With
the cost of everything going up and also the future unsure, stretching
your resources and re-purposing things becomes a lot of of a necessity.
I'm always searching for new ways that to get the “max for the minimum.”
Some recent posts here reminded me of some of this stuff.
My grandparents and parents were a young family once the good
depression hit. What types of things did they are doing to form ends
meet when things were expensive or scarce?
Unfortunately,
several of them who went through this period in time are no longer with
us. However, I keep in mind some things they did or heard of them
doing, that now, looking back, were obviously brought about by the times
they lived in. Even after times improved somewhat, some still stuck to
sure ways of doing things. Old habits are hard to break.
Hunting
and gardening were essentially a given back then. Most everybody
outside the town limits did one or both of this beside bartering
services for goods. Alittle carpentry or plumbing work for some of
chickens.
I
remember my granddaddy mixing his old used motor oil with alittle bit
of kerosene and spraying the underside and inner fender wells of his
pick up truck just before winter. He claimed it helped shield the truck
from incurring rust damage over the winter months. Getting a lot of
serviceable years out of the truck.
I
am sure environmentalists would have a cow over this these days,
however it was the simplest way of taking something that didn’t seem to
possess any usefulness left ,and yet, finding ...Read more https://www.patriotdirect.org/use-your-resources-with-responsibility-in-uncertain-times/
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