I was the oldest of 6 hungry brats in a dirt poor family. In the 50s, we had pride and people were looked down on if they received charity. The most my mom every received was a couple of blocks of government cheese, We found was to work together and to make life work out.
I remember when the power was shut off, us kids liked it because it was kinda like camping.
LOL... Nowadays, if the power goes out, I just go start a couple of generators and that powers up most everything we need.
I am a long ways from poor and I don’t want to be poor again, but if it turns out that I must be, it will be fine because I know how to survive it and I would find way to have fun with it. I figure that God was with us then, He will be with us again.
My father always had a job and worked for Sun Oil Co. in east Texas and he always had a big garden so food wasn't a problem. However, they grew up in rural Arkansas where everyone had an outhouse. Our house in east Texas had four rooms and there was no indoor toilet until I was a sophomore in high school. I used the bathroom at school every day for No. 2, ‘cause I hated that outhouse. At night, each of us had a “chamber pot” under the bed in case we had to use one.
I thought if I ever got out of that house to live my life, I would have bathrooms. Now, I have two full and one half bathrooms.
So, what is happening now? If power goes out, water goes out, and I'm back to no working bathroom. This was not in my life plan to go backwards in bathrooms. I have worked out how to have a potty in the house even if water/sewer goes off and I have enough wet wipes for four people for a year. I am not going back to an outhouse, no way.
I am so old I have seen this country advance in miraculous ways, and now we may go back to the 1800s way of life. I OBJECT, I will keep my standard of living in my country (I am President For Life of my country - my house and back garden) regardless of what happens to this country.