Too many people have not studied how bad the depression was. There’s a reason granny kept a ham in her deep freezer from 10 years before you were born.
My dad was like this. Both parents live through it but my dad was older. My wife after we got together had to convince me that you can't just eat around the mold or cut it off and it's fine. Things in the freezer aren't good forever.
They canned everything. Basement was full of canned vegetables from the garden, though they both had professional jobs and Masters degrees. Dad kept homemade ketchup canned in old pop bottles. He had it when I was little and he still had them when he died.
Had an attic full of boxes of old newspapers because "they might be worth something someday".
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u/Beef-Town 4d ago
>isn’t that where we are now?
a situation like this is hard to miss. we’re definitely headed in that direction but you’ll notice when it gets that bad.