You are able to maximize your resources selling your chicken’s eggs every week for the things you can’t make and creating as much as you can from home. You are finding very creative ways to substitute for things you don’t have money to buy. Flour sacks are turning into dresses and new farm machinery is originating from the junk pile behind the barn.

In Early 1932 the Roosevelt Administration approved some of the surplus
wheat that it had bought to be distributed for livestock feed. Some of
the remaining wheat was given to the Red Cross to distribute.

In an effort to save money, women started using flour and feed sacks to clothe their children. The flour manufacturers soon caught on and began to market to the farm wife. New feed and flour sacks were created which had patterned prints on them that would look cute and could be used for clothing. Creativity was a necessity during the depression since the “correct” tool for jobs around the farm may not have been present. If a family didn’t own the tool a substitute, that may or may not have worked better than the original, was found and used in its’ place.