Money Regulation

Families had to regulate how much money was being spent, even though they were bringing in money with boarders and the occasional odd job. They had very strict shopping lists, and would constantly mend the same socks, shoes, and pants.
They had to get creative, making clothing out of any available household item. Some family members even began hoarding, and keeping the most trivial things in large amounts. Rubber bands would be kept in containers, until there were hundreds of bands in one family member's possession. These hoarding tendencies still exist in some people today who lived through the Great Depression, although many of the hoarders today did not come from the Great Depression Era.

Here is a picture of a common Hoarder nowadays.