20 Depression-Era Holiday Habits That Let Seniors Spoil the Grandkids Without Going Broke

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenFrugalAmerica?sub_confirmation=1 👉Start saving $5000 a year with my Ebook: https://forgottenfrugalamerica.netlify.app This Christmas, a 69-year-old grandmother in Terre Haute wants to spoil seven grandchildren on $1,880 a month from Social Security. In her dresser sits her mother's 1936 Christmas Club passbook, and the last line inside it holds the whole secret. AARP says grandparents now spend over $2,600 a year on grandkids — more than a month of the average retiree's check. Our grandmothers made Christmas on far less: an orange in the toe, a doll sewn from a flour sack, a cake with no eggs or butter. Here are 20 of their habits, counted down to number one. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_club https://cumberlink.com/news/local/history/tour_through_time/tour-through-time-carlisle-had-first-christmas-saving-club-in-the-financial-world/article_72d280ec-e866-5127-9334-a2c004d0815f.html https://www.agfinancial.org/resources/article/christmas-clubs