to is an old wood smoker. I have lots of trees and if power isn't available I can still cook. Chickens for eggs and a pond full of fish and perhaps the occasional rabbit, hog, or deer that wonders through my land. I think it's also important to hold on to items that work without power if needed. Things like a manual can opener, oil lamps, coleman type stove, perhaps a few solar panels. In bad times they might be considered a luxury.
Tools tools tools..!! and the knowledge on how to use them. Store them in different locations. My truck just got broken into, I lost quite a few of my tools. Thankfully I have some more at home and at a storage facility. Like you say, we need to learn a lot of skills that have been forgotten. Guess who's getting into sewing??😁 When you can't buy the masks, better learn to make em. No such thing as a woman skill. A skill is a skill.
Very well done sir. My grandparents lived though this. My wife and I grew up poor. Unless we have the cash, we don't buy it. It took us years to get to this point. So glad we can now. A certain guy named Dave Blablabla has a course on living and saving. We didn't need to take it. Hording, saving, and having life skills is priceless... and having a treadle sewing machine
my dad grew up in the depression (he was born in 1918) he taught me a lot over the years & told me a lot of stories of how thing were in time period. then how the war put even a bigger strain on the people because of rationing of certain items per family/business!! The aluminum foil thing you mentioned made me laugh cause I saw that first hand!! he saved everything growing up the thing is he rubbed off on me cause I save lotsa stuff now & will go thru a spell bout 1 time a year where ill throw a lot of things away as I say WTF did I keep that for!!! I also remember 1 of his friends say "if you feel bad about throwing something away that you may use later just put it around back under a tarp & when you need it & go to get it then it will be junk so you wont feel bad about throwing it away then" they both grew up in that same time period tho!! one other thing my dad always said " you will have another depression in your lifetime I probably wont be here to see/help you but I have taught you enough that you will make it thru it" I really belive that we are getting close to seeing it again soon!!!! thank you for hopefully opening others eyes
Thanks Scootch, even aside from depression there is allot to be learned here, growing vegetables in a garden is healthy and can be peaceful. Knowing many of these things is important because so many people are playing on the internet and can hardly change a tire on there car, much less forage or hunt then prep that for eating and storage.
As a young man, my father joined the multitude of jobless men who rode freight trains around the country looking for work. It was a feature of that time. Men would leave their families with relatives and take to the rails. That was another feature of that time. Whenever possible, homeless people were taken in by kinfolk. My mother's family lived on a farm in East Texas, and she can't remember a time when some relative wasn't living with them.
My grand mother would tell stories about her brothers taking a pellet gun and hunt critters like rabbets, squirrels and pigeons. The got so good at shooting, and not wasting ammo, they would shoot the eyes out of the critters.
My grandad rode the rails to where ever he heard there might be work. He called it bumming. My parents videoed my grandad talking about all the adventures of his life, growing up in an orphanage for veterans of the civil war, losing all but one home due to his renters couldn't pay their rent, cutting fur for coats and any work of any kind, being thrown in jail overnight by the sherriff and his posse, playing football against Jim Thorpe/Carlisle Indians. I miss him so.
My Dad grew up during this time. He told me he hated when "family" would come to the farm after working in town all week, for family meals. They would eat all his hard work and he would have less to sell. He said they seemed to go hungry all week and filled up on weekends. Of course years later he understood that they were FAMILY and they might have given his parent something, that he never saw and of course they may HAVE gone hungry all week but not of choice.
Friends, I think it is time to stop calling what we are teaching people "survival", "survivalism", or "prepping", or "doomsday" anything. "Resiliency training" is probably a more appropriate, and less reactive-based term that is catching on. Thank you very much for making this video. I think you do a fine job of making sensible, reasonable points about what folks have learned from adversity. Those are the things that many of our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were focused on--being resilient. That means to be able to effectively adapt to a wide range of potentially harmful situations--from crop failures--to communicable illness outbreaks among people and livestock--to war-related changes--to game shortages, to supply shortages, to harmful weather and other natural phenomena. They tended to be more generalized in their skill sets, and more accustomed to being both self-sufficient, and face-to-face community-dependent than many people living today are. The world's peoples are likely to return to ways of living that are more in alignment with older models because they can be more sustainable over time, and so, we are simply helping good people to learn how to make the adjustments that can help them to live a more resilient, community-focused kind of life. I have noticed that there is a lot of material out there about being resilient as a way of living, and there has been for many decades. A new item I discovered on "The Collapse Chronicles" here on TH-cam is by British author Elizabeth Jane Walker, who published "The Resilience Handbook: How to Survive in the 21st Century." Her interview on "Collapse Chronicles" is here: th-cam.com/video/yyH8ErqXJOg/w-d-xo.html Thank you for considering my idea. I think it is time to end the "fringe" and "macho" imprimatur to teaching good old, tried and true, common sense skills to people who want to learn them. More people will be interested if they don't believe that they must be marginalized and paranoid in order to just live more sensibly, and to regain more control over the course of their lives, no matter what happens.
doomsday is a tv term and the people who can't separate tv from reality. The media has given all these terms a bad report and will do the same for any term you want to use.
I understand that the big problem related to the stock market crash was the borrowed money in the stock market. People saw an opportunity in the market, so they borrowed money to invest. The crash was devastating for them and apparently had a ripple effect on the economy. Drought years added to this problem.
This reminds me of my grandparents. They were dirt poor Appalachian mountain folk during the depression, and grandpa said it was nearly over before they even understood what it was because everyone in the mountains was already as poor as you could get. But he said life was actually easier for them during the depression. They had land in the mountains to grow food, and unlike a great many, grandpa worked steadily all the way through. He said if you had just a little cash you could live far better during the depression than you could before the depression with three times the money. It was definitely a buyers market for everything. As for preparing food, it's really not at all difficult. If you can read, you can follow a recipe, and the great majority of prepared foods can be made very well just by following a recipe. I do think owning some recipe books, several of them, is a must. You may not have access to the internet at all if we have an SHTF situation. And for city people, there may be no food other than simple dishes from restaurants. Grandpa talked about a trip he made to New You City, and said everyone he met there lived on lentil soup. A nickel got you a large bowl, and that was supper for thousands of city people. He said most couldn't afford anything else, but he also said that even those who had jobs and made decent money were afraid to spend it, even for nicer food. This might be why your grandparents stayed so frugal, even after making a lot of money. WWII ended the depression, but "Make it do, or do without" also added to the way my grandparents lived for the rest of their lives. There were many things you couldn't buy, even if you had money, and ration cards were taken very seriously. Again, though, this affected city people more than country people who had big gardens, and who could raise hogs, chickens, rabbits, and often a steer or two, along with a milk cow. Despite all the stories, though, I'm not at all sure anyone starved to death during the depression, unless it was the very rare elderly person who was unable to get out of his apartment, and had no one to help them. Though I doubt even this happened. There are stories by the hundreds, but verified cases are nearly non-existent. I doubt it would be the same now, despite al;l the safety nets we have in place.
scdevon because on the whole as a nation America has forgotten it’s God: the TriUne Holy One of Israel, and have forgotten its Faith in Christ: Christianity!
@@greatprovider8198 a few. One is a great pyranees that wont even let me venture into the woods unless hes checked it out. If I wanna go for a hike I have to go out, send him out, wait twenty minutes for him to come back, then he and I can go out. He'll tackle me to keep me from going out if he has to. Lol.
Back in 1973-1974 we lived in Iowa out of town and had a huge garden and dad would help farmers with welding and other stuff and they would give us a cow or a pig for payment. The good ol days. We lost a lot of skills over the years.
My grandma somehow made it through the dustbowl and depression in Oklahoma but still ended up in California when her husband was stationed there during WWII. She only ever talked about it to me once to stop my nagging her about it. Now she's gone and there's so much more I wish I could ask her. I hope everyone who still has their Grands cherishes them and spends as much time as possible with them.
In Europe it was called the Depression. In the U.S. it was called "The Great Depression" Why, cause the Gov't stepped in and made it last another 5 yrs. Gov't does NOT "Help",,they HURT.
Excellent knowledge. I grew up helping my dad with deer, Turkey's and etc after hunting. Never grew up with store bought. It's been many many years but I remember how . Praise the good Lord I grew up like that. Would not trade those skills for anything.
My parents were little kids when the depression hit and they kept the mindset all of their lives. Never deep in debt. Bought a house in 1969 and kept it until 2012. It was paid for in 1985. Died with money in the bank and no debt. Hardly took a vacation longer then 4 days. Didn't increase spending if their income increased. I now understand their wisdom.
The U.S. population is probably 350 million people including illegals. Out of that number probably less than 10 million have anything remotely close to the survival skill-set of a cira 1935 farming family. This means that almost all of the modern-day skills of modern families would be pretty much useless in a full-blown economic collapse. And if the grid goes down and stays down for more than three months, 9 out of 10 will ether be in very bad shape or dead.
If the Grid goes down for any extended time beyond one week, fresh food, fuel and communication and security systems will fail. All those shows and movies about zombies? Allegory. Rule of Law will no longer apply. Those that own firearms will be easily identifiable: they'll be the ones that don't look like they're starving. "Ammo will be the currency of the future." It should also be noted that during WWII (and possibly before), Victory Gardens were responsible for 51% of all the vegetables grown in the US.
March 21, 2019----Your statement about Victory Gardens made me curious, so looked it up. 40% of food eaten in the U.S. in 1943 was produce by these gardens. Reference:www.sarahsundin.com/victory-gardens-in-world-war-ii/
All excellent points. My great grandma was a young teen in the depression era and my grandma kept alot of those habits also and passed them down. It's a great example of how things will change during some sort of collapse. The first 2 weeks without a job for those families was much different than the 8th year of it. Some things got easier just from being used to it by then but it always raised new issues. You have to be able to change and the more skills you ha e the better your chances are in general
I'm Australian ,i guess i was lucky enough to have been raised without power ect , kero fridge , kero lamp , wood CROWN No 7 stove and bathed in a galvanised dish every night ,12 odd mile from a small town so have the relative ease of living it harder if necessary , i also know how to to make gasification and thermal heating for water ect too how to kill clean and dress game (meat) done that type of stuff in the late 60's and onwards , i still rough it out at the folks place with wood stove and thermal hot water , also got kero lanterns , candles and a single burner metho stove if needed and plenty of other stuff
Let me guess, outback? I'm in rural SA. Also lived in Victoria near Healesville, NSW in the southern highlands and QLD in Toowoomba. I'm guessing you know about the diggers club for mail order seeds and quality tools etc.
@@holdenboy1960 they are well worth supporting. Once you've got the seeds, plant, grow, harvest food, let go to seed and harvest them as they make great gifts, useful extra cash by selling etc.
@@shithappenedwhatnow3028 thanks for the info on the seeds ,Eden seeds ,are a good source too, locally grown in logan brisbane a bloke grows all the old types of seeds and harvests the seed and sells to the public , and is on the net someplace too , P.S i share time between brisbane and out near Boonah, Rathdowney folks got property there i care for , but have lived nsw Dorrigo, Bellingen and in QLD Normanton , kingaroy and around the southeast corner
Thanks for sparking memories of my grandparents. My grandmother had a rag box, by the time something went there nothing was left. I don't even think the rag man would have taken it.
Lou Will Save Us ~ We are all human. If anyone wants to "forget about being American", it’s probably because its government will be the ones, again, getting us into trouble. Most people in this country love this country. Stop starting trouble by dividing us at every turn.
Excellent video. All information appreciated. I was told by my grandparents there were rationing coffee, sugar, etc. etc. things that couldn’t either be raised or hunted or caught fishing or bee keeping. They were also strong people. Knowledgeable in herbs, eatable and medicinal, and neighborly helping one another knowing how to barter and trade. If this ever happens again in America I sure hope people have an abundance of respect and desire to help each other as they did in the past for if not things will be worse than The Great Depression for people will die due to lack of Love for one another.
It's really good that you bring this up as there a lot of younger people who have no idea about gardening, cooking, survival skills, prepping and who also may not have money to survive on. It is those people that i am concerned with as they may turn to robbing, pilfering, or even killing folks. I will help close known neighbors, and family when I can. I have a very large back yard that I can to a degree grow my own food. However, I am old and disabled so plowing up my yard for planting is not something I can do. I look at my yard and wish that I could plant things, but we are just stuck. I plan to use farmer's markets to be able to can up some food for my pantry and long term storage. Keep up the good work, maybe the young people will look at your videos and learn from them.
My grandparents used to say to my brother, cousin, and I, "You boys don't know how easy you have it". And would then elaborate on the differences between our generations upbringings. They dropped some serious concepts on us like how there was no running water when they grew up. They had to go to a well and pump it into buckets for drinking, bathing, cooking, EVERYTHING! And how we took for granted the convenience of just turning the knob of which temperature water we so luxuriously chose. Going to the bathroom was in an outhouse, day/night, sunny or snowing. Or how there was no electricity. If it was past sunset and they wanted to see they lit a kerosene lantern. Now an effortless flip of a switch lit our whole house up. And a push of a button brought us an endless variety of entertainment. At that time the television was just emerging and only affordable by the very rich. For food every sibling had to pitch in on the farm. They canned extra vegetables and butchered their own meat. To preserve that meat they had a salt house they just poured massive amounts of salt on and let it dry out. Which btw was probably a contributing reason for many of the health problems for that generation. They probably thought their wisdom fell on deaf ears but it did not. I was perceptive to what they said even at 7 or 8 years old and it really made me appreciate how easy I have it and how truly lucky I really am. This caused me to also take interest in becoming familiar with skills that are rare today in the age of electronics and the internet (at least in So. California where I was born and raised) like living off the land, camping, gardening, firearms, etc... In case something does ever happen and also as a reminder to appreciate the conveniences that could be lost. I often wonder what would happen if another depression occured in present times. The sad state of affairs that the "millenials" would be in without their electronics and if they were forced to go outside, work, and get dirty or even talk to someone else IN PERSON. LOL. I will always appreciate grandma and grandpa for sharing their invaluable words of wisdom with us.
Buy something you'll need and use. Buy ammo. Good for defense, for bartering, for hunting. What will gold or silver do for you? When the SHTF, nobody will care about precious metals or gems. When the SHTF, it won't be a mere 'economic depression'. It will be much bigger and much worse than anything like the '30s. Think "Reset". Total destruction. War. Famine. Pandemics. Lawlessness the likes of which the world has never witnessed. You think gold will buy your way out?
john hanrahan if that happens we’re all fucked for a depression level event gold and silver will keep its value and the gov won’t be able to get it’s greedy hands on it. When things start to rebound you will have a good leg up. I think the best thing to do is have some of everything. Some investments, gold, silver, weapons, food, farming, hunting and mechanical skills. The best strategy is to be well rounded.
Love this! My grandparents shared stuff they knew with me when I was young so I know how to garden, cook, can, sew including draping, construction and tinkering just to mention a few things👍 my motto- use it up, make it last, make it do, or do without.
Mine too. My mothers parents lived thru it and my Dads parents did plus they lost everything in the 1936 flood in western Pennsylvania. Strong people and I'm glad I got their blood in me.
Same for me and what grandparents didn't teach me the boy scouts friends and personal studies that continue til this very day.
Karin Reck : My grandfather told me when he was 12 (around 1932) he would have to hunt rabbit for meat and if he didn't have any ammunition for his 22,he would chase the rabbits down with a stick and beat them with it.
Knowing my grandfather the way I did,I believe him.
ebayerr the neighbors chickens would land in his yard, I'd chase them his way. He'd snatch one and wring its neck, meat for a week. P.S. he'd give neighbor scraps to feed chickens.
@@ebayerr traps,snares work too & easier
In the 30's 21% of the population lived on farms and a high percentage of city dwellers were recently off the farm. Today less than 2% of the population does. This is what makes a current day depression so much more dangerous.
Excellent video.
are you counting the 2% of the population in agriculture as actual farmers or are you also counting the people that design/build AG equipment?
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@@bodhixxx1, I do believe it's those farming/ranching.
@@burnerjack01 f'ed as they were in the first place. Losers
@@squirrellyboe7421 LOL! Yeah, pretty much. My point exactly.
My mother was born in the Smoky Mountains during the depression. She did everything from growing her garden to canning. Making fresh butter homemade cheese raising rabbits and chickens so even though we were poor we never went hungry. She made candles soap made me my blanket when I was 5. I turn 60 in August and still have and use it today. It fits our king size bed. She made a lot of projects and sold them. On 3 occasions she used the money for a long distance trip from California to Tennessee and instead of motels we camped in every State. These generations today have lost so much knowledge from that generation.
Thanks for posting your story here. It doesn't sound to me like you were poor at all. Prosperity is not only measured in terms of how much "cash money" you have, right? You had loving care, healthy food, safe shelter, and the Great Smoky Mountains as your back yard. Not bad at all, I say. :-)
@TrustkillProductionz I was just discussing those books with a friend the other day. We read them all decades ago. Some of the stuff in there is correct, but not all of it. Some good stories in there, though :-)
Wow!! Thats Awesome.
I think that's the greatest tragedy. So much info and so many skills are gone/ lost forever.
My great grandmother picked cotton for 20 cents a pound. She raised three sons. She saved dimes. I miss her. Enjoyed your video.
Save your change, copper and nickel might save your life in 5 years...
Bsst wishes.
My Mom did at 6 yrs old, the whole family of eight kids worked on a cotton farm they lived next door too.
Save your dimes is the best advice she gave you. God bless her
@@noelkosobucki9722 I would like to add bread twist ties, carrot ends, onion ends for replanting, rip clothes, your hair, your dogs hair for the garden, shoe laces.... i could go on..
Oracle of Raelor / My people “pulled” strawberries in North Florida, and the ones in South Florida “pulled” okra, tomatoes etc.
I live in the log cabin built by my grandfather in 1950. He and my grandmother grew up during the Great Depression. I've found layers of canned peaches, between newspapers, buried in the back yard. We always thought it was odd that grandmother collected lots of weird stuff. We had to wait until she was in the hospital before we tried to throw away some of the things she collected. At her funeral, her son, my uncle, called her a "survivalist." I miss her and my grandfather very much.
Why were the canned peaches buried between newspaper?
@@bedstuyrover
For survival. Canned goods last a loooong time
Pray Unceasingly. Agreed, but why in the ground between newspaper.
@@bedstuyrover maybe the paper was to keep mud and dirt from sticking to the cans? And the ground was possibly a secret storage spot. Maybe in case someone came to steal? Just a guess.
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A family member said the ground is to keep the cans cool during summer.
As a US Marine I saw living conditions like this in most locals that I was deployed to. I don't judge them, I'm thankful for my luxuries and know that I can survive without'm if I have to.
I wasn't a Marine. 1984, at 19, I was a missionary in Thailand. Lived two years out of two suitcases. Some things I learned there built on my fathers words to "utilize your resources". Like eating little fish. Mindset is important. Amazing what you can learn by paying attention. You mentioned a big key of not judging. Lots of American west pioneers died from scurvy under pine trees because they were to "civilized" to eat like the locals. Pine needle tea is loaded with vitamin C. I have a well paying job, own my house, and am that kook down the street that eats weeds and five inch blue gill. Keep smiling. Peace.
Bravo Marine 👍. I learned much about survival from military men and I'm most grateful.
@@johnvanegmond1812 love that part about "eats weeds and 5 inch blue gill" have some curly dock and black berry salad with my catfish or blue gill around our pond
Thank you for your service! My son is a US Marine but hasn't been deployed yet. I worry about him the least of all my kids because of his survival training.
So she worries about her son who is on his way to a war zone more than her other kids who live in safety?
Big WTF moment
//A TRUE SHORT STORY OF A FEW FAMILY MEMBERS BUT NOT ALL\\ My Forefathers/Great Uncles knew what the depression was like & fought in ww1 & 2 as gunner,a Lancaster bomber,a medic, a Cold stream guard,a cop & submarine officer. My impression of memories growing up proved they were all very strong willed, loved life,understanding to others feelings & helpful to others. I remember how they were,acted or told me things about life & how tough life can be & how good we have it. My great uncle Ernest was a medic in ww1 & knew the horrors of war but only mentioned it to my Mum. He told us a story one time during the depression of how he saw people lined up outside a bank that he had his savings in (Wpg.Mb.). He got in line only to find out the bank was closing but he was able to get his money out just in time before the bank closed the doors to many other unfortunate ones. He was always a kind,friendly Uncle,self reliant,a woodstove for cooking & heating his small cabin.Had a great garden to grow his own food for sealer jars,knew how to harvest animals,a taxidermist,a landscaper,played the piano & sang like a pro.A collector of many things from some cruises around the world.His small cabin in hillside beach was somewhat of a "little museum" to the local church. Always optimistic & friendly to all who knew him.//My Gran & Grandad were born in England & forced to migrate to Canada in 53 when Canvey island flooded. Both passed away in 01 & 03. Gran told me how little the rations were during ww2 when she looked after my Dad & his sister. Buzz bombs would get threw over London, floating around till the engines quit then dropped out of the sky & exploded close by. German fighter planes firing guns over their gardens & her having to open the windows when the aircraft gun in the soccer field started blasting away,firing at planes overhead. Food was scarce while she sewed clothes & made parachutes for extra money & food. Meanwhile, Grandad was front line gunner in the Royal Army when his platoon was surrounded & captured in Italy & became a p.o.w for 2.5 yrs. before the war ended. He made it out alive after malnutrition & slaving in a copper mine for 12/14 hrs a day. They both ran a garden business afterwards in England & had many friends,a nice house & furnishings till Canvey island flooded in 53.++Gran told me "the only person you can count on is yourself, don't depend on anyone else but don't be afraid to ask for help if you have too". Grandad never left any food on his plate and they told us to do the same. They always had extra food in the pantry,a torch & predictable in life.//Lessons taught me to do things myself, feed & protect my daughter & family. Don't be wasteful of food or water,save & store foods, preps, emergency items,keep weapons handy, & fight for our lives if bad guys threaten us! // Hope This Relates & Best Wishes To Honorable Ones!\\
Yea it relates and it is nice you share your story. Keep smiling honorable one.
After the depression was over, those that lived thru it, like my parents, never trusted Credit Cards as they became popular later on. For financial preparation and survival, stay away from Credit Cards..
Respectfully disagree... While you should pay off the monthly balance every time, cc's are handy in many situations (used responsibly). You should have cash in case the grid goes down, yes, but also having a cc gives you another payment option. If you're shopping as a shtf scenario starts you can put a ton on your cc, stock up, you might never have to pay it back (if society collapses). Having the goods will be more important than having no debt after a societal collapse. Right!?
@Mr. Sarcastic I am with you all the way. A man told me in 1964 that never let anyone charge you Compound Interest Never!! As it is Illegal. They can only charge you Straight Interest only. That man was a Real Jew. When we purchased a 43000. truck in 2015 we paid 5000.down and 2500 Interest from a Bank.
Agreed, living within your means is the main goal or should be for all of us.
Having something aside for a rainy day sure is good sense aswell.
@@robertr392
"If you start shopping as a shtf scenario" , you won't find anything in the stores to buy. 🤣
@@robertr392 the banks will know far in advance and measures would have already been taken to stop that from happening.
Great video. The one thing about humans is that we do not learn from history.
Take war. They send young men to kill. Distroy every thing.
For nothing. The government don't get it. Insane and it goes on... History ignor.
Natural deselection kicks in at some point
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@@Lcab-bh3wx yup...
Sometimes I think we are door-slammers with history. "Glad that's over. Thank God it won't happen again. We'll just shut the door and get on with life. Upward and onward." So I think you're right. We don't always take the time to try to understand the why of it.......and learn from it.
We can all learn alot from history and its people so listen to the elders and ask questions
bryan piper but where are them ole greybeards?? What we have now is spoiled narcissistic entitled Silent and Baby Boomer Generation that have ruined this country! Taking all they could get to ease their way into the grave! Not caring about the 3 Generations that are following them into godless lawlessness and chaos!
Wow, 33 views and I am the only one to hit the Like button. Y'all need to pay attention to this. 🤔
Excellent Video. 👍👍😎
My grandparents also lived through the depression and the Dust Bowl here in Ft Worth, TX. They were farmers with very young children. They had no running water in the house and no electricity most of the time. Banks were foreclosing on farms left and right and our family eventually lost theirs. They were able to keep a small piece of the property and they were able to grow some of their own food but still sometimes didn’t have anything to eat. Neighbors would help out others when they could. My family gratefully accepted help many times and also graciously helped others many times as well. My granddad immediately diversified and became a carpenter. He worked very hard to support his family. He always maintained a very large fruit and vegetable garden his whole life and also farmed honey bees. Growing up we always enjoyed the fresh food he grew and fresh honey was a staple in our home. Chewing on that honey comb was heaven to me. I still have some of his honey in my cupboard to this day. It’s hard not to open it and spread some on a peanut butter sandwich (as he often did) or enjoy it in a hot cup of tea. One of my granddad’s favorite stories was actually witnessing a police chase with Bonnie & Clyde. He remembers he and his brother cheering on the gang because they hated the banks that they were robbing so much. They were local folk heroes at that time. This incident happened before they killed anyone and became the murderers they’re now notorious for. My grandma taught herself how to can so they could stretch the food supplies through rough patches. She could can just about anything but her Bread & Butter Pickles were the best. I wish I’d taken the time to learn those valuable skills from her. Thanks for sharing.
Thank YOU for sharing. It was fun reading what you wrote. Never eat that honey. You can pass that down for generations and it will will be a great story for your great grand kids to tell.
Greg M Thanks for your nice comments. No...I’ll never open that honey. Too many happy memories are inside of that jar. My Mom has several jars for my kids and grandson. We’re going to have them in our family for years to come. Thanks again and God Bless.
@@jackg.7745 God bless you too bro.
Great Video! My Dad was born in 1920, and his father died in 1929 right before the crash. His mom was left to provide for him and his 6 brothers through the dust bowl and great depression. He never forgot what things were like, and he never trusted the banks or the stock market till the day he died. He never forgot how hard things were as he was growing up. The difference back then was that people were kind and neighborly, and did as best they could to help each other out. Things are different now. People dont have practical skills any more, and they have an entitlement mentality. Hard to imagine how these people are going to react if/when conditionls like the Great Depression come back around.
I can sew, knit, crochet, quilt, spin weave and dye. I have a host of "old" skills from growing up with depression era Grandparents and a "war-baby" mother. I garden, dry, can and so on. Believe me, today's millenials are gonna go hungry.
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No they won't go hungry, push comes to shove and they will kill the old folks or anyone they see fit to rob. They have zero skill sets except staring at digital devices all day. They can't form a coherent string of sentences in order to negotiate a friendly transfer of goods so they will just take what they want or sit down and bawl about the situation until someone feels sorry for them. I'm 60 next year, city dweller all my life but Mom was born and raised on the farm in 1929, Dad was raised on a farm, born 1925. Both knew how to do many things but Mom didn't carry her learned talents very far after high school. Dad's college and military service enhanced his. Sadly, at home with Mom taught me only to love musicals and cook, very little crocheting stuck with me... 'Burb girl 😞. I had nothing but weekend farm visits to grandparents to tell my kids. Out of my 3 children, All over 30 with 3 kids each, one is well on her way to being a self sufficient, grow their own, chicken raising, crafting, canning, bread making girl that in these later years, I yearn to be myself. My youngest is raising her kids on karate classes and take- out twice a day. And my oldest child, my only son, behaves like he is homeless. He is so hard working, back breaking work, endless hours, highly motivated, empathetic to old or disabled and works for pennies on the dollar. But gets no where because of a life time of terrible choices. His nick name is MacGyver. He would have survived the depression, his first sister would have too but the baby sister will be sitting on the doorstep screaming and crying when the SHTF. Videos like this should be standard fare in schools and at home. Long story short...it's NEVER TOO LATE TO START LEARNING.
The great depression will be considered good times compared to what is coming.
You'd best believe it's coming. The "elites” have deemed that the world has been over populated (some since the late 1600s). A UK snob named Prince Phillip claimed, if he could be reincarnated, he would return as a killer virus. He happened to own a majority share of a food conglomeration(scary thought). Ted Turner has expressed similar sentiments saying the world should reduce it's population to a billion. To that, many say" all of you first". Governments, unfortunately, are mainly comprised of self serving power mongers who lick their chops over the holdings of others. The only cure is to remove them quickly, allowing them to live in the muck which they help to create.
One difference between then and now is credit card debt. Not only will there be no money for food, there'll be a bunch of creditors who want to be paid. A lot of people are in debt but living like they have plenty because visa allows it for quite a while. During the depression everyone was poor and you knew it. I got a sense of community when my grandma would talk about the depression. Stone soup, playing cards, surviving with what you had because there were no lines of credit to keep up appearances.
@DrgnFlys and he wants to get rid of ACA.
@@KellsSmith1244 He should overtaxaion will lead us into the next depression.
@douglas carpenter That is simply not true. He not only has done nothing for the poor, but everything he himself has derives from his father originally All of it.
Very well said. People now are soft. My grandpa was on his own when he was only eight years old. He worked on a farm in Six Mile SC for room and board.
My dad was the cabin boy on his uncle's ship, but he missed the boat and was stranded in Toronto, Canada. He was ten, and had to survive for two years until his uncle returned from England.
He would unload trucks of vegetables all day just for a bag. Then he, and the men would go to a local church, give the priest the vegetables and he would make a stew to feed them all.
It may fall on those of us who have these skill to teach those who weren't fortunate enough to have been made to learn. Maybe we were taught for a reason,not only to save us but others as well.
The one extra thing people could hold is silver. But the skills are most important. Been learning about self reliance since 25 years now. I feel very confident.
If you look up “Great Depression cooking” on yt you will see a woman, who’s grandson started filming her recipes before she died (passed 2015) but the channel is still up I love watching her and listening to her wisdom
I watched her Videos, I eat that or less every day..guess Im prepared
My grandfather grew up in the hollars of Kentucky back in the depression.. I will always be grateful to him for instilling in me when I was a young man growing up in the country all the things he learned and to be morally upright, fear GOD and help your neighbor.. Hunting/trapping and preserving meat, canning vegetables from the garden, mending what ever needed mending was my way of life and I owe it all to him and all the other old timers where I was raised.. God bless you and Im Subscribed🙏🇺🇸
Excellent video Sooth. I am 68 and my parents lived through the depression and I am one who lives frugal, I garden, do woodworking, plumbing, electrical work and rarely hire anyone to do things. I love it when you mentioned cleaning a rabbit, I learned how to do that when I was 8 years old from mu sister's mother in law an old ozark farm woman.
i hear you -------- brother
This brought back my childhood Sunday afternoons listening to the elders talk, never complain just sit and talk about the difficulties of yesteryear! Hey thank you Sootch
Great video because the wisdom you shared is so relevant today.
Savings are scarce among people. Prepared attitudes are weak and self reliance is absent. But worse off, self isolation is the worst weakness, even among families.
Being in the home industry, i feel another major collapse coming soon. Just like 2008, people are not ready. This is not fear mongering, just trying to not repeat the past.
You mentioned that in the Great Depression, people slept in cars. That is already happening.
I guess that we can all live on less. That is a lesson we all need to accept.
so true, up to 60% of Americans today would have to sell a possession if they need 400$ in an emergency, so sad.
My great grandfather lost his dad at the age of 14 (bowel obstruction) in 1933, got married to my granny when they were 17 and had my grandmother and her brother out in the boondocks or the woods here in southern ky.. said their shack didn’t even have a floor it was just dirt. He wound up being lucky enough to have work because he was so mechanically inclined and super smart that the owner told his workers that even though he was young they were to listen to him because he knew what to do! He was lucky for that and was able to help others, we still have their ration stamps too .. they don’t make em like him or my granny anymore ❤️
Excellent video and extremely good presentation. Probably the best video I have seen in a long time.
In The Great Depression people survived by being resourceful, bartering, learning things and working together. In the next one they will survive by finding resourceful people who have stuff, and killing them for it. It's sad, but it's who we are now.
They can either shoot you for your food crop and die of starvation, or help with planting & not starving to death.
My Mother and Father lived in fear of starvation and lack all my life - and imparted that fear to me. My Grandpa lost his restaurant because he couldn't turn away the starving masses. My father-in-law lost everything he saved ($5,000) when the banks closed their doors and stole our savings. And indeed, we have no family or community anymore to last through this again. We must try to love and care for each other as best we can.
Havabrown Kitty Cat, curious but, is it still possible to sue the banks like chase for example, for stealing that money?
I like that idea.
@@anotherbutt4chair454 I do not know the answer to that question.
Excellent informational video. Bravo. I appreciate Sootch's videos. He IS providing an important service. Thank you.
My mother’s father was a farmer they always grew food for the family first. Then to sell, so the cows and chickens ate after the kids. Corn bread and milk was dinner many nights like we would eat spam and Mac cheese or jar Spaghetti today. Smoking meat, and canning was the rule of the day. I love to smoke meat like Thad!
My other grand father was a rail road man out of Fremont Nebraska. Not sure of his job but it paid the bills. That’s all that matters right was just re-reading going home and when Morgan came home and made Spam for breakfast it focus my mind so much of my life, as Span has been at each event of our life as a family. Earthquakes, power outages, first dinner in a new house. Even camping trips steaks are great. But sometimes pot food is better. Info in Italy sun dried tomatoes are like poor peoples food and have been for years. They are only a recent addition to popular dinning go figure. My father and mother worked the war years as cook and waitress, so some of their recipes were iffy to say the least. And yes my mom could cook anything and make it eatable. SOS was common with pressure cooked taters whipped or so other way. Peace
This is a really great video. My parents went through the depression and passed down their concern to me as I was growing up, teaching me to not depend on the government or anybody else for my survival, but to learn the skills necessary to live.
Great advice “ people helped each other” that is the path...
Don, thanks for sharing. It brings back stories my parents (as kids) & grandparents shared with my sister and I about the 'hard times' of the Great Depression. We have it so good now compared to then.
Glad my wife and I are in the medical field. We also live on a farm. Thanks for your advice people take that for granted!
My aunt was from Venezuela and said doctors walked the streets looking for any work they could find! This was before the country collapsed! Be prepared the worst situation!
Best video yet. So many people don't even know about the Great Depression. As I watch this video I'm sitting in my daughter's backyard with her chickens. She has 20 or so. My payment for taking care of the house and animals is getting to keep all the eggs I gather. So far 5 dozen and I have 5 days to go. I love your outtakes.
Back in the 80's I knew a guy that made sandals out of blown out semi tires he found on roadways. Just think about getting 20,000 miles out of your sandals!
@Erich Von Wachter I used to have a pair of plain Teva recreational black sandals. My dad was visiting one time and saw them on my feet and called them something like "Cong Feet". He was in country 70-72.
Poly-nylon corded tires can-do. Steel belted very bad. Very bad.
ive seen those in mexico back in the 1960s well made and last forever.
I tried making a belt out of old wristwatches, but it was a waist of time.
No you can't. Those sandals made with tire soles will last decades. Show me a pair of China scuffs that will last 2 years.@Zip Zenac
your grandmother sounds so wise n sweet. reminds me of mine God rest her soul.
People living in cars, tents and lean-tos sounds like modern California today. just sayin'.
jguy fletch all thanks to their beloved Socialist Illegal Conquistadors and their beloved Commiecrats!!
@@fbnflaviusbroadcastingnetw6786 You know you are incorrect, of course? California has more poor people because we treat them relatively well.
No abuse, in California they may be poor, but they aren't beaten, robbed, and chased out of town.
@@harmgregory4560 You are the worst type of person
@@jamespierce8342 How so?
@douglas carpenter and so you will believe that, until Trump succeeds in taking away your health insurance and you wind up living on the street....wondering why rich people are all so mean to you.
I have been watching you for years now and you have always had common sense and well reasoned advise but what I truly respect is your compassion, community commitment and shared humanity......this video and your homeless video are 2 of your best.....Thanks for sharing.....
I still have my grandmother's depression cookie recipe. Loved making those with her.
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Excellent...absolutely right. I learned gardening, powerless living, medicines...life is so much better when family works together. I sure wish my own family felt the way I do. Its be so good if people could all put their skills together. Peace could thrive.
I always wondered why my grandmother saved all the tin foil, milk cartons and coffee cans
That's why. Bless your grandmother.
My grandparents were born in 1911 and were teenagers during the depresion. They married and my grandfather sold potatoes and milk that they produced on a small farm they rented. They had a garden on the small lot they bought in 1935. where they raised vegetables till they died in 2002. Grandma canned most the food they ate. She made most of her kids clothes.
My Grandfather was a WW1 veteran. After the war, he became a postman, walking a route with a huge leather bag delivering the post. He had 9 people he was supporting from 1930 on. He owned 3 rental houses, he had 3 each one acre gardens he grew all the family produce in. My Grandmother would put it up in Mason jars. My Grandfather also raised rabbits, chickens, and honey bees...ever hear of Burleson honey? That was my Granddaddy! He continued to garden and my Grandmother continued to can the produce up until the mid 1970s. I asked my Grandmother once why she didn;t just go to the grocery store and buy tinned foods. She said that would "cost cash money." Im proud to be related to my Grand parents. They were such positive role models.
Sootch, you talk about your Grandmother talking about how people helped each other back then. One of my earliest memories was of my "Gokha." Gokha was not his real name. He was an elderly neighbor of my Grandparents. When his wife passed away in the late 30s, he moved into my Grandparents house to live because he was unable to care for himself. So there was my Grandfather, my Grandmother ,my Great Grandmother ,Gokha, and uncles Gene and Daniel, aunts Winona, Mildred, Mary, and my mother , Sarah. OOps, there were 10 people living there.
Did you say Burleson honey? Burleson? The famous Burleson? Never heard of it. You really thought we would? That's the saddest thing I've heard all week. Did he invent bees or something?
roger komula Don’t be such a knob, I’m from England, never heard of it, why would I; but, I took the time to google it, and it seems to be quite an established product in America, a fifth generation family firm from the South West! Something to be proud of belonging to.
@@Mat-kr1nf - Milorganite is an established product too, and also shit.
Thanks for posting this. It warms my heart. Beware the ones who always want their own way... flies in the ointment they are.
I came from a community where children were taken in. Many of them the family just left them behind. People were not left for authorities to gather up. Most of those children grew up realizing eventually that they they were just too different to be a brother or sister of the family they were part of. Just the fact that someone took them in as one of their own so they had family and thus a greater chance of survival matters and is an example of what is truly important in life.
roger komula Your point being?????
Interesting observations you make. Grandma and Grandpa... Piece work ground auto valve cylinders, kept and sold chickens, eggs, Boston Terriers, and song birds, put wood bottoms in rusted out metal trash cans for folks to get more use out of... Mom came after Grandpa got a good job driving a garbage truck so she learned to sew and go to school. From the garbage pick up behind restaurants, Grandpa collected a full set of silverware from cast outs we still have some of around today.
Mom taught me how to sew and cook. Dad taught me what devotion to family can be. The air force taught me how to wrench. I can skin a squirrel... Hoping for the best for everyone.
My Dad said the most important firearm and bullet in his childhood depression days was the single shot .22 lr. They went out and took squirrels and rabbits with it to supplement their diet.
Yea, my dad said that too. They refitted the spent sells as arrow heads so they weren't afraid of losing arrows.
22s are Light, cheap and alot more dangerous than ppl think.
@Marco Polo well that's a win, win.👍
My dad was born during the great depression. My grandma made sure that all the girls of the family knew how to sew and quilt as well as cook and can food and how to garden. I thank the Lord that my grandma was there to teach me all of this.
You are so right my friend I agree with you 100% back then people helped each other I think this time around people are going to be looking out for themselves which is what's going to cause a lot of rioting in fighting and killing because people are looking out for themselves and their own families but I hope that's not the case I hope people will walk together because if we work together civilization will slowly come back.
I remember the stories my family told about the Depression. As you point out, they all lived together in one house. My great-grandmother made beer in the tub, had card games, sold plates of food and made beauty products. My dad had an apple cart and sold horse manure for people to garden with. In fact, I still own two 'laundry' woodstoves they used. They are about 130 years old and keep my shops warm in winter. Like you said, teamwork is the key.
2020 and here we are again
I know an old guy who was a kid in Greece at the end of WW2. The Nazis shipped all the food back to Germany and let the Greeks starve. This guy remembers his mother making grass soup, water lemon juice a bit of garlic and GRASS. Interestingly enough now that he is old grass soup evokes memories of his mother's love. His wife makes it for him on his birthday.
My grandma was given away to a farm family as an indentured servant. The $ was sent back to family. She was only 11. She had 12 other brothers and sisters. She literally put cardboard in bottom of the hole in shoes. She died a very wealthy person. She worked hard and taught me many life lessons! She paid half 5 grandkids college. Miss her, but still have her lessons.
Erin Riley Why did people back then have so many kids if they didn’t have a pot to piss in? That just spreads more poverty among the children.
My parents were both from the Great Depression! They taught me many great survival techniques! So grateful for my parents❤️
Good video, one of the few videos that are realistic and useful in the real world. But be aware of the people too, not only food. During extreme conditions people may (will) change and even your friends/neighbors/relatives could turn against you, perhaps all of them are good persons now but under high pressure some of them may become dangerous (even for themselves) if they are unable to handle it.
Absolutely!
Sadly. Neighbors used to help each other. Now they don't even know each other.
For me... knowing how to cook from scratch over an open fire was one of the best skills I ever learned.
Enjoyed your talk. Prepping, this was normal, until recently. Nothing special. Now it's fringe. 🤪
...fringe..until your modern conveniences are worthless.
My grandmother was a depression baby, #11 of 13 children, she grew up on a farm in California. She raised me since I was 2 and taught me so much about cooking, sewing, gardening but not canning.
70 years later and still have poverty, hunger and homelessness..
Hey you are a Survival and Still Standing with valuable knowledge. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Blessings✔.
John 12:8 KJV For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
The other commenters is correct. You can't get others sober/wakeup, then others has true opposition, and others seems to accept this way of life.
Crash won't bother those that are already poor.
Just make them normal again. We will also have more freedom.
I live on a working cow/calf operation & I shoe horses for a living. I love the lifestyle, we grow a garden, trade farrier work for beef ,eggs, cars etc.. We just went through a major blizzard in eastern Colorado, the wood stove kept the house @ 75 degrees & the pot of chili bubbling, & the snowbank outside the door kept the Coors cold. We lost power for quite awhile, but we were ready.
25% unemployment, 75% working. Many thought is was worse than it was. Today would be a whole different scenario.
Stay prayerful friends and love one another. Oh, and do not fear.
My dad told me his parents didn't have much but there was always food on the table. Grandma kept chickens and had a big garden. She fed everyone that was over at meal times, no one was turned away. Sure those folks only came by to eat, more often than not they'd bring a dish to share, a story to tell or a song to sing.
Cash on hand at home is key in an emergency. Remember the bank holiday in Greece when the government forced all the banks to close. As Ferfal says cash is king!
Doesn't even have to be a big thing to warrant having cash on hand. Here in my town last Thursday, the ATMs and card readers quit and the gas stations were cash only. Made things rough for those who were "card only" people. 4:30 AM and no breakfast or beverage like you normally have.
kenneth-the agenda is to make it a cashless human society and economy. I think if cash is available anywhere, it will become a black market, shadowy, system of exchange, if or when things hit the fan! Lots to think about, and lots of scenarios to consider.
kenneth santos Jesus Christ is King!
I was born ten years after the depression. I spent a lot of time at my grandmothers as a child. She had a wash tub and scrub board and actually took in neighbors wash to make money. No refrigerator but she did have an ice box. She'd walk to the store every other day and buy a block of ice to keep the ice box cool to hold the days meal. In the back yard she grew a small garden because by then she had to work it all by hand. She had an old treadle sewing machine that she could get up to a speed that was almost scary. For christmas I'd usually get a new pair of homemade pajamas as toys were too expensive. I was really proud because one year another relative gave her a used mans shirt and she cut it down to my size. At christmas time her brother who had a little money would go to the farmers market and buy several extra large apples and oranges and give them to us. My grandmother had a couple of fig trees and we had a pear tree so each year she'd can dozens of jars of preserves. I haven't had a pear preserve since. She'd also can squash in tomatoes each year to enjoy all winter. As a senior today I don't can much produce anymore but I still can dry goods to give them a longer shelf life. I do grow a good portion of vegetables and some fruit for the wife and I. One thing I hang on to is an old wood smoker. I have lots of trees and if power isn't available I can still cook. Chickens for eggs and a pond full of fish and perhaps the occasional rabbit, hog, or deer that wonders through my land. I think it's also important to hold on to items that work without power if needed. Things like a manual can opener, oil lamps, coleman type stove, perhaps a few solar panels. In bad times they might be considered a luxury.
Tools tools tools..!! and the knowledge on how to use them. Store them in different locations. My truck just got broken into, I lost quite a few of my tools. Thankfully I have some more at home and at a storage facility. Like you say, we need to learn a lot of skills that have been forgotten. Guess who's getting into sewing??😁 When you can't buy the masks, better learn to make em. No such thing as a woman skill. A skill is a skill.
Very well done sir. My grandparents lived though this. My wife and I grew up poor. Unless we have the cash, we don't buy it. It took us years to get to this point. So glad we can now. A certain guy named Dave Blablabla has a course on living and saving. We didn't need to take it. Hording, saving, and having life skills is priceless... and having a treadle sewing machine
my dad grew up in the depression (he was born in 1918) he taught me a lot over the years & told me a lot of stories of how thing were in time period. then how the war put even a bigger strain on the people because of rationing of certain items per family/business!! The aluminum foil thing you mentioned made me laugh cause I saw that first hand!! he saved everything growing up the thing is he rubbed off on me cause I save lotsa stuff now & will go thru a spell bout 1 time a year where ill throw a lot of things away as I say WTF did I keep that for!!! I also remember 1 of his friends say "if you feel bad about throwing something away that you may use later just put it around back under a tarp & when you need it & go to get it then it will be junk so you wont feel bad about throwing it away then" they both grew up in that same time period tho!! one other thing my dad always said " you will have another depression in your lifetime I probably wont be here to see/help you but I have taught you enough that you will make it thru it" I really belive that we are getting close to seeing it again soon!!!! thank you for hopefully opening others eyes
Thanks Scootch, even aside from depression there is allot to be learned here, growing vegetables in a garden is healthy and can be peaceful. Knowing many of these things is important because so many people are playing on the internet and can hardly change a tire on there car, much less forage or hunt then
prep that for eating and storage.
*Don't Loose your STRENGTHS, during PEACE TIMES*
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As a young man, my father joined the multitude of jobless men who rode freight trains around the country looking for work. It was a feature of that time. Men would leave their families with relatives and take to the rails. That was another feature of that time. Whenever possible, homeless people were taken in by kinfolk. My mother's family lived on a farm in East Texas, and she can't remember a time when some relative wasn't living with them.
My grand mother would tell stories about her brothers taking a pellet gun and hunt critters like rabbets, squirrels and pigeons. The got so good at shooting, and not wasting ammo, they would shoot the eyes out of the critters.
@@Islandwaterjet An air powered pellet gun will make quick work of the little critters.
My grandad rode the rails to where ever he heard there might be work. He called it bumming. My parents videoed my grandad talking about all the adventures of his life, growing up in an orphanage for veterans of the civil war, losing all but one home due to his renters couldn't pay their rent, cutting fur for coats and any work of any kind, being thrown in jail overnight by the sherriff and his posse, playing football against Jim Thorpe/Carlisle Indians. I miss him so.
would love to see that video--maybe you could post it on here that would be soooo cool----
Someone was still living large during the depression. Guaranteed.
Plenty of people.
Just follow the people that shorted markets and owned a LOT more real estate after. They orchestrated it !!!!
Yes. That's what caused the Depression.
northrockboy it wouldn't surprise me.
Baruch Ben-David I wonder if I can feed KFC to my future chickens. 😂
My Dad grew up during this time. He told me he hated when "family" would come to the farm after working in town all week, for family meals. They would eat all his hard work and he would have less to sell. He said they seemed to go hungry all week and filled up on weekends. Of course years later he understood that they were FAMILY and they might have given his parent something, that he never saw and of course they may HAVE gone hungry all week but not of choice.
*Extremely handy tips, would have been great if they were numbered in a list*
Spot on. My grandparents survived during the great depression. My mother was 1 of 17 children .
Friends, I think it is time to stop calling what we are teaching people "survival", "survivalism", or "prepping", or "doomsday" anything. "Resiliency training" is probably a more appropriate, and less reactive-based term that is catching on.
Thank you very much for making this video. I think you do a fine job of making sensible, reasonable points about what folks have learned from adversity.
Those are the things that many of our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were focused on--being resilient. That means to be able to effectively adapt to a wide range of potentially harmful situations--from crop failures--to communicable illness outbreaks among people and livestock--to war-related changes--to game shortages, to supply shortages, to harmful weather and other natural phenomena.
They tended to be more generalized in their skill sets, and more accustomed to being both self-sufficient, and face-to-face community-dependent than many people living today are. The world's peoples are likely to return to ways of living that are more in alignment with older models because they can be more sustainable over time, and so, we are simply helping good people to learn how to make the adjustments that can help them to live a more resilient, community-focused kind of life.
I have noticed that there is a lot of material out there about being resilient as a way of living, and there has been for many decades. A new item I discovered on "The Collapse Chronicles" here on TH-cam is by British author Elizabeth Jane Walker, who published "The Resilience Handbook: How to Survive in the 21st Century." Her interview on "Collapse Chronicles" is here: th-cam.com/video/yyH8ErqXJOg/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for considering my idea. I think it is time to end the "fringe" and "macho" imprimatur to teaching good old, tried and true, common sense skills to people who want to learn them. More people will be interested if they don't believe that they must be marginalized and paranoid in order to just live more sensibly, and to regain more control over the course of their lives, no matter what happens.
doomsday is a tv term and the people who can't separate tv from reality. The media has given all these terms a bad report and will do the same for any term you want to use.
Spread the word Sootch. Love that baby rock. I was undecided till I saw run it's paces. Great job.
I understand that the big problem related to the stock market crash was the borrowed money in the stock market. People saw an opportunity in the market, so they borrowed money to invest. The crash was devastating for them and apparently had a ripple effect on the economy. Drought years added to this problem.
This reminds me of my grandparents. They were dirt poor Appalachian mountain folk during the depression, and grandpa said it was nearly over before they even understood what it was because everyone in the mountains was already as poor as you could get.
But he said life was actually easier for them during the depression. They had land in the mountains to grow food, and unlike a great many, grandpa worked steadily all the way through. He said if you had just a little cash you could live far better during the depression than you could before the depression with three times the money. It was definitely a buyers market for everything.
As for preparing food, it's really not at all difficult. If you can read, you can follow a recipe, and the great majority of prepared foods can be made very well just by following a recipe. I do think owning some recipe books, several of them, is a must. You may not have access to the internet at all if we have an SHTF situation.
And for city people, there may be no food other than simple dishes from restaurants. Grandpa talked about a trip he made to New You City, and said everyone he met there lived on lentil soup. A nickel got you a large bowl, and that was supper for thousands of city people. He said most couldn't afford anything else, but he also said that even those who had jobs and made decent money were afraid to spend it, even for nicer food.
This might be why your grandparents stayed so frugal, even after making a lot of money. WWII ended the depression, but "Make it do, or do without" also added to the way my grandparents lived for the rest of their lives. There were many things you couldn't buy, even if you had money, and ration cards were taken very seriously. Again, though, this affected city people more than country people who had big gardens, and who could raise hogs, chickens, rabbits, and often a steer or two, along with a milk cow.
Despite all the stories, though, I'm not at all sure anyone starved to death during the depression, unless it was the very rare elderly person who was unable to get out of his apartment, and had no one to help them. Though I doubt even this happened. There are stories by the hundreds, but verified cases are nearly non-existent. I doubt it would be the same now, despite al;l the safety nets we have in place.
Casualties will be incredibly high in big cities. Violence will be the norm. Society has completely changed since the 1930s for the worse.
scdevon because on the whole as a nation America has forgotten it’s God: the TriUne Holy One of Israel, and have forgotten its Faith in Christ: Christianity!
I couldn't agree more about how much stronger you can be if you have a good team around you versus a fantastic individual.
We made our decision to pay cash for our property and why we chose its location for this very reason.
Make sure you protect it.
@@DaDaDo661 oh, we do. In many ways. 😉
I bet you have dogs too.
@@greatprovider8198 a few. One is a great pyranees that wont even let me venture into the woods unless hes checked it out. If I wanna go for a hike I have to go out, send him out, wait twenty minutes for him to come back, then he and I can go out. He'll tackle me to keep me from going out if he has to. Lol.
ha, ha, ha Good dog. @@tksjewelry
Back in 1973-1974 we lived in Iowa out of town and had a huge garden and dad would help farmers with welding and other stuff and they would give us a cow or a pig for payment. The good ol days. We lost a lot of skills over the years.
There was only one kid in my town that was poorer than me, I remember one day he told me that I was lucky because at least I had nothing.
I agree with what you say in a relative way, don't go into debt.
My grandma somehow made it through the dustbowl and depression in Oklahoma but still ended up in California when her husband was stationed there during WWII. She only ever talked about it to me once to stop my nagging her about it. Now she's gone and there's so much more I wish I could ask her. I hope everyone who still has their Grands cherishes them and spends as much time as possible with them.
In Europe it was called the Depression. In the U.S. it was called "The Great Depression" Why, cause the Gov't stepped in and made it last another 5 yrs. Gov't does NOT "Help",,they HURT.
Excellent knowledge. I grew up helping my dad with deer, Turkey's and etc after hunting. Never grew up with store bought. It's been many many years but I remember how . Praise the good Lord I grew up like that. Would not trade those skills for anything.
I only leave enough in the bank to keep the account open. All my pay goes to bills, canned and dried foods, gold, silver and daily expenses.
Is gold sellable in times when economy is worse?
My parents were little kids when the depression hit and they kept the mindset all of their lives. Never deep in debt. Bought a house in 1969 and kept it until 2012. It was paid for in 1985. Died with money in the bank and no debt. Hardly took a vacation longer then 4 days. Didn't increase spending if their income increased. I now understand their wisdom.
The U.S. population is probably 350 million people including illegals. Out of that number probably less than 10 million have anything remotely close to the survival skill-set of a cira 1935 farming family. This means that almost all of the modern-day skills of modern families would be pretty much useless in a full-blown economic collapse. And if the grid goes down and stays down for more than three months, 9 out of 10 will ether be in very bad shape or dead.
If the Grid goes down for any extended time beyond one week, fresh food, fuel and communication and security systems will fail.
All those shows and movies about zombies?
Allegory.
Rule of Law will no longer apply.
Those that own firearms will be easily identifiable: they'll be the ones that don't look like they're starving.
"Ammo will be the currency of the future."
It should also be noted that during WWII (and possibly before), Victory Gardens were responsible for 51% of all the vegetables grown in the US.
March 21, 2019----Your statement about Victory Gardens made me curious, so looked it up. 40% of food eaten in the U.S. in 1943 was produce by these gardens. Reference:www.sarahsundin.com/victory-gardens-in-world-war-ii/
I would bet my ass there are at least 100 million illegals here. We are doomed
RealNewsChannel : People freak out when the internet is down and the tv is blank or their phone battery is drained.
@@bobm5600 I agree. We have no idea how many are here. I'm surrounded.
All excellent points. My great grandma was a young teen in the depression era and my grandma kept alot of those habits also and passed them down. It's a great example of how things will change during some sort of collapse. The first 2 weeks without a job for those families was much different than the 8th year of it. Some things got easier just from being used to it by then but it always raised new issues. You have to be able to change and the more skills you ha e the better your chances are in general
If you are alone and nobody gets it you become a lone wolf
Excellent point. In the past people tended to help each other. And they were not under medication. Great reminder, great video.
I'm Australian ,i guess i was lucky enough to have been raised without power ect , kero fridge , kero lamp , wood CROWN No 7 stove and bathed in a galvanised dish every night ,12 odd mile from a small town so have the relative ease of living it harder if necessary , i also know how to to make gasification and thermal heating for water ect too how to kill clean and dress game (meat) done that type of stuff in the late 60's and onwards , i still rough it out at the folks place with wood stove and thermal hot water , also got kero lanterns , candles and a single burner metho stove if needed and plenty of other stuff
Let me guess, outback? I'm in rural SA. Also lived in Victoria near Healesville, NSW in the southern highlands and QLD in Toowoomba. I'm guessing you know about the diggers club for mail order seeds and quality tools etc.
@@shithappenedwhatnow3028 i know of them but never dealt with them
@@holdenboy1960 they are well worth supporting. Once you've got the seeds, plant, grow, harvest food, let go to seed and harvest them as they make great gifts, useful extra cash by selling etc.
@@shithappenedwhatnow3028 thanks for the info on the seeds ,Eden seeds ,are a good source too, locally grown in logan brisbane a bloke grows all the old types of seeds and harvests the seed and sells to the public , and is on the net someplace too , P.S i share time between brisbane and out near Boonah, Rathdowney folks got property there i care for , but have lived nsw Dorrigo, Bellingen and in QLD Normanton , kingaroy and around the southeast corner
@@holdenboy1960 Eden seeds, must remember that, thanks mate. I love supporting small businesses. Sounds like you are living the life :)
Thanks for sparking memories of my grandparents. My grandmother had a rag box, by the time something went there nothing was left. I don't even think the rag man would have taken it.
Brother, we are not that country anymore. Help out the sick and elderly but beware of the monsters that forgot about being an American.
Lou Will Save Us ~ We are all human. If anyone wants to "forget about being American", it’s probably because its government will be the ones, again, getting us into trouble. Most people in this country love this country. Stop starting trouble by dividing us at every turn.
@@tracyk3567 I'm sure the mosque in NYC are not near your home.
Lou Will Save Us ~ yeah, people on their knees praying-pretty scary.
@@tracyk3567 - Ha, its those signs that say Muslims only on American streets and their new police units enforcing Muslim law.
Excellent video. All information appreciated. I was told by my grandparents there were rationing coffee, sugar, etc. etc. things that couldn’t either be raised or hunted or caught fishing or bee keeping. They were also strong people. Knowledgeable in herbs, eatable and medicinal, and neighborly helping one another knowing how to barter and trade. If this ever happens again in America I sure hope people have an abundance of respect and desire to help each other as they did in the past for if not things will be worse than The Great Depression for people will die due to lack of Love for one another.
The game Monopoly was created during the depression.
It's really good that you bring this up as there a lot of younger people who have no idea about gardening, cooking, survival skills, prepping and who also may not have money to survive on. It is those people that i am concerned with as they may turn to robbing, pilfering, or even killing folks. I will help close known neighbors, and family when I can. I have a very large back yard that I can to a degree grow my own food. However, I am old and disabled so plowing up my yard for planting is not something I can do. I look at my yard and wish that I could plant things, but we are just stuck. I plan to use farmer's markets to be able to can up some food for my pantry and long term storage. Keep up the good work, maybe the young people will look at your videos and learn from them.
My grandparents used to say to my brother, cousin, and I, "You boys don't know how easy you have it". And would then elaborate on the differences between our generations upbringings. They dropped some serious concepts on us like how there was no running water when they grew up. They had to go to a well and pump it into buckets for drinking, bathing, cooking, EVERYTHING! And how we took for granted the convenience of just turning the knob of which temperature water we so luxuriously chose. Going to the bathroom was in an outhouse, day/night, sunny or snowing. Or how there was no electricity. If it was past sunset and they wanted to see they lit a kerosene lantern. Now an effortless flip of a switch lit our whole house up. And a push of a button brought us an endless variety of entertainment. At that time the television was just emerging and only affordable by the very rich. For food every sibling had to pitch in on the farm. They canned extra vegetables and butchered their own meat. To preserve that meat they had a salt house they just poured massive amounts of salt on and let it dry out. Which btw was probably a contributing reason for many of the health problems for that generation. They probably thought their wisdom fell on deaf ears but it did not. I was perceptive to what they said even at 7 or 8 years old and it really made me appreciate how easy I have it and how truly lucky I really am. This caused me to also take interest in becoming familiar with skills that are rare today in the age of electronics and the internet (at least in So. California where I was born and raised) like living off the land, camping, gardening, firearms, etc... In case something does ever happen and also as a reminder to appreciate the conveniences that could be lost.
I often wonder what would happen if another depression occured in present times. The sad state of affairs that the "millenials" would be in without their electronics and if they were forced to go outside, work, and get dirty or even talk to someone else IN PERSON. LOL. I will always appreciate grandma and grandpa for sharing their invaluable words of wisdom with us.
keep your money out the stock market, buy gold and silver
Buy something you'll need and use.
Buy ammo.
Good for defense, for bartering, for hunting.
What will gold or silver do for you?
When the SHTF, nobody will care about precious metals or gems.
When the SHTF, it won't be a mere 'economic depression'. It will be much bigger and much worse than anything like the '30s.
Think "Reset". Total destruction.
War. Famine. Pandemics. Lawlessness the likes of which the world has never witnessed.
You think gold will buy your way out?
land will be worth more, especially farming land
john hanrahan if that happens we’re all fucked for a depression level event gold and silver will keep its value and the gov won’t be able to get it’s greedy hands on it. When things start to rebound you will have a good leg up. I think the best thing to do is have some of everything. Some investments, gold, silver, weapons, food, farming, hunting and mechanical skills. The best strategy is to be well rounded.