One thing I love about homeschooling my children is the ability to incorporate learning into our everyday lives. Recently, we began researching the depression. There was a great debate on whether we were living in another depression or a recession. We concluded that economic times are fairly close to the depression, but not quite there yet. I think there are many lessons we could learn from those who did live through the depression that could make this recession easier for our families. When I was a teen, I volunteered in an elderly apartment building. I remember a few of the elderly ladies had boxes of canned goods, dry milk and toilet paper. I asked one of them ( Mabel) what the box was for. She explained that she grew up in the depression and you never know when times will turn tough. She called it her emergency box.
I made my own emergency box when I had a home of my own. There were many times that my paycheck just didn't allow for food and that emergency stash of chef boyardee saved me from hungry nights. Living in Maine, we get all kinds of weather and are no strangers to power outages. The emergency box was a blessing when we were without power for over a week and the stores were closed. In the spirit of learning from our history, I have decided to create a challenge where we cook like they did in the depression. I will post the recipes, budget and outcome of our experiment as we go. My hope is that we can still have healthy, happy meals and save money!
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What a great idea, Tiffany. We in Florida always have emergency "boxes," especially in the summer during storm season. We stash non-perishable foods, water, tarps, batteries, flashlights, candles, duct tape, important papers, cash, gasoline, first aid kits, and set up a "family" contact person.
ReplyDeleteWith the uncertainty of hard economic times and the disasters of climate change and climate change migration, including oil spills, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, floods, earthquakes, and tsunami's, everyone should be prepared. Some say the unrelenting gulf oil spill will turn our economy upside down even more and food will be scarce, so growing a garden becomes even more essential.
What a great idea, Tiffany. We in Florida always have emergency "boxes," especially in the summer during storm season. We stash non-perishable foods, water, tarps, batteries, flashlights, candles, duct tape, important papers, cash, gasoline, first aid kits, and set up a "family" contact person.
ReplyDeleteWith the uncertainty of hard economic times and the disasters of climate change and climate change migration, including oil spills, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, floods, earthquakes, and tsunami's, everyone should be prepared. Some say the unrelenting gulf oil spill will turn our economy upside down even more and food will be scarce, so growing a garden becomes even more essential.