Survival Lessons from The Great Depression

[@littleredhen3354]

Love this! My grandparents shared stuff they knew with me when I was young so I know how to garden, cook, can, sew including draping, construction and tinkering just to mention a few things👍 my motto- use it up, make it last, make it do, or do without.

[@chrisrock4428]

Mine too. My mothers parents lived thru it and my Dads parents did plus they lost everything in the 1936 flood in western Pennsylvania. Strong people and I'm glad I got their blood in me.

[@cheifreal]

Same for me and what grandparents didn't teach me the boy scouts friends and personal studies that continue til this very day.

[@ebayerr]

Karin Reck : My grandfather told me when he was 12 (around 1932) he would have to hunt rabbit for meat and if he didn't have any ammunition for his 22,he would chase the rabbits down with a stick and beat them with it. Knowing my grandfather the way I did,I believe him.

[@sandranevins2144]

ebayerr the neighbors chickens would land in his yard, I'd chase them his way. He'd snatch one and wring its neck, meat for a week. P.S. he'd give neighbor scraps to feed chickens.

[@johnwunder3521]

@@ebayerr traps,snares work too & easier

[@oracleofraelor9141]

My great grandmother picked cotton for 20 cents a pound. She raised three sons. She saved dimes. I miss her. Enjoyed your video.

[@tkayshakur2500]

Save your change, copper and nickel might save your life in 5 years... Bsst wishes.

[@zebradun7407]

My Mom did at 6 yrs old, the whole family of eight kids worked on a cotton farm they lived next door too.

[@noelkosobucki9722]

Save your dimes is the best advice she gave you. God bless her

[@tkayshakur2500]

@@noelkosobucki9722 I would like to add bread twist ties, carrot ends, onion ends for replanting, rip clothes, your hair, your dogs hair for the garden, shoe laces.... i could go on..

[@sharonkeith601]

Oracle of Raelor / My people “pulled” strawberries in North Florida, and the ones in South Florida “pulled” okra, tomatoes etc.

[@robertf4129]

As a US Marine I saw living conditions like this in most locals that I was deployed to. I don't judge them, I'm thankful for my luxuries and know that I can survive without'm if I have to.

[@johnvanegmond1812]

I wasn't a Marine. 1984, at 19, I was a missionary in Thailand. Lived two years out of two suitcases. Some things I learned there built on my fathers words to "utilize your resources". Like eating little fish. Mindset is important. Amazing what you can learn by paying attention. You mentioned a big key of not judging. Lots of American west pioneers died from scurvy under pine trees because they were to "civilized" to eat like the locals. Pine needle tea is loaded with vitamin C. I have a well paying job, own my house, and am that kook down the street that eats weeds and five inch blue gill. Keep smiling. Peace.

[@alienonion4636]

Bravo Marine 👍. I learned much about survival from military men and I'm most grateful.

[@mikeaden7870]

@@johnvanegmond1812 love that part about "eats weeds and 5 inch blue gill" have some curly dock and black berry salad with my catfish or blue gill around our pond

[@paigesmith6898]

Thank you for your service! My son is a US Marine but hasn't been deployed yet. I worry about him the least of all my kids because of his survival training.

[@scorpion8rage]

So she worries about her son who is on his way to a war zone more than her other kids who live in safety? Big WTF moment

[@jackg.7745]

My grandparents also lived through the depression and the Dust Bowl here in Ft Worth, TX. They were farmers with very young children. They had no running water in the house and no electricity most of the time. Banks were foreclosing on farms left and right and our family eventually lost theirs. They were able to keep a small piece of the property and they were able to grow some of their own food but still sometimes didn’t have anything to eat. Neighbors would help out others when they could. My family gratefully accepted help many times and also graciously helped others many times as well. My granddad immediately diversified and became a carpenter. He worked very hard to support his family. He always maintained a very large fruit and vegetable garden his whole life and also farmed honey bees. Growing up we always enjoyed the fresh food he grew and fresh honey was a staple in our home. Chewing on that honey comb was heaven to me. I still have some of his honey in my cupboard to this day. It’s hard not to open it and spread some on a peanut butter sandwich (as he often did) or enjoy it in a hot cup of tea. One of my granddad’s favorite stories was actually witnessing a police chase with Bonnie & Clyde. He remembers he and his brother cheering on the gang because they hated the banks that they were robbing so much. They were local folk heroes at that time. This incident happened before they killed anyone and became the murderers they’re now notorious for. My grandma taught herself how to can so they could stretch the food supplies through rough patches. She could can just about anything but her Bread & Butter Pickles were the best. I wish I’d taken the time to learn those valuable skills from her. Thanks for sharing.

[@Greg_M308]

Thank YOU for sharing. It was fun reading what you wrote. Never eat that honey. You can pass that down for generations and it will will be a great story for your great grand kids to tell.

[@jackg.7745]

Greg M Thanks for your nice comments. No...I’ll never open that honey. Too many happy memories are inside of that jar. My Mom has several jars for my kids and grandson. We’re going to have them in our family for years to come. Thanks again and God Bless.

[@Greg_M308]

@@jackg.7745 God bless you too bro.

[@henrymorgan3982]

Great video. The one thing about humans is that we do not learn from history.

[@Lcab-bh3wx]

Take war. They send young men to kill. Distroy every thing. For nothing. The government don't get it. Insane and it goes on... History ignor.

[@christopherellis2663]

Natural deselection kicks in at some point

[@joeSmashman]

Yup..

[@joeSmashman]

@@Lcab-bh3wx yup...

[@93pljohnson]

Sometimes I think we are door-slammers with history. "Glad that's over. Thank God it won't happen again. We'll just shut the door and get on with life. Upward and onward." So I think you're right. We don't always take the time to try to understand the why of it.......and learn from it.

[@ExtremePrepper]

Great Video! My Dad was born in 1920, and his father died in 1929 right before the crash. His mom was left to provide for him and his 6 brothers through the dust bowl and great depression. He never forgot what things were like, and he never trusted the banks or the stock market till the day he died. He never forgot how hard things were as he was growing up. The difference back then was that people were kind and neighborly, and did as best they could to help each other out. Things are different now. People dont have practical skills any more, and they have an entitlement mentality. Hard to imagine how these people are going to react if/when conditionls like the Great Depression come back around.

[@briannemorna4268]

It may fall on those of us who have these skill to teach those who weren't fortunate enough to have been made to learn. Maybe we were taught for a reason,not only to save us but others as well.

[@84greenbear]

Back in the 80's I knew a guy that made sandals out of blown out semi tires he found on roadways. Just think about getting 20,000 miles out of your sandals!

[@bcarss1970]

@Erich Von Wachter I used to have a pair of plain Teva recreational black sandals. My dad was visiting one time and saw them on my feet and called them something like "Cong Feet". He was in country 70-72.

[@sarahpride5556]

Poly-nylon corded tires can-do. Steel belted very bad. Very bad.

[@rayt5520]

ive seen those in mexico back in the 1960s well made and last forever.

[@Torgo1969]

I tried making a belt out of old wristwatches, but it was a waist of time.

[@aseerose5684]

No you can't. Those sandals made with tire soles will last decades. Show me a pair of China scuffs that will last 2 years.@Zip Zenac

[@Tsiri09]

I can sew, knit, crochet, quilt, spin weave and dye. I have a host of "old" skills from growing up with depression era Grandparents and a "war-baby" mother. I garden, dry, can and so on. Believe me, today's millenials are gonna go hungry.

[@onceANexile]

You need a Man, Lady?

[@derekhyche6756]

Tina Gallagher cool

[@joeSmashman]

Yup..

[@TheYankmchain]

Whoa Tina... will you marry me?

[@PleaseNThankYou]

No they won't go hungry, push comes to shove and they will kill the old folks or anyone they see fit to rob. They have zero skill sets except staring at digital devices all day. They can't form a coherent string of sentences in order to negotiate a friendly transfer of goods so they will just take what they want or sit down and bawl about the situation until someone feels sorry for them. I'm 60 next year, city dweller all my life but Mom was born and raised on the farm in 1929, Dad was raised on a farm, born 1925. Both knew how to do many things but Mom didn't carry her learned talents very far after high school. Dad's college and military service enhanced his. Sadly, at home with Mom taught me only to love musicals and cook, very little crocheting stuck with me... 'Burb girl 😞. I had nothing but weekend farm visits to grandparents to tell my kids. Out of my 3 children, All over 30 with 3 kids each, one is well on her way to being a self sufficient, grow their own, chicken raising, crafting, canning, bread making girl that in these later years, I yearn to be myself. My youngest is raising her kids on karate classes and take- out twice a day. And my oldest child, my only son, behaves like he is homeless. He is so hard working, back breaking work, endless hours, highly motivated, empathetic to old or disabled and works for pennies on the dollar. But gets no where because of a life time of terrible choices. His nick name is MacGyver. He would have survived the depression, his first sister would have too but the baby sister will be sitting on the doorstep screaming and crying when the SHTF. Videos like this should be standard fare in schools and at home. Long story short...it's NEVER TOO LATE TO START LEARNING.

[@richdoh5443]

The great depression will be considered good times compared to what is coming.

[@johncooper8839]

You'd best believe it's coming. The "elites” have deemed that the world has been over populated (some since the late 1600s). A UK snob named Prince Phillip claimed, if he could be reincarnated, he would return as a killer virus. He happened to own a majority share of a food conglomeration(scary thought). Ted Turner has expressed similar sentiments saying the world should reduce it's population to a billion. To that, many say" all of you first". Governments, unfortunately, are mainly comprised of self serving power mongers who lick their chops over the holdings of others. The only cure is to remove them quickly, allowing them to live in the muck which they help to create.

[@KellsSmith1244]

One difference between then and now is credit card debt. Not only will there be no money for food, there'll be a bunch of creditors who want to be paid. A lot of people are in debt but living like they have plenty because visa allows it for quite a while. During the depression everyone was poor and you knew it. I got a sense of community when my grandma would talk about the depression. Stone soup, playing cards, surviving with what you had because there were no lines of credit to keep up appearances.

[@KellsSmith1244]

@DrgnFlys and he wants to get rid of ACA.

[@mikemcorky5418]

@@KellsSmith1244 He should overtaxaion will lead us into the next depression.

[@jenniferpecha4393]

@douglas carpenter That is simply not true. He not only has done nothing for the poor, but everything he himself has derives from his father originally All of it.

[@rdurl5086]

After the depression was over, those that lived thru it, like my parents, never trusted Credit Cards as they became popular later on. For financial preparation and survival, stay away from Credit Cards..

[@robertr392]

Respectfully disagree... While you should pay off the monthly balance every time, cc's are handy in many situations (used responsibly). You should have cash in case the grid goes down, yes, but also having a cc gives you another payment option. If you're shopping as a shtf scenario starts you can put a ton on your cc, stock up, you might never have to pay it back (if society collapses). Having the goods will be more important than having no debt after a societal collapse. Right!?

[@iamtheforgotten548]

@Mr. Sarcastic I am with you all the way. A man told me in 1964 that never let anyone charge you Compound Interest Never!! As it is Illegal. They can only charge you Straight Interest only. That man was a Real Jew. When we purchased a 43000. truck in 2015 we paid 5000.down and 2500 Interest from a Bank.

[@dennismcclain1931]

Agreed, living within your means is the main goal or should be for all of us. Having something aside for a rainy day sure is good sense aswell.

[@scorpion8rage]

@@robertr392 "If you start shopping as a shtf scenario" , you won't find anything in the stores to buy. 🤣

[@leahhenshall6072]

@@robertr392 the banks will know far in advance and measures would have already been taken to stop that from happening.

[@TS-or1mu]

I always wondered why my grandmother saved all the tin foil, milk cartons and coffee cans

[@aseerose5684]

That's why. Bless your grandmother.

[@javierluna56]

Great video because the wisdom you shared is so relevant today. Savings are scarce among people. Prepared attitudes are weak and self reliance is absent. But worse off, self isolation is the worst weakness, even among families. Being in the home industry, i feel another major collapse coming soon. Just like 2008, people are not ready. This is not fear mongering, just trying to not repeat the past. You mentioned that in the Great Depression, people slept in cars. That is already happening. I guess that we can all live on less. That is a lesson we all need to accept.

[@gregpenny4384]

so true, up to 60% of Americans today would have to sell a possession if they need 400$ in an emergency, so sad.

[@Al-fl1gq]

Excellent video Sooth. I am 68 and my parents lived through the depression and I am one who lives frugal, I garden, do woodworking, plumbing, electrical work and rarely hire anyone to do things. I love it when you mentioned cleaning a rabbit, I learned how to do that when I was 8 years old from mu sister's mother in law an old ozark farm woman.

[@brenohighland1168]

i hear you -------- brother

[@casualpreparedness2347]

Wow, 33 views and I am the only one to hit the Like button. Y'all need to pay attention to this. 🤔 Excellent Video. 👍👍😎

[@vudu8ball]

I know an old guy who was a kid in Greece at the end of WW2. The Nazis shipped all the food back to Germany and let the Greeks starve. This guy remembers his mother making grass soup, water lemon juice a bit of garlic and GRASS. Interestingly enough now that he is old grass soup evokes memories of his mother's love. His wife makes it for him on his birthday.

[@SilverGram]

Best video yet. So many people don't even know about the Great Depression. As I watch this video I'm sitting in my daughter's backyard with her chickens. She has 20 or so. My payment for taking care of the house and animals is getting to keep all the eggs I gather. So far 5 dozen and I have 5 days to go. I love your outtakes.

[@bradrheinheimer1525]

70 years later and still have poverty, hunger and homelessness..

[@lindarobinson2299]

Hey you are a Survival and Still Standing with valuable knowledge. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Blessings✔.

[@lindarobinson2299]

John 12:8 KJV For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. The other commenters is correct. You can't get others sober/wakeup, then others has true opposition, and others seems to accept this way of life.

[@colt45peacemaker]

Crash won't bother those that are already poor. Just make them normal again. We will also have more freedom.

[@natalieborn4117]

My great grandfather lost his dad at the age of 14 (bowel obstruction) in 1933, got married to my granny when they were 17 and had my grandmother and her brother out in the boondocks or the woods here in southern ky.. said their shack didn’t even have a floor it was just dirt. He wound up being lucky enough to have work because he was so mechanically inclined and super smart that the owner told his workers that even though he was young they were to listen to him because he knew what to do! He was lucky for that and was able to help others, we still have their ration stamps too .. they don’t make em like him or my granny anymore ❤️

[@havabrownkittycat7107]

My Mother and Father lived in fear of starvation and lack all my life - and imparted that fear to me. My Grandpa lost his restaurant because he couldn't turn away the starving masses. My father-in-law lost everything he saved ($5,000) when the banks closed their doors and stole our savings. And indeed, we have no family or community anymore to last through this again. We must try to love and care for each other as best we can.

[@anotherbutt4chair454]

Havabrown Kitty Cat, curious but, is it still possible to sue the banks like chase for example, for stealing that money?

[@KellsSmith1244]

I like that idea.

[@havabrownkittycat7107]

@@anotherbutt4chair454 I do not know the answer to that question.

[@eddeenicolas271]

I have been watching you for years now and you have always had common sense and well reasoned advise but what I truly respect is your compassion, community commitment and shared humanity......this video and your homeless video are 2 of your best.....Thanks for sharing.....

[@sarahburggraf861]

your grandmother sounds so wise n sweet. reminds me of mine God rest her soul.

[@denisehislop6026]

I still have my grandmother's depression cookie recipe. Loved making those with her.

[@secondact7151]

Share?

[@gonagain]

This is a really great video. My parents went through the depression and passed down their concern to me as I was growing up, teaching me to not depend on the government or anybody else for my survival, but to learn the skills necessary to live.

[@glennchristianrobinson7334]

Excellent video and extremely good presentation. Probably the best video I have seen in a long time.

[@buffalopatriot]

I remember the stories my family told about the Depression. As you point out, they all lived together in one house. My great-grandmother made beer in the tub, had card games, sold plates of food and made beauty products. My dad had an apple cart and sold horse manure for people to garden with. In fact, I still own two 'laundry' woodstoves they used. They are about 130 years old and keep my shops warm in winter. Like you said, teamwork is the key.

[@lulabelle4760]

My grandad rode the rails to where ever he heard there might be work. He called it bumming. My parents videoed my grandad talking about all the adventures of his life, growing up in an orphanage for veterans of the civil war, losing all but one home due to his renters couldn't pay their rent, cutting fur for coats and any work of any kind, being thrown in jail overnight by the sherriff and his posse, playing football against Jim Thorpe/Carlisle Indians. I miss him so.

[@brenohighland1168]

would love to see that video--maybe you could post it on here that would be soooo cool----

[@motomuto3313]

My grand mother would tell stories about her brothers taking a pellet gun and hunt critters like rabbets, squirrels and pigeons. The got so good at shooting, and not wasting ammo, they would shoot the eyes out of the critters.

[@motomuto3313]

@@Islandwaterjet An air powered pellet gun will make quick work of the little critters.

[@brendahere]

My Dad grew up during this time. He told me he hated when "family" would come to the farm after working in town all week, for family meals. They would eat all his hard work and he would have less to sell. He said they seemed to go hungry all week and filled up on weekends. Of course years later he understood that they were FAMILY and they might have given his parent something, that he never saw and of course they may HAVE gone hungry all week but not of choice.

[@kennethsantos7919]

Cash on hand at home is key in an emergency. Remember the bank holiday in Greece when the government forced all the banks to close. As Ferfal says cash is king!

[@johnvanegmond1812]

Doesn't even have to be a big thing to warrant having cash on hand. Here in my town last Thursday, the ATMs and card readers quit and the gas stations were cash only. Made things rough for those who were "card only" people. 4:30 AM and no breakfast or beverage like you normally have.

[@davem5308]

kenneth-the agenda is to make it a cashless human society and economy. I think if cash is available anywhere, it will become a black market, shadowy, system of exchange, if or when things hit the fan! Lots to think about, and lots of scenarios to consider.

[@fbnflaviusbroadcastingnetw6786]

kenneth santos Jesus Christ is King!

[@irish327rose5]

Excellent...absolutely right. I learned gardening, powerless living, medicines...life is so much better when family works together. I sure wish my own family felt the way I do. Its be so good if people could all put their skills together. Peace could thrive.

[@jeanskilling708]

My grandparents were born in 1911 and were teenagers during the depresion. They married and my grandfather sold potatoes and milk that they produced on a small farm they rented. They had a garden on the small lot they bought in 1935. where they raised vegetables till they died in 2002. Grandma canned most the food they ate. She made most of her kids clothes.

[@johnwayne3554]

Enjoyed your talk. Prepping, this was normal, until recently. Nothing special. Now it's fringe. 🤪

[@silasmonk2458]

...fringe..until your modern conveniences are worthless.

[@reneebrown5598]

My dad was born during the great depression. My grandma made sure that all the girls of the family knew how to sew and quilt as well as cook and can food and how to garden. I thank the Lord that my grandma was there to teach me all of this.

[@georgeins.c.494]

25% unemployment, 75% working. Many thought is was worse than it was. Today would be a whole different scenario. Stay prayerful friends and love one another. Oh, and do not fear.

[@miriamcooper1320]

For me... knowing how to cook from scratch over an open fire was one of the best skills I ever learned.

[@celowski6296]

Very well done sir. My grandparents lived though this. My wife and I grew up poor. Unless we have the cash, we don't buy it. It took us years to get to this point. So glad we can now. A certain guy named Dave Blablabla has a course on living and saving. We didn't need to take it. Hording, saving, and having life skills is priceless... and having a treadle sewing machine

[@candiedginger8729]

My dad told me his parents didn't have much but there was always food on the table. Grandma kept chickens and had a big garden. She fed everyone that was over at meal times, no one was turned away. Sure those folks only came by to eat, more often than not they'd bring a dish to share, a story to tell or a song to sing.

[@PooDotStinkPants]

*Extremely handy tips, would have been great if they were numbered in a list*

[@garyevans3421]

My grandparents were part of the rural poor that were in a depression before the Great Depression. It affected their whole lives. I have farmed their land since ‘85. Later, after my grandfather passed away in ‘88, I became my grandma’s primary caregiver. Her saving ways could be humorous. She did real canning with appropriate jars and lids, but she couldn’t stand to throw away glass peanut butter jars as they could be washed and used for something. In more recent times when peanut butter started to come in plastic jars, I thought certainly, we could throw these away, but I found she had rescued the first one I had chunked in the trash, so I realized we couldn’t. Lol She passed away in 2010 at 97 and a half. She was born in the year the Titanic sank, but all that was far away to her as she grew up in a family of girls and was the best team hand of the family and plowed with mules and at one time lived with her family in a dugout in the side of a canyon in west Texas. I’ve missed her a lot since she’s been gone. I didn’t cry a lot when she went because I knew how lucky I was to have a grandma for nearly 50 years and so many don’t get to have one nearly that long, but God I miss her.

[@MiguelMXDF]

Good video, one of the few videos that are realistic and useful in the real world. But be aware of the people too, not only food. During extreme conditions people may (will) change and even your friends/neighbors/relatives could turn against you, perhaps all of them are good persons now but under high pressure some of them may become dangerous (even for themselves) if they are unable to handle it.

[@simonm1528]

Absolutely!

[@bobcat961]

Sadly. Neighbors used to help each other. Now they don't even know each other.

[@ayla1316]

My grandma somehow made it through the dustbowl and depression in Oklahoma but still ended up in California when her husband was stationed there during WWII. She only ever talked about it to me once to stop my nagging her about it. Now she's gone and there's so much more I wish I could ask her. I hope everyone who still has their Grands cherishes them and spends as much time as possible with them.

[@jamesaritchie1]

This reminds me of my grandparents. They were dirt poor Appalachian mountain folk during the depression, and grandpa said it was nearly over before they even understood what it was because everyone in the mountains was already as poor as you could get. But he said life was actually easier for them during the depression. They had land in the mountains to grow food, and unlike a great many, grandpa worked steadily all the way through. He said if you had just a little cash you could live far better during the depression than you could before the depression with three times the money. It was definitely a buyers market for everything. As for preparing food, it's really not at all difficult. If you can read, you can follow a recipe, and the great majority of prepared foods can be made very well just by following a recipe. I do think owning some recipe books, several of them, is a must. You may not have access to the internet at all if we have an SHTF situation. And for city people, there may be no food other than simple dishes from restaurants. Grandpa talked about a trip he made to New You City, and said everyone he met there lived on lentil soup. A nickel got you a large bowl, and that was supper for thousands of city people. He said most couldn't afford anything else, but he also said that even those who had jobs and made decent money were afraid to spend it, even for nicer food. This might be why your grandparents stayed so frugal, even after making a lot of money. WWII ended the depression, but "Make it do, or do without" also added to the way my grandparents lived for the rest of their lives. There were many things you couldn't buy, even if you had money, and ration cards were taken very seriously. Again, though, this affected city people more than country people who had big gardens, and who could raise hogs, chickens, rabbits, and often a steer or two, along with a milk cow. Despite all the stories, though, I'm not at all sure anyone starved to death during the depression, unless it was the very rare elderly person who was unable to get out of his apartment, and had no one to help them. Though I doubt even this happened. There are stories by the hundreds, but verified cases are nearly non-existent. I doubt it would be the same now, despite al;l the safety nets we have in place.

[@theresacole3162]

Excellent video. All information appreciated. I was told by my grandparents there were rationing coffee, sugar, etc. etc. things that couldn’t either be raised or hunted or caught fishing or bee keeping. They were also strong people. Knowledgeable in herbs, eatable and medicinal, and neighborly helping one another knowing how to barter and trade. If this ever happens again in America I sure hope people have an abundance of respect and desire to help each other as they did in the past for if not things will be worse than The Great Depression for people will die due to lack of Love for one another.

[@SupraBdub]

Thanks Scootch, even aside from depression there is allot to be learned here, growing vegetables in a garden is healthy and can be peaceful. Knowing many of these things is important because so many people are playing on the internet and can hardly change a tire on there car, much less forage or hunt then prep that for eating and storage.

[@chriszablocki2460]

Someone was still living large during the depression. Guaranteed.

[@dontcare3430]

Plenty of people.

[@northrockboy]

Just follow the people that shorted markets and owned a LOT more real estate after. They orchestrated it !!!!

[@baruchben-david4196]

Yes. That's what caused the Depression.

[@chriszablocki2460]

northrockboy it wouldn't surprise me.

[@chriszablocki2460]

Baruch Ben-David I wonder if I can feed KFC to my future chickens. 😂

[@douglashass5760]

Back in 1973-1974 we lived in Iowa out of town and had a huge garden and dad would help farmers with welding and other stuff and they would give us a cow or a pig for payment. The good ol days. We lost a lot of skills over the years.

[@brianunderwood7437]

My grandfather was 15 in 1929. He told me that most times he didn’t have 2 pennies to rub together. But he said that it didn’t make him feel bad, because no one else had 2 pennies to rub together either. My grandfather was an amazing man. I miss him.

[@ChacoteOutdoorRecreation]

There was only one kid in my town that was poorer than me, I remember one day he told me that I was lucky because at least I had nothing.

[@threelittlebirds7942]

I agree with what you say in a relative way, don't go into debt.

[@kingmike40]

My parents were little kids when the depression hit and they kept the mindset all of their lives. Never deep in debt. Bought a house in 1969 and kept it until 2012. It was paid for in 1985. Died with money in the bank and no debt. Hardly took a vacation longer then 4 days. Didn't increase spending if their income increased. I now understand their wisdom.

[@Saikocity]

Tools tools tools..!! and the knowledge on how to use them. Store them in different locations. My truck just got broken into, I lost quite a few of my tools. Thankfully I have some more at home and at a storage facility. Like you say, we need to learn a lot of skills that have been forgotten. Guess who's getting into sewing??😁 When you can't buy the masks, better learn to make em. No such thing as a woman skill. A skill is a skill.

[@Grizzly907LA]

My dad grew up during the great depression. Him and his mother lived on a farm after his dad flew the coop. Hobo's who hopped the trains came around looking for work. His mom couldn't pay them but she did offer them a meal and a place to stay (in the barn,) for the night in exchange for work. She took the leftover or whatever was available and made railroad hash, and fried some eggs for them. There was no welfare, food stamps, or section 8 housing back in those days, and the people that knew how to garden and hunt, had a greater chance for survival.

[@tksjewelry]

We made our decision to pay cash for our property and why we chose its location for this very reason.

[@DaDaDo661]

Make sure you protect it.

[@tksjewelry]

@@DaDaDo661 oh, we do. In many ways. 😉

[@greatprovider8198]

I bet you have dogs too.

[@tksjewelry]

@@greatprovider8198 a few. One is a great pyranees that wont even let me venture into the woods unless hes checked it out. If I wanna go for a hike I have to go out, send him out, wait twenty minutes for him to come back, then he and I can go out. He'll tackle me to keep me from going out if he has to. Lol.

[@bobcat961]

ha, ha, ha Good dog. @@tksjewelry

[@HummerGirl88]

My grandmother was a depression baby, #11 of 13 children, she grew up on a farm in California. She raised me since I was 2 and taught me so much about cooking, sewing, gardening but not canning.

[@richdoh5443]

I only leave enough in the bank to keep the account open. All my pay goes to bills, canned and dried foods, gold, silver and daily expenses.

[@jfkfocus]

Is gold sellable in times when economy is worse?

[@crowman8914]

I had relatives who suffered through the great depression but my wifes grandfather had the greatest lessons and stories he taught and told me and my wife before he died. One lesson that stuck out to me was keeping multiple places of having cash in socks or in whatever. I have cash stashed for three countries i frequent even in america. I also believe in the under ground economy and trading goods to be a go around with being in a cashless society today

[@RealNewsChannel]

The U.S. population is probably 350 million people including illegals. Out of that number probably less than 10 million have anything remotely close to the survival skill-set of a cira 1935 farming family. This means that almost all of the modern-day skills of modern families would be pretty much useless in a full-blown economic collapse. And if the grid goes down and stays down for more than three months, 9 out of 10 will ether be in very bad shape or dead.

[@burnerjack01]

If the Grid goes down for any extended time beyond one week, fresh food, fuel and communication and security systems will fail. All those shows and movies about zombies? Allegory. Rule of Law will no longer apply. Those that own firearms will be easily identifiable: they'll be the ones that don't look like they're starving. "Ammo will be the currency of the future." It should also be noted that during WWII (and possibly before), Victory Gardens were responsible for 51% of all the vegetables grown in the US.

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

March 21, 2019----Your statement about Victory Gardens made me curious, so looked it up. 40% of food eaten in the U.S. in 1943 was produce by these gardens. Reference:www.sarahsundin.com/victory-gardens-in-world-war-ii/

[@bobm5600]

I would bet my ass there are at least 100 million illegals here. We are doomed

[@ebayerr]

RealNewsChannel : People freak out when the internet is down and the tv is blank or their phone battery is drained.

[@bobcat961]

@@bobm5600 I agree. We have no idea how many are here. I'm surrounded.

[@richardthornton7518]

Was very close to my grandparents on both sides. The Wagners lived the depression on their farm. There were twelve of them plus their parents. They worked their butts off and survived in fashion. On dads side we had my Grandmother Thornton who was of Swedish descent....a Hanson. Well into the 1950s in Sheboygan she was a food production factory and her garden was awesome!! She would can everything in sight. They would sometimes rent a few acres in the country and she would can all of that!! Thats gone now!! People in my apartment building here in metro Denver do not have a clue regardless of age!! Best Depression story though came from now deceased Cy Adcock here in Colorado. He was a rancher in his early days. He was there when they still hung rustlers from the cotton woods!! Asked him once: What did you folks do when there was no money in the Depression?? His response: We wrote checks they knew had no backing at the bank. They were just passed on as an alternate currency. So you would get a check with attached pages of signatures....300-400 signatures. If anyone had gone to the bank, the game was over!! Those tight communities are gone!! If my US falls apart as some are predicting, it will take every member of the 1,300,000+ US military just to hold us together!! Let us pray we do not face that!! We have been taught in modern times Washington is the keeper of our largess!! What happens when people realize it was all a lie!! Wealthy will board their Lear Jets for parts unknown while we average Americans are left behind to deal with what they have created for us!!

[@myra7273]

Friends, I think it is time to stop calling what we are teaching people "survival", "survivalism", or "prepping", or "doomsday" anything. "Resiliency training" is probably a more appropriate, and less reactive-based term that is catching on. Thank you very much for making this video. I think you do a fine job of making sensible, reasonable points about what folks have learned from adversity. Those are the things that many of our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were focused on--being resilient. That means to be able to effectively adapt to a wide range of potentially harmful situations--from crop failures--to communicable illness outbreaks among people and livestock--to war-related changes--to game shortages, to supply shortages, to harmful weather and other natural phenomena. They tended to be more generalized in their skill sets, and more accustomed to being both self-sufficient, and face-to-face community-dependent than many people living today are. The world's peoples are likely to return to ways of living that are more in alignment with older models because they can be more sustainable over time, and so, we are simply helping good people to learn how to make the adjustments that can help them to live a more resilient, community-focused kind of life. I have noticed that there is a lot of material out there about being resilient as a way of living, and there has been for many decades. A new item I discovered on "The Collapse Chronicles" here on KZbin is by British author Elizabeth Jane Walker, who published "The Resilience Handbook: How to Survive in the 21st Century." Her interview on "Collapse Chronicles" is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6qraXiopr19hck Thank you for considering my idea. I think it is time to end the "fringe" and "macho" imprimatur to teaching good old, tried and true, common sense skills to people who want to learn them. More people will be interested if they don't believe that they must be marginalized and paranoid in order to just live more sensibly, and to regain more control over the course of their lives, no matter what happens.

[@survivortechharold6575]

doomsday is a tv term and the people who can't separate tv from reality. The media has given all these terms a bad report and will do the same for any term you want to use.

[@elmfork52]

As a young man, my father joined the multitude of jobless men who rode freight trains around the country looking for work. It was a feature of that time. Men would leave their families with relatives and take to the rails. That was another feature of that time. Whenever possible, homeless people were taken in by kinfolk. My mother's family lived on a farm in East Texas, and she can't remember a time when some relative wasn't living with them.

[@Squarehead45]

In Europe it was called the Depression. In the U.S. it was called "The Great Depression" Why, cause the Gov't stepped in and made it last another 5 yrs. Gov't does NOT "Help",,they HURT.

[@chobeeboy44]

My Papau had to quit school in the 8th grade so he could work to help his family survive. He went on to start a plumbing company and he retired a multi millionaire. I got my work ethic from him. We had money, but I was in the ditch with a shovel in my hand with the rest of his men. He is gone now, but I learned so much from his example. His motto was, "Does it well, or not at all".

[@scdevon]

Casualties will be incredibly high in big cities. Violence will be the norm. Society has completely changed since the 1930s for the worse.

[@fbnflaviusbroadcastingnetw6786]

scdevon because on the whole as a nation America has forgotten it’s God: the TriUne Holy One of Israel, and have forgotten its Faith in Christ: Christianity!

[@oldkbellguy5156]

My mom's family went thru the Dust Bowl in the southwest corner of Oklahoma. She said the only food that would grow was black-eyed peas, and they got REALLY tired of them. My dad was the 13th of 15 kids in an Ozark hillbilly family. I remember the gardens we used to plant when I was a kid were all stuff that could be canned. And potatoes. Definitely read books about the Great Depression.

[@oilhammer04]

I understand that the big problem related to the stock market crash was the borrowed money in the stock market. People saw an opportunity in the market, so they borrowed money to invest. The crash was devastating for them and apparently had a ripple effect on the economy. Drought years added to this problem.

[@FarmerC.J.]

My parents were both from the Great Depression! They taught me many great survival techniques! So grateful for my parents❤️

[@craftyladydi]

My in-laws went through the Great Depression . I can recall how she would never throw out food from the refrigerator it would lay in there and rot. She shopped thrift stores, didn't go to a salon for her hair or nails. Never went on a shopping spree to buy a new clothes. She cooked from scratch to feed 8 children. People today don't think about how they will survive in a survival situation. They are to busy on their cell phones.

[@Soy_ediel_28]

Brother, we are not that country anymore. Help out the sick and elderly but beware of the monsters that forgot about being an American.

[@tracyk3567]

Lou Will Save Us ~ We are all human. If anyone wants to "forget about being American", it’s probably because its government will be the ones, again, getting us into trouble. Most people in this country love this country. Stop starting trouble by dividing us at every turn.

[@Soy_ediel_28]

@@tracyk3567 I'm sure the mosque in NYC are not near your home.

[@tracyk3567]

Lou Will Save Us ~ yeah, people on their knees praying-pretty scary.

[@Soy_ediel_28]

@@tracyk3567 - Ha, its those signs that say Muslims only on American streets and their new police units enforcing Muslim law.

[@Greg-ll6ur]

A friend of mine who had a grandfather lived during the depression when he was a child. He lived in the country and he remembers within 5 years into the depression he would go outside and couldn't here a living thing. Not even a bird. All wild life was gone. Even the local lakes and streams were fished out.

[@Jaxon1776]

I have fond memories of Sunday dinners at my grand parents farm house. No less than 10 items on the table depending on the season. All grown on the farm. Gardens, livestock, spring fed ponds full of fish, nut trees, fruit trees and berries growing all up and down the fence line. Truly self reliant living. As a kid I didn't appreciate it. Boy was I a dummy.

[@matthewbrown6163]

My parents were born during the depression & both told me of barely having enough food on the table to survive. My grandfather was on the state railways & was sent to a country town for work. Mum met dad at school as they both lived on acreage. Dad's father ran a mob of sheep & both grew their own food. A neighbour of mum would give my grandmother a chicken to roast as a treat every Sunday. People looked out for another & the 106 year old Grandma of a friend told me how neighbours would invite the hungry kids in for a meal to ease the food budget. Men roamed the roads looking for any sort of work. These "Swaggies" - their bedroll is called a Swag here in Australia would take on any work. Many would chop your wood for half a loaf of bread.

[@jeffreyvasby3230]

Excellent video as always! Stay Strong and Carry On Brother! Love and God Bless ! Uncle Jeff!

[@rick43pen]

My mom lived during the depression and it really effected her. The big thing is that back then North America was mostly rural. Mostly farms so at least people could feed themselves. Now the vast majority of people are in cities.

[@holdenboy1960]

I'm Australian ,i guess i was lucky enough to have been raised without power ect , kero fridge , kero lamp , wood CROWN No 7 stove and bathed in a galvanised dish every night ,12 odd mile from a small town so have the relative ease of living it harder if necessary , i also know how to to make gasification and thermal heating for water ect too how to kill clean and dress game (meat) done that type of stuff in the late 60's and onwards , i still rough it out at the folks place with wood stove and thermal hot water , also got kero lanterns , candles and a single burner metho stove if needed and plenty of other stuff

[@shithappenedwhatnow3028]

Let me guess, outback? I'm in rural SA. Also lived in Victoria near Healesville, NSW in the southern highlands and QLD in Toowoomba. I'm guessing you know about the diggers club for mail order seeds and quality tools etc.

[@holdenboy1960]

@@shithappenedwhatnow3028 i know of them but never dealt with them

[@shithappenedwhatnow3028]

@@holdenboy1960 they are well worth supporting. Once you've got the seeds, plant, grow, harvest food, let go to seed and harvest them as they make great gifts, useful extra cash by selling etc.

[@holdenboy1960]

@@shithappenedwhatnow3028 thanks for the info on the seeds ,Eden seeds ,are a good source too, locally grown in logan brisbane a bloke grows all the old types of seeds and harvests the seed and sells to the public , and is on the net someplace too , P.S i share time between brisbane and out near Boonah, Rathdowney folks got property there i care for , but have lived nsw Dorrigo, Bellingen and in QLD Normanton , kingaroy and around the southeast corner

[@shithappenedwhatnow3028]

@@holdenboy1960 Eden seeds, must remember that, thanks mate. I love supporting small businesses. Sounds like you are living the life :)

[@dperry19661]

The idea of a behind the wet sheet is used every day in arizona.............they call them swamp coolers, ya know a wet sponge in front of a squirrel cage fan

[@mariejoy8598]

My grandmother made bread and sold it for 25 cents a loaf. She sent her 6 young children out to sell bread. If the loaf wasn't perfect, she gave it to someone who couldn't afford to buy it. They had a huge garden, canned, fermented and thought outside the box. Knowing how to grow and preseve food saved their lives. I'm growing, inside and outside.

[@LuisRuiz-sv2mz]

Spread the word Sootch. Love that baby rock. I was undecided till I saw run it's paces. Great job.

[@stephengonzalez5578]

Thank goodness I have a medical background also two medical degrees to trade for essentials in a SHTF or Depresion scenario. Also having out door skills glad to have grown up an army brat and scouting life style in my youth, and able to garden effectivly is a lost art. A trade and barter system will be vital for many to survive. God bless us all!

[@notyoung]

In Thomas Sherry's book "Deep Winter" (or in the sequel, "Shatter" - I don't remember which), he works out how much food their neighborhood would need for a year - and the number is in TONS. Most of us have no idea how much food we actually consume in a year. If you take the vendors' estimates, six months of LTS food for two people will fit in an 8x8 room with 6 foot shelving. But that is food with near-zero water content. If you are canning your own, you'll need much more room for storage. While I love my battery operated power tools, I still have a small hand-powered drill and am looking for a larger one. Other hand tools include hammers, saws, pliers, screwdrivers and a two man tree-felling saw that belonged to my wife's maternal grandfather. Within the limits of my aging body, I can do basic house maintenance and could show someone how to setup water catchment to retain flush toilets if they have a septic tank or are high enough above other houses on that sewer line ;-)

[@journeyquest1]

My grandparents lived in a tent and picked fruit.

[@skypilot5973]

My mother was a kid in the depression. Her mother had to make clothing from burlap bags, which was what they originally used to keep potatoes in. When I have a meal, I always clean my plate all the way, every time.

[@barbaraallen7164]

I watched "The Great Depression" on PBS American Experience. I learned so much!! You can find all the episodes on KZbin.

[@kevinjhonson5925]

keep your money out the stock market, buy gold and silver

[@burnerjack01]

Buy something you'll need and use. Buy ammo. Good for defense, for bartering, for hunting. What will gold or silver do for you? When the SHTF, nobody will care about precious metals or gems. When the SHTF, it won't be a mere 'economic depression'. It will be much bigger and much worse than anything like the '30s. Think "Reset". Total destruction. War. Famine. Pandemics. Lawlessness the likes of which the world has never witnessed. You think gold will buy your way out?

[@gratefulacres4107]

land will be worth more, especially farming land

[@kevinjhonson5925]

john hanrahan if that happens we’re all fucked for a depression level event gold and silver will keep its value and the gov won’t be able to get it’s greedy hands on it. When things start to rebound you will have a good leg up. I think the best thing to do is have some of everything. Some investments, gold, silver, weapons, food, farming, hunting and mechanical skills. The best strategy is to be well rounded.

[@robinellison6708]

This was a great video! My Grandparents and Mama and Daddy went through the Depression. I learned some things from my parents. Mama stretched meatloaf with bread, oatmeal, etc. She used rice with meals for it to be more filling. We had a garden which Mama canned.

[@shithappenedwhatnow3028]

My Nan told me they used to cut down the middle of worn out sheets, put the worn out inside material on the outside and sew the outsides together. This helped the sheets last longer. If water is not in short supply wetting down the bricks or weather boards of a house at night helped cool it for sleeping in summer. My Nan slept on the porch which was enclosed with flyscreen. The family dog guarded over her and her siblings. She was born in 1922. The BBC TV series "war farm" has some great insights. "Clara's kitchen" KZbin channel is a tribute to a beautiful woman who lived through the depression and shared stories on the channel before she passed, bless her legacy. Great video. Remember rubbish disposal. ..worm farm, compost, chickens etc. Grey water use and safety. Etc.

[@nomadsurvival4952]

The snowflakes just dont think it could ever happen they just done know how close we are to that happening again...

[@EveryoneFights]

Dude, we've spent 18 years in a neo-liberal nightmare where "join the army or be a cop" is the only option aside from being a high-level engineer. WE'RE AWARE.

[@kmurray96]

My Grandma, Nanny Gilroy, used to feed five of us with what she called, "Blushing Bunny". She would melt some cheddar cheese into a pot of Campbell's Cream of Tomato soup and we ladled it over toast. Delicious! She said it was a monthly treat back in the depression.

[@bobcat961]

Do you cook it yourself nowadays.

[@kmurray96]

@@bobcat961 My brother and I both do. Ol' Nanny had another favorite...potato cakes. About the size and texture of an English muffin. Bacon and butter? Yeah, buddy, we were pooping in high cotton. :D

[@kmurray96]

@@bobcat961 My brother and I both do. Ol' Nanny had another favorite...potato cakes. About the size and texture of an English muffin. Bacon and butter? Yeah, buddy, we were pooping in high cotton. :D

[@ladypilliwick8179]

Look at Venezuela ... they have lost their ability to maintain their electrical grid for the entire nation Here's the thing... Crypto currency everyone talks about won't work because there's no Internet My great uncle played the fiddle and made and sold moonshine. We'll be fine.

[@secondact7151]

They turned the power off on purpose. The more people who die the fewer that can complain and more stuff confiscated.

[@Zincink]

I have a few recipes for moonshine, but I don't drink it... I guess if I was desperato I could sell it.

[@Gee1503]

Ive been saying this for years! How will you get to your bitcoin with no electricity!!

[@Boomer715]

Everyone said that my grandpa Sammy could fix any machinery. He had one of the only running trucks in his area. He would take one wheel off and put a block under the truck under that wheel and he had a belt he would string over the wheel and use that belt to run a band saw and he would cut whole loads of wood and sell them to rich people. He did odd jobs, whatever you manage to make for the day with what they used to buy supper with that evening! Sometimes they didn’t eat.

[@contact3604]

I agree! Skills have been lost, but dosent Mean you can't learn. We are living, in the worst of times for some! But we are also living in the best of times. With they internet and even taking some night classes, especially the free one! You have the opportunity to learn new skills and refresh your self with some old one's too. Enjoyed this video thanks for sharing! Moira From England.

[@walterchaja1186]

We need more people helping each other God Bless All.

[@nancyfahey7518]

My grandpa was either very smart or very lucky, he sold the dairy farm just before the crash. He delivered the milk after that so he had a job and he'd help out some when people couldn't pay for the milk. Men would come knocking on the door for work and grandma would set them down on the stoop with a plate of food. Just hearing the stories was enough to say "be ready for anything."

[@Chris-fo8wp]

The millennial's will not last more that 2 or 3 weeks, that will weed out a lot of leeches...

[@suemar63]

I wouldn't give them even 2 or 3 weeks!

[@smartin8247]

I grew up in southern Africa where sandals are made from old tyres. Very tough and very long lasting. Hence the expression "Tough Tackie" - generally the equivalent of 'tough luck'.

[@johnacord5664]

I hit the like spot on this one. I grew up during the late 50s/early 60s. We were lucky to have food on the table. We had our very own great depression. I could fry an egg and bacon before I learned to read.

[@elberthardy961]

My grandparents sewed patches on their patches, grew their own food and bartered for what they could not grow. Learn by growing something. Put pure organic soil in a pot, add water, then plant seeds. Water as needed. Do not left your living soil dry out or it will die. In 75-90 days, you may have something to eat. Plant only on days you want to eat!

[@blackshear6423]

My grandmother died at 94. Was a young girl during the GD with 8 siblings. Her dad was unemployed. She told me, if you didn't grow it, catch it or shoot it....you didn't eat. There were no grocery stores in her area.

[@censusgary]

My grandmother hung wet sheets in the windows, but not so much to cool the air as to filter out dust from the dust storms. For her family, those were the Dust Bowl years.

[@erikavillarreal7186]

Thanks for reminding us 😌🤝

[@mylesshimabukuro4062]

My grandparents built their house from a tidal wave damaged home, Piped water from a pond to their house, built chicken coops to raise chickens, grew taro to sell, saved coins, and dollars, grew their own vegetables, etc. yup we need their skills if the SHTF.