7 Advantages Your Great Grandparents Had in Hard Times

These skills are becoming less and less common.

5) Making Things from Scratch

They knew how to make things from scratch from food to clothing to tools. The number of items that absolutely had to be purchased were few, leading to mostly self-sufficient households. Not only that, but time was budgeted into each day for these tasks: women were often housewives and men worked on tasks in the evenings after their other work was done. TV was not invented yet and radio could be worked along to.

Via/ Library of Congress

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