tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302975315458122730.post4438255098757214246..comments2023-06-26T07:15:09.693-07:00Comments on Living out WWII Rationing: The 4th… What was it really like?Whipstich Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15841372259702283188noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302975315458122730.post-89757111077703056222012-08-10T07:29:53.853-07:002012-08-10T07:29:53.853-07:00I stumbled across your blog while I was looking fo...I stumbled across your blog while I was looking for some information on amounts people were allowed to buy of certain items. More power to you for trying to live the rationing! I sincerely doubt that with our current culture of spoiled entitlement there could ever be such a movement again regardless of how "patriotic" our people pretend to be. Nowadays, being American means the freedom to buy what you want, when you want, and any government trying to say you can't is facsist, socialist, communist, or something else considered by many to be unsavory and unacceptable.<br /><br />But thinking of the theme, I remember playing in my grandma's junk drawer and finding coupons and "red cents." (I sure wish I had those now!) In their house, even though they were permitted to buy certain things or certain amounts, they didn't if they didn't need to so there it would be available for someone else. I don't even think you expect THAT today. <br /><br />As far as the "use it up" rule, I'd like to read about whether you can pull this off: My dad said that when milk started to turn, grandma would put it out on the counter until it "spoiled" solid. Then she would salt and pepper it and eat it like cottage cheese!SavvyCat Jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302975315458122730.post-77234002534447934342012-07-08T23:04:48.720-07:002012-07-08T23:04:48.720-07:00That was a very lovely post.
My grandfather was a...That was a very lovely post.<br /><br />My grandfather was a WWII vet, and my family and I spent one 4th with him before he died (he's been gone for well over 20 years now) and I was told stories of how it was. Before the war, yes, but it was the depression and maybe it will help you get a glimpse of the time.<br /><br />He grew up in rural south Texas. By rural, there was nothing close, going to town was a day long trip. He said that the whole community got together and had a picnic on the square, or wherever they could sit. There were parades, and basically just the community having a block party. No drinking (as so many do now), no fireworks (he remembered one year when he was about 12 that he got a sparkler) and no grilling.<br /><br />Funny enough, until I moved from Dallas, I used to go to a museum that did the same thing until I moved.Sew Duckyhttp://www.sewducky.comnoreply@blogger.com