Surviving Another Depression.......What Would We Need?

[verity]

Valium!

 

[EweSheep]

Anyone can recommend a good book to read about folks that lived in the depression? Not the dust bowl.

I love to read about folks who survived it and how they did it and how the banks fared after all this mess during the Depression.

 

[redhen]

i love those type of books also!..any type of old setting in a book i devour!...i love to read about how they lived back then..i go to the library all the time and ask the librarian to help me find all the old type stories...

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[Stumpy]

Interesting ideas here. I have to agree, if things got really bad, I think one thing that 's missing now that existed in the 30's -- I think more people had a sense of right and wrong, that there weren't nearly as many criminals.

On to a lighter note, I think these books might be helpful:

Periam’s Home and Farm manual

Stories and recipes of the great depression of the 1930’s by Rita Van Amber

I have one called Using Wayside Plants which might come in handy.

One my mother recently purchased, "Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning," I think might be especially helpful.

 

[mtnhomechick]

Stumpy.......you're right.............I think it was the MIND SET.

 

[Stumpy]

MTNHOMECHICK, I think it was an aunt of mine who said when she was a little girl, she used to sit on the steps -- sometimes she would see a man walking down the road and she would say something like, "Mother, there is a tramp coming. Can I feed him?" And her mother would fix a plate of food. Nowadays you wouldn't know if he was a rapist or serial killer or drug addict.

As much as I hate to think about it, I do believe crime would be absolutely rampant, and people would do almost anything to get out of the cities.

 

[mtnhomechick]

Courage

 

[Gatorpupsmom]

here is an easy recipe for you all 2 cups flour ,1t spoon salt,1table spoon baking powder,3/4cup crisco,1cup butter milk or just milk if you dont have butter milk.in a bowl mix flour, salt ,baking powder,add crisco and cut into flour mixture until pea size lumps form.add milk and mix into a dough turn out onto a well floured surfice and roll out too 1 inch thick cut into biscuites you can use a old bean can for a cutter if you dont have one. place biscuites into a 12 inch dutch oven old timey style like was used on the cow trails place over 8 to 10 hot wood coals then put about 15 coals on the top let cook about 20 minutes turning the lid 2 or three times during cooking to keep them from burning in hot spots you should be able to smell them when they get done. serve with gravey and fried taters thats all it takes for poor folks to live.

 

[Chicabee19]

I've always had the idea of finding old folks and asking each of them to tell a story from their life, then putting the stories in book form. I bet they have a lot of very interesting to say, especially about the depression and wars.

 

[silkiechicken]

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Grandpa grew up in the depression... said best to work hard and be optimistic, it's just a phase and panic just makes it worse. Said people now a days are lazy. He's not alive anymore, so can't ask him anymore questions.