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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Feb 2, 2013 ^^
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My mother’s family were dirt poor, even in the 20s. So when the Depression hit, there wasn’t a great change in their lives. My father’s family, another story! They lost three of four houses, sold four of five vehicles, had to let go their cook and two maids and do it themselves. Mom's family moved out of Brooklyn to Long Island. Grandma took in washing, house cleaned, cleaned a doctor's office, cleaned the post office. The children did the laundry, picked up, washed, dried, delivered it, all with hand cranked wringer washers. By summer, they lived in an army tent, in winter, in the summer beach shanty of the people Grandma cleaned for. They had no running water or electric until 1938, by which time two of three children had left school for work. Then they moved to a summer cottage with electric.
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My father was born in 1919 on a small self sustaining farm and because they always paid cash for everything they survived the depression ok. They had veggies, hogs, cows for milk and cheese as well as meat they had fruit trees and honey combs so, they did well. My mother was born in 1926 and my grandfather worked for the city of Detroit. His job was secure but as the depression went on mom and her sister spent school breaks and summers with her aunt and uncle on their farm coming back to the city for the school year with their father.
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My great grandmother was a child when the great depression hit and would walk around at night when drunk men would leave the bars and they would drop their tickets by accident while intoxicated and she would pick them up and bring them home to her father so he could get shoes.its nice hearing and listening to her stories about her experiences during her time going through it. She's well and alive as of now.
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Guys, this is my personal opinion. The great depression, 2008 crisis and the covid crisis teach us the need to save money, learn how to manage money , not spending more than we earn, not living in credit and always being prepared for difficult or worst situations. let God give the middle class and the poor, the strength to survive during these difficult times.
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@jrppark1
6 years ago
This is what happens when you live on credit. My grandparents were born in the 20's, and told me how it was in those days before the crash, and then after. Both of them were determined never to buy stuff on credit if at all possible. If they didn't have the cash to buy something, they just did without it.
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