Could you have lived with the Waltons?

[clyde]

Each member of the Walton family had skills that enabled the whole group to survive the Depression. Even the youngest kids had chores to perform. Do any of you have skills or abilities which would have allowed you to be a useful member of the clan? I'm afraid I would have been sent packing.

[cinlou]

I could help with the cooking and cleaning but they were a big family. I like my privacy and in their house you had none!

[Deleted]

How much skill are we talking about?  I know how to cook, gather eggs, wash dishes, and all that domestic stuff. I would certainly have had enough to contribute, but if we're talking "Survivor: Waltons Style" ... I would be voted off somewhere in the middle.

I'm good at recovering worn furniture, painting, wallpapering and laying tile flooring down in my kitchen, but don't ask me to rewire anything, chop wood, fix plumbing or work on a car. Unless you don't mind doing without electricity, heat, water or transportation!! 

[Alexis From Texas]

I'd like to think so, my grandparents have a farm. I think I'd have a hard time with the lack of privacy, having to wear a dress all the time(no thank you). I love the tv show, but I really don't think I'd like to live in that time period very much.

[Sussie of Teckelhut Acres]

Mar 23, 2014 10:23:24 GMT -5 clyde said:

Each member of the Walton family had skills that enabled the whole group to survive the Depression. Even the youngest kids had chores to perform. Do any of you have skills or abilities which would have allowed you to be a useful member of the clan? I'm afraid I would have been sent packing.

I grew up in a small town. From the time I was 4 years old I was shooting a gun and fishing. My dad was a avid outdoorsman and taught us to hunt, fish, process our own meat and live off the land. Mom was a "city girl" who married a "good ol' boy" so she never really knew much of that kinda stuff nor cared to learn. She cooked what we caught or shot but everything else pretty much came from the grocers. LOL!  I learned allot of skills. How to tan hides, make knives, repair things. When I got out on my own I taught myself to can foods, grow my own gardens, dehydrate foods, etc.Jorgen and I prefered the simple life and being as self supporting as possible. I still do that only not to the magnitude that I did when my husband was alive or course because there is only one person in this house now. I do still raise my own meat. The rabbits and chickens I butcher myself, the lambs and what ever large game I shoot I take to the butcher to process. I would say that at this point I have a good year or more supply of food stocked up.

I also, growing up in the country, know how to ride a horse, hitch up a horse or a team (I used to do chariot racing competitions in my wilder days). I also know how to train horses, donkeys and mules for different things.

So yes. I reckon I would fit in just fine.

[Sussie of Teckelhut Acres]

Mar 23, 2014 10:57:20 GMT -5 Alexis From Texas said:

I'd like to think so, my grandparents have a farm. I think I'd have a hard time with the lack of privacy, having to wear a dress all the time(no thank you). I love the tv show, but I really don't think I'd like to live in that time period very much.

You don't have to wear a dress of you don't want to. Most of the time the children were in hand me down bib overalls. (Or as we jokingly call them "dashboard overalls" LOL)

[Deleted]

I mentioned this several times before here. When I was young, I wanted to jump through the TV screen and be adopted by the Waltons. It was a family that loved, cared and helped each other. Who wouldn't want that?

If my family cared for each other and I had great parents and grandparents...didn't matter about chores or how poor you were. You were loved and cared for. That's what matters.

And I would have the best TV dad ever. It's a Win-Win situation.

[patriciaanne]

From sunny Florida...

If I lived with the Waltons, I think I would have a lot of skills to contribute. I like to garden and bake. I can clean the house. I can ride and tack up a horse and take care of horse tack. And I know how to shoot. (But I hope they don't ask me to hunt because I think that would be difficult for me, but I would do it if I had to.)

[Deleted]

I have never ridden a horse (unless "Merry-go-rounds" count.)

I have chopped wood before (that is really hard, actually). I have fixed toilets but not other plumbing. I do dishes everyday. I've put on drapes, curtain rods, helped wife upholster a rocking chair. I'd have no trouble living without a TV, or without a phone. I also like sunsets and taking longs walks on the beach and candlelight dinners. Do I qualify?

I'm sending my resume (by mail of course) to the "Could you have lived with the Waltons?" department in Rockfish in a few minutes. Ike should get it in the mail in a couple of days. Please Cora-Beth don't open my letter, you'll just rip it up coz I don't meet your criteria.

[Alexis From Texas]

Mar 23, 2014 11:18:48 GMT -5 Sussie of Teckelhut Acres said:

Mar 23, 2014 10:57:20 GMT -5 Alexis From Texas said:

I'd like to think so, my grandparents have a farm. I think I'd have a hard time with the lack of privacy, having to wear a dress all the time(no thank you). I love the tv show, but I really don't think I'd like to live in that time period very much.

You don't have to wear a dress of you don't want to. Most of the time the children were in hand me down bib overalls. (Or as we jokingly call them "dashboard overalls" LOL)

that would be ok with me

[april]

I would love too! I'm not sure how many skills I could bring, but I could learn and really try.

 I love the quiet and peaceful life they live!

[sdw]

I think I would have liked to live with the Waltons.I can break beans,shuck corn,gather things in the garden.I could feed the animals.I could clean the house,and cook a little,and wash and dry dishes.I lived on a a farm for
33 years.I'm really not an outdoor person.I believe I could earn my keep.Clyde,I really like this thread.

[margro]

Mar 23, 2014 14:45:05 GMT -5 @dowsee said:

I have never ridden a horse (unless "Merry-go-rounds" count.)

I have chopped wood before (that is really hard, actually). I have fixed toilets but not other plumbing. I do dishes everyday. I've put on drapes, curtain rods, helped wife upholster a rocking chair. I'd have no trouble living without a TV, or without a phone. I also like sunsets and taking longs walks on the beach and candlelight dinners. Do I qualify?

I'm sending my resume (by mail of course) to the "Could you have lived with the Waltons?" department in Rockfish in a few minutes. Ike should get it in the mail in a couple of days. Please Cora-Beth don't open my letter, you'll just rip it up coz I don't meet your criteria.

LOL love your post. I definitely could not live with the Waltons (even though I would love to). I am an out and out city girl. My father's parents owned a sheep and wheat property in country NSW (Australia) and my dad was raised on the farm. My mum was a city girl from Scotland so they settled in the city. I would have to be the city slicker visiting the Waltons

[Kathy Lee]

If the electricity ever goes out I am moving in with the Walton Forum clan! They will know how to survive! 
I can cook, clean, tell a good story, grow a garden, sew, teach. I guess my most useful talent would be that I can identify edible plants, courtesy of my father who taught me to identify plants. 
I don't know if I could have lived in the real Walton/Hamner house. There is only one bathroom on the first floor. That must have been a busy room.
My father was the 12th of 16 children and they only had one bathroom. My father said one time he had to really go and he found a cinder block outside and used it as a toilet! Hey, it has two holes and he only used one! When I was a child we had a two bathroom house. My father said he refused to live in a house with one bathroom. 

[AR15]

I don't really have many skills, but if they'd teach me I'd love to learn. Life on the mountain seems so nice

On the other hand, living through World War 2 would be awfully stressful! I'd also be very bothered by the sexism and racism of the time... assuming I keep my 'modern mind'.