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re: I wonder what it was like during the Great Depression
Posted on 5/4/23 at 9:21 pm to BuckyCheese
Posted on 5/4/23 at 9:21 pm to BuckyCheese
My grandfather was what my dad considers to be mentally ill after having been the breadwinner at a young age for his widowed mom during the Depression.
Everything became about making money and either saving it or investing it to create more money. He tended to squeeze nickels hard enough to make a buffalo fart because he was always worried that something would come up and they wouldn’t have enough money.
He also made a bunch of strange decisions that fell into the category of “penny wise pound foolish” because he thought spending that extra money was a waste.
Everything became about making money and either saving it or investing it to create more money. He tended to squeeze nickels hard enough to make a buffalo fart because he was always worried that something would come up and they wouldn’t have enough money.
He also made a bunch of strange decisions that fell into the category of “penny wise pound foolish” because he thought spending that extra money was a waste.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 9:32 pm to TulaneFan
Considering the poverty level, I am confident the crime rate was incredibly high as that is the true cause of crime /sarc
Only due to the overall well-being of people in the US, do we have have time to worry about "micro-aggressions", pronouns etc. People who are truly struggling and oppressed don't have time for such meaningless crap
Only due to the overall well-being of people in the US, do we have have time to worry about "micro-aggressions", pronouns etc. People who are truly struggling and oppressed don't have time for such meaningless crap
Posted on 5/4/23 at 9:34 pm to TigersnJeeps
Family and communities were never closer. 10 people to a house, everyone relying on each other throughout the town. That's why we'll be much worse off in a new depression. We don't have that togetherness and trust.
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 5/4/23 at 9:41 pm to H newman
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If and when we have this coming depression people won't give a shite about Trans or lgbtq..xyz either.
During the next Great Depression, all of the marginalized groups in society will get first pickings in the soup line.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 9:46 pm to ChineseBandit58
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Our generation's greatest fault is that we obviously did not impress on our children the very basic value system that we grew up within. We grew up in the last truly moral age. And we did not guard that legacy well enough. We thought it was 'natural.'
We were wrong. It needed to be jealously guarded and consciously nurtured. It is now a fixture of the past or a figment of imagination. I fear it will take another world-wide disaster to re-establish the necessity of concentrating our efforts and plans toward things that really matter.
I only quoted this part.. But your post is fantastic.
Thank you.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 9:51 pm to ChineseBandit58
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There really was much admiration for the man at that time - as far as I could tell as a child
Of course there was. Press sycophancy for Biden has absolutely nothing on court jesters that wouldn’t even let the world know the man was wheelchair bound.
He was far too deferential (even sympathetic) to Stalin, he summarily imprisoned Japanese-Americans for being Japanese-Americans, never brought Truman inside the tent on the most critical issues even as he knew he was dying,…
Need I go on?
He was a towering figure. It helps when there’s literally zero contemporary accountability.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:36 pm to Ag Zwin
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He was a towering figure. It helps when there’s literally zero contemporary accountability.
FDR owned the Greatest Generation, by and large. They voted Democrat for decades because they believed in that charlatan.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:39 pm to ChineseBandit58
Great post, thanks for sharing
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:41 pm to lsu5803tiger
The Collapse of the Central Banking System Has Begun
https://badlands.substack.com/p/master-and-commander
https://badlands.substack.com/p/master-and-commander
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:41 pm to Rip N Lip
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FDR owned the Greatest Generation, by and large. They voted Democrat for decades because they believed in that charlatan.
That's why the dems want to frick up the economy and have as many needy people as possible
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:42 pm to TulaneFan
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wonder what it was like during the Great Depression
It was great. If you’re into depression.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:48 pm to Ten Bears
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My grandmother told me they really didn't know it was a depression because they didn't have much to begin with. They lived in rural Arkansas, and she basically said they established a barter system to get by. My grandmother was really good at canning vegetables and making pies, so she would trade for things like getting clothes hemmed or hand-me-down shoes and stuff.
My PawPaw said it was always hard but the depression was much worse bc the oldest son in many families were sent away to work in the ccc camps.
He was only in the 6th or 7th grade went he was sent to TX. The few dollars he earned was sent back home to his family. He worked for food and board.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:49 pm to OysterPoBoy
Probably the best comment.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:50 pm to TulaneFan
We were healthier as a country during the height of the depression than we are now.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:52 pm to Undertow
I had a relative live thru it and they said they drank milk unfiltered straight from the cow...
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:56 pm to 3D
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I had a relative live thru it and they said they drank milk unfiltered straight from the cow
My daddy was born after the depression in 1948 and they drank milk straight from the cow everyday. It was his chore bc he milked the cow better than his siblings. He woke up early everyday befor school to milk the cow and he was the youngest son.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 10:59 pm to 3D
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I had a relative live thru it and they said they drank milk unfiltered straight from the cow...
Folks on the farm were doing this well after the Great Depression.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:11 pm to Ten Bears
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My grandmother told me they really didn't know it was a depression because they didn't have much to begin with. They lived in rural Arkansas, and she basically said they established a barter system to get by. My grandmother was really good at canning vegetables and making pies, so she would trade for things like getting clothes hemmed or hand-me-down shoes and stuff.
My dad was born in '25, also in rural Arkansas and he and his family told similar stories. They didn't have any money but that was nothing new. They had a little bit of land and a dozen kids to farm it so they had food to give away. Lots of crazy stories of how they ended up in LA after fleeing the Great Flood of '27. In the family lore some guy tried to kidnap one of my aunts from their camp and my grandfather gutted him with this oversized folding knife that my uncle still had back in the '70s. When all my aunts and uncles were still alive they would always have a big 4th of July get-together and cook a couple of goats. Apparently they ate a lot of goat as kids. I wouldn't order it in a restaurant but it wasn't terrible.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:18 pm to deeprig9
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The Dust Bowl years were sandwiched in between the Great Depression years and I contend the Dust Bowl was the real calamity responsible for rationing and soup lines and mass poverty and the like.
I read “the worst hard time” about the dust bowl by Timothy Egan and it sticks with a few years later.. I think about it often at how miserable that had to have been to endure
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:23 pm to shinerfan
I've probably told this tale before on this board but since it is in the heart of the strike zone of the topic I will tell it again.
During the Great Depression when there was a holiday gathering, a wedding, or some other family celebration my grandparents broke out the Mogen David concord grape wine (otherwise known as cough syrup with slightly better tasting alcohol). It was the most expensive wine they could afford. To this day, roughly 80 years later whenever my family gathers for the holidays, has a wedding, or a death in the family when we get together we have toasts with the same Mogen David concord grape wine.
During the Great Depression when there was a holiday gathering, a wedding, or some other family celebration my grandparents broke out the Mogen David concord grape wine (otherwise known as cough syrup with slightly better tasting alcohol). It was the most expensive wine they could afford. To this day, roughly 80 years later whenever my family gathers for the holidays, has a wedding, or a death in the family when we get together we have toasts with the same Mogen David concord grape wine.
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