Grannie shares some of her memories of how things were during the Great Depression. (5/15/20 Update: Grannie is now 105! You can hear more of her stories here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HBzgArX0cGk.html )
It would be a good idea to volunteer to spend time with seniors in nursing homes. They're usually very lonely and are full of great stories. I've been thinking about this lately.
Listening to her reminds me how far off the rails this country has come. She represents the best of America. She has self determination. This is what made America great. Today, we have become a bunch of selfish wimps. Makes me sad for America.
Amen to that.. 💯 You got that right!! People are so selfish nowadays they only look out for themselves. They don’t think about anyone else. As a Christian we’re supposed to help our neighbor and love our neighbor… ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
There's a large group of brainwashed sheeple ruining the world. They vote the same every election. They watch the mainstream media. They're on the opposing side of everything Tucker says.
The older I get the more I understand how important it is to hear our elders tell their stories. When I was a kid I loved listening to my older neighbors discuss their younger lives. My grandfather was a great man who grew up in the depression era and he was a master storyteller. Truly one of the greats, and a humble hardworking man-a trait I've realized was part of that generation. He passed away a couple weeks ago and its honestly so difficult to know I will never hear any more of his tales. We desperately need to regain our relationship with the wisdom of our elders, and beyond that, we need a revival of oral storytelling as a culture. I can feel the void in society these days, how little the youth understand the world from which they came.
I remember my grandfather's story. My favorite were how my grandmother was so pretty and that I looked like her. (My mother disliked me from birth, so for me that was the most wonderful thing he could tell me.) He also taught me to make cheese when I was so small I had to stand on a stool. Lucky I was never scalded. He lived in town and had a cow that my uncles (one only a year older) would take to a town pasture and back to town at night. Now I'm not allowed a chicken, in a rural area.
@@mithridatesii6925 your comparison is off this is apple s and orange s,there are many bad things that happened in this world ,but she is telling what we can expect in the near future.our economy is a joke,we will never pay our debt.Get ready it's coming soon.
My dad will be 93 in July, he and mom (89) still live independently and drive 40 miles every two weeks to get groceries. My dad remembers the Great Depression as the good old days. My grandfather was the foreman for a big farmer and share cropped. In the late Thirty's he had two good years and made enough money to buy 300 acres of farm land. He decided that was too much land and just bought a 120 acre farm that had a small orange grove and a house and barn.
She is amazing and lived an amazing life! Family was so important. Notice she talks about her very capable parents. They were a team that provided what they needed. Many children today don’t have that security.
This woman reminds me of my grandmother, who was born around the same time as this woman was, but is long gone. My grandmother's biggest problem with modern people was how wasteful they are, and how much they complain about things. She told us not to be wasteful and not to complain. The issues we have in modern society are manufactured. They are things people thought up because they don't have any real problems anymore. It was about survival then. I remember my grandmother never wasted soap. Even small scraps of soap she would save and make a larger piece of soap. She said you should always be clean (i.e. bathed). She said no matter how poor you are, you can always afford soap. The woman in this video was lucky. My grandmother and her friends didn't go to high school because they went out and worked as soon as they could - which meant they quit school. She only attended up to the 6th grade, and then got a job in a silk mill sweeping the scraps off the floor. They had to bring money in to share with the family - so the sooner they could go out and work, the better. They went through tough stuff. The men worked in mines and a lot of them died in mining accidents. People did not have good medical care, and people's babies died. Such sad stuff. I really respected my grandparents. My grandfather knew how to fix almost anything. They lived in a house without heat or hot water until the 1950s. I'm amazed they did that. They thought family and church was important. The one thing I knew for sure is that they loved us.
I love hearing seniors tell their stories, always have. They had hard times, but they also had character and inner strength. Made of tougher stuff back then...
@@ravenmckinnon5526 Yeah.. but as the saying goes, "You ain't seen nuthin' yet.." The debt just crossed $31.7T- ought to be $32T by summer and $33T at year's end.. It is so large now that it has a life of its own and there's nothing anyone, in government or the Fed, can do about it.. It will reach a point where it will destroy everything we have known..
@@ravenmckinnon5526 The next crash will be worse than the Great Depression. We are still in “good times” right now so I’m pretty concerned with what is to come. We have never seen the dollar not be the reserve currency, we probably will within 10 years…
This lady has a sharp recollection of her past. My grandmother had acquired a softball size of string from worn out clothing.She would save string from the hems of clothing.she also saved tin foil.She would wash and then dry it with a dish towel.She created a tin foil ball to store it for later use. I recalled her darning my dad's sock. She had a marble egg shape that she would put inside the sock and then she would sew the whole closed with string.My grandmother had a window box on the shadey side of the kitchen.The window box was insulated with tar paper on the outside and tin foil on the inside to keep things cool .Three was a door on the inside so you closed it to keep the butter and milk from spoiling.She hung a full length curtin between the kitchen and the living room to keep the heat in the living room where the floor register was.
My grandmother was the same way. She went thre the dust bowl as well as the great depression. When she died we found bag of sugar and all kinds of stuff she had hoarded.
I really enjoyed listening to this lady’s stories. I’ve heard similar stories from my parents who lived thru the Depression. They never stopped being frugal. This lady is a treasure. Didn’t want the video to end. Thank you.
My grandparents went through a deep depression! Never threw things away! Always found a way to reduce, reuse, recycle! Used half the sugar in kool-aid, best homemade biscuits, bread, etc. Us kids helped with the butchering process. Big gardens were the thing growing up. Kept many traditions to this day! Thankful, grateful, and blessed for them grandfolks and my parents teaching, guidance, and setting the examples! Thank you Patera for sharing great ideas and showing your concern for others!
My grandma, that passed away in 2005, was born in 1918, and if I closed my eyes, and turned the volume up to about 140, I'd think I was listening to her. She was a bit loud. *lol* Seriously though, one of the greatest regrets of my life was not listening more intently to my grandma's stories. I heard many times how poor they were, but I wish I had listened more closely to *how* they did different things. My grandma was a wealth of knowledge. She could roof a house, hang wallpaper, hunt, fish, cook, can, garden, you name it, and she could probably do it. If she couldn't, just give her a little bit and she would have figured it out. When you have very little you get very 'creative.' You learn skills, or at least you'd better. I know they grew, hunted, caught and raised nearly all of their food, but there's many things that somewhat get lost through the ages. Today is May 5, 2023. Things are obviously looking very bad right now. Far worse than they've ever been in my lifetime (in the US), and I'm about to turn 63. If people aren't already, I highly suggest they start doing everything possible to survive without some modern conveniences, at least intermittently, and maybe even through some food shortages. The worst that could happen is that you'll learn a few things, and maybe have a good supply of......whatever. *IndependenceIsFreedom* Learn to be as self-sufficient as possible. Also, if you lose Internet access, you don't suddenly die. It'll just feel like it. *lol* I didn't even have Internet until I was 29, the same year I got my first cellphone, and that was years before most people had even heard of the Internet. Even years before HTML (the "Web") was developed. I lived perfectly fine the first 28 years. Sadly, many people would now be lost if they couldn't get a signal on their cell. phone. *OMG* No DoorDash?! How will I eat?! *lol* Many younger people only know food-like _substance_ that's picked up at a drive-thru window, or gets delivered to their door. People shouldn't be so disconnected from nature. Yet here we are. In case you haven't noticed, there's a relatively tiny cabal of very evil people that have _plans_ for us all, and for the world. Believe it.
Sadly, an even greater depression is heading our way and we as a society, are not as resourceful, determined and charitable as our predecessors were in the last depression. I really enjoyed this wonderful ladies story. Thanks for sharing.
The greater depression is about here, but we still have modern technology and infrastructure they didn't have in 1929. There will be tons of poor people... especially the ones who have their retirement in a 401K.
nasanction Most people I think but there were also quite a few murders on the streets as people travelled looking for work or gathering dropped coal from the tracks in order to take what they had/rob them.
Thanks grandma for sharing your story, America has seen her share of trouble, but today , we have never had filthy moral decay like we're experiencing today, and a obtuse government determined to bring this nation into the pit of hell!!! My opinion is ,that everyone better get down on their knee's and pray and ask for help to see us through this mess... Please do your part today!!!
Very interesting. My Grandpa Crawford's grandfather was from Knoxville. James, son of Andrew, son of Samuel the soldier of 1776. Your mother's story is very much like the stories I grew up with. Remnants of that life still existed in the 1950s when I was a boy. We grew our own food, raised our own cattle, had a smokehouse. We were still very self sufficient in those days. We only went to town once a month or so to get staples like sugar, salt, and pepper. In some ways I think those days were better than today
The old people back then saved everything they didn't waste anything they lived a simple life and they stuck together good times and bad I learned a lot listening to grandparents and older people I thank God everyday for them
You Sir are exactly right..... Didn't waste time either, my experience even when resting they thought you should be stringing beans, shelling pecons are any task available for the day...... I'm middle of the road with that when someone told me we are human beings, not human doings...... I do feel God gave us the best antipressant ever, that being "sweat"...... Best Regards......
My father grew up on a farm in rural Michigan in the 1930s. He always said he had no idea the country was in a depression. He got up every day, did his chores and went to school. He always had food on the table and would often sneak some of Granpa's shine on the weekend with the local kids. He never realized how lucky he was until WW2. He was still a teenager in 1941 but he did get drafted for Korea.
My grandfather and grandmother were born in 1902 and 1906. I remember the stories they used to tell. Going to their house was always a treat. They both died in the 1980s. I wish I could hear their voices again.
Listening to her reminds me of my mom. She was 3 during the depression. Dad was 7. Same stories, people don't know what hard times are. But I think they are gonna soon learn. I'm self sufficient..but most people are gonna starve.
In the 60’s me and my sister always shared our clothes. When I had children they learned what hand me downs were. That includes their shoes. Left overs were always eaten and nothing was ever wasted. What a sweet lady. This generation of kids to listen to her and realize how precious life is and how hard our grandparents and parents worked to make it. 😊
My dear friend will be 105 this month! She talks about the depression, the dust bowl, the Spanish Flu and all sorts of amazing details of when she was growing up. I love to listen to her. She is totally shocked and angry about what America is becoming, and how quickly it's happening.
My high-school teacher and friend now use to tell me stories about the great depression. Sadly she's no longer with us but I still remember listening to her experiences in those times
I live in a rural area, around us it's all farmland. Problem we are not allowed to have even one chicken, or a rabbit or bee hives. "Our" mayor thinks we are too good for that. I have a wildlife habitat/food forest/vegetable gardens because 16 years ago the mayor had a brain and gave me permission. Only two other properties in town are similar. A new IMBECILE neighbor wanted me to cut down every thing because it "affected" his home value. Childhood bully, thought 73 year old, 5 foot woman would be "scarded" by him. Told him he could move.
@@florastewart7957 I'm in the middle of the town, so no issue with me. As to the mayor he underestimated me and I got him fired from his other job (that paid more than mayor) and got to attend his "retirement" party, which I requested. Sat right in fron of him. I now have another little secret which he is keeping, with witnesses. LOL We are not friends.
@@fletcherhamilton3177 The question is, where do YOU, most cities in the USA do not allow chicken or other animals. Or farming (you have to call it gardening), I asked permission for a wildlife habitat two days after the Christmas I moved here and the major and assistant were into that, so they said yes, when idiot current major came into office, I already had permission to grow fruits and vegetables for the "wildlife" (and me). I'm a retired attorney, I know beat the rules.
@@carmenortiz5294 - you claim you live in a rural (a.k.a., countryside), area (hence why my curiosity was piqued); now you say you’re in a city as you try to flex your cute little ‘lawyer muscles’ at me. Yeah, newsflash Better Call Saul - animal husbandry in city limits is obviously going to be subject to some fairly if not very stringent bylaws. What, you think that Manhattan’s 42nd Street needs apiculture beehives on every street corner like they’re fire hydrants?? 🤣
cant tell you how much i enjoyed hearing this woman speak. not just about the subject matter...it calmed me right down, very nice super happy she remembered prices... i was googling back and forth while she talked with todays money equivalent
She is so sweet makes me think of my sweet grandma who lived thru the Great Depression. Miss her so much love you God bless you Ma’am , we had the same conversation just before she passed 😢 helped me choose a career in the automotive industry 😉 she told me you are always tinkering with that old truck get you a job tinkering LOL
My grandmother and daddy's family in Tennessee were share croppers. Everyone grew fields of foods that was useful, and come harvesting time they traded goods. Raised hogs and chickens. Thank God, they made it through them times. My dad came to Indiana, when the mills and Ford automotive were hiring. He applied to all of them and took a job at Ford. Bought a acre of land for $3000 and built our home mostly himself. They lived in a 40 foot trailer til it was near completion, I was the first child born into the new house. Thank goodness for old ways. Best days of my life. Even, after drinking abuse and foster care. Shame on government, but I made it. Best wishes to all. Learn the ways of the old
I ask my my former mother-in-law what it was like for her during the Great Depression. She said in the logging camp they lived in, they didn’t even know that the depression was going on. Nothing changed for them. Point being is if you are living in an alternate economy you should be ok!
What a priceless video. This sweet lady’s voice reminds me so much of my Granny who passed at the age of 91. Her family situation and stories of living in the depression were very similar. Those hard times created our greatest generation, I don’t think our current generation (myself included) has even an ounce of the resourcefulness and determination of that era. So glad that I stumbled upon this video, it was a real treat.
What a lovely lady! I love to listen to stories about the old times told by the great generation! My grandmother was born in 1892 and to hear her tell the stories about her life before 1900 was heartbreaking, but inspiring at the same time. We sure are spoiled nowadays! Thank you for the video❤Greetings from Sweden
What a gem! Unfortunately, American families have played around, indulging in affluence and complacency so long that we've failed to teach several generations the core knowledge of simplicity.
If you arent listening to this women trying to learn how to survive our future you may want to rethink some things.This history is our future God bless
she is speaking of a time,when the floor was pulled out from under her time period,its happening again,same crazies WALKING AROUND blowing the horn,go this way,OK we went that way,prepare now,listen to her intently,she's a 30 years earlier than me,but i remember everything my grandfathers said,same story as hers,but they told me of the metals,that were priceless,untouchable,as the world was poor,grandpa only took half his pay in paper,the rest in silver,that one thing made it easier for my family to go forward,spend paper hold the metals
I’m sure she ate organically grown food and was breast fed. Now all the young people eat at McDonald’s and drink Coca Cola as well as other ultra processed foods. That’s why we have a pandemic and that’s why the depression that will hit soon will have severe consequences much worse than that one.
My great-grandmother was the single most influential person in my life. She lived as a young mother in the Great Depression. My mother was killed when I was still pretty young, but before she passed she taught the importance & value in our elders. My great-grandmother was a best friend to me & I LOVED spending time with her & sleeping over. She told me tales of the Great Depression & taught me tips & tricks. She taught me not to waste & to always be thankful to God. I save all the strings off my feed bags, & crochet dish rags with them. My other grandmother who is currently 95 taught me to crochet, one of the best & most useful skills I have. I save oatmeal containers too!! LOL!! I save jars & vacuum seal them with dried foods, etc. Honestly though, ... it is a HUGE pet peeve of mine tovsee people wasting... food & other stuff, but I do try to not be neurotic about it. ❤ Love this, we all need more of this.
My mom was born in 1922 and grew up during the Great Depression. When I was growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s there was an old woman's coat in a closet in our basement. Whenever we asked our mom about this coat and why she had it she said that this was the first new coat she bought for herself with her own money when the Great Depression was ending in 1940. She said that all during the 1930s all that she got was hand-me-downs and it was a big deal for her to finally get a brand new coat. I always liked this story and the fact that she kept the coat all those years even after she stopped wearing it because it was such an iconic thing for her.
I honestly think what America is going through is because are greatest generation like her are dying of. The wisdom and strength the Greatest Generation give or have given is sorely lacking and missing today.
My grandfather was raised in the depression. I didn’t understand it until he told me that he only went to school until 6th grade. He also told me that playing with a yo yo was the best way to past time. God bless this lady and my grandpa that passed a couple years ago.
Stock up runs out. These people who had already had land and livestock were living that way already. They knew how to live that way. Most of the population now is city people. Not saying you shouldn't stock up. The difference now is what's going on and will be.... is done on purpose, designed, planned totally evil. Eph 6:12
