Dick2, I am not making light of you or anyone else, just telling how some of those people had to manage during the depression. My dad always reused baing wire as long as he had a wire tye baler , that saved many much needed dollars for other family needs.
He and my mom took over my uncles farm as he was about to loose it right before the depression. They did without to pay the farm off as there was 9000 dollars against it when they assumed the debt. In five years they paid it down to 3000 dollars. The summer of 1936 was the record hottest and driest ever with a hail storm that finished off crops.
The bank forclosed on the farm leaving my dad and mother with five young children and no place to go and with no money. There were no social programs then to help then. My grandad and my mothers sister loaned them enough money to get a toehold again farming. They said many times afterward they had never been able to enjoy having a few dollars as they were always afraid of loosing it again.
They went on to having two more children, me being one of them, giving us all an education and start in life. My dad died at 89 years old , my mother died at 98 years. May they both rest in Heaven, they certainly earned it. Joe
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