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Another reason I am not kicking my 22 yr old out
Depression my ass! I recently asked my 91 year-old mother-in-law, 91 and still going strong , God bless her. I said ‘’Momma, does any of this today look like a ‘’depression’’ to you?’’ “Nope’’, she said. “People today, kids especially sure have a lot more of things than I ever had’’. “Depression’’, pffft!
As a Depression child, I have those same habits. I will keep the smallest little items because I might find a use for them. I’m a whiz at fixing things with odds and ends that rest in a drawer somewhere. Never throw away anything that you might find a use for later. Grow your own food if possible. Be thrifty with $$$. I buy my clothes at Goodwill. They are perfectly good clothes, why pay more? Make bartering deals with friends and neighbors.
The advice about going where the work is explains why I’ve moved 38 times in my life. This last quarter of my life is the only time I’ve been “settled”.
My step-grandmother is one of those people who says that living through the Great Depression made her a Democrat for life. There isn’t one single policy issue that they have that she agrees with, but she will pull the lever for Democrats every single time.
I doubt there are many depression babies on this site. I remember that many people rented out rooms or made apartments in their homes. We had to live within our means in those days. No credit cards, no charge accounts.
My brother and I went to eight different grade schools because our dad would develop a territory for a hotel and restaurant supply company. The company would then put two or three men on it, and we were off while dad developed yetanother territory!
Our mother stayed home with us, and we all survived very nicely compared to a lot of other people.
Crime was low, hobos ate sandwiches on our back porch steps, and Santa always found us every year. Actually, those were the good old days until the 60’s came around. That’s when everthing began to go down hill in America.
Income taxes went up so many mothers had to go to work. Schools substituted American History, penmanship and real math with social studies and sex education.
Journalism was still an honorable profession. Then the dress code went south, but most people still had good manners. Before we knew it the 21st century arrived.
‘nuff said.
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I never lived through the depression and in fact I am a gen xer, but I grew up in a very large family. I rarely had new clothes and often had to room with two others. For me money meant having my own room and my own clothes.
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If it wasn’t for SNAP (food stamps) we’d be having 45+ million standing in soup lines today. Government give-a-way programs just hide the evidence of what’s all around us so that people don’t recognize it for what it is.When the government props fall out from under this mess we’re in, folks will get a stark wake up slap in the face as to just how bad circumstances are in reality. When the gubmint checks stop coming, watch out.
Lesson number 11:
When there are not enough jobs:
STOP SENDING JOBS OVERSEAS.
Wake up people.
My two paternal aunts were sent to live as housekeepers in another state, hundreds of miles from home, to earn wages that they could send home to their family. They were two of eight children. They were only eleven and thirteen when they were sent away to work.
It was incredibly difficult for them. I don’t know that they ever really got over the abuse they faced in their employer’s household, or the distance from the family that they loved. It was an experience that framed the rest of their lives.
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