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it was great because nobody had a job but it wasn't their fault. You could sit at home day watching the 'tube and your wife couldn't be pissed cause there's no jobs!
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The great depression caused hoarders, so i'm cool w it
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Aug 29, 2015 00:33
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Hexel posted:When I was growing up my grandmother used to save campbells soup cans and use them as cups. I said to my mom: "Mommy thats kinda weird why does she do that?" "She lived through the great depression", she said. My grandparents and my parents lived through two world wars, the Great Depression and war time rationing. At nan's house, tea leaves got re-used and no clothing was ever discarded without buttons and zippers being saved. Outgrown jumpers and cardigans got unpicked and the wool saved. At home, shoes got repaired and socks darned, bread wrappers and the heavy brown paper bags in which groceries were packed got saved (even long after cling wrap hit the market). So yeah, even during post-war prosperity lots of people kept one or two frugal habits unnecessarily.
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Aug 29, 2015 00:42
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my grandma and her sisters use to fight over scraps of cardboard from grocery packaging or whatever else to stick inside their shoes to cover the holes 
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Aug 29, 2015 00:49
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my great grandmother was born poor as poo poo in rural kentucky so I dont think the depression hit her all that hard. alternate answer: you're livin in it
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Aug 29, 2015 00:56
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There were no jobs, but unlike now if you didn't work to have money you couldn't eat instead of just getting food stamps to buy steaks, soda, and potato chips.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:01
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:There were no jobs, but unlike now if you didn't work to have money you couldn't eat instead of just getting food stamps to buy steaks, soda, and potato chips. hosed up if true.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:04
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It was a lot easier being a hobo then. people were more trusting and prone to leaaving food any old place.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:14
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I'm pretty sure the only reason preppers didn't seem batshit crazy during the 1960s/1970s is because our parents and grandparents told so many tales of the Great Depression, rationing and air raid shelters. Their lives in the first half of the 20th century had been tumultuous and uncertain. That the Cold War would turn hot and see a return of those days didn't seem so far-fetched to people who'd lived with great upheaval their whole lives - after all, everything was supposed to be honky dory after WWI but poo poo continued to happen.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:40
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jackyl posted:it created the Hoover dam which is p cool we're talking about irl life not fallout new Vegas Ein cooler Typ fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Aug 29, 2015 02:33
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My dead grand dad's burned down and they slaughtered their pig and made blood sausage for the firefighters after. He would also fish for turtles in the big canal by our old house.
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Sep 5, 2015 11:27
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It was only bad if you were used to having money. People who were broke as gently caress already saw no difference.
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Sep 5, 2015 11:50
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Ocean Book posted:i died during the great depression we all did
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Sep 5, 2015 12:04
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a bone to pick posted:This man wouldn't have been able to do what he did outside of a depression-era America I believe. Sure, you can take our daughter to a party, sounds good.
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Sep 5, 2015 12:41
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we watched a documentary in school once that posited that because so many people got put out of work, young folks who had quit school early went back since employment scarce and that was arguably a non-insignificant advantage in dub dub 2 for us since it greatly increased our technical literacy
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Sep 5, 2015 12:46
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basement jihadist posted:well like the end of the great gatsby an old man suckles a woman boob so not too bad imho i super dont remember this is it on Gutenberg yet
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Sep 5, 2015 12:47
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Lolie posted:My grandparents and my parents lived through two world wars, the Great Depression and war time rationing. At nan's house, tea leaves got re-used and no clothing was ever discarded without buttons and zippers being saved. Outgrown jumpers and cardigans got unpicked and the wool saved. At home, shoes got repaired and socks darned, bread wrappers and the heavy brown paper bags in which groceries were packed got saved (even long after cling wrap hit the market). So yeah, even during post-war prosperity lots of people kept one or two frugal habits unnecessarily. and god the "quilt" parties. hordes of bitches congregating making panties out of anything and everything. it was a loving love-in
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