Re: Cooking For Hard Times...


"Gloria P" <gpuester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6u1kdeFd016sU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


That made me wonder if "poor folk" actually coped better during the
Depression than the well-off because they had not as much to lose
and they were used to living with much less.

After consideration, I don't think so. It would be better today to be down to your last million than jobless and down to your last dollar.

I remember after WWII when I was very little, our back yard was
all vegetable garden and we had a big apple tree, grape vines, and chicken and rabbit pens.

We may not have eaten high on the hog, but we ate.

gloria p

it's much harder to have gone from riches to being poor than poor to being poorer.
--
C.D

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