101-Year-Old Grandmother: Life in the Great Depression
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2024
- 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: • 105-Year-Old Grandmoth... )
This is the lady that should be teaching the spoiled brats of today what respect and appreciation is.
Yes
I think it's too late to teach the spoilt brats anything today.
Im sure she already did teach her kids. Its your and my job to practice her ways and to pass it to our children.
They can't sit, be quiet and listen
@@householdsix1307 adderall or Ritalin will fix that hyperactivity right quick
She is a national treasure as are all of her generation, sadly few remain. I could listen to our elders for hours on end.
Every single one of them? Not a bad apple in the bunch?
My Grandparents are 93. My Great Uncle 91. The stories! Get them all on video!
She's still alive?
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.
@@casualobserver2380 i see the bad apple on CZcams
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.
Entitled according to Thomas Sowell.
@@Geezerelli entitled 😆😆😆
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… ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Is that her son.?
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.
This lady was eating better during the Great Depression than I am eating today.
Always appreciate what you got
In the US you can eat well even nowadays
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.
Amen!
😢 sad but so true
Unless you have evil family members. Even God warned that there would be division among one’s own family and He didn’t lie.
You can’t get this in a book. Her information is extremely valuable
Unless she write it in a book
45% of Irans population died,Nobody talks about that,Compared to their suffering this is nothing
It’s wonderful yes.
@@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.
@@mithridatesii6925 you are a foolish person.👀
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.
She is remarkable l 'am in my 80's &remember all she is saying .she speaks so well ❤
As a 73 year old Australian man. Hopefully I too will live to to this wonderful lady's age and be as lucid as she is in this interview.
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.
Today's people should listen up to these old folks.. Bad times are going to come again and we can learn a lot from them.
They are here now
@@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..
Yes, we have to learn and be ready.
@@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…
Prepare for a depression, the food system has been intentionally destroyed over the last few years.
Humanity needs more people like her. Honor of our elders has disappeared. Thank you 🙏
My Grandpa lived to 102. He passed in 2006. Endured the depression and missed all the wars. Loved listening to your stories. God Bless.
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...
Her story is great but her memory is amazing!!! 💜💜💜💜
It SURE IS EXTREMELY REMARK ABLE!!!!!!! So good to listen to an older person and how they lived so long ago!!!! Not like spoiled brats today!!!!🎉❤😅
Bless her. She has seen more hardship than any of us can imagine with no complaints. Good to hear these stories.
She looks so young for 101
yeah se look like she's 20
@@edenhazard3965 You're kidding, right?
@@dominicgoulbourne6525 yes he was kidding
107 now.
Not kidding could be 80 more or less.
" ...and we shared the surplus with those that didn't have."
The elderly have lived so much history. If only people today recognized their value.
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.
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.
My mother would save a used light ball and used that to put inside my Dads Sox and mend hos Sox that way . Of course the light bulb was a round one .
My grandfather saved tin foil to the day he died after living through the Great Depression.
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!
People were moral and helpful in those days. If the same thing happened today, things would be very different.
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.
Yes very different. I’ve been preparing for several years now.
it's basically happening now :(
no they were not. people never change. there are as much good people today as there were 100 or 1000 years ago.
@@c-b.s.7624 You can't dispute the moral decay of the last 60 years.
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.
Some people are, you could join us intead of whining.
@@carmenortiz5294 He wasn’t whining. He was pointing out a fact. But you are both hyper-sensitive and ugly.
You are correct....2022 and headed for hyperinflation.
@@grettalemabouchou6779 what’s crazy is…he made that comment two years ago, not knowing just how true it was about to become.
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.
I could listen to this wonderful lady all day long. What a gem and what great practical knowledge she has. Listen up America.
shes a smart woman but saying listen up America really how about your country most country went the hell now a day's.
She is what grew us up. Let us appreciate her. We need to know her ways.
She is so sweet.I could listen to her for hours. What an amazing woman!!!!!!
What a memory. I can't even remember what I done Yesterday.
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.
Loved hearing this sweet lady tell her story. Priceless!!!
me too
Thankyou. Mother told us that country folk fared much better than city folk. This lady is a sweetheart 🌺 Mother made dresses out of sheets!
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.
You are so right
Its either swim or sink: The half that chooses to swim (prepare)and the half that sink (unprepared)
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.
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
They were much better. People appreciated what they had and respected each other.
Her mind is as sharp as a tack. God has blessed her. Thank you, God !
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!!!
She's very articulate for her age. Nice listening to her😊
It warmed my heart hearing her talk about how her mamma fed those hungry men who jumped off the trains when they slowed down enough looking for food.
She is absolutely lovely
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......
Such a simple but wonderful story. They appreciated every little thing they had
Yes
Yes ❤️
My grandma is 97 and still tickin
She seems real sharp and I like listening to her.
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.
I did not have grandparents to talk too. I would have loved it. I never lived close to family growing up. Such a blessing.
Thank you for your kind words
These are the stories my grandparents told us kids, they were resilient people god bless their souls.❤
She’s sweet. She sounds so much like my late Grandmother. Fascinating listening to her stories. Thank you for sharing.
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
She is a blessing at 105. Stay safe and have a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.
Who in the world is disliking this this video
My Great Grandmother used a light bulb to darn our Sox! I miss her immensely😢
The burned out light bulb was always in the sewing kit
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.
God blessed her to have a long life.
I’m so saddened at the state of our world now. She’s a treasure!
She is so precious!!
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
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
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.
Where do you live that it’s legally possible for city officials to forbid farming / animal raising . . ?
The Mayor changed the zoning to redevelop the property. Value the rural life while you can.
@@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?? 🤣
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
What a beautiful lady. God Bless her. ❤❤❤ It's hard to believe that we should be learning from her about how to survive a Depression.
God bless her soul.
A wonderful interview. This lady has an amazing recall of her time during the Great Depression. Thank you for sharing.
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. 😊
We need to get back to that
Sweet lady, we truly have lost touch of how much our grand and great grandparents suffered and struggled.
💥 We can only wonder if she is still alive...March 15, 2022. A true treasure.
Thank you for your kind words. Sadly, she is no longer with us in this world. Grannie passed away in 2020, but she remains in our hearts.
@@ralphdavis1431 thanks for the share this is beautiful knowledge
Wow.Her memory is amazing
i filled a few of her prescriptions when i was a pharmacist in jefferson city. sweet lady. probably healthier then me at over 2x my age
Aww, I could listen to her talk all day! What a special lady. I live a few hours from Knoxville, TN!
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.
AMAZING MEMORY
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
We can learn a lot from those who lived through such hard times. Thank you for sharing 💕
Some of us remember growing up with relatives from this era and parents who were groomed by it. Great interview! Will share it!! :-)
Bless her heart. My parents both gone now but they lived through that also.
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.
Blessings to her...
Now the bread lines are digital, and 50 million people are on it.
Thank You for your wisdom.
Im 44, this reminds me of my grandma... this is something that will be lost with time 😞
I really enjoyed this,what a great memory she has!
Hi
She has such a wonderful memory for detail ❤
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.
Most of America isn't ready❗
Being frugal and making do with what you have is something that this generation has no idea how to do ....
It's amazing she can remember the price of tobacco back then! I hope I will be like her one day, 105 and full of memories! Awesome lady:)
She's so beautiful ❤️
Lovely granny 😍
Very, very interesting. Really enjoyed this! Thank you.
Yes during a Depression you are blessed if living on a farm. God bless the work of their hands!
This is priceless.
A very beautiful 🎉soul ❤ ty for sharing this
Thank you for sharing.
Awesome video!
You can get these survival tips in a book, called Fox Fire, college students collected stories and details of what old farmers and woodsman did to survive, like making soap, candles and salting meat, smoking it too. They used the Sears catalog, for toilet paper, Sears published it, on thin paper. They knew!
Eliot Wigginton and Foxfire Fund, Inc. Since the first volume published in 1972, the Foxfire books have brought the philosophy and wisdom of the mountains 👍 Life survival tips and stories.
Just don't use the Christmas catalog,I'm still looking through it.
"Sears published it on thin paper. They knew!" Reminds me of a story from our local museum - flour came in cloth bags and people would re-use the cloth to make clothing, so the flour companies started using a variety of colours and prints to make their bags.
rather hear it from the source.
I’m 66 and I remember when I was 7 years old we used sears catalog in out outhouse
I feel we are headed for tougher times, I sure hope I'm wrong. Thanks for sharing, our elders are so precious and so important. 💙🙏💙
Look to the Lord. The Lord’s will be taken care of. 🙌🙌
I love this. Thanks for sharing.
Loved hearing this!
Thank you for sharing this information with us.