One of the best ideas from the Depression is to grow your own food. Start a garden, learn about preserving and canning, and find ways to stretch your grocery budget further.
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Raise chickens for meat and eggs ... my mom said I was like my 1901-vintage grandma ... “She just understood chickens.” What a great compliment.
Working on gardening and preserving.
I just finished reading “The Day The Bubble Burst” a social history of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts 1979 Doubleday & Co.).
In summation on pg. 403 I quote “On the day the bubble burst, the land was dotted with houses bought on partial payments; cars bought on credit; clothes, jewelry, vacations, luxury goods of every kind acquired on the promise to pay in the future—often when stock profits* came in.” (*stocks that were purchased on borrowed money)
Here we are in late 2023. No one wants to be frugal; no one wants to live below their means and save for the future. All they want to do is co-own their large homes and luxury cars with a bank and swipe their plastic to pay for their vacation of a lifetime. We are screwed.
Since this is what I do already, I figure this is simply commonsense (autotype typed it as one word).
#10 purchase a whole chicken I recently figured out. For $5.50 I buy a whole chicken and Mr. GG2 cuts it in half and food savers one half for the freezer so we get two meals for $5.50 instead of a small package of cut up chicken for $7-$8.
We do the same with a small fresh turkey when they are available. One half of a turkey gives us two to three dinners and a couple of lunches.
I bought a good sized London broil for $9.00 which we cut in half and had two tasty steak dinners for $4.50 each. I just bought another one yesterday so we’re taking half of it up to our rural compound to grill out on New Year’s Eve and half in the freezer for later.
My tips:
1) Don’t eat. It’s wasteful.
2) Don’t drink. Water is expensive.
3) Don’t do anything, just sit there.
4) Die.