re: I wonder what it was like during the Great Depression

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.

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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.

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I only quoted this part.. But your post is fantastic.

Thank you.

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He was a towering figure. It helps when there’s literally zero contemporary accountability.

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FDR owned the Greatest Generation, by and large. They voted Democrat for decades because they believed in that charlatan.

The Collapse of the Central Banking System Has Begun

https://badlands.substack.com/p/master-and-commander

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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.

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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.

We were healthier as a country during the height of the depression than we are now.

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I had a relative live thru it and they said they drank milk unfiltered straight from the cow

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.