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That was a wonderful post!

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Thank you for sharing, Dana was well named then!

Wow, that's great! You are lucky! :) I never thought of they could have a sewing machine somewhere in library. I didn't have sewing machine until now (I've got it as a birthday gift) and I sewed everything I needed by a hand.

Wonderful, wish my library did

That would be so inconvenient.

Libraries can have sewing machines?

@@Emtinnie4567 Sewing by hand is a genius idea!

Well this mental depression is one thing. But we need to take action as individuals.

Lol

Though I'm on a diet which forbids wheat and other gluten-bearing grains and (usually!) stick to it, I sometimes buy a sack of organic wheat flour to make bread that I can share with family, friends, and neighbors who eat wheat normally anyway. Homemade bread is the best and learning how to make it is easy with so many KZfaq videos available to show you hard. Probably the most expensive part is the electricity or gas for the oven. If you make French bread you don't even have to use oil or butter in the recipe. Bread is not an ideal food all by itself and in excess but it will put something in the tummy and stave off hunger, plus it's versatile and can be used to make many other foods-e.g., French toast and regular toast, stuffing, bread pudding, grilled and regular sandwiches, bread crumbs for breaded meats and for topping casseroles. Bread dough can also be made into hot dog and hamburger rolls, and dinner rolls as well. By posting this information, I'm also thinking ahead to even harder times soon when food may be in limited supply and those who are so inclined can help out their neighbors who may be in need with loving gifts of shared food. Bags of flour do go bad/expire sooner than some other foods so you can't keep flour around at room temperature indefinitely; however, freezing bags of flour if you have the space to do that for more long-term storage is an alternative. Another culinary skill that most people can learn quite easily is pickling foods and making your own fermented or nonfermented pickles. The most expensive ingredient in homemade pickles is the vegetables. When pickling cucumbers on are on sale I can often make a half gallon Ball mason jar of fermented dill pickles in about three weeks' time for under $10. The cucumbers pickle in a jar sitting in a bowl (to catch any overflow) on your countertop at room temperature and once they're ready you transfer the jar into your fridge for longer-term storage. The ingredients are pickling or kosher salt, cucumbers washed and cut up the way you want them, a few peppercorns, bay leaves, and peeled garlic cloves, purified (nonchlorinated) water, and washed dill weed. You can save a few dollars by not including the dill weed and make garlic pickles instead. KZfaq videos on fermented vegetables give you all the particulars. You don't even need to add yeast; the pickles ferment themselves using bacteria that's already in the air/on the cucumbers themselves. Pickled cabbage-also known as sauerkraut-is another easy fermented veggie. Shred your cabbage, tenderize it with pounding to help the fermentation process, immerse/weight it down in salt/water brine and after about six weeks in a jar you'll have great homemade sauerkraut. Refrigerate thereafter. Sweet, vinegar-pickled cabbage, both green and red, are also great/healthy foods and pickled cabbages often make nice ingredients in other foods (e.g., bean and veggie soups). I make my own sweet/vinegar pickled green cabbage with sweet onions and green or red bell pepper added. One of the remnants of the Great Depression era is bread and butter pickles, which are a sweet/non-fermented vinegar pickle. You can make them without the need for canning for shorter-term consumption as refrigerator pickles. The process is simple: wash and cut up your veggies (I use pickling cucumbers, sweet onions, and red bell peppers), salt them for a couple of hours, prepare a boiled vinegar/spice brine for them using pickling spices; rinse the salted veggies well, put them in the hot vinegar brine without boiling them, let them cool, and transfer them to jars when cool and refrigerate. After a few days you'll have great homemade bread and butter pickles. I avoid sugar in my diet and sweeten my bread and butter pickles with organic stevia instead and that works fine. Bread and butter pickles got their name because in the Great Depression they were used as the main filling for bread and butter sandwiches when more costly fillings such as meats, fish salads, cheeses, or even egg salad weren't affordable/available. Pickles are delicious, crunchy and something solid that helps fill the tummy, even when used as a sandwich filling. If you can grow your own cucumbers, so much the better. Dried (navy, great northern, cannellini, pinto, black, etc.) beans are filling, nutritious, and often inexpensive foods that keep well long-term. I make either cabbage soup or bean soup (sometimes combined) most every week. Seek out good recipes that are to your liking and which explain how to soak/prepare dried beans for such recipes. In a pinch (e.g., the municipal water supply is shut off in an emergency) canned beans can be used instead and are already soft/cooked and ready-to-eat. Dried rice is often cheaper if you buy it in the greatest quantity/biggest bag. For a whole KZfaq channel devoted to Great Depression era cooking/recipes, perspective, and survival tips, I can recommend Clara: kzfaq.info

Crockpot is like having a personal chef. $20 from Walmart. Fill it, plug in and 4 to 10 hours later meal is ready. Easier than instapot.

Yes! Reusable menstrual products have saved me so much money! And so few people talk about it.

Exactly. Between showering and having a very clean job, I have no need to wash my clothes every time I wear them!

Never understood why towels need washed , you just stepped out of tub or shower, towel absorbing water from skin. Use same towel several times, save water, soap, the fabric itself. Look how much winds up on the lint trap, those are the fibers of your fabrics and clothes

@@meman6964 as long as you wash your butt well and don't dig too far up there when trying to dry it

Dude, yes to all of this!

What always helped me with our boys were hand me downs from our friends and family who had older boys, ask around I bet someone you know has a daughter older than yours with free, cute clothes and shoes and toys and books they would LOVE to hand down to you.

Plus babies don't care what they wear,it may be different when they go to school,but why waste money,rather buy more at a thrift shop so you don't have to wash the baby clothes every five minutes

Bec Gould , lol.... my thought too. I kept waiting for a new tip I didn’t do already.

@@dag118 thank goodness thought I was the only one!

That’s crazy

I eat certain things left over but not everything

Nicely said. Totally agree

It didn't end in the '60's. I lived in a town so we didn't have farm animals and only had backyard gardens, but we did all the rest

Right, not many people need to wash clothing after one use, maybe construction workers or landscapers. Possibly moms who have babies spitting up on them!

If you're outside in the heat, tops start to smell in only an hour or two. I wear my tops two days and often rinse them out under the arms, hang them up and they're good for another day, once dry. I hand wash many of my tops in cool water, run them through the gentle spin cycle so they don't drip, two minutes in the dryer and hang to dry. You can wear jeans until they come running when you call them.

The good ol' "sniff test" usually works for me. If it smells or has visible dirt/food, then I'll wash it. :)

@@megan2176 my niece was shamed in health class for saying that. They were taught that it is unhealthy to wear clothes twice. My sister had a talk with the teacher.

@@cherylhorne4983 I can understand it being unhealthy to wear underwear or socks more than a day, but pants and shirts? I'm sorry she was shamed by the teacher, that hurts my heart.

I've learned this the hard way, several times 🙄

Me too

My mother used to make us girls wear aprons. I hated it. I never have used any aprons as an adult, and my clothes are not stained. Just gotta be careful.

Skill swapping would be good too. If you know how to sew curtains and cushion covers trade that for another person's home grown vegetables.

Robert Smith you look like my dad, maybe you his missing twin

It's also incredibly good for cleaning mix with a bit of vinegar and your good to go.

Oooh I'll try this! I rarely wear shorts anymore, and rarely buy jeans (I retire them to "gardening jeans" lol). But I don't need 2 or more working pants.

The youngest of 5 here and I had to SHARE clothes with a sister 😩

Except for children 🤷🏾‍♀️

I sweat a lot so most days I have to wash after once.

I wash mine every wear. Allergens in the air stick to our clothes.

My teen and my mom lol I wear mine twice or more 😳 before washing

I think it just depends on how the clothing was worn. A person working in a temp-controlled office where everything is relatively clean doesn't necessarily need to wash after every wearing; but someone doing heavy physical work definitely does. Dana's point is well taken, though - just stop and think a moment before automatically putting something into the hamper.

Toni Ann Icolari that’s the way we lived in the fifties. 😊

No way?!?! Wow. I guess they target “money” videos. 😕

Maybe they think because the video mentions credit or credit cards, that the video must be showing them in a positive light. After all, it does seem to be such a hugely common belief that they are inherently good things.

Just think about how many people LOVE to eat cold pizza for breakfast... I have a little bin in my fridge with the label "eat first" to minimize any waste. You'll be amazed how fast it'll become "normal" to you to break through the labeling system of what is considered breakfast, lunch, and dinner food! You go, girl!

@@andreamortimer2610 I could eat pizza any time, all day. :) Love your bin idea - so the whole family knows to eat that stuff first. :)

@@megan2176 Ever so often, I also put myself on a "shop-stop" for groceries and make do with whatever is in the pantry for a set period of time. Rest assured, ... it will tickle your creative juices and you will be amazed by your own creations. Give it a try!

@CO OMG, that's too funny! They call me the "brain" or "walking encyclopedia" in my family =) Maybe we are simply able to think outside the box ...?

I trained my kids to eat whatever is in the fridge for any time of the day. My son loves leftover pork chops for breakfast.

Great advice. Library is a great place to go .

Oh well done......I', aiming to pay off my overdraft by end of this year. (Debit card, as I don't have credit card)

@@ElsieJoy39 Thanks! That's awesome, you can totally do it! 👍🤗

@@tombrackett.official3447 I absolutely LOVE the library!

It's getting more difficult to pay with cash, and so many people use credit/debit cards that a lot of cashiers struggle when they have to count out change for real cash purchases. Many have their actual cash experiences mostly limited to handing back even numbers of cash - $20 or $40 at a time, after a debit card purchase. There is a push to move to a cashless society though, so who knows how long until the cashless plan gains enough traction to phase out cash. Although attractive to some, it will impose a whole new series of problems on people.

I certainly wear most of my clothes more than once but would never wait until they had a smell to them for the simple reason I would always wonder if someone else would notice an odor before I did. Being well groomed includes being clean and we should be considerate of others as well as ourselves.

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THat's exactly what I taught our children: when you take off your clothes look at them to see if there are any stains, no stains? then smell them, no smell? Put them away to be worn again. If there are stains or smells they go directly into the laundry hamper. We have an exchange student from S. Korea who wears everything just once and puts it into the laundry. I can't get through to him to wear something more frequently. Drives me crazy, but he'll be gone soon and I won't have to deal with him.

Im 50 me either

That’s absolutely amazing!

I'm 70 and never owned a credit card, neither has my husband. We save up for the very big things or buy second hand. Apart from the house mortgage

You can use them for rewards and if you pay them off then it isn't a problem. The best is using someone else's money to make money

@@wed3k This reason for owning a credit card doesn't make sense. If I have the money to 'pay off in full' each month then I have the cash available to buy what it is I need.......we buy only what we need...NOT wants. That is greed.

I feel the same :)

Just done the same. Put my dressing gown on x