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Like everyone else, we’ve started economising at home. We swapped to a lower-cost grocery store and sold the second car. We’ve always used left-overs - now there are fewer of them because we’re trying to cook only what we need. I’ve given up the cup of coffee bought downstairs every morning. And I swapped bus routes because the new one is $8.00 cheaper a week.

These are minor changes compared to the sacrifices made during The Great Depression. “The New York Times” includes a series of interviews with people who survived those tought times. I thought we were doing it tough until I read this great article:

“In the winter the chickens would come up under the house and sit in the basement, so if we wanted a chicken we’d raise a plank up and reach down and get the chicken.”  Thomas Moon, 87

Read the article - I heartily recommend it.