On Friday, October 12, I got a frantic call from my wife at work. She was sobbing, and couldn’t hardly get any words out. Jen: “Charlie….I’m so sorry.” Charlie: “What happen? Did you get in an accident?” Jen: “No. Your Grandpa passed away this morning. He died about 8:30am at home with your Dad and …
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Great Depression Series – Video #3 – Living through the Dust Bowl
Have you heard the news lately that many weatherman are calling 2012 the year of the second Dust Bowl? The weather channel has even run an article on the comparison between 1930 vs 2012 dust bowls. When I went home over July 4th I even went out to the field to see how the crop …
Great Depression Series – Video #2 – Living through the Great Depression
Living through the Great Depression was no small feat. People think that the recession of 2008 was bad, but people from our generation don’t know what it’s like to have 25% unemployment and families losing everything. The pain of the depression can be seen in my Grandparents in the second of our video series. You …
Great Depression Series – Video #1 – Marriage Advice
My grandparents have had a huge financial impact on my life. Mainly for two reason, 1) they have been married for 71 years, and 2) they live frugal lifestyles because the impact that Great Depression has had on their life. They were married in 1941 (just at the tail end of the depression), and they …
How to Prepare for a Great Depression
I’m a huge fan of history, and particularly the study of the Great Depression. I love learning from the mistakes of our past to either prepare for the future or avoid making the same mistakes of our ancestors. My grandpa’s life has had a huge impact on my perspective of reviewing history in order to …
Farming During the Great Depression
Since we started ThreeThriftyGuys.com more than two years ago I’ve done a number of articles on the Great Depression. To name a few, “How people survived the Great Depression“, and “How the Great Depression Changed People.” All of these are because of the impact my Grandparents have had on my life. My Grandpa is 92 …
The rising cost of food (nothing new)
This is a great image from the issue. It's amazing to see how much prices have gone up since this period.
How People Survived the Great Depression
My grandparents would be the first to admit that living through the depression was tough. Extremely tough! So much so that is revolutionized the way they lived. Even beyond 1945 this era changed their life forever, and is how they live today. Recently, my family and I went home to visit them and talked to …
Living through the Great Depression – Interview with Gerhardt Gutz
Today I had the pleasure of doing a phone interview with my Grandpa on the Great Depression and created this YouTube video from it. I asked him a lot of questions on how the great depression affected him, what he would do different than younger generations today, about debt, will we go through another great …
How the Great Depression Changed People?
Being a farm kid from Iowa, I had the pleasure of being raised by not only great parents, but also loving and caring grandparents. With this I got to spend a lot of quality time with my Grandpa and Grandma, and saw how they lived their lives differently then everyone else. I saw how the …