As an aside, I think the sorts of seniors she's talking about are the very elderly who lived through the 30's. The oldest baby boomers these days are 62 which many would consider seniors, but they are a very, very different sort of person.
Both my mother and father were young adults during the Depression. Both are gone now, but true to this article's definition, they "recycled" everything. Virtually nothing was thrown away until it was used several times for other purposes. My mother grew up on a small farm in Georgia. She told me once that they were so poor they hardly knew there was a Depression. They grew almost everything they ate. Money really wasn't an issue because they so rarely had any.
A lot of that rubbed off on me. Being 45, I'm bringing up the rear end of the baby boomer's, but I still live much like they taught. I own a small farm and we grow a large portion of what we eat. We fill up the pantry every summer with lots of good things out of the garden. I learned to pressure can veggies as a child watching my mother. The rest, meat, flour, etc., we buy from other local farmers. Very little comes from the grocery store in our home. I'm a serious pack rat, too. I save things for reuse, just like my parents did. Not everyone in my generation has been spoiled by materialism, although most have. It will be interesting to see how some folks survive the next few years. We are nowhere near the bottom yet....
Not many family farms these days. It’ll be *interesting* to see what all the dispossessed will do if, God forbid, there is another depression.
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I have thought of this many times, when I was growing up we had food even if we didn’t have much else but I can see the potential now for this nation to go from overeating to doing without food in a VERY short time.