I agree: we folks whose parents survived the Great Depression were inculcated with attitudes and endowed with survival skills that should carry us through this crisis in fine shape.
During the Great Depression, my Father worked as a "roughneck" in the oil fields, and they moved frequently -- following the latest "oil play". Whenever they arrived at a new site, Dad put up a tent with wooden walls, and Mom planted a garden and started canning:
They never went hungry, and did fairly well, financially: that's a new 5-window 1934 Ford V8 Coupe - "with rumble seat". (In that condition, that car would be worth a mint, nowadays...)
Yep, we "depression babies" have a lot going for us! '-)
TXnMA
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They never went hungry, and did fairly well, financially: that's a new 5-window 1934 Ford V8 Coupe - "with rumble seat". (In that condition, that car would be worth a mint, nowadays...)
Awe TX, I love the Ford!
My grandfather was a truck driver for poultry, eggs, butter, produce and such in the area south of Ft Worth, north of Waco, west of about where I35W is now, over to a line roughly where Hwy 281 runs. I have many old photos with him and each new truck. Typically Fords. He's always got a nice shined-up boot cocked up on a running board, fender or bumper with a good lookin' hat on. Love these photos like yours.
Since those grandparents did a lot of my raisin' I started out bringin' in a garden, "puttin' up canned goods, making scrap quilts. First time I ever heard the word "prepper" a co-worker was tellin' me I was one. Didn't know what he meant. Grama was still alive then and me and her had a good laugh over that. We laughed bcuz common sense got a new name called prepper.
It is a good line of thought that I've seen in a few posts today that we need the depression/WW2 mindset. Each FreeQ has (re)learned the old school "think for yourself" attitude toward news, world events etc. Part of these old *thinking* life skills is using community to help with challenges. Just a suggestion that during these days maybe it's ok to ask the group for workarounds and suggestions to personal challenges presented by quarantines, school closures like TX Bubba's surgical cancellation and also TX Bubba and Honeysuckle TN challenges with big events in kid's lives.
Yeah, we gotta #1 pray and #2, save our Republic with PDJT and Q. But we can also pull together, not just on this thread, but within our communities and try to rebuild connections. In this we are serving the plan, red-pilling and calming fear stirred up by the enemedia. Hey, I'm a super-introvert so I know this isn't easy. But it will go a long way toward helping ignorant people understand what's happening.