Black and White old comedies and TV Shows -- A VALUABLE RESOURCE!

...preppers, libertarians, and even just fun with your grandparents too.

Recently I attended a garage sale of an estate of an elderly gentleman and
picked up some DVDs of Green Acres, and Petty Coat Junction, and some good Westerns too!

These are old comedy movies that use to air on TV in the 50's and 60's.

Watching these black and white comedies gives two valuable resources:

• What kinds of people things were doing in the early days before
  telephones, computers, televisions, and most of the time, even electricity

..look for the artifacts on the set. Manual coffee grinders, weigh scales,
pianos. Back then, they even through rice at weddings too.

• Watching this with a parent, or a grandparent, can bring about great conversation about what things they remember. You both can notice the way of life back then, vs now...

During a financial collapse, the way of the life as portrayed in the early days 1920's 30's, 40's and even 50's (as broadcast on TV in the 50's and 60's) some of these living styles may actually come back again.

Even if cryptocurrency wouldn't help you when the power is out for weeks and months, you can prepare yourself now, for what life would be like without electricity.

This is why when you find things at a garage sale, like an old "manual drill" or a "hand saw"... when you are in the deep bush, with no electricity, these things become quite useful.

Not always are you going to have gas for a generator, or working solar panels, etc.

A well built manual hand tool that has lasted 50 to 100 years is worth more than its weight in food.

Have some fun. When you obtain some of these black and white TV comedies or Western movies, enjoy the show.. but also make a point of looking what is present on the set behind the actors.

• Which relics of life do you see? Which current day technologies are missing?

For instance, on the TV right now, the guy is holding up an old kerosene lantern while walking through the woods. Batteries were never used.

So if you consider almost everything we use with batteries today -- remove all of those devices and you end up with a lot less. No flashlights, no cell phones, no radios, no battery operated tools.

Most prepper kits include batteries. If you go long enough (a year or more) one of the first things stores run out of first, is batteries. Just ask New Yorkers during the blackout in 1977 or 2003 which items stores ran out of first.

Do you know the difference between kerosene and coal oil (aka candle coal)? A whole history is available at this link

Finding out what you don't know.. and what most people don't know... puts you at an advantage during a financial collapse should one day it arrive. There will be no time to fire up the internet and discover these things should that happen. Take a few moments and acquaint yourself with a bit of history while the electricity still works. :)

There is a lot to be learned from old black and white TV Shows. Buy yourself some used B&W DVDs at a thrift store, sit back, and re-discover what the future could bring.. how ready would you be in a lifestyle like those of our grandparents, or even the parents of our grandparents?

I leave you with a bonus video:

• This is boring, but interesting at the same time. If you ever wanted to build your own pump car, or even understand what a pump car is properly named, now you know. Ask any of your friends "do you know what a pump car is?"

WHAT OLD TV SHOWS HAVE YOU SEEN?

• How about "The Waltons"?