My grandma always said she lived through the the Great Depression and didn’t know it until she got into high school. They were just as poor before as they were during
@@mikebar42Only because she was in elementary school so had no concept of Econ. The GD hit poor people the hardest. Rich folks bought the dip and exponentially increased their wealth.
@@mikebar42 oh gotcha. There’s just this idea that market crashes only effect people who hold stocks… which def isn’t true. Thought that’s where this was going, my bad.
@@sergeantonionzindros-luu2366 I was hoping you caught the, “the sheep will always stay out grazing” within my hidden txt LOL. The ones who understand when the economy takes a different course, they focus a little more. But sheep on the other hand..
My grandmother told me that they were pretty much self-sufficient, so they weren’t really aware of the depression until the government came out and tried to encourage them to move to the city where they could find jobs. My grandmother said they thought that was a crazy idea.
That’s interesting, my grandmother said the opposite, that the government encouraged them to leave the city and move to the country because there were not enough jobs in the city and they could grow their own food in the country; which is exactly what they did.
My family is agricultural farming and during the depression They didn't really struggle for food because of the farm didn't have much money, but food was not an issue
My family told stories of getting by on cornbread, sweet potatoes, corn and an occassional back yard squirrel for dinner. 13 year old boys would work, have newspaper routes , in order to afford new shoes and a haircut.
my great-grandpa worked at a bank and everyone was throwing themselves out of windows and such, but he just went home and went fishing. And he fed the family with fish through the entire depression.
@@merricat3025 Depended on where you lived, how much money you had, and what you were doing with it. The wealthy always know to diversify their wealth, so they might have taken a hit when the stock market crashed, but they still had real estate, precious metals, and other Depression-proof assets to fall back on. Most of the rural poor or agrarian families didn't notice a difference. They carried on with life as they always had. The urban poor were in competition with the other lower and middle classes, so it sucked for them worse, but they were also kinda used to it. Where it *really* hurt was urban the middle class, the bankers, and the "nouveau riche" that were making real money from investments. Because businesses that were owned-by or employed the middle class were forced to shut down, and the bankers were not only out of a job but were vilified for "letting it happen," and the folks that had made money from investing suddenly lost everything.
My grandmother was born in 1913 and raised me, my brother, and sister. My grandpa worked hard for a dollor a day. We would sit around in the winter and help her make blankets. We always had a garden and she canned everything. Thats how they made it thru the depression and hard times. Today i have a garden, make my own blankets, and pray. That seems to work for my family.
My great grandma was a city girl with two druggy parents. Most nights they only had boiled corn meal powder from charities to eat. During the height of the depression she met and married my great grandfather. During their dating phase she asked him how he always had food around. He looked at her confused and said: my farm and garden? She tried to clarify like yes, but don't you have to sell all that to live through these times? He shrugged and said: sure sales tanked a bit these years, I just eat first. Ain't missed a meal since birth. To be fair he was also a league above other gardeners. Award winning produce in later years. But neither she nor their 12 kids OR their neighbors kids ever skipped a meal after their marriage
My great grandma was a city girl with two druggy parents. Most nights they only had boiled corn meal powder from charities to eat. During the height of the depression she met and married my great grandfather. During their dating phase she asked him how he always had food around. He looked at her confused and said: my farm and garden? She tried to clarify like yes, but don't you have to sell all that to live through these times? He shrugged and said: sure sales tanked a bit these years, I just eat first. Ain't missed a meal since birth. To be fair he was also a league above other gardeners. Award winning produce in later years. But neither she nor their 12 kids OR their neighbors kids ever skipped a meal after their marriage
Some of my favorite childhood memories are of helping with the canning in the late summer. Green beans, tomatoes, carrots, and Mom made the best pickles and mild chili sauce.
This is essential issues, got stuck in rat race so not many actually listen to their elders, its a great skilled to grow vegetables and milking cows, with war comes depression on many level. This is probably the best life for someone, no one gettin killed like. You can call this what a life.… To my understanding.
The problem would have been the knock-on effects of the bank closures which were a problem all throughout the 1920s but during the 30s were ridiculous until deposit insurance became a thing
"Daddy was a good man a southern democrat, they ought to get a rich man to vote like that" Southern democrats started the kkk so i dont think daddy was a very good man.
@@sprout1599 Look up the ethnic makeup of the US back then. Diversity destroys unity and social cohesion. During hard times like the depression we will turn violent as we turn on who we do not relate to.
My mom said exactly the same thing. She was lucky to grow up on a farm, had a garden, some animals, and grew crops that fed people. She always said that she had a great life growing up. No one had money but she and her friends had what they needed. And that was more than enough.
My grandfather grew up in a impoverished area in the South during the Depression. When people asked him what it was like his response was "Hell, we didn't notice."
@hotepx2935 all land is stolen from someone? You think any country today was the original holder of the land they currently occupy? You have an IQ of 70 if you think the US is unique in conquering land
@hotepx2935As a Native American, I can assure you that living in the past and clutching onto the victimization of the generations prior has done absolutely no favors for us. I do agree that the immigration laws of my forefathers back then were way too lax, and history does repeat itself, which we are now seeing and is much more pressing of an issue than some perceived injustice by people who are no longer alive today. Our fight is with the powers today which are trying to oppress, exterminate, and steal land that doesn't belong to them. We remember the past, but we are not victims to it.
My grandma lived through the depression and carried many of the views of then through her entire life; like she always looked for the cheapest food and would shop around to save dimes, even in the 2000’s. She canned food till she was too old to do it anymore, reused items and struggled w/ newer technology (i didnt mind driving to her house 15mins away to help her fix her tv, phone, remotes, etc after she’d mess them up accidentally). The stories she had of the past were always fun to hear.
Except gen z isn’t like the silent generation… gen z likes to bitch and moan, so you already know 80% of these kids will be talking about how hard it was like they actually did something 😂
My mom was in the city during the Great Depression, one of a large family, supper was usually just bread and milk. She went to visit cousins the country and felt she'd died and gone to heaven! They had vegetables, fruit, eggs, etc. all from their farm. It was night and day! So the stories will vary depending on where you lived and how resourceful your parents/family were.
I have distinct memories of my late grandfather's second wife saying something to that effect- she grew up in the city in the 30s and there was very little. They were often hungry. My grandfather grew up on a farm, and while it was hard work, there was always food.
I can confirm. My mom's family lost everything and had to live out of a car for years. People kept traveling around looking for work. A lot of traditional jobs fell off the radar. It was a horrible time.
I think that was most people’s experience. I remember in elementary school we had a few assignments where we had to interview family members about what it was like to live through the depression, and my great grandparents always had the same answers: we were already poor, nobody noticed until it was over.
My grandparents said the same thing. It is why i tell people skills matter more than stuff. Collect skills, knowledge and the willingness to work hard.
Right. That's why it will be so much worse this time around. People don't have farms or even know how to grow food, or milk a cow. If they've ever seen a cow. And where would most people keep one. Hunting sounds good in theory. But it's not like you just walk out in the woods and animals come to you looking to be killed.
@@dex2591 Even if people did, the majority of people lie in places that dont even allow agriculture. Ive lived in places in Las Vegas, Dallas and LA and every place Ive ever lived including homes, wont let you grow food in your yard. Yards are for decoration and impressing the neighbors, apparently
Not these new generations..They would short circuit without their phones , . Lol. They don't even know what live off the land means. What would these girls do without makeup 😂😂. This society has people all the way unprepared for anything real or survival
My grandpa had lots of land and would plant it all. When people would come by if they needed food, he would basically give it to them. My uncle said he would make the man barter for it and would take some little trinket or something worth nothing. Like he had gotten a great deal. Him being a teenager would try to protest 😂. He was a wealthy man and years later, the local newspaper did kinda a smear piece about grandpa. The backlash was so severe, the newspaper had to shut down. Because people remembered that he kept their family fed during the depression.
That's it though, it weren't no handout, a man still had to come through with something whether it was a token gesture or not, and thereby could keep some dignity about himself. It's not pretty when a man loses his sense of value. Your Grandpa sounds like a right fine fella. Have a fine rest of your day, Sir. 📜🇺🇸🦅
@@dont.ripfuller6587 Agreed. Keeping families fed is noble, but the kind of man that wants to help you preserve your dignity and save face? Super rare. Almost legendary.
That's exactly what my mother said. She said they never missed a meal. They had milk cows, a garden, raised pigs, and had chickens, hunted, and fished. She said that they couldn't buy things but they were never hungry. 😊 Resourceful, hard working people.
What I’m realizing is that “historical moments” don’t feel historical when you’re living through them, our grandkids will ask us about the covid pandemic like it was a zombie apocalypse 🤣
My grandfather was a house painter and that was one of the first things people have up during the great depression. He asked himself, "what's the best job i could have" and he came up with working for the railroad. He went in and applied for a job and was told they weren't hiring. He went back every morning and stayed all day until the boss came out and put him to work. He said, "i already know you're going to show up every day"
My father graduated from high school in '33. He indicated the only people that got paid in hard currency in that town was the Post Master and the railroad depot agent. There was no money in circulation. Moonshine liquor was an ersatz form of currency in some areas.
My father grew up in the depression also. When we'd learn about it in school, I'd ask him what it was like. His response was: "we were poor before the depression, we were poor during the depression, and we were poor after the depression." Keep in mind that my father was born, lived and was raised on a farm in a "sod house" on the plains of ND. They were self-sufficient.
My grandmother said the same thing. She also said that it was the best time of her life, everyone got along and families were tight and friends and neighbors helped one another
@@TheIronBear290that and because supermarkets were not common so you could not always get goods like sugar in the winter so sharing and borrowing what's a thing. You probably also grew different vegetables than what your neighbor had just so that you could help each other out just in case something ran dry in the winter
I'm 46 and my dad was born during the depression in Buhl, Alabama. I was brought up in a way that I know for a fact I will never be unsheltered or hungry. I am grateful for the gift of self sufficience from his teachings based on his experience. That's the best story I know about the depression.
My Grandmother always said they didn't know there was a depression until someone told them about it. Lived life to the fullest, no electricity, no running water. Actually she would say she had running water, you ran down to the creek and got you some.
I think famiune is worse than economic depression. your grandmother is describing life in Rural Fiji. We are poor but happy. and we eat from the land and oceans.
That’s not possible today as they have plastics and all sorts of gross contaminates ruining the rivers and streams. In the are that train derailed and caught fire pets and wildlife were poisoned to death. They’ve ruined everything it seems!
That’s normal for kids. Grandma had a box with Grande and bomb shrapnels. They spend the night in the bunker and in the morning on the way to school they went treasure hunting for these. She remembers a lot of stuff but you never heard a bad thing.
@nealcassady1189 Who are you calling a moron? That is some pretty shotty sentence structure and spelling there, Chief. My grandfather was poor, but I guess he was fortunate enough not to have to eat shoe leather.
My grandpa preferred his baked goods near burnt because he grew up in the Great Depression with a widowed mom and 7 siblings and they could only afford the ruined bread in the bakery. Never once complained about his life just told us how grateful and amazed he was by the opportunity and freedom. And asked to have his cookies in the oven an extra 6 minutes.
My grandparents talked about how they were so self sufficient that they had no idea it was going on until someone went to the store about a year into it. They were fully self-sufficient in a nice little town with animals and a garden and such. They weren't like how you saw on shows like "the Walton's"...they were much better off. They just had no idea because of how isolated they were.
People bartered, repaired things, borrowed what they didn't have. Disposable commodities are what is putting so many demands on the planet. Landfills full of clothing, full of materials from home remodeling, out if want not necessity.
LOL. There's no such thing a "self sufficient". They literally grew up in the most sophisticated time in history up to that moment. No old person remembers anything but an already dramatically improved world, racism aside.
Unless you were black you don't know how bad it was it was a lot worser than it was for them white folks at least nobody was trying to kill them everyday
@@atari7001 Good, fair point. But do you think the majority of people would have any idea how much crop to plant, let alone the acreage to actually do it....? Or the will to put in that hard physical labor?
@@justinjohnson2657 All I’m doing is trying to encourage those that may be unsure they can create for themselves. I think the doubt that you can provide is the reason why people strip the shelves whenever something like Covid or a hurricane happens. It’s definitely an admission that most people feel unprepared. But, if you don’t have land, you should try guerilla gardening. Plant vegetables in the forest or in public areas. People are so ignorant of what plants look like, I bet they’d never know potatoes were growing right under their noses, lol…
The Federal Reserve stole the People's silver and gold, so no paper ca$h. Created to destroy anyone who couldn't buy or sell. Same as now! Audit the Fed!
@@ohjackooo no, money is just a placeholder for value, if you work and theres no money to gain, theres items and services to barter with, 40 hours of work turns from a paycheck, into 10 loafs of bread, 5lbs of beef, 2 blankets and some firewood, instead of having to go to the store and buy it, your boss just pays you the items directly, so its not a scam, just takes away the placeholder.
When I asked my grandma Yetta about living through the great depression she said, they owned a small grocery store. Grandma said, they struggled, and didn’t make much money, but they always had food so they were better off than most people. Sometimes grandpa traded people’s items like jewelry or a watch for food because they didn’t have any money. Many times grandpa gave food to people for free when they had small children and needed help. They felt lucky because they always had food to eat. Other than food, they lived day to day a poor life but they managed to raise a family and survive.
It would only feel like a Great depression if you were the only one going through it but when everybody is than you relate to everyone and its the norm.
I don’t agree with that at all. If you were wealthy and lost everything it would hurt allot worse most likely. However, you’re literally just parroting what this dude said.
If the farm they had was able to feed them day in day out then It must’ve been a big farm which isn’t prevalent in city’s where the great depression hit the hardest imagine no food or farm
@@devoo0562 imagine? lol why? that's like imagining going for a swim in a Florida swamp. Wouldn't even dream of it. let alone do it. Living in a city during depression, is like living on the beach during a flood. What do you expect the smart people who live in the mountains to say besides "we told you so" Not that we want the city people out here, putting a hungry coyote in a porcupine farm.
Damn right grow the cows eat the cows and the chickens the pigs grow the corn and depend on yourself and work with your neighbor's that's the way America needs to get back to instead of just thinking they can run to Walmart that could instantly come to a stop one day so many people are thinking the government is going to save the day when everything collapses good luck with that they're not coming
My grandma was the same way about the Depression. She explained to me that it was just normal, everyone was screwed, they just did the best they could and tried to help those less fortunate. She did say it was scary and difficult at times, she was 14 when it started, and she was scared the rest of her life would be like this.
That's humility. I grew up in the 80s and my parents made good money. We never knew it because we had a garden out back, fished for the church and froze leftovers. Traded fish for greens, turnips, broccoli, etc. We pretty much lived as though we didn't have much and learned many valuable lessons from that experience.
I was blessed to know 7 family members that lived during the great depression. Most lived in Iowa on a family farm so no real stories from them. Husband's grandma had the best story. Her wedding dress was made by her mother using any lace they could find. Curtains, tablecloths, etc.❤
I heard this from my grandma too. They had a farm and we’re essentially self sustaining, down to making their own shoes. They didn’t really feel the depression as much as some other folks.
It’s amazing how resilient people can become. I remember my grandma said its so strange nowadays we buy everything back in the day youd only consume what you made yourself
It is not free tho The more you are forced to toughen up, the more cold and uncaring you become Either that or it just saps your will to live as you try to put up a happy face
So did these people own their homes? I get eating from garden, owning a cow etc. but did they not pay rent? They already owned their home? What happened to people that didn’t? That’s what I don’t rlly understand
I feel The great depression was absolutely devastating to those in big cities. Rural people had it hard but had a better sense of community and room to grow food. Heart breaks for all the souls who were hurt/affected by this.
Sounds to me like your Dad made the best out of a bad situation. You do what you have to do to survive. Your Dad is a survivor with a positive attitude… RESPECT!
"But hell nobody had any money". This reminds me of my Dad, he spoke like this. He woukd have been 100 on the first of October. He worked for the telephone company for 45 years and had perfect attendance. RIP Dad, we miss you so much!❤
@@chanceDdog2009they were the perfect slave wages, settle for any kind of working conditions, embraces exploitation of workers, and rights? What would the workers need those for?
My great grandfather said it was the best time of his life because everyone was just...kind. struggling, sure, but struggling together. Lots of community.
Tough times, tough people. We grew up poor. My mom would not go into town and get the free “gov” food. Others did. Mom traded eggs for cheese etc. She did not sign up for money assistance. We had to work as kids to make ends meet. We only had used shoes. No running water, outhouse and more. 9 of us and we did just fine. Rough, but now I am proud of it. I have a picture of the home/shack we grew up in on the wall to remind me. Blessings, Mary
I don't wanna be rude but wow that's a bad decision not to sign up for government money when you have kids to feed. I'm glad it all worked out and not trying to insult your mother but sorry you had to go threw that.
Idk about that i been wanting to join the military my whole life (im 19 now) and i just found out i cant join because of my food allergies and i just can’t accept it
People shouldn’t need that advice but it’s life changing for a majority these days it seems. So many companies prey on people to get them to commit themselves to debt after taking all the money they have.
@@dfjpr you wouldn’t believe it but there was a time when people actually knew how to grow and raise their own food, owning a living space was more common, and medicine was lower quality, less available, and often done without anyway.
@@Beer-can_full_of_toesyeah. the problem however is that capitalism went unchecked and the power was taken from the people and given to the coorporations. it’s not that people don’t do these things anymore because they forgot to or don’t want to, it’s that these things have become completely unaffordable
@@Beer-can_full_of_toes yes but nowadays there isn't enough land for everybody, and 6% of the people grow all of the food supply. And you have high density urban centres with people living in small appartments with no gardens. In many world cities, the idea of growing food is ridiculous, because 100 dollars of food would cost 10 000 dollars to produce So, it's only realistic for the small number of people who can live in rural areas. But if the entire urban populations moved to them, they wouldn't be low density anymore
My mother grew up the depression too. She told me that if somebody got a job, people would shake their hand and congratulate them because jobs were so hard to come by.
My nan was 7 living in london when ww2 started and her and her 5 siblings all said was the most exciting time of their lives. Ignorance is bliss they didnt know any better.
My dad was born in 1935 he was a twin boy in a small town in Tennessee. They weighed 2.5 lbs a piece, To this day I have never seen two men who smiled more than them two,
@lukecarson4526 Wtf? Nah dude he ain't wistful for his parents labor 😂 He's just nostalgic for simpler times, when you didn't need to have money to live. You lived your life, and THEN there's money. Most things around the house would be fine with the 'make do and mend' mentality. You had your food needs taken care of from the land; didn't need grocery stores. Most if not almost everything we have in our houses today is a WANT not a NEED
@@My_Name_Is_Mud.And what happens when a crop fails either to over farming, crop disease, or insect infestation? And what happens when theirs over hunting cuz everyone needs the food, and no grocery stores? Even if your mending stuff, you still need money to buy it originally, buy parts to fix items, or even if you make things yourself, you still need to buy the expensive tools to make things that requires metal or wood working.
@@masstv9052 They kept literally everything. My Great Grandparents literally threw nothing away. Many things that would be considered trash today could serve multiple purposes. Cans/Glasses/Jars were just another form of storage. They had a whole shed full of them for preserving all types of food. If it was made out of metal too, it was being kept as well since they knew basic metal-working principles. Also one advantage they had was that machines in that time were simpler and far more durable/long lasting. None of that planned obsolescence shit. They had a garden which they picked and maintained with hand tools for household food and 3-4 fields that they saved up for and purchased 1 at a time for farming and selling tobacco and corn. This is while also both working as general employees in a factory. They were always ready for anything and had backup plans. Both my Grandparents worked all the time even at home. Even when they were old and dying they never had much "money" but their accumulated property wealth, bonds, and investments were significant. They left behind about 4 different properties for the next generations in our family.
@@lukecarson4526 simplicity. He didn't ever see the world as being any better outside the depression. That's where he learned to be humble, kind, patient, caring, giving, and everything else everyone lacks today.
I asked my great-grandmother the same question and she told me she didn't know that the great depression was even happening until years later because she lived on a farm in Minnesota where they made their own clothes and grew their own food, they never had money to begin with.
@@svicidellvma Entirely possible. Bootlegging was one of the biggest survival tactics of the Depression, and people breaking the law are known to hide behind their kids.
My mom is 96, was one of 12 on a small farm in WV. I love to talk to her about the depression. She says they really didnt know much was going on because life on the farm was hard all the time. If they couldnt raise it, grow it or reuse it they didnt need it.
That's right and everybody made a little bit of shine 😂 everybody had a little drink here and there,, hell in the winter it warm you right up help you in the field working like a mule 😂
I think the homeless starving people had it harder. Honestly most of the farmers probably were completely unaffected but wanted to complain like everyone else.
My grandmother was born in 1910. She remembered that her own mother would keep a light soup warm at all times on the stove. If you were hungry, you would have soup. It had flavor and water to fill your stomach until you could eat a small meal. When people, usually men, came to the door all they could do was offer them a bowl of soup and send them on their way. From other stories I've heard about the Depression, I think that was the one thing everyone had in common. A unified effort to keep everyone fed because hungry men are desperate men will do bad, terrible things.
“A unified effort to keep everyone fed because hungry men are desperate men will do bad, terrible things.“… that’s kinda terrifying because I can 100% see the truth in that thinking.
There used to be a big department store here in Perth, Western Australia and they tackled the Great Depression in a very unique for those days. First, they never put anyone off throughout the whole existence of the depression. Instead, they gave all of their employees a 10% discount on anything in the store. Employee discounts were unheard of back then, so that was a strong incentive for their workers to stay and to work harder than normal. The business even had a butcher's department and a produce department as well as clothing and furniture, so they were pretty much guaranteed to get back 10% or more of each employee's wages each week. In a sense, both parties relied on the other for survival.
I look up to my grandma a lot. My grandma was the oldest of her siblings, and when the Great Depression hit her parents both died. So, being 9 at the time, she got a job. It wasn’t the best paying job. She would go door to door selling whatever she could find. She would sometimes not even ask for money, just food. She would never eat it herself. She instead would give it to her little siblings. At this same time, my grandpa was working on his parents farm. They weren’t well off, but they were doing better than the other folks in their small town. One day my grandpa was driving in his old truck and drove past my grandmas house. He saw her and immediately fell head over heals. He thought she was absolutely stunning. So, he asked her to go get dinner with him. She agreed. But she didn’t eat the whole time, instead saving the food and asking if it was ok that she would instead bring the food to her siblings. My grandpa said yes, and after the date he took her home. Ever since then he helped her feed herself and her siblings. They got married later after my grandpa came home from the Vietnam war. They went on to have my dad, my three uncles and two aunts. My dad told me that his mom never yelled, not even once.
My late father lived in a small rural community during the depression. That's exactly the way they lived --- they had a garden and a couple of cows. He had to milk the cows every morning before walking to school which was miles away. He dropped out in 10th grade to stay at home and help my grandmother. After military service he got a GED. An amazing man, actually.
My parents graduated 8th grade ( in Depression). My parents lived on small farms. My dad's father died and my dad was oldest male and ran farm with my grandma ( sadly he became an alcoholic). Mom was out on her own working at 16 and would come home weekends to work at home. No vehicle and would walk or rode bike ( guessing about 10 miles one way). My sister-in-law's grandpa was on his own at 10. I cannot imagine how hard this was. Now we tend to baby teenagers.
What your dad left out was that having a cow and a garden was living comfortably during the Depression. Many people didn't have a home anymore or means to obtain food. My grandparents said getting hold of a cabbage and soup bone could get you by.
My Dad’s family also ate from their garden and Grandma always baked extra bread to leave on the back porch. Their property butted up to railroad tracks; it was for the men who road the rails in search of work.
Exactly what my family says in rural West Virginia. Except they tell it like it was the best of times. They worked on the farm or went out hunting. Then everyone came home and ate dinner then set outside and played the banjo on the porch.
My grandpa was gut shot then someone raided the root cellar. 5 people survived on black birds and rancid peanut butter one winter. grandma lost most of her land because she Couldn’t come up with the taxes. Before that she lost 3 kids. 2 to the flu and one just died. They’re buried up on the hill. Btw, was my great grandparents.
The great depression caused my grandparents to horde food. Grandma died just 3 years ago, grandad 5 years before her, ( both in their 90’s). No one was allowed in the basement or caller. Us cousins my aunts and my mom all finally went down there a few days after her death. The entire basement was filled with jars of mostly spoiled food. We were literally climbing over boxes filled with jars if mystery stuff inside with rust in the lids. A 3 bedroom 2 bath home with same size downstairs. Mom said Grandma had not gone down there in many years. We found some jackets of Granddad one with a receipt inside from 1972. It took a long time for them to clean out all that stuff.
I see that in my depression era family, to a lesser degree. As a 3rd-generation descendant knowing how resourceful and thrifty earlier generations were, I’m appalled the waste today in a consumerist throwaway society.
Just talked about my grandpa and the Great Depression to the grocery cashier. 🤦🏾♀️ 30 min later, this video shows up in my suggested. Love you, big brother. 😘
My grandparents lived in Alabama and had a farm. I asked them about the depression thinking they would have an interesting story. The surprising story went like this: "We felt bad about the people we read about in the newspaper.".
Assuming you had a family land & a cow it wasn't so bad. My dad was orphaned at 2yo. He was on his own at 9yo He worked as a migrant farm worker. He was working in the lettuce fields in the valley outside LA when he heard a rumor his sisters might be in Tuscon He aquired (his word) a bicycle & rode it across the Mohave desert to go find them. He was successful. However they said they couldn't keep him. He worked the cotton fields nearby till he traveled up to the west slope in Colorado. He met a man at a diner who took him home & kept him till he was drafted. He served as a combat paratrooper in WW2 as part of the occupying forces in Nagasaki following the atomic bomb. He was 18yo. old. My dad was a remarkable courageous man. With so little he learned so much. He was a wise & loving father & husband.
My mammy said the same. They had chickens, pigs, and an acre garden. Pappy would drive halfway to town, then shut off the truck and coast downhill the rest of the way.
I remember hearing a story of a brother and sister who shared something similar and they said looking back and hearing other stories, they credit their parents for never bring the “side effects of the Great Depression into” their home. They went through it happy and healthy (comparably and considering the circumstances).
Same impression for me. My Great Grandma was born in 1918 and she said she heard about the depression on the radio but they lived in backwoods rural SC and got almost all of their food from each other. They had chickens, hogs, collards, corn, etc. The only thing they couldn't get for a few years was beef. Bec you had to go to town to get that. And they didn't go often enough bc you had to take the mule and it was a days trip.
My grandma said essentially the same thing. They lived relatively rural, small farm/homestead with chickens, cows and a garden and lived off the land - relatively unaffected.
It varies heavily on whether banks decided to foreclose or not. Towns without a coop or similar common trade structure had to borrow from banks to get necessary materials, you also had the dust bowl going on due to poor rotation. My area was dominantly beef and wasn’t affected by the dust bowl, a shortage of miles to borrow from neighbors was the biggest issue. Beyond that my great grandparents did fine.
My grandparents had six kids during the depression. Grandma had about 30 chickens and that's how they got the family through it. They ate eggs for breakfast lunch and dinner. They also used those eggs to barter for services or items they may need.
My grandparents said the same thing! My grandmother was one of 11!!!! They grew everything they ate. They had their animals for milk, eggs and meat. NOTHING went to waste. They recycled the clothes the older ones grew out of for the younger ones. The one thing my grandfather hated and made sure never changed was indoor heating and a/c!! He said THAT. That and your grandmother changed my life. ❤❤❤
My grandma grew up in the depression also. She told us kids that they didn't have anything but either did anybody around them, so as kids they didn't really know the difference. They had alot of kids but they lived on a small farm. And she said even though they didn't have much for possessions, they always had enough food to eat, and they always had a lot of love. So I guess as kids they were happy.
@hellishrain1835 I didn't say it worked like that anymore. But the man in this video is talking about during the depression. And I was just saying that's the story my grandmother tells of the depression.
My grandma told me a story about when she was a little kid and she remembers of seeing an entire family walking down the road and her dad ran out there to tell them to come in an eat. My great grandfather just killed a deer so there's plenty to eat that night for everyone, even their dog. I think she told me the dog got a whole front leg lol
@@MikeY-nh2we 😂 that's not what happened but I probably could've told the story better. Nobody hit a deer. He shot a deer earlier that day so there was plenty of food for them to eat too, as well as their family dog. Ya see the people that were walking down were homeless because of the great depression. Aand my grandmother's father ran out to the road to tell them that they caan stop in to eat. I hope that's a bit more clearer 👍
My grandma grew up during the depression but also in the prairies during the dust bowl era. So yeah no garden to get food from and hardly any animals because you couldn’t feed them. She was a very strong woman.
My grandmother said that the depression didn't bother them. They lived on a farm and had some livestock so they just ate what they grew and raised. She said she didn't even realize they lived through the depression until people started asking her about it.
Great grandmother that grew up in the Great Depression in Appalachia always says “we didn’t have much but we had everything” her parents and siblings worked hard to take care of each other.
My grandpa said something similar when he was asked about the great depression. He told me, from the outside looking in we see struggle. But when you grew up in it, It's not a struggle when everyone is struggling. It's just a way of life at that point.
@@Sam-oo6wybut it‘s often self made. Back then they wanted to built a house and took out the credit they needed. Today they take the credit they get and built a house with it. My grandparents built a house, put a lot of their own work into it too. The furniture was gifted, nothing new or shiny. Hell, half the stuff is still at my grandparents place. Today you build a house, you need everything in it to be new. And you need two cars, vacation, new cell every year etc. that‘s why people go bankrupt. We spend money to impress others with shiny garbage and forget to live a life. Buddy of mine works at a bank. There are people building houses with 6000 bucks on the bank. And then you wonder why they go belly up when a crisis comes?
@@Ydgrasilalways when people express themselfs and how hard it is, people like you come along with the most ignorant rants, my brother in christ, no one gives a shit about some 20 dollar Coffee or iphones made in Bangladesh or vacation, these little things mean nothing in the long run, sure, we might have more things to buy, but whats the point, you know its harder now to buy a house than in the great depression? How did we get there ? My generation got robbed off of houseing, houseing owned by companies and rich boomers, witch I defintely know is part of the ongoing rate of increseing violence, mostly in places where rent is bigger than a salary, cant be a coiencidence
My grandad farmed potatoes. He would take them to town and some would buy, most couldnt. So he would just dump them on the ground cause nobody could buy them. Rural people that lived through the great depression are some of the most frugal people you will ever meet.
The point is that if everybody around you is suffering, it's harder to be miserable. Problems arise when you're always comparing yourself to those that have more around you.
Point to me is more that he's asking someone from the wrong area Most subsistence farmers in remote villages only found out about the black death due to the tax man mentioning it. My familys entire fiefdom at that time never saw a single case while most of the adjacent ones saw 60-70% casualties in the towns. Similarly, the great depression was not really a problem outside the cities and coastal areas. Some luxury goods and gas became a bit too expensive but that's all. Most rural people back then didnt even own anything that took gas either, unlike today.
@@Pointlesshandle48 Oh dear deity no! No more comfort, it's too much! lol Although if you mean leisure time, yeah we could sure find more enjoyment in things like tending a garden or raising livestock. As far as greed, it's past time we start calling the richest amongst us what they really are; The greediest.
We were supposed to have communal sufficiency. No early human survived completely by themselves, they survived through collective effort and diverse skills. Problem is applying that thinking to large scale economics will get you called a communist.
My grandfather lived during the depression and it mentally changed him. When he passed away my mom found a stick of candy he had kept in his drawer from when he was 5 he never ate it because at the time he didn’t think he would ever get to have something so nice ever again. I wish I knew him. His cousin was deeply involved in the Manhattan project, and was best friends with my grandfather. Robert E. Amis was hopkinsville Kentucky’s town doctor for many years. He had stories I wish I could’ve known. When I get out of bootcamp and become a United States Marine, I will always remember him and know that he would be proud of his faithful grandson -Marcus C Istre.
You’d never know until you go through their things. Once they bounced back it’s like dayum they never wanna let go of their possession or anything they’ve ever touched (within reason)
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to let go of it - they new the value of money and so didn’t see the need to spend it when you could fix it or it wasn’t necessary. My grandparents made a good nest egg for themselves and had their own business - but grew up dirt poor and even were a butler and maid to a wealthy doctor when they first got married. My grandmother would have holes in her socks, and not let me buy her bag of them from the store for $5 because “I can just darn those and they’ll work alright”. She saved every butter tub to reuse when they were empty, never wasted a thing… yet her weakness was shoes. That woman had dozens of shoes. Lol. Two pair of pants, 5 shirts, 10 dresses - but dozens of shoes. Lol she said they were all so pretty - all she ever has was boring black shoes like everyone else until she was in her 30s. She liked pretty shoes lol
My grandmother and her parents went through it! Grew up on a farm where I live now. My grandmother said it was just another day. They weren’t fazed by it at all. They were totally self sufficient!
@user-xr7ci8tf3e for starters yes I built my own home and did all the ventilation electrical and plumbing. It’s really not that hard. But you’re also completely missing the point. It’s not about having to live that way all of the time. It’s about having the ability to if you need to. I still work part time and make most of my money through woodcraft and blacksmithing. But should anything happen my life would continue comfortably and with little change. I and my family would be fed and I could use what I harvest or butcher or make in trade for other necessities.
My grandma and my mom said they went hunting every day and they shared their hunt with the neighbors and everyone helped each other because it was what you did .... 😇
This parallels my family's story. They were poor East Texans, not much more than sustenance farmers. A rich aunt came down from New York who was a mean "dope head" (they later explained she took laudanum). The aunt couldn't understand how the poorest people she knew had practically no change in life during the depression.
It never phased my Grandmother, her brothers fished, and hunted, and her parents grew their own food, if they needed something they would barter. It was remarkable to hear her talk about that era, I wish I recorded it, she spoke about it with such humility and grace. She would often say “we didn’t know what a depression was, so we just kept doing our daily living, like we always did”.
My grandma always said she lived through the the Great Depression and didn’t know it until she got into high school. They were just as poor before as they were during
Makes sense
@@mikebar42Only because she was in elementary school so had no concept of Econ. The GD hit poor people the hardest. Rich folks bought the dip and exponentially increased their wealth.
@@ghostpiratelechuck2259 that is what I mean
@@mikebar42 oh gotcha. There’s just this idea that market crashes only effect people who hold stocks… which def isn’t true. Thought that’s where this was going, my bad.
@@ghostpiratelechuck2259 all good
I love that, “you just didn’t buy anything”. Simple. Effective.
Meaningful too in this era of consumerism, atleast to me
@@arkhikun Agreed. Inflation is fed by “I want”, not “I need”..
that also makes depressions worse because when everyone holds all their money, that puts businesses out of business, which takes people's jobs.
@@sergeantonionzindros-luu2366 I was hoping you caught the, “the sheep will always stay out grazing” within my hidden txt LOL. The ones who understand when the economy takes a different course, they focus a little more. But sheep on the other hand..
@kbbb inflation is also caused when taxpayers' money is sent to crash and burn in overseas markets/country aid.
My grandmother told me that they were pretty much self-sufficient, so they weren’t really aware of the depression until the government came out and tried to encourage them to move to the city where they could find jobs. My grandmother said they thought that was a crazy idea.
And my parents were so grateful for government. Uncles worked in CC programs. The work from CC camps is still around.
XD yup common grandma win
Still is
That’s interesting, my grandmother said the opposite, that the government encouraged them to leave the city and move to the country because there were not enough jobs in the city and they could grow their own food in the country; which is exactly what they did.
And it was 😢
My family is agricultural farming and during the depression They didn't really struggle for food because of the farm didn't have much money, but food was not an issue
THey were very lucky they didn't live in the midwest, in the dustbowl, thousands of farms failed due to the weather.
My family told stories of getting by on cornbread, sweet potatoes, corn and an occassional back yard squirrel for dinner. 13 year old boys would work, have newspaper routes , in order to afford new shoes and a haircut.
my great-grandpa worked at a bank and everyone was throwing themselves out of windows and such, but he just went home and went fishing. And he fed the family with fish through the entire depression.
A true chad
I think it must have been harder for people that had money
@TrainedACE people that didn't have money would not have noticed drastically change. Still poor
@TrainedACE my meaning is emotionally harder because such a change so maybe it was harder for them mentally.
@@merricat3025 Depended on where you lived, how much money you had, and what you were doing with it.
The wealthy always know to diversify their wealth, so they might have taken a hit when the stock market crashed, but they still had real estate, precious metals, and other Depression-proof assets to fall back on.
Most of the rural poor or agrarian families didn't notice a difference. They carried on with life as they always had.
The urban poor were in competition with the other lower and middle classes, so it sucked for them worse, but they were also kinda used to it.
Where it *really* hurt was urban the middle class, the bankers, and the "nouveau riche" that were making real money from investments. Because businesses that were owned-by or employed the middle class were forced to shut down, and the bankers were not only out of a job but were vilified for "letting it happen," and the folks that had made money from investing suddenly lost everything.
My grandmother was born in 1913 and raised me, my brother, and sister. My grandpa worked hard for a dollor a day. We would sit around in the winter and help her make blankets. We always had a garden and she canned everything. Thats how they made it thru the depression and hard times. Today i have a garden, make my own blankets, and pray. That seems to work for my family.
My great grandma was a city girl with two druggy parents. Most nights they only had boiled corn meal powder from charities to eat.
During the height of the depression she met and married my great grandfather. During their dating phase she asked him how he always had food around.
He looked at her confused and said: my farm and garden?
She tried to clarify like yes, but don't you have to sell all that to live through these times?
He shrugged and said: sure sales tanked a bit these years, I just eat first. Ain't missed a meal since birth.
To be fair he was also a league above other gardeners. Award winning produce in later years.
But neither she nor their 12 kids OR their neighbors kids ever skipped a meal after their marriage
My great grandma was a city girl with two druggy parents. Most nights they only had boiled corn meal powder from charities to eat.
During the height of the depression she met and married my great grandfather. During their dating phase she asked him how he always had food around.
He looked at her confused and said: my farm and garden?
She tried to clarify like yes, but don't you have to sell all that to live through these times?
He shrugged and said: sure sales tanked a bit these years, I just eat first. Ain't missed a meal since birth.
To be fair he was also a league above other gardeners. Award winning produce in later years.
But neither she nor their 12 kids OR their neighbors kids ever skipped a meal after their marriage
Very well said
Dollor
Some of my favorite childhood memories are of helping with the canning in the late summer. Green beans, tomatoes, carrots, and Mom made the best pickles and mild chili sauce.
With my parents, Alabama said it best. “Somebody told us wallstreet fell, but we were so poor that we couldn’t tell.”
Yep. Welcome to the depression to the rest of the country that wasn’t a part of a big city.
This is essential issues, got stuck in rat race so not many actually listen to their elders, its a great skilled to grow vegetables and milking cows, with war comes depression on many level. This is probably the best life for someone, no one gettin killed like. You can call this what a life.…
To my understanding.
The problem would have been the knock-on effects of the bank closures which were a problem all throughout the 1920s but during the 30s were ridiculous until deposit insurance became a thing
EXACTLY, l remember that song,,great song writhing.
"Daddy was a good man a southern democrat, they ought to get a rich man to vote like that"
Southern democrats started the kkk so i dont think daddy was a very good man.
They also came together as a community and helped each other out as best they could.
yeah and our nation's split
you got potatoes you pork we exchance
@@sprout1599 Look up the ethnic makeup of the US back then. Diversity destroys unity and social cohesion. During hard times like the depression we will turn violent as we turn on who we do not relate to.
@@sprout1599 Split?
My mom said exactly the same thing. She was lucky to grow up on a farm, had a garden, some animals, and grew crops that fed people. She always said that she had a great life growing up. No one had money but she and her friends had what they needed. And that was more than enough.
My grandfather grew up in a impoverished area in the South during the Depression. When people asked him what it was like his response was "Hell, we didn't notice."
I heard the same thing before from my friends grandma.
democrat commie cultural marxist mafia regimes poverty agenda, is THE HIGHEST COST OF LIVING.
He had land that he could grow food on and animals that produced.
He was wealthier during the depression than a lot of folks are right now.
and if people have land, it may be so polluted it will give you cancer if you eat from it. pfas & mine tailings in water, little is safe anymore
And no ordinance restrictions from local government or HOAs, that left you free to do what you needed to on your own land.
@@lynnohl2526 more people could buy a house if HoA's and government stopped preventing houses from being built.
@hotepx2935 all land is stolen from someone? You think any country today was the original holder of the land they currently occupy?
You have an IQ of 70 if you think the US is unique in conquering land
@hotepx2935As a Native American, I can assure you that living in the past and clutching onto the victimization of the generations prior has done absolutely no favors for us.
I do agree that the immigration laws of my forefathers back then were way too lax, and history does repeat itself, which we are now seeing and is much more pressing of an issue than some perceived injustice by people who are no longer alive today.
Our fight is with the powers today which are trying to oppress, exterminate, and steal land that doesn't belong to them.
We remember the past, but we are not victims to it.
My grandma lived through the depression and carried many of the views of then through her entire life; like she always looked for the cheapest food and would shop around to save dimes, even in the 2000’s. She canned food till she was too old to do it anymore, reused items and struggled w/ newer technology (i didnt mind driving to her house 15mins away to help her fix her tv, phone, remotes, etc after she’d mess them up accidentally). The stories she had of the past were always fun to hear.
When your grandkids ask about what COVID was like, just say, “We just didn’t go outside”
depending on generation z or millennial, you could spice it up by saying a vacation turned into a prison sentence
"alot of us knew it was a government psyop so we just kept doin the same old shit we always did"
@@jessesdomain444this shit right here fr
@@jessesdomain444 bingo
Except gen z isn’t like the silent generation… gen z likes to bitch and moan, so you already know 80% of these kids will be talking about how hard it was like they actually did something 😂
My mom was in the city during the Great Depression, one of a large family, supper was usually just bread and milk. She went to visit cousins the country and felt she'd died and gone to heaven! They had vegetables, fruit, eggs, etc. all from their farm. It was night and day! So the stories will vary depending on where you lived and how resourceful your parents/family were.
I have distinct memories of my late grandfather's second wife saying something to that effect- she grew up in the city in the 30s and there was very little. They were often hungry. My grandfather grew up on a farm, and while it was hard work, there was always food.
My grandma's the opposite, she went to her grandma in the country and wouldn't eat and would come home with lice/ bed bugs
I can confirm. My mom's family lost everything and had to live out of a car for years. People kept traveling around looking for work. A lot of traditional jobs fell off the radar. It was a horrible time.
Don't forget the butter. and home made ice cream.
Almost like all human experience
I think that was most people’s experience. I remember in elementary school we had a few assignments where we had to interview family members about what it was like to live through the depression, and my great grandparents always had the same answers: we were already poor, nobody noticed until it was over.
My grandparents said the same thing. It is why i tell people skills matter more than stuff. Collect skills, knowledge and the willingness to work hard.
Always great to have a farm, and land.
Exactly, this is a lesson in the value of true self dependency.
Right. That's why it will be so much worse this time around. People don't have farms or even know how to grow food, or milk a cow. If they've ever seen a cow. And where would most people keep one.
Hunting sounds good in theory. But it's not like you just walk out in the woods and animals come to you looking to be killed.
Do you know how much to buy a farm.. the land alone..Jesus
@@dex2591 Even if people did, the majority of people lie in places that dont even allow agriculture.
Ive lived in places in Las Vegas, Dallas and LA and every place Ive ever lived including homes, wont let you grow food in your yard.
Yards are for decoration and impressing the neighbors, apparently
@@dex2591don't include me in this. My garden could feed a family of 200
Edited for spellcheck
humans are adaptable and that’s one of our best traits
right, throw us into the fire and you'll make more steel than ash
@@simonshipp-g5m your brain cells are the most disappointing creation on earth.
Not these new generations..They would short circuit without their phones , . Lol. They don't even know what live off the land means. What would these girls do without makeup 😂😂. This society has people all the way unprepared for anything real or survival
@@simonshipp-g5mare you implying some of us are mutants? 😆
Isn’t that true for all species?
My grandpa had lots of land and would plant it all. When people would come by if they needed food, he would basically give it to them. My uncle said he would make the man barter for it and would take some little trinket or something worth nothing. Like he had gotten a great deal. Him being a teenager would try to protest 😂. He was a wealthy man and years later, the local newspaper did kinda a smear piece about grandpa. The backlash was so severe, the newspaper had to shut down. Because people remembered that he kept their family fed during the depression.
Amazing story thanks
That's it though, it weren't no handout, a man still had to come through with something whether it was a token gesture or not, and thereby could keep some dignity about himself. It's not pretty when a man loses his sense of value. Your Grandpa sounds like a right fine fella. Have a fine rest of your day, Sir.
📜🇺🇸🦅
Because people still had honor in and taking a handout wS considered dishonorable by many
@@dont.ripfuller6587 Agreed. Keeping families fed is noble, but the kind of man that wants to help you preserve your dignity and save face? Super rare. Almost legendary.
He probably didn’t want them to feel bad, and wanted them to seem like they earned it
That's exactly what my mother said. She said they never missed a meal. They had milk cows, a garden, raised pigs, and had chickens, hunted, and fished. She said that they couldn't buy things but they were never hungry. 😊 Resourceful, hard working people.
And they had eight kids.
What I’m realizing is that “historical moments” don’t feel historical when you’re living through them, our grandkids will ask us about the covid pandemic like it was a zombie apocalypse 🤣
My guy COVID has nothing g on the Great Depression
ill tell them history lied.
It was a zombie apocalypse. How'd Biden get so many votes otherwise 😂
@@johnathonmounce2265it's just an example simpleton read between the lines
They’ll ask why most of us were so docile & obedient 😂
My grandfather was a house painter and that was one of the first things people have up during the great depression. He asked himself, "what's the best job i could have" and he came up with working for the railroad. He went in and applied for a job and was told they weren't hiring. He went back every morning and stayed all day until the boss came out and put him to work. He said, "i already know you're going to show up every day"
Did he get the job at the railroad company? What did he do?
@@peni1641"the boss came out and put him to work" bro you need to work on those reading skills.
@@6ray thanks. Lol
@@peni1641 he worked in the yard. As in helping hooking up the cars. He went back to painting when the economy came back.
@@6ray You should take your own advice b/c I also stated what did he do? OP responded b/c it wasn't originally stated.
You just simply can't miss what you never had
That's not true at all.
Too true. I got by with nothin idk what its like to have money so I don't miss anything
*_Replies: Civil War_*
@@Mila-gx1dg That seems odd to me.
@@mason4966Wdym by that? Thats a pretty intriguing statement
My father graduated from high school in '33. He indicated the only people that got paid in hard currency in that town was the Post Master and the railroad depot agent. There was no money in circulation. Moonshine liquor was an ersatz form of currency in some areas.
That’s exactly how my grandma responded when talking about her childhood during that time. RIP grandma Lois ❤
My grandma's name is Lois
peterr..
R.I.P
miss you lois
May she Rest In Peace.
My father grew up in the depression also. When we'd learn about it in school, I'd ask him what it was like. His response was: "we were poor before the depression, we were poor during the depression, and we were poor after the depression." Keep in mind that my father was born, lived and was raised on a farm in a "sod house" on the plains of ND. They were self-sufficient.
Where is ND ? north dakota ?
@@DasboardTVDEnorth darolina
@@DasboardTVDE New Dork
@@DasboardTVDEnew dexico
@@DasboardTVDENew Dampshire
My grandmother said the same thing. She also said that it was the best time of her life, everyone got along and families were tight and friends and neighbors helped one another
Wow
That's why people got so used to asking for a cup of sugar probably
@@TheIronBear290that and because supermarkets were not common so you could not always get goods like sugar in the winter so sharing and borrowing what's a thing. You probably also grew different vegetables than what your neighbor had just so that you could help each other out just in case something ran dry in the winter
I'm 46 and my dad was born during the depression in Buhl, Alabama. I was brought up in a way that I know for a fact I will never be unsheltered or hungry. I am grateful for the gift of self sufficience from his teachings based on his experience. That's the best story I know about the depression.
No he wasn’t
@@aarondonald1611 He definitely was.
My Grandmother always said they didn't know there was a depression until someone told them about it. Lived life to the fullest, no electricity, no running water. Actually she would say she had running water, you ran down to the creek and got you some.
I think famiune is worse than economic depression. your grandmother is describing life in Rural Fiji. We are poor but happy. and we eat from the land and oceans.
That’s not possible today as they have plastics and all sorts of gross contaminates ruining the rivers and streams. In the are that train derailed and caught fire pets and wildlife were poisoned to death. They’ve ruined everything it seems!
economic depression is still bad@@theEpicxY
Your def a silver spoon kid
yes. bad. not is AS bad as a famine. Imagine trying to plant food and just nothing.@@xvp08
Grandpa described being a kid in the 20's and 30's like it was the best time to be alive.
Same as my grandma she was born in 1916.
That’s how my dad talks about ww2
The Roaring 20’s
That’s normal for kids. Grandma had a box with Grande and bomb shrapnels. They spend the night in the bunker and in the morning on the way to school they went treasure hunting for these. She remembers a lot of stuff but you never heard a bad thing.
@nealcassady1189 Who are you calling a moron? That is some pretty shotty sentence structure and spelling there, Chief. My grandfather was poor, but I guess he was fortunate enough not to have to eat shoe leather.
They never took anything for granted. Nothing wasted.
Washing out plastic sandwich bags is how I know someone went through the great depression. Stored milk jugs and newspapers just in case.
My grandpa preferred his baked goods near burnt because he grew up in the Great Depression with a widowed mom and 7 siblings and they could only afford the ruined bread in the bakery. Never once complained about his life just told us how grateful and amazed he was by the opportunity and freedom. And asked to have his cookies in the oven an extra 6 minutes.
I like my food burnt and cold. It comes from a long life of living with drunk chicks.
My grandparents talked about how they were so self sufficient that they had no idea it was going on until someone went to the store about a year into it. They were fully self-sufficient in a nice little town with animals and a garden and such. They weren't like how you saw on shows like "the Walton's"...they were much better off. They just had no idea because of how isolated they were.
Goals lol
People bartered, repaired things, borrowed what they didn't have. Disposable commodities are what is putting so many demands on the planet. Landfills full of clothing, full of materials from home remodeling, out if want not necessity.
LOL. There's no such thing a "self sufficient". They literally grew up in the most sophisticated time in history up to that moment. No old person remembers anything but an already dramatically improved world, racism aside.
@@java4653shut up
Unless you were black you don't know how bad it was it was a lot worser than it was for them white folks at least nobody was trying to kill them everyday
A depression isnt so bad when everyone has the ability and knowledge to feed themselves.
Imagine if people today were placed in the position where they're required to grow all their own food. There'd be lots of starvation unfortunately....
@@justinjohnson2657maybe not. I learned how to grow potatoes on TH-cam. Had a bumper crop- almost 600lbs. Couldn’t do that in the depression era.
@@atari7001 Good, fair point. But do you think the majority of people would have any idea how much crop to plant, let alone the acreage to actually do it....? Or the will to put in that hard physical labor?
@@justinjohnson2657 All I’m doing is trying to encourage those that may be unsure they can create for themselves. I think the doubt that you can provide is the reason why people strip the shelves whenever something like Covid or a hurricane happens. It’s definitely an admission that most people feel unprepared. But, if you don’t have land, you should try guerilla gardening. Plant vegetables in the forest or in public areas. People are so ignorant of what plants look like, I bet they’d never know potatoes were growing right under their noses, lol…
@@atari7001 where did you grow those, in Central Park ? Surely that's not allowed.
my granny would say there was plenty of work... there was just no money to pay you
scam
Just goes to show how stupid of a human concept money can be at times.
The Federal Reserve stole the People's silver and gold, so no paper ca$h.
Created to destroy anyone who couldn't buy or sell.
Same as now!
Audit the Fed!
@@ohjackooo no, money is just a placeholder for value, if you work and theres no money to gain, theres items and services to barter with, 40 hours of work turns from a paycheck, into 10 loafs of bread, 5lbs of beef, 2 blankets and some firewood, instead of having to go to the store and buy it, your boss just pays you the items directly, so its not a scam, just takes away the placeholder.
@@ShadowWing48There’s literally nothing to replace it with, if you try and eradicate money we’ll just replace it with something equally as dumb.
When I asked my grandma Yetta about living through the great depression she said, they owned a small grocery store. Grandma said, they struggled, and didn’t make much money, but they always had food so they were better off than most people. Sometimes grandpa traded people’s items like jewelry or a watch for food because they didn’t have any money. Many times grandpa gave food to people for free when they had small children and needed help. They felt lucky because they always had food to eat. Other than food, they lived day to day a poor life but they managed to raise a family and survive.
It would only feel like a Great depression if you were the only one going through it but when everybody is than you relate to everyone and its the norm.
Maybe if you’re a little kid. Adults have things to compare it to
@@AlpineShenanigansnot if u were already poor.
I don’t agree with that at all. If you were wealthy and lost everything it would hurt allot worse most likely. However, you’re literally just parroting what this dude said.
Your dad sounds like a cool guy. Just easy going and logical.
If the farm they had was able to feed them day in day out then It must’ve been a big farm which isn’t prevalent in city’s where the great depression hit the hardest imagine no food or farm
@@devoo0562 imagine? lol why? that's like imagining going for a swim in a Florida swamp.
Wouldn't even dream of it. let alone do it.
Living in a city during depression, is like living on the beach during a flood.
What do you expect the smart people who live in the mountains to say besides "we told you so"
Not that we want the city people out here, putting a hungry coyote in a porcupine farm.
Damn right grow the cows eat the cows and the chickens the pigs grow the corn and depend on yourself and work with your neighbor's that's the way America needs to get back to instead of just thinking they can run to Walmart that could instantly come to a stop one day so many people are thinking the government is going to save the day when everything collapses good luck with that they're not coming
My grandma was the same way about the Depression. She explained to me that it was just normal, everyone was screwed, they just did the best they could and tried to help those less fortunate. She did say it was scary and difficult at times, she was 14 when it started, and she was scared the rest of her life would be like this.
Unless you were rich, they just grew up not knowing the depression existed
That's humility. I grew up in the 80s and my parents made good money. We never knew it because we had a garden out back, fished for the church and froze leftovers. Traded fish for greens, turnips, broccoli, etc. We pretty much lived as though we didn't have much and learned many valuable lessons from that experience.
Amen I too realize as I am older how privelage to experience similar experiences with family and the outdoors 🥹🥹🦅🇺🇸💯❤️✝️
I was blessed to know 7 family members that lived during the great depression. Most lived in Iowa on a family farm so no real stories from them. Husband's grandma had the best story. Her wedding dress was made by her mother using any lace they could find. Curtains, tablecloths, etc.❤
I had some family that lived in Iowa during the depression on a couple of farms
@@colton3927same! Are y'all Czech?
Why do I find this more romantic then any dress that could be bought ?
@@carsonmills8228Same ❤ It was about the love, not the show ❤
I heard this from my grandma too. They had a farm and we’re essentially self sustaining, down to making their own shoes. They didn’t really feel the depression as much as some other folks.
It’s amazing how many skills we have lost with time
@@expeditocolladojr5240what skill would those be exactly?
Until their farm gets raided
@@nathanvandevender2466 wanna bet those farmers had guns to hunt and protect themselves with?
Other folks meaning urban, recently unemployed workers who didn’t own land
It’s amazing how resilient people can become. I remember my grandma said its so strange nowadays we buy everything back in the day youd only consume what you made yourself
It is not free tho
The more you are forced to toughen up, the more cold and uncaring you become
Either that or it just saps your will to live as you try to put up a happy face
Sounds like your grandma was either a farmer or a half truther. They had products even back in the 1900s lol
So did these people own their homes? I get eating from garden, owning a cow etc. but did they not pay rent? They already owned their home? What happened to people that didn’t? That’s what I don’t rlly understand
@@rompevuevitos222 i think it was different with that generation, my grandparents were more alive than us, they appreciated life
@@burneraccount9615 she didnt live in America but yes my family have been in farming since forever
I feel The great depression was absolutely devastating to those in big cities. Rural people had it hard but had a better sense of community and room to grow food. Heart breaks for all the souls who were hurt/affected by this.
Sounds to me like your Dad made the best out of a bad situation. You do what you have to do to survive. Your Dad is a survivor with a positive attitude… RESPECT!
Everybody's story is different,it's dumb how everyone expects a tragic story.
@@FknClownShoes i wouldnt say its dumb, i think its because of all the stories written about it so it makes people think that it was all tragic
@@realvenilin509 Shat up Weeb.
@@realvenilin509the great depression WAS tragic, regardless of how it affected specific people
No he was just a dude who had a farm and a cow, like everyone else in the Great Depression who had a farm and a cow
"But hell nobody had any money". This reminds me of my Dad, he spoke like this. He woukd have been 100 on the first of October. He worked for the telephone company for 45 years and had perfect attendance. RIP Dad, we miss you so much!❤
Similar experience.
Dad would have been 100 in October 2022 .
He never once complained about his childhood.
Silent generation. Was resilient.
@@chanceDdog2009 ❤️
Why can I feel like your dad used to bring that up as one of his greatest accomplishments of having great attendance at the telephone company
@@chanceDdog2009they were the perfect slave wages, settle for any kind of working conditions, embraces exploitation of workers, and rights? What would the workers need those for?
Easy to have no money with 100 acres and a cow.
My great grandfather said it was the best time of his life because everyone was just...kind. struggling, sure, but struggling together. Lots of community.
Tough times, tough people. We grew up poor. My mom would not go into town and get the free “gov” food. Others did. Mom traded eggs for cheese etc. She did not sign up for money assistance. We had to work as kids to make ends meet. We only had used shoes. No running water, outhouse and more. 9 of us and we did just fine. Rough, but now I am proud of it. I have a picture of the home/shack we grew up in on the wall to remind me. Blessings, Mary
Wowwww
I don't wanna be rude but wow that's a bad decision not to sign up for government money when you have kids to feed. I'm glad it all worked out and not trying to insult your mother but sorry you had to go threw that.
How rich are you now.
Weird that she wouldn’t give up her pride even to feed her starving kids
Clearly pops had a good attitude toward life. Acceptance can & will reframe everything. ❤
Idk about that i been wanting to join the military my whole life (im 19 now) and i just found out i cant join because of my food allergies and i just can’t accept it
Dude mustve been 60 yrs old when he had him😂
@@pharox9711man up and eat the foods. (Die for your country) 😂
@@pharox9711same but for me it was autism
@@pharox9711 @ains2904
You are frustrated now, but when you're older you're going to realize that you were actually the lucky ones.
My uncle said something to me one day. He said”it didn’t matter,no one had money.” You had what you had. It was the normal during that time.
"When you don't have money, stop buying things" is good advice.
People shouldn’t need that advice but it’s life changing for a majority these days it seems. So many companies prey on people to get them to commit themselves to debt after taking all the money they have.
yeah, just stop buying food, rent and medical bills
@@dfjpr you wouldn’t believe it but there was a time when people actually knew how to grow and raise their own food, owning a living space was more common, and medicine was lower quality, less available, and often done without anyway.
@@Beer-can_full_of_toesyeah. the problem however is that capitalism went unchecked and the power was taken from the people and given to the coorporations. it’s not that people don’t do these things anymore because they forgot to or don’t want to, it’s that these things have become completely unaffordable
@@Beer-can_full_of_toes yes but nowadays there isn't enough land for everybody, and 6% of the people grow all of the food supply.
And you have high density urban centres with people living in small appartments with no gardens.
In many world cities, the idea of growing food is ridiculous, because 100 dollars of food would cost 10 000 dollars to produce
So, it's only realistic for the small number of people who can live in rural areas. But if the entire urban populations moved to them, they wouldn't be low density anymore
My mother grew up the depression too. She told me that if somebody got a job, people would shake their hand and congratulate them because jobs were so hard to come by.
My nan was 7 living in london when ww2 started and her and her 5 siblings all said was the most exciting time of their lives. Ignorance is bliss they didnt know any better.
My dad was born in 1935 he was a twin boy in a small town in Tennessee. They weighed 2.5 lbs a piece, To this day I have never seen two men who smiled more than them two,
When your life fuckin sucks and you eventually get to feeling like your life is okay, you’re gonna act a way
My nan was born in 1935
boomers are 'winning' compared to the generations after. look at stats and you'll figure out why theyre so happy and everyone's miserable
That's right because NO ONE smiles unless their life sucks.. That's the lesson here...
Life's a bitch & then you die!
That's the story most of them tell. My grandfather said the same thing....almost to the tune that he missed it in some way.
Pretty sure he miss the struggle that he faces with his parents. Keyword here is the parents.
@lukecarson4526 Wtf? Nah dude he ain't wistful for his parents labor 😂
He's just nostalgic for simpler times, when you didn't need to have money to live. You lived your life, and THEN there's money. Most things around the house would be fine with the 'make do and mend' mentality.
You had your food needs taken care of from the land; didn't need grocery stores.
Most if not almost everything we have in our houses today is a WANT not a NEED
@@My_Name_Is_Mud.And what happens when a crop fails either to over farming, crop disease, or insect infestation? And what happens when theirs over hunting cuz everyone needs the food, and no grocery stores?
Even if your mending stuff, you still need money to buy it originally, buy parts to fix items, or even if you make things yourself, you still need to buy the expensive tools to make things that requires metal or wood working.
@@masstv9052 They kept literally everything. My Great Grandparents literally threw nothing away. Many things that would be considered trash today could serve multiple purposes. Cans/Glasses/Jars were just another form of storage. They had a whole shed full of them for preserving all types of food. If it was made out of metal too, it was being kept as well since they knew basic metal-working principles. Also one advantage they had was that machines in that time were simpler and far more durable/long lasting. None of that planned obsolescence shit. They had a garden which they picked and maintained with hand tools for household food and 3-4 fields that they saved up for and purchased 1 at a time for farming and selling tobacco and corn. This is while also both working as general employees in a factory. They were always ready for anything and had backup plans. Both my Grandparents worked all the time even at home. Even when they were old and dying they never had much "money" but their accumulated property wealth, bonds, and investments were significant. They left behind about 4 different properties for the next generations in our family.
@@lukecarson4526 simplicity. He didn't ever see the world as being any better outside the depression. That's where he learned to be humble, kind, patient, caring, giving, and everything else everyone lacks today.
I asked my great-grandmother the same question and she told me she didn't know that the great depression was even happening until years later because she lived on a farm in Minnesota where they made their own clothes and grew their own food, they never had money to begin with.
My mom (5 years old) was the look out for her dad who was making bootleg beer...it was a time you did what you knew and sold what you could.
stop lying
Moonshine. We have road called Moonshine Alley because it was where number of bootleggers were located.
@@svicidellvma Entirely possible.
Bootlegging was one of the biggest survival tactics of the Depression, and people breaking the law are known to hide behind their kids.
@@svicidellvma Do you have any proof they're lying? No? Then don't speak
Sounds pretty much like today. You do whatever you can to get by because things are so expensive
My mom is 96, was one of 12 on a small farm in WV. I love to talk to her about the depression. She says they really didnt know much was going on because life on the farm was hard all the time. If they couldnt raise it, grow it or reuse it they didnt need it.
That's right and everybody made a little bit of shine 😂 everybody had a little drink here and there,, hell in the winter it warm you right up help you in the field working like a mule 😂
I think the homeless starving people had it harder. Honestly most of the farmers probably were completely unaffected but wanted to complain like everyone else.
My grandmother was born in 1910. She remembered that her own mother would keep a light soup warm at all times on the stove. If you were hungry, you would have soup. It had flavor and water to fill your stomach until you could eat a small meal. When people, usually men, came to the door all they could do was offer them a bowl of soup and send them on their way. From other stories I've heard about the Depression, I think that was the one thing everyone had in common. A unified effort to keep everyone fed because hungry men are desperate men will do bad, terrible things.
“A unified effort to keep everyone fed because hungry men are desperate men will do bad, terrible things.“… that’s kinda terrifying because I can 100% see the truth in that thinking.
There used to be a big department store here in Perth, Western Australia and they tackled the Great Depression in a very unique for those days. First, they never put anyone off throughout the whole existence of the depression. Instead, they gave all of their employees a 10% discount on anything in the store. Employee discounts were unheard of back then, so that was a strong incentive for their workers to stay and to work harder than normal. The business even had a butcher's department and a produce department as well as clothing and furniture, so they were pretty much guaranteed to get back 10% or more of each employee's wages each week. In a sense, both parties relied on the other for survival.
I look up to my grandma a lot. My grandma was the oldest of her siblings, and when the Great Depression hit her parents both died. So, being 9 at the time, she got a job. It wasn’t the best paying job. She would go door to door selling whatever she could find. She would sometimes not even ask for money, just food. She would never eat it herself. She instead would give it to her little siblings.
At this same time, my grandpa was working on his parents farm. They weren’t well off, but they were doing better than the other folks in their small town. One day my grandpa was driving in his old truck and drove past my grandmas house. He saw her and immediately fell head over heals. He thought she was absolutely stunning. So, he asked her to go get dinner with him. She agreed. But she didn’t eat the whole time, instead saving the food and asking if it was ok that she would instead bring the food to her siblings. My grandpa said yes, and after the date he took her home. Ever since then he helped her feed herself and her siblings.
They got married later after my grandpa came home from the Vietnam war. They went on to have my dad, my three uncles and two aunts. My dad told me that his mom never yelled, not even once.
That’s such a W woman
@@thrasshrr_yt I agree
Did you meant WW2? The Vietnam War was about 25 years after the Depression. Sweet story.
They don’t make ‘em like that anymore that’s for sure
lol@@trollscream8607
My late father lived in a small rural community during the depression. That's exactly the way they lived --- they had a garden and a couple of cows. He had to milk the cows every morning before walking to school which was miles away. He dropped out in 10th grade to stay at home and help my grandmother. After military service he got a GED. An amazing man, actually.
My parents graduated 8th grade ( in Depression). My parents lived on small farms. My dad's father died and my dad was oldest male and ran farm with my grandma ( sadly he became an alcoholic). Mom was out on her own working at 16 and would come home weekends to work at home. No vehicle and would walk or rode bike ( guessing about 10 miles one way). My sister-in-law's grandpa was on his own at 10. I cannot imagine how hard this was. Now we tend to baby teenagers.
@@merricat3025hard times make hard men, hard men make easy times, easy times make soft men. The cycle ⭕️ thanks for sharing
What your dad left out was that having a cow and a garden was living comfortably during the Depression. Many people didn't have a home anymore or means to obtain food. My grandparents said getting hold of a cabbage and soup bone could get you by.
Yep, this guy thinks it was all good just because his dad had food and shelter 😏
That was my grandma's depression story too. She grew up on a farm. They bartered for what they needed.
My Dad’s family also ate from their garden and Grandma always baked extra bread to leave on the back porch. Their property butted up to railroad tracks; it was for the men who road the rails in search of work.
Daddy graduated high school in 1932, and I graduated high school in 1982. I grew up knowing the hardships of the Great Depression through Daddy.
Dad had you late
Exactly what my family says in rural West Virginia. Except they tell it like it was the best of times. They worked on the farm or went out hunting. Then everyone came home and ate dinner then set outside and played the banjo on the porch.
My grandpa was gut shot then someone raided the root cellar. 5 people survived on black birds and rancid peanut butter one winter. grandma lost most of her land because she Couldn’t come up with the taxes. Before that she lost 3 kids. 2 to the flu and one just died. They’re buried up on the hill. Btw, was my great grandparents.
@@ruthray6449 yikes.
Democrats or Unlucky? i know its one or the other.
I've been told many times I'm the first one since great grandma tending her veggies through the 30's in the family with a love for growing plants
The great depression caused my grandparents to horde food. Grandma died just 3 years ago, grandad 5 years before her, ( both in their 90’s). No one was allowed in the basement or caller. Us cousins my aunts and my mom all finally went down there a few days after her death. The entire basement was filled with jars of mostly spoiled food. We were literally climbing over boxes filled with jars if mystery stuff inside with rust in the lids. A 3 bedroom 2 bath home with same size downstairs. Mom said Grandma had not gone down there in many years. We found some jackets of Granddad one with a receipt inside from 1972.
It took a long time for them to clean out all that stuff.
I see that in my depression era family, to a lesser degree. As a 3rd-generation descendant knowing how resourceful and thrifty earlier generations were, I’m appalled the waste today in a consumerist throwaway society.
Just talked about my grandpa and the Great Depression to the grocery cashier. 🤦🏾♀️
30 min later, this video shows up in my suggested.
Love you, big brother. 😘
Idk if its "Big Brother" but, yeah, "they" are always listening LMAO
I haven’t spoken or thought about the great depression since middle school, thanks big brother
Yeah your phone listens to you and suggests stuff happened to me a lot, I personally hate being spied on.
@@James-c5w7zsettings >privacy> permission >permission manager>mic/camera
@@James-c5w7zEven if it’s me spying on you? I promise I am very cool. I hardly make any problems
My grandparents lived in Alabama and had a farm. I asked them about the depression thinking they would have an interesting story. The surprising story went like this: "We felt bad about the people we read about in the newspaper.".
I bet that for milions of poor people during the Great Depression the only word that can describe it is this:
The only way is up
Assuming you had a family land & a cow it wasn't so bad. My dad was orphaned at 2yo. He was on his own at 9yo
He worked as a migrant farm worker. He was working in the lettuce fields in the valley outside LA when he heard a rumor his sisters might be in Tuscon
He aquired (his word) a bicycle & rode it across the Mohave desert to go find them. He was successful. However they said they couldn't keep him. He worked the cotton fields nearby till he traveled up to the west slope in Colorado. He met a man at a diner who took him home & kept him till he was drafted. He served as a combat paratrooper in WW2 as part of the occupying forces in Nagasaki following the atomic bomb. He was 18yo. old. My dad was a remarkable courageous man. With so little he learned so much. He was a wise & loving father & husband.
Very true my grandma says the same stuff they were fine without for a while but some people really struggled with feeding large families
My mammy said the same. They had chickens, pigs, and an acre garden. Pappy would drive halfway to town, then shut off the truck and coast downhill the rest of the way.
I don't think I've heard anyone legitimately say Mammy and Pappy before... Are you from the South? I thought it was a tv thing
@@FullMetalAlphonse mamaw and papaw is big 2
@@gagegriffith3308 And people take that seriously? You learn something new every day
Dude said pappy 😂
@@gagegriffith3308I grew up on ma and pa
I remember hearing a story of a brother and sister who shared something similar and they said looking back and hearing other stories, they credit their parents for never bring the “side effects of the Great Depression into” their home. They went through it happy and healthy (comparably and considering the circumstances).
People didn’t complain about their problems because
It was considered rude. Everyone had issues. Feeling sorry for your self was a sign of weakness.
Same impression for me. My Great Grandma was born in 1918 and she said she heard about the depression on the radio but they lived in backwoods rural SC and got almost all of their food from each other. They had chickens, hogs, collards, corn, etc. The only thing they couldn't get for a few years was beef. Bec you had to go to town to get that. And they didn't go often enough bc you had to take the mule and it was a days trip.
My grandma said essentially the same thing. They lived relatively rural, small farm/homestead with chickens, cows and a garden and lived off the land - relatively unaffected.
It varies heavily on whether banks decided to foreclose or not.
Towns without a coop or similar common trade structure had to borrow from banks to get necessary materials, you also had the dust bowl going on due to poor rotation.
My area was dominantly beef and wasn’t affected by the dust bowl, a shortage of miles to borrow from neighbors was the biggest issue. Beyond that my great grandparents did fine.
My grandparents had six kids during the depression. Grandma had about 30 chickens and that's how they got the family through it. They ate eggs for breakfast lunch and dinner. They also used those eggs to barter for services or items they may need.
My grandparents said the same thing! My grandmother was one of 11!!!! They grew everything they ate. They had their animals for milk, eggs and meat. NOTHING went to waste. They recycled the clothes the older ones grew out of for the younger ones. The one thing my grandfather hated and made sure never changed was indoor heating and a/c!! He said THAT. That and your grandmother changed my life. ❤❤❤
My grandma grew up in the depression also. She told us kids that they didn't have anything but either did anybody around them, so as kids they didn't really know the difference. They had alot of kids but they lived on a small farm. And she said even though they didn't have much for possessions, they always had enough food to eat, and they always had a lot of love. So I guess as kids they were happy.
Don’t get me wrong I also support your grandmother but it just doesn’t work like that anymore
@hellishrain1835 I didn't say it worked like that anymore. But the man in this video is talking about during the depression. And I was just saying that's the story my grandmother tells of the depression.
My grandma told me a story about when she was a little kid and she remembers of seeing an entire family walking down the road and her dad ran out there to tell them to come in an eat. My great grandfather just killed a deer so there's plenty to eat that night for everyone, even their dog. I think she told me the dog got a whole front leg lol
Probably bruised from the accident nobody wanted to eat it 😂
@@MikeY-nh2wewhat accident?
@@noyea1709 well this persons great grandfather hit and killed a deer with his car soooo that's the accident 😁
@@MikeY-nh2we
Who said it got ran over?
@@MikeY-nh2we 😂 that's not what happened but I probably could've told the story better. Nobody hit a deer. He shot a deer earlier that day so there was plenty of food for them to eat too, as well as their family dog. Ya see the people that were walking down were homeless because of the great depression. Aand my grandmother's father ran out to the road to tell them that they caan stop in to eat. I hope that's a bit more clearer 👍
My grandma grew up during the depression but also in the prairies during the dust bowl era. So yeah no garden to get food from and hardly any animals because you couldn’t feed them. She was a very strong woman.
People were so much happier in those times too man
My grandmother said that the depression didn't bother them. They lived on a farm and had some livestock so they just ate what they grew and raised. She said she didn't even realize they lived through the depression until people started asking her about it.
Ok so she was rich 😅
@@Toxic_Femininitymeans she worked real work.
The great depression hit mostly city folks
Great grandmother that grew up in the Great Depression in Appalachia always says “we didn’t have much but we had everything” her parents and siblings worked hard to take care of each other.
My grandpa said something similar when he was asked about the great depression. He told me, from the outside looking in we see struggle. But when you grew up in it, It's not a struggle when everyone is struggling. It's just a way of life at that point.
@@Sam-oo6wybut it‘s often self made. Back then they wanted to built a house and took out the credit they needed. Today they take the credit they get and built a house with it. My grandparents built a house, put a lot of their own work into it too. The furniture was gifted, nothing new or shiny. Hell, half the stuff is still at my grandparents place. Today you build a house, you need everything in it to be new. And you need two cars, vacation, new cell every year etc. that‘s why people go bankrupt. We spend money to impress others with shiny garbage and forget to live a life. Buddy of mine works at a bank. There are people building houses with 6000 bucks on the bank. And then you wonder why they go belly up when a crisis comes?
@@Ydgrasilalways when people express themselfs and how hard it is, people like you come along with the most ignorant rants, my brother in christ, no one gives a shit about some 20 dollar Coffee or iphones made in Bangladesh or vacation, these little things mean nothing in the long run, sure, we might have more things to buy, but whats the point, you know its harder now to buy a house than in the great depression? How did we get there ? My generation got robbed off of houseing, houseing owned by companies and rich boomers, witch I defintely know is part of the ongoing rate of increseing violence, mostly in places where rent is bigger than a salary, cant be a coiencidence
My great grandfather supported several families then. They gardened and were thrifty.😊
My grandad farmed potatoes. He would take them to town and some would buy, most couldnt. So he would just dump them on the ground cause nobody could buy them.
Rural people that lived through the great depression are some of the most frugal people you will ever meet.
The point is that if everybody around you is suffering, it's harder to be miserable. Problems arise when you're always comparing yourself to those that have more around you.
Was prefeminism.
@@nikitaw1982spot on
A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved.
@@morockin3554nice quote. Gonna borrow it later.
Point to me is more that he's asking someone from the wrong area
Most subsistence farmers in remote villages only found out about the black death due to the tax man mentioning it. My familys entire fiefdom at that time never saw a single case while most of the adjacent ones saw 60-70% casualties in the towns.
Similarly, the great depression was not really a problem outside the cities and coastal areas. Some luxury goods and gas became a bit too expensive but that's all. Most rural people back then didnt even own anything that took gas either, unlike today.
We were always supposed to be self sufficient, greed is what changed all of that.
Greed and a want to be more and more comfortable.
@@Pointlesshandle48 Oh dear deity no! No more comfort, it's too much! lol
Although if you mean leisure time, yeah we could sure find more enjoyment in things like tending a garden or raising livestock.
As far as greed, it's past time we start calling the richest amongst us what they really are; The greediest.
True and interdependency of modern society’s economics, so yeah greed.
We were supposed to have communal sufficiency. No early human survived completely by themselves, they survived through collective effort and diverse skills. Problem is applying that thinking to large scale economics will get you called a communist.
The industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race
My grandma grew up in Queens NY when they still had farmland back in the depression. Things were tough, but it was universal like the guy said
Its important to learn from our fathers and mothers
Advised more important that it may seem 🤝
Not all parents should be parents. Some are just idiots that didn't have a condom. Not all parents should be listened to
@nono-ch8oy obviously, however if your parent's don't show you the correct wey, ,then learn from them,so you can be different/better then them
My grandfather lived during the depression and it mentally changed him. When he passed away my mom found a stick of candy he had kept in his drawer from when he was 5 he never ate it because at the time he didn’t think he would ever get to have something so nice ever again. I wish I knew him. His cousin was deeply involved in the Manhattan project, and was best friends with my grandfather. Robert E. Amis was hopkinsville Kentucky’s town doctor for many years. He had stories I wish I could’ve known. When I get out of bootcamp and become a United States Marine, I will always remember him and know that he would be proud of his faithful grandson -Marcus C Istre.
Free names for Internet use? Thanks man
You’d never know until you go through their things. Once they bounced back it’s like dayum they never wanna let go of their possession or anything they’ve ever touched (within reason)
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to let go of it - they new the value of money and so didn’t see the need to spend it when you could fix it or it wasn’t necessary.
My grandparents made a good nest egg for themselves and had their own business - but grew up dirt poor and even were a butler and maid to a wealthy doctor when they first got married.
My grandmother would have holes in her socks, and not let me buy her bag of them from the store for $5 because “I can just darn those and they’ll work alright”.
She saved every butter tub to reuse when they were empty, never wasted a thing… yet her weakness was shoes. That woman had dozens of shoes. Lol. Two pair of pants, 5 shirts, 10 dresses - but dozens of shoes. Lol she said they were all so pretty - all she ever has was boring black shoes like everyone else until she was in her 30s. She liked pretty shoes lol
My grandmother and her parents went through it! Grew up on a farm where I live now. My grandmother said it was just another day. They weren’t fazed by it at all. They were totally self sufficient!
It’s almost like being self sufficient is a valuable skill.
yeah but no one in America is
@@sprout1599 you’d be surprised. There are more of us than you think.
Know who doesn’t care? Drought. Google the dust bowl
@@sprout1599very false.
Nobody you know is self sufficient.
Many of us are.
But we don't want you to know us.
@user-xr7ci8tf3e for starters yes I built my own home and did all the ventilation electrical and plumbing. It’s really not that hard. But you’re also completely missing the point. It’s not about having to live that way all of the time. It’s about having the ability to if you need to. I still work part time and make most of my money through woodcraft and blacksmithing. But should anything happen my life would continue comfortably and with little change. I and my family would be fed and I could use what I harvest or butcher or make in trade for other necessities.
My grandma and my mom said they went hunting every day and they shared their hunt with the neighbors and everyone helped each other because it was what you did .... 😇
This parallels my family's story. They were poor East Texans, not much more than sustenance farmers. A rich aunt came down from New York who was a mean "dope head" (they later explained she took laudanum). The aunt couldn't understand how the poorest people she knew had practically no change in life during the depression.
It never phased my Grandmother, her brothers fished, and hunted, and her parents grew their own food, if they needed something they would barter. It was remarkable to hear her talk about that era, I wish I recorded it, she spoke about it with such humility and grace. She would often say “we didn’t know what a depression was, so we just kept doing our daily living, like we always did”.