Great Depression Survival Tips

50 Survival Lessons From The Great Depression: The Horrifying Things Americans Did When Money, Jobs, & Hope Disappeared<!-- --> | ZeroHedge

 

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After FDR ordered the Bank Holiday, banks seized personal accounts and foreclosed on farm mortgages. My maternal grandparents and my paternal grandparents were all evicted from their farms. My parents were 6 and 8 years old, when both of their families became migrant farm workers, part of the Grapes of wrath movement. By the time I was born, my family was sharecropping.

 

As a kid I knew lady that did reweavin frayed edges of expensive clothing, a vey painstaking maticulous job that paid handsomely.
Mostly done on men's suits in such precision one couldn't find the thread ends. She did this work well into the 1960.
The demand petered out when clothing became too cheap to repair, strictly a hand magnifying glass operation
Even shoe repair shops disappeared in the 1970s due to the invention of sneakers, A Chinese invention during the Korean war.
A man offered t teach me but he said he was quitting because the demand was disappearing. Becoming a seamstress might be thing for some of you, and treadle sewing machines might come back
However if one has the opportunity to learn the craft of shoemaking the mighty have a real cash cow. if the worst happens.
Candlemakers and tin smiths would be busy as well light is an important skill craft.
One thing is certain a person with good math skills could learn electronics and e kept busy no matter what.
If there is an EMP or CME one would have more work than any one else.