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.

In the 30's 21% of the population lived on farms and a high percentage of city dwellers were recently off the farm. Today less than 2% of the population does. This is what makes a current day depression so much more dangerous. Excellent video.

My mother was born in the Smoky Mountains during the depression. She did everything from growing her garden to canning. Making fresh butter homemade cheese raising rabbits and chickens so even though we were poor we never went hungry. She made candles soap made me my blanket when I was 5. I turn 60 in August and still have and use it today. It fits our king size bed. She made a lot of projects and sold them. On 3 occasions she used the money for a long distance trip from California to Tennessee and instead of motels we camped in every State. These generations today have lost so much knowledge from that generation.

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

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.

I live in the log cabin built by my grandfather in 1950. He and my grandmother grew up during the Great Depression. I've found layers of canned peaches, between newspapers, buried in the back yard. We always thought it was odd that grandmother collected lots of weird stuff. We had to wait until she was in the hospital before we tried to throw away some of the things she collected. At her funeral, her son, my uncle, called her a "survivalist." I miss her and my grandfather very much.

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..

//A TRUE SHORT STORY OF A FEW FAMILY MEMBERS BUT NOT ALL\\ My Forefathers/Great Uncles knew what the depression was like & fought in ww1 & 2 as gunner,a Lancaster bomber,a medic, a Cold stream guard,a cop & submarine officer. My impression of memories growing up proved they were all very strong willed, loved life,understanding to others feelings & helpful to others. I remember how they were,acted or told me things about life & how tough life can be & how good we have it. My great uncle Ernest was a medic in ww1 & knew the horrors of war but only mentioned it to my Mum. He told us a story one time during the depression of how he saw people lined up outside a bank that he had his savings in (Wpg.Mb.). He got in line only to find out the bank was closing but he was able to get his money out just in time before the bank closed the doors to many other unfortunate ones. He was always a kind,friendly Uncle,self reliant,a woodstove for cooking & heating his small cabin.Had a great garden to grow his own food for sealer jars,knew how to harvest animals,a taxidermist,a landscaper,played the piano & sang like a pro.A collector of many things from some cruises around the world.His small cabin in hillside beach was somewhat of a "little museum" to the local church. Always optimistic & friendly to all who knew him.//My Gran & Grandad were born in England & forced to migrate to Canada in 53 when Canvey island flooded. Both passed away in 01 & 03. Gran told me how little the rations were during ww2 when she looked after my Dad & his sister. Buzz bombs would get threw over London, floating around till the engines quit then dropped out of the sky & exploded close by. German fighter planes firing guns over their gardens & her having to open the windows when the aircraft gun in the soccer field started blasting away,firing at planes overhead. Food was scarce while she sewed clothes & made parachutes for extra money & food. Meanwhile, Grandad was front line gunner in the Royal Army when his platoon was surrounded & captured in Italy & became a p.o.w for 2.5 yrs. before the war ended. He made it out alive after malnutrition & slaving in a copper mine for 12/14 hrs a day. They both ran a garden business afterwards in England & had many friends,a nice house & furnishings till Canvey island flooded in 53.++Gran told me "the only person you can count on is yourself, don't depend on anyone else but don't be afraid to ask for help if you have too". Grandad never left any food on his plate and they told us to do the same. They always had extra food in the pantry,a torch & predictable in life.//Lessons taught me to do things myself, feed & protect my daughter & family. Don't be wasteful of food or water,save & store foods, preps, emergency items,keep weapons handy, & fight for our lives if bad guys threaten us! // Hope This Relates & Best Wishes To Honorable Ones!\\

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

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.

We can all learn alot from history and its people so listen to the elders and ask questions

In The Great Depression people survived by being resourceful, bartering, learning things and working together. In the next one they will survive by finding resourceful people who have stuff, and killing them for it. It's sad, but it's who we are now.

I was raised by parents that grew up during the depression, and was tought the skills to survive.

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.

If you look up “Great Depression cooking” on yt you will see a woman, who’s grandson started filming her recipes before she died (passed 2015) but the channel is still up I love watching her and listening to her wisdom

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.

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

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

Very well said. People now are soft. My grandpa was on his own when he was only eight years old. He worked on a farm in Six Mile SC for room and board.

My grandfather grew up in the hollars of Kentucky back in the depression.. I will always be grateful to him for instilling in me when I was a young man growing up in the country all the things he learned and to be morally upright, fear GOD and help your neighbor.. Hunting/trapping and preserving meat, canning vegetables from the garden, mending what ever needed mending was my way of life and I owe it all to him and all the other old timers where I was raised.. God bless you and Im Subscribed🙏🇺🇸

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ❤️

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

My Dad said the most important firearm and bullet in his childhood depression days was the single shot .22 lr. They went out and took squirrels and rabbits with it to supplement their diet.

Great advice “ people helped each other” that is the path...

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.

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.

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

Glad my wife and I are in the medical field. We also live on a farm. Thanks for your advice people take that for granted!

This brought back my childhood Sunday afternoons listening to the elders talk, never complain just sit and talk about the difficulties of yesteryear! Hey thank you Sootch

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.

People living in cars, tents and lean-tos sounds like modern California today. just sayin'.

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

My Grandmother and Great Aunt could cook any kind of game; opposum, raccoons, squirrel. And always had vegetables, fruit, and nut trees on the property. My Aunt's house still had a hand pump and chicken coop (unused) even when I was growing up. She was two blocks from a large State University by that time.

Interesting observations you make. Grandma and Grandpa... Piece work ground auto valve cylinders, kept and sold chickens, eggs, Boston Terriers, and song birds, put wood bottoms in rusted out metal trash cans for folks to get more use out of... Mom came after Grandpa got a good job driving a garbage truck so she learned to sew and go to school. From the garbage pick up behind restaurants, Grandpa collected a full set of silverware from cast outs we still have some of around today. Mom taught me how to sew and cook. Dad taught me what devotion to family can be. The air force taught me how to wrench. I can skin a squirrel... Hoping for the best for everyone.

Excellent informational video. Bravo. I appreciate Sootch's videos. He IS providing an important service. Thank you.

My mother’s father was a farmer they always grew food for the family first. Then to sell, so the cows and chickens ate after the kids. Corn bread and milk was dinner many nights like we would eat spam and Mac cheese or jar Spaghetti today. Smoking meat, and canning was the rule of the day. I love to smoke meat like Thad! My other grand father was a rail road man out of Fremont Nebraska. Not sure of his job but it paid the bills. That’s all that matters right was just re-reading going home and when Morgan came home and made Spam for breakfast it focus my mind so much of my life, as Span has been at each event of our life as a family. Earthquakes, power outages, first dinner in a new house. Even camping trips steaks are great. But sometimes pot food is better. Info in Italy sun dried tomatoes are like poor peoples food and have been for years. They are only a recent addition to popular dinning go figure. My father and mother worked the war years as cook and waitress, so some of their recipes were iffy to say the least. And yes my mom could cook anything and make it eatable. SOS was common with pressure cooked taters whipped or so other way. Peace

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.....

My grandma was given away to a farm family as an indentured servant. The $ was sent back to family. She was only 11. She had 12 other brothers and sisters. She literally put cardboard in bottom of the hole in shoes. She died a very wealthy person. She worked hard and taught me many life lessons! She paid half 5 grandkids college. Miss her, but still have her lessons.

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.

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.

The one extra thing people could hold is silver. But the skills are most important. Been learning about self reliance since 25 years now. I feel very confident.

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

My Grandfather was a WW1 veteran. After the war, he became a postman, walking a route with a huge leather bag delivering the post. He had 9 people he was supporting from 1930 on. He owned 3 rental houses, he had 3 each one acre gardens he grew all the family produce in. My Grandmother would put it up in Mason jars. My Grandfather also raised rabbits, chickens, and honey bees...ever hear of Burleson honey? That was my Granddaddy! He continued to garden and my Grandmother continued to can the produce up until the mid 1970s. I asked my Grandmother once why she didn;t just go to the grocery store and buy tinned foods. She said that would "cost cash money." Im proud to be related to my Grand parents. They were such positive role models. Sootch, you talk about your Grandmother talking about how people helped each other back then. One of my earliest memories was of my "Gokha." Gokha was not his real name. He was an elderly neighbor of my Grandparents. When his wife passed away in the late 30s, he moved into my Grandparents house to live because he was unable to care for himself. So there was my Grandfather, my Grandmother ,my Great Grandmother ,Gokha, and uncles Gene and Daniel, aunts Winona, Mildred, Mary, and my mother , Sarah. OOps, there were 10 people living there.

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

I was born ten years after the depression. I spent a lot of time at my grandmothers as a child. She had a wash tub and scrub board and actually took in neighbors wash to make money. No refrigerator but she did have an ice box. She'd walk to the store every other day and buy a block of ice to keep the ice box cool to hold the days meal. In the back yard she grew a small garden because by then she had to work it all by hand. She had an old treadle sewing machine that she could get up to a speed that was almost scary. For christmas I'd usually get a new pair of homemade pajamas as toys were too expensive. I was really proud because one year another relative gave her a used mans shirt and she cut it down to my size. At christmas time her brother who had a little money would go to the farmers market and buy several extra large apples and oranges and give them to us. My grandmother had a couple of fig trees and we had a pear tree so each year she'd can dozens of jars of preserves. I haven't had a pear preserve since. She'd also can squash in tomatoes each year to enjoy all winter. As a senior today I don't can much produce anymore but I still can dry goods to give them a longer shelf life. I do grow a good portion of vegetables and some fruit for the wife and I. One thing I hang on to is an old wood smoker. I have lots of trees and if power isn't available I can still cook. Chickens for eggs and a pond full of fish and perhaps the occasional rabbit, hog, or deer that wonders through my land. I think it's also important to hold on to items that work without power if needed. Things like a manual can opener, oil lamps, coleman type stove, perhaps a few solar panels. In bad times they might be considered a luxury.

2020 and here we are again

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.

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.

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.

Someone was still living large during the depression. Guaranteed.

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

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

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.

You are so right my friend I agree with you 100% back then people helped each other I think this time around people are going to be looking out for themselves which is what's going to cause a lot of rioting in fighting and killing because people are looking out for themselves and their own families but I hope that's not the case I hope people will walk together because if we work together civilization will slowly come back.

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.

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.

Don, thanks for sharing. It brings back stories my parents (as kids) & grandparents shared with my sister and I about the 'hard times' of the Great Depression. We have it so good now compared to then.

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

*Don't Loose your STRENGTHS, during PEACE TIMES* 😎👍👍👍

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.

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.

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.

my dad grew up in the depression (he was born in 1918) he taught me a lot over the years & told me a lot of stories of how thing were in time period. then how the war put even a bigger strain on the people because of rationing of certain items per family/business!! The aluminum foil thing you mentioned made me laugh cause I saw that first hand!! he saved everything growing up the thing is he rubbed off on me cause I save lotsa stuff now & will go thru a spell bout 1 time a year where ill throw a lot of things away as I say WTF did I keep that for!!! I also remember 1 of his friends say "if you feel bad about throwing something away that you may use later just put it around back under a tarp & when you need it & go to get it then it will be junk so you wont feel bad about throwing it away then" they both grew up in that same time period tho!! one other thing my dad always said " you will have another depression in your lifetime I probably wont be here to see/help you but I have taught you enough that you will make it thru it" I really belive that we are getting close to seeing it again soon!!!! thank you for hopefully opening others eyes

I live on a working cow/calf operation & I shoe horses for a living. I love the lifestyle, we grow a garden, trade farrier work for beef ,eggs, cars etc.. We just went through a major blizzard in eastern Colorado, the wood stove kept the house @ 75 degrees & the pot of chili bubbling, & the snowbank outside the door kept the Coors cold. We lost power for quite awhile, but we were ready.

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.

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.

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 KZfaq 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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r994a6ij1r6uf5s.html 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.

It's really good that you bring this up as there a lot of younger people who have no idea about gardening, cooking, survival skills, prepping and who also may not have money to survive on. It is those people that i am concerned with as they may turn to robbing, pilfering, or even killing folks. I will help close known neighbors, and family when I can. I have a very large back yard that I can to a degree grow my own food. However, I am old and disabled so plowing up my yard for planting is not something I can do. I look at my yard and wish that I could plant things, but we are just stuck. I plan to use farmer's markets to be able to can up some food for my pantry and long term storage. Keep up the good work, maybe the young people will look at your videos and learn from them.

My Dad was born in 1921, He talked about eating field corn. He was very frugal. End of his life, 2007, he was living on $600a month and was giving away alot of food to the neighborhood. People really appreciated the fresh vegetables. His house was paid off as soon as he could. He also preached about having $10,000 cash available. He had his money spread out in several banks. A millionaire when he died at 90 years old.

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.

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.

Excellent knowledge. I grew up helping my dad with deer, Turkey's and etc after hunting. Never grew up with store bought. It's been many many years but I remember how . Praise the good Lord I grew up like that. Would not trade those skills for anything.

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.

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

If you are alone and nobody gets it you become a lone wolf

I was born in 1932 during the heart of the depression. Hard times put me in an orphanage where when my grandparents found out they traveled over 300 miles to get me. in those days that was something. My grand father lost all of his money in the bank which foreclosed on his house. He lost every thing. The first thing he did was make a bargain with people who had vacant lots to plant vegetables share cropping. He was an excellent gardener. Our near by neighbors were well to do and grand pa worked out a deal with them to take care of their lawns and gardens and in the winter shoveled out their walks and driveways. By the way these people were good people and treated grandpa very well. I remember as a 6 year old working in those gardens with grandpa. picking stones in a bucket for a penny a bucket. I learned a little about economics early. I also helped with shoveling snow at four in the morning before I went to school. We survived by the grace of GOD.

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.

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.

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

My parents were born in 1916 and 1917 and grew up with nothing during the depression...and they lived in the "dust bowl". My Mom never did stop saving aluminum foil or rubber bands. I grew up knowing how to sew, garden, can, hunt, make moccasins, tan hides, cut down trees, peel logs, and many other skills that are not really practiced any more. I am very grateful that my parents taught us so much.

My parents were born during the depression (1929 and 1932). My dad remembered some of it and would tell me stories. He was the baby in the family, so he didn't feel neglected as his older brothers. One of my Uncles would NEVER eat cabbage as an adult (they ate a TON of it) and he always kept his shoes shined until he passed. There is a movie I saw in college "What You Are Is Where You Were When" - it basically talked about what affects you in your life has a long term affect on you. The Great Depression was one of those events.

My grandparents lived in a tent and picked fruit.

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.

Practical advice. A bunker can also be a tomb. A bug out plan may be impossible for the situation. Skills are what you need. If you have the resources for elaborate bunkers and vehicles, that's great. But they are not required. Networking is extremely important. So much that it could be a preventative for that which you're preparing for. Meaning that you are building a community while preparing for the worst. If a collapse were to happen. Our lack of community and practical skills will be our undoing. Not a lack of resources.

Love this info on the great Depression. You have done a great job distilling this down and including photos from these times to make it easy for people to understand. I was hired to find a rumored treasure hidden by people of great depression times and I can’t wait to release my video footage of what I found. It really shows the scares left by these times - Keith

The game Monopoly was created during the depression.

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

I'm not sure if my grandfather on my mom's side remembers much about the depression, but I know he was born in 1930 and my grandmother was born in 1931 so they both grew up during that time . They both grew up in Eastern Kentucky so they were poor most of their lives regardless, and they were poor when raising my mom and 4 aunts. My dad passed when I was 7 and my mom raised me on her own from then on, so I know what being poor is like. One thing that they've all taught me is to be humble and not take anything for granted and to make the most out of what I've got.

My Grandfather dug ditches on a government work program. He had 10 children and I remember My Dad telling Me how as a little boy, He stood in a bread line for hours just to help feed the family. They were the poorest family in their neighborhood and the neighbors would pitch in to help the family. My Dad told Me they played baseball with rolled up socks. When He and his 6 brothers joined to fight in WW2, they would send money home that went into a cookie jar to pay the bills. My Dad was a Man if great character and learned through hardship to work for everything He had later in His life. Its just not like that today with a lot of young people who think they deserve everything without sacrifice.