What Did 1930s Immigrant Mothers Know About Money That We've Completely Forgotten?

Subscribe to the channel:    / @forgottenfrugalamerica   👉Start saving $5000 a year with my Ebook: https://forgottenfrugalamerica.netlif... In 1934, on the Lower East Side, an immigrant mother named Golda Wexler fed six people on twenty-two dollars a week. She held no insurance policy. No savings account. No credit anywhere. When her husband collapsed at the shop that January, she did not go to a bank, and she did not go on relief. She put on her coat and walked to a room above a butcher shop on Rivington Street. What she carried home from that room is number one on this list. They ran money on habits, not accounts. Habits carried across an ocean and drilled into every daughter. We buried every one of them the moment easy credit made them look like poverty. Golda's rules run through everything that follows. Number sixteen turned a spare bed into a rent payment. Number eight is a job thousands of women did in their own kitchens for pennies. And number one is what waited in that room on Rivington Street. These twenty rules weren't about being poor. They were about never being alone. Hit that subscribe button. Let's count them down.