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Survival Basics From Depression-Era Kids
My parents and my husband’s parents were children during the Great Depression. Mine lived in large cities; my in-laws, small towns. Their families started this era from neither a position of wealth nor...
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Five Frugality Hacks Straight Out of the Great Depression
During the Great Depression, simple frugality was the only way to get by. There was a saying that everyone lived by: "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without." There's a lot we can learn about...
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Placing Prepositions: Where you from? Where you at?
She’s shakin’ what her mama gave her. He’s stuntin’ like his daddy. Man you’re the spitting image of your mother. Wow, temper like his father. We hear different variations of these comparisons and...
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Stag-hyperinflation?
Stagflation, the bane of the 1970s, is pretty much the worst situation for ordinary folks. With the economy depressed, jobs are scarce for workers and profits are scarce for business owners. With...
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Lessons From My Frugal Father
My dad was 12 years old when the first waves of the Great Depression spread across the country. A modest but thriving farm insulated his family from the worst of the effects, but this period still...
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Best Money Tips: Frugal Depression-Era Habits to Pick Up
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some great articles on frugal Depression-era habits, the emotional side effects of debt, and tips for knowing whether a good deal is a...
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8 Reasons to Stay Calm When the Market Tanks
The month of August was no fun for investors, as news from a slowdown in the Chinese economy caused the U.S. stock market to have several of its worst days in years.It seems likely now that 2015 will...
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9 Money Lessons to Take From the Great Depression
Lasting from 1929 until 1939, the Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn of the 20th Century. Unemployment went as high as 25% in the U.S., over 5,000 banks failed, and...
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