13 Frugal Living Tips From The Depression: TightWad Gazette Series

13 Frugal Living Tips From The Depression:
Tightwad Gazette
Let's talk about some ways people saved money during the Great Depression

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[marywatkins]

I loved and still love The Tightwad Gazette. Read it when it came out in the 1990s and it helped me alot! I don't waste food. I buy many items pre-owned, as much as I can. I avoid debt and currently have none. I do simple mending repairs on clothes. I cook mostly from scratch, except for bread.

[FrenchTwist]

The grandmother who raised me was the queen of depression frugality. When her dress was worn or stained, it became a skirt, then an apron, then a throw pillow cover, then strips to create a rag rug or pot holder! I get laughed at for mending socks.

[loraannfi]

My mother would scold anyone who peeled potatoes. The amount of nutrition in the skin of a potato is incredible. The peel can even help the body break down the carbohydrates more efficiently. She would say that whoever peels potatoes is throwing away the part our bodies need the most. Unless I have a request for smooth mashed potatoes, we never peel them just a good scrubbing.

[sherabee]

Cereal bags make awesome freezer bags because they are nice and thick.

[anniecharlotte]

I love hearing about Tightwad gazette!

[joanmilano]

I grew up seeing my mom hang clothes out every day. They always smelled so good.

[lynnwall]

My grandmother word mend socks and underwear. I've started doing that. I reuse my sandwich bags. I've started meal prepping and canning.

[karenbaumgardner]

My grandmother took all her junk mail and unwanted mail and tore it into similar sizes. She always had a free stack of note paper to use for lists, etc.

[mariahsmom]

I started a vegetable garden this spring to save on groceries but it is definitely not cheap. A lot of start up costs. Plus, i never tried growing from seed before so I bought a lot of plants grown.
I wont do that again! Growing food is a skill we need back!

[bellen]

I do all these things. Don't do this anymore because of where I live the closest store is 3 miles away, but when my kids were young we lived only 4 blocks from the center of town so we walked to the library, grocery, drug store, etc. This was back in the 80s and I was even informed by a well meaning acquaintance that I would be able to qualify for food stamps, community nursing, and other social services - all because we walked and therefore MUST be poor. We weren't, just couldn't see any reason to take the car when everything was so close.

[peggysuewiskocil]

I have been buying 2lbs ground beef and splitting it in three instead of two.

[janinejackson]

Thank you I enjoyed your video. Here are some of the things I do to save. I eat only when I am hungry, and only 120grams of meat and a variety of vegetables. I drink only 2 maybe 3 cups of coffee a day. I have cut out all sugar from my diet as I am obese and unhealthy. I drink lots of water. Drinking a glass of water first before eating lets you know if you are thirsty or hungry. I don't spend money every payday, I don't walk into a shop or spend online. I use up what I have. I do free activities such as walking around looking at gardens. I collect kindling on my walks as I live in the country. I only turn my hot water on once a week and then once hot turn it off this saves on electricity. I get four days of hot water and a couple of luke warm before it goes very cold. When it comes to the toilet there is a saying " If its yellow let it mellow if its brown flush it down". This saves on water and money as I pay for water. I use wet cloths to wipe myself with and wash, disinfect and reuse. I'm past menopause but I made reusable pads which you can get the pattern for online. I have saved hundreds each year on toilet paper. I do keep a roll in the toilet room for visitors. These are only a hair fraction of what I do to save. I do sew and crochet and make my own clothes and blankets and kitchen, bathroom and bedroom linen. I do hang clothes to dry them. And much more. I hope this gives you some ideas.

[StephanieGiese]

I need to work on some of these. I lived with my grandmother for several years and she never wasted anything. She would even save the disposable straws from fast food restaurants after she used them. She would bring them home and wash them and reuse them until they cracked and broke. If she got a card for her birthday or the holidays she would cut off the front, save the side that had the message on it for herself, and reuse the blank picture side of the card as a postcard to send notes to friends in nursing or retirement homes.

[oliviafox]

I love Amy Dacyzyn. When I feel discouraged, I look through her books and get ideas on when to do better. // A kin to dumpster diving. One thing my dad, (a low income artist), would do, and I have done is curbside gleaning. When we lived in the Philly area dad would bring furniture home he found in a once wealthy neighborhood that was going down. He brought home a bentwood rocker, a set of mahogany shelves with brass handles, a sofa, some ornate cast iron shelf brackets from a mortuary that was being demolished, wooden fruit crates. Stuff like that. I still have a few pieces picked up that way.

[heartland]

My mother taught me to crush milk containers before putting them in the garbage to get more use out of trash bags (which were, of course, repurposed grocery bags)

[prettycountrygal]

I use to use bones from chickens, steaks, roast (if there was a bone), ham bone (if there was a bone) to make stock and I would either can it, freeze it, or make a hearty soup in it for my family. I would usually put something like peice of abbage, carrots, potatoes, maybe some green beans or green peas, and make a vegatable soup with the meat stock and add salt, pepper, some garlic powder, I would usually put some cut up onion in it and occassionally I would have some peices of ham, in the soup, or would have some chunks or a roast beef, or I would brown some sausage and some ground beef and put some of them in it.
I wash things out on my hands a lot like my grand mothers and great grandmothers did and my father. My father was born in 1935.
I like to buy small bottles of stuff, just different stuff like lotion, shampoo, toothpaste, conditioner, hot sauce, dressing, preserves, a small container of some things last me a long time and I look for the best product that comes in a small container for the cheapest price. Like shampoo and conditioner, I don't wash my hair every day, and sometimes will skip several days because it doesn't get very greasy and I don't have to wash it tons so I buy the small bottles a lot and they last me a while because I am not washing my hair every day. If my hair does start getting a little greasy I either comb my hair with a comb with some water on it and it gets a lot of the oilyness out of it or I will wrap my head in a pillow slip or towel and sleep in it and it will absorb alot of the oilyness.
I recycle aluminum cans at the recycle plant to earn a little money and to do a little bit to help the environment. I save scarp paper and use every inch of it that I can making notes, writing phone numbers down, I have even made my own envelopes from notebook paper, plain white copy paper, making my own stickers with a little drawing on the front of a little piece of paper and will cut it and tape or glue it on the envelope. I go through the trash at stores looking for paper, aluminum cans, pens, pencils, you never know what you will find in the trash. I got a paw patrol back pack out of a neighbors trash one time and it was still in decent condition. I have had that now for about 5 years. I wiped it off on the inside and out with some home made sanitizing cleaner and paper towels that I use to clean and sanitize things with. I make my own sanitizing cleaner with a few ingredients including white vinegar, alcohol, essential oils with a couple other ingredients.

[galcomom]

I cut paper towels in half. I also reuse tin foil if it is clean enough and alot of times you can wipe it off. I also save the inside wrap of cereal and use them for storage bags.

[trudielevins]

My mother would save the wrappers from butter and margarine and use them to grease her cake pans.

[joancollins]

I live in an apartment, and always hang my washing on an airer. Cook most meals from scratch. Ration many household items e.g. washing detergent, hand wash etc. Walk to work most of the time. Borrow books from the library frequently. And work full time. 
Thanks for another great vlog, Dawn!

[debbieframpton]

I just got the complete tightwad Gazette from my library