I know things are bad all over but there are alot of things we can do to help our selves. Plant a guarden this spring. Learn how to can food. Learn how to do simple repares your self. Insteed of buying gifts make them. Learn how to sew. That way you can make some of your our clothes, repare or remake them. Reuse every thing you can.
There are tons of books at the Liberary that can help you learn the things our Grandparents did every day. As well as DVDs and CDs.
We can all get threw the hard times if we just use our heads.