Reply #143: My Grandmother who lived during the Great Depression...

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Back when my Grandma was alive she would tell me stories about how she survived being broke. She had 3 children to feed all under the age of 10, and her husband was out of work. Back then the government would give them flour and milk every once in a while (I wish she was still alive so that I could get the details). She said she had a coffee can that she kept the waste grease from cooking in (god only knows how old that grease was). She would then take a little bit of grease and some milk and make a gravy of sorts, and then use the flour to make biscuits. And that would be dinner. "Biscuits" and "gravy". She raised 3 children during that time. I don't know how she did it. She and her family endured.

I do know that her husband was finally offered a job by a local man to do odd jobs. She spoke like that man was an angel from heaven. She praised him and 60 years later would still get a tear in her eye when she spoke of him.