>>http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/events/rationing.htm
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>That was a different world, all right.
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>Both my parents were born in the UK in 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression. Rationing started in the UK in early 1940, both my parents were bombed out of their homes as young children during the war. They married and emigrated to Canada in 1955. Since rationing didn't fully end in the UK until 1954 (vs. 1947 in the US), until they emigrated they had spent basically their entire lives either in the Depression, WWII or under rationing.
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>Boomers and later generations don't have a clue - they think they're hard done by when they can only buy a 37" big-screen TV instead of a 50".

Hey, Al. When I was a toddler my dad went over to Canada to forge a life for us, and was away for quite a while. I have old pix of him over there. Anyway, he never made it, being essentially unskilled (but he was a bed maker) and came back home. I could have been a Canadian too :-)

I remember he kept all his old screws and nails, etc, in a huge white tin can that had held "National Dried Milk", left over from rationing.