Disneyoverload42
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2008
The Budget Forum can be a tough neighborhood to visit and I've restrained myself from posting on this thread until now.
For those who've written about how people survived the Depression of '29, I think it's important to consider how they survived. For the majority of Americans--not including the extremely wealthy or those who leapt to their deaths from windows of the buildings on Wall Street--times were difficult.
Several months ago an article by Jim Juback over at the moneycental.com site generated hundreds of responses by people who had either lived through or had been children of parents who'd lived through the Depression. If anyone would be interested, it's a very humbling read.
I for one am not romanticizing the depression - I simply think it was lived through - as rough times are. I don't even have to go back that far for stories to draw on... my mother grew up without indoor plumbing. They kept their meat in a storage tank under ground because they didn't have a fridge. She picked up change at the drive in in order to have spending money - this was all 40 some years ago - not in the depression. And it wasn't in some rural area, they lived on the outskirts of a major city. My mom is the one who taught me that "this too shall pass" and "you can overcome ANYTHING in life if you put your mind to it".
I just think it's human nature to plow on - can't let the cockroaches win!