Bingo! I was half raised by my grandparents who made it through the Depression so it's like an arm is cut off if I don't have a full pantry and supplies.
Yep. In my case, it was my parents who were Depression babies. My one grandmother to whom I was close lived in a village in the Ukraine until she was 18. She could do anything and everything: cook, can, butcher, knit, crochet, tailor,draft patterns, bake, including pastries, grow anything from seed or a cutting, etc, etc. We were so spoiled because she would just automatically do all those things and no one really learned all of her skills, just some.
I always think of her as I rediscover, relearn or learn something new. The skills, IMO, are as important as the goods.