25 Great Depression Survival Tricks the Government Hopes Americans Never Teach Their Kids

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  @Greg-mw5kh · 3 months ago

  60 and raised by my grandparents.  I grew up with many of these ways. I still practice many as do my own children.

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  @privateuser3803 · 2 months ago

  Cut n onion in two put around house. Gets rid of bacteria

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  @Agustina-ko4um · 3 months ago (edited)

  * Bacon grease saved in a jar, with a lid. Great awesome flavor to cook with.<br>* Newspaper insulation, between layers of clothes.<br>Also inside of walls, a hundred years ago that is.<br>* Chicory root, and dandelion root coffee, dried and roasted.<br>* Hoover stew. Kept many fed. <br>Made with canned tomatos, macaroni or other pasta shape, sliced cheap chicken wieners. Salt.<br>* Mock apple pie, made with soda crackers ....<br>* Flour sack clothing. First white cotton, but eventually bright patterns ...<br>* Eggshells calcium ...<br>for people, pets, and the garden even.<br>* They wasted absolutely nothing at all. Everything had it&apos;s usefulness.<br>* Vinegar for everything, and that vinegar was likely homemade too.<br>* Lard for cooking, and for skin care too. Sure better than today&apos;s hydrogenated fats.<br>* Dandelion greens, flowers and roots. Different recipes for each. part<br>* Feed sack quilts. Made beautifully, from scraps.<br>* Twice brewed coffee grounds. Dried and used again. Finally ending up in the garden, as fertilizer.<br>* Onion poultice for chest colds, even for pneumonia.<br>This was before antibiotics.<br>* Sourdough starter from the air, from wild yeast in the air. <br>* Onion ash for wounds, mixed with honey. Thus avoiding infection.<br>* Backyard chickens. With surplus eggs to sell or trade. Old hens became a flavorful Sunday dinner. <br>* Black strap molasses as sweetener. Full of nutrients.<br>* Bone broth, from the dinners they cooked. Simmered for hours on the back of that wood stove.<br>* Tea leafes, used a second and a third time, and composted in the garden after that.<br>* Cardboard inner shoe soles, when the shoe soles were worn thin. Cardboard cost nothing.<br>* Salt pork preservation. Before refrigeration, meat was salt cured, or smoked, at home. Long lasting.<br>* The root cellar, dug into the side of a hill, or underneath the house.<br>Kept root vegetables, cabbages, apples for the cold season.<br>* They had the knowledge and skills to survive, we no longer do. Few exceptions.<br>* Pressure canning meat at home. Done properly lasts years.<br>* Bone broth from every animal. Great source of nutrients. The foundation for many dishes.<br>* Lye soap from kitchen waste. Done once per year.<br>* Neighborhood barter network. A very traditional way of doing things and taking care of each other.😊❤

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• JI

  @jimmieblue6262 · 3 months ago

  I watched my mom as a child take coffee grounds after the coffee was made spread them on a cookie sheet and dry them in the oven and reuse .

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  @harrygourley6443 · 3 months ago

  I was raised in the country. Most of things in this video was passed down to me and we experienced growing up. I&apos;m 48 years old and my family still has a root cellar.

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  @privateuser3803 · 2 months ago

  Chickory ,dandelion &nbsp;, n barly rosted. Done it as a kid

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  @royalpitamamma · 3 months ago

  I have done many of these...not all, but many. &nbsp;The trading network is essential to survive.

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• TI

  @tinkerboo82 · 3 months ago

  I am going to do the sourdough starter from air.. time is of the essence. I will also try the ground up egg shells. I wish they still made potatoe sacks the same as the olden days, but I have been saving every &nbsp;bandana for the past 10 years and I now have enough to make my very own heriloom quilt for my 1st grandbaby 😁... Ive never seen one and hope it will be the start for many family&apos;s to come... 💜

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  @deneseiB · 3 months ago

  Thank you! This wonderful video reminds me of my Granny and Great-gran, who taught me many of these &quot;secrets.&quot; It should be required viewing in every Home Economics class in high school. Oh wait... they stopped offering those, along with Wood, Electronics &amp; Auto Shop. No wonder kids can&apos;t do anything these days besides push buttons on a cell phone. This country is doomed~:face-blue-covering-eyes:

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  @MikeWeddle-xu9do · 5 days ago

  My wife and I started our first sourdough starter. &nbsp;Watching from North East washington state Huckleberry mountain range

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  @JedWalkerYT · 3 months ago

  Sourdough is my favorite. That is definitely one of the best ones. It’s also healthy for you.

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  @cindyfoster9584 · 3 months ago

  The network was the wealth. The community is the wealth. &nbsp;When shtf, and it will soon, we are going to have to find ways to rely on each other. &nbsp;What are you good at?

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