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Wellll...Vitanola said:The real depression did not begin until the worldwide credit system seized up in the late spring of 1931
All I know is I'm going to go out and buy a lot of soup. If I don't need to eat it, I can always start a line.
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Brian Sheridan said:All I know is I'm going to go out and buy a lot of soup. If I don't need to eat it, I can always start a line.
Brian Sheridan said:All I know is I'm going to go out and buy a lot of soup. If I don't need to eat it, I can always start a line.
ScionPI2005 said:I wonder how everyone would fair on Ramen, the traditional college diet...
ScionPI2005 said:I wonder how everyone would fair on Ramen, the traditional college diet...
We have plenty of squirrels 'round here and I have a trusty 22 that was my grandfather's when he was farming. Of course the city might take a dim view of shooting squirrel within their limits. We do have room for a garden. Chickens? They lay eggs don't they?Fletch said:Squirrel rifle, vegetable garden, chicken coop. That's how my family made it thru the last time.
Only in some urban areas. If it gets really bad, there's always soylent green.Fletch said:Of course that works only if you live anywhere near "the land." If you're in developmentville or the concrete jungle I guess the game's up.
We could always resort to reading books. Maybe we'd learn to hunt, garden, build a coop and raise chickens. We could go to bed when the sun sets and save on energy.Fletch said:The difference now is going to be that everybody will have to keep their innertoobz and/or cable, or grow very isolated and ignorant indeed, like a modern kind of backwoods folk.
Perhaps our community could become more personal. Who knows, maybe we'd get to know our neighbors even barter a bit now and then.Fletch said:We need information like that society of that time needed religion. Without it we have no place in the community or the world.
Big Man said:My, my, my. How the "traditional college diet" has changed over the last 35 years. When I was in college, the "traditional diet" was beer and ... Well, beer.
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Perhaps our community could become more personal. Who knows, maybe we'd get to know our neighbors even barter a bit now and then.
Foofoogal said:Here in Houston area you would not believe the people who had no lights for days with the hurricane. Many appeared and spoke of being somewhat sad that the lights were back on. Many spoke of getting to finally know the neighbors with BBQs and porch sittings and all.
The key they said also is you learn to get most of the work done before sunset also.
Very sad really if you are one that sort of remembers the porch era.
Many played board games and stuff with the kids also.
J.M.Stovall said:You know some (actually most) people thought I was nuts but I was starting to like not having power. No electronic devices, and going to bed when it was dark. It felt very liberating. Sometimes I really hate modern life.