WW2
Apr 22, 2020 17:58:51 #
I don't reamember a lot of it because I was a little kid but I had an uncle who worked at a dept store and would bring me metal soldier's put the war effort took all the steel so they switched to plastic h**ed them .
You couldn't buy a car and if you had one you have a hard time buying tires for it.
Of corse gas was rationed as was building supply wood nails hardware.
Even food was rationed. If you needed tooth paste you took your lead tube to the dept store and they refilled it. I'm sure many on here reamember many more things .
But compared to what were being asked to do now is nothing compared to then.
Just thought of one more thing women would tool bandages at home we saved string
You couldn't buy a car and if you had one you have a hard time buying tires for it.
Of corse gas was rationed as was building supply wood nails hardware.
Even food was rationed. If you needed tooth paste you took your lead tube to the dept store and they refilled it. I'm sure many on here reamember many more things .
But compared to what were being asked to do now is nothing compared to then.
Just thought of one more thing women would tool bandages at home we saved string
Apr 22, 2020 18:06:37 #
Lonewolf wrote:
I don't reamember a lot of it because I was a litt... (show quote)
Everybody had a ration card and just about everything was rationed. One of my most vivid memories is when Burt Earl was k**led in a hedge row in France and his body made it back home. Was a big funeral.
Apr 22, 2020 18:07:37 #
EL
Loc: Massachusetts
Lonewolf wrote:
I don't reamember a lot of it because I was a litt... (show quote)
Needed tokens to buy sugar and butter and had to wait in long lines to get sugar.
Apr 22, 2020 18:11:56 #
I remember the big piles of rusted steel junk cars machinery all kind of thing collected for the war effort some of those piles still exest
Apr 22, 2020 18:12:10 #
EL wrote:
Needed tokens to buy sugar and butter and had to wait in long lines to get sugar.
We made our own butter and mother used a lot of substitutes for sugar. Sugar was hard to get.
Apr 22, 2020 18:20:15 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
Lonewolf wrote:
I remember the big piles of rusted steel junk cars machinery all kind of thing collected for the war effort some of those piles still exest
People were turning in everything made of Aluminum for the war effort and aircraft production. They would donate their cookware. Unfortunately, most of it couldn't be used as the alloy mixture was unsuitable for recycling for this purpose.
Apr 22, 2020 18:27:27 #
Hug wrote:
We made our own butter and mother used a lot of substitutes for sugar. Sugar was hard to get.
I don't know if it was butter but it came in a plastic bag it was white and there was a little orange capsule and you squeeze it till it broke then kneded that bag till it all turned yellow
Apr 22, 2020 19:16:05 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
Lonewolf wrote:
I don't know if it was butter but it came in a plastic bag it was white and there was a little orange capsule and you squeeze it till it broke then kneded that bag till it all turned yellow
It wasn't butter. It was Oleo, or lard!
Apr 22, 2020 19:23:57 #
Hug wrote:
We made our own butter and mother used a lot of substitutes for sugar. Sugar was hard to get.
Molasses was number one substitute. My mother’s brother had a farm and grew among other things ,sugar cane, from which they made molasses. My grandmother had a cow and chickens so we had milk and eggs. Everything was rationed, shoes and clothing, soft drinks were unheard of. No one was out protesting, they were all fighting or trying to keep the home fires burning. We were strong and resistant and I am very proud of my father’s generation, sorry my children and grandchildren can’t say the same.
Apr 22, 2020 19:51:07 #
Lonewolf wrote:
I don't know if it was butter but it came in a plastic bag it was white and there was a little orange capsule and you squeeze it till it broke then kneded that bag till it all turned yellow
I remember that, but I don't remember what it was called.
Apr 22, 2020 19:53:00 #
Apr 22, 2020 20:01:08 #
dtucker300 wrote:
It wasn't butter. It was Oleo, or lard!
Must have been Oleo. We got plenty of lard from the hogs we butcherd
Apr 22, 2020 20:04:39 #
Shoe repair was another we had a stand with a metal shoe plate and we had a bottle cap press to cap homemade root beer .
Holes in shoes could be fixed with a piece of cardboard not bad in summer but when snow hit not so good.
Now days we just Toss things .
We had a big tube of black salve and it went on anything cut bit what ever.
Holes in shoes could be fixed with a piece of cardboard not bad in summer but when snow hit not so good.
Now days we just Toss things .
We had a big tube of black salve and it went on anything cut bit what ever.
Apr 22, 2020 20:22:05 #
Lonewolf wrote:
Shoe repair was another we had a stand with a metal shoe plate and we had a bottle cap press to cap homemade root beer .
Holes in shoes could be fixed with a piece of cardboard not bad in summer but when snow hit not so good.
Now days we just Toss things .
We had a big tube of black salve and it went on anything cut bit what ever.
Holes in shoes could be fixed with a piece of cardboard not bad in summer but when snow hit not so good.
Now days we just Toss things .
We had a big tube of black salve and it went on anything cut bit what ever.
To quote Charles Dickens " It was the best of times and the worst of times"
Apr 22, 2020 20:46:09 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
Hug wrote:
To quote Charles Dickens " It was the best of times and the worst of times"
And people were asked to make sacrifices for the war effort and they gladly did it. Can you imagine today's snowflakes giving anything up for a national emergency? That's the difference between being a patriotic American vs. an America-h**er.
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