[cripplecreek]

Those of us who grew up poor and frugal are at a great advantage in a lot of ways.

[MHGinTN]

Amen ... I’ve enjoy the blessings since childhood, but i remember what it was like to not have so many ‘needs’.

[OB1kNOb]

Those of us who grew up poor and frugal are at a great advantage in a lot of ways.

I guess I owe my parents thanks for hard lessons learned when I was young. Like the song says, a country boy can survive.

[butterdezillion]

Except some of us are living in democrat towns where the community looking good on the outside is more important than survival. So you can’t have a fence large enough to provide any security or privacy. And you can’t raise chickens.

The government doesn’t want anything resold unless it’s been tested for toxicity so there go the garage sales...

We built our deck out of bricks we got from the city dump after the cobblestone street was replaced about 10 years ago. We made our retaining wall out of concrete chunks from the dump after they removed some sidewalk. Now they won’t let anybody get anything from the dump.

And they would probably say that they are the “green” ones.

[who knows what evil?]

Those of us who grew up poor and frugal are at a great advantage in a lot of ways.

Bump that...been spreading that message for some time...

[goodnesswins]

Amen....

[cubreporter]

Isn’t that the truth? We can go into our pantry or fridge and make a meal out of NOTHING. We did it growing up seeing our mothers make it happen and we did it ourselves when we first started out. There are so many ways to save:

Have your shoes resoled and heeled instead of buying new ones.
Mend holes in socks
Save clothing for hand me downs
Learn to fix things yourself
Make your own food with your own ingredients
Buy potatoes or grow your own. Make mashed, fried, boiled, baked, whatever.
Use bacon and save the grease for cooking
Wash foil and reuse it
Wash and reuse those plastic food storage bags instead of running out and buying new ones
Go back to cloth diapers and hang them on the line to save electricity
I’m sure people can add to these things. How do they think our parents made it through the Great Depression? They also BARTERED. I’ll give you this cause I don’t need it. What can you give ME that you don’t need?
Stop paying outrageous amounts of money for shoes and for clothing which gives free advertising to people who are laughing all the way to the bank at your expense.
Go now. Support charity run organizations and buy clothing to keep for when you need it. That way they make money and you have a stash to fall back on. Can help others too if needed.
Go back to depending on yourselves and calling on that good ole American ingenuity that got so many people through.

[gundog]

Those of us who grew up poor and frugal are at a great advantage in a lot of ways.

Some folks just aren't gonna be happy if they're not livin' high on the 'possum. A neighbor of mine just about puked when he saw me clean a clam. If it's not delivered to the door in a cardboard box, it ain't food.

[American Constitutionalist]

" Those of us who grew up poor and frugal are at a great advantage in a lot of ways. "
And those who know how to survive on the street.....
The pampered liberals won't know how to survive in the coming storm.

[roamer_1]

Those of us who grew up poor and frugal are at a great advantage in a lot of ways.

A country boy can survive.

[Gator113]

Indeed. We leaned that we could eat just about anything. Even though we were poor, we didn’t know it and we were happy.

I have the love of God, my family & friends, my country-it’s rich history, and myself.

I do not look forward to the mighty storm that is coming, but I already know how to dance in the rain.