Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Maybe they couldn't afford any more fabric, but needed warmth and were able to delay washing them till they could afford something else.
I've heard of newspapers being used as insulation under linoleum where the floor boards were letting in wind. This was way back then in the hills, before dragons or cell phones walked the earth.
Putting newspapers under linoleum was a very common practice in Australia - especially during the depression years. I always have great fun reading all of the old stuff when renovating the floor coverings. One place I was in even wall papered the house with newspapers. Another interesting one was a rattan blind made out of cord and rolled up newspaper where the cane would normally be - it looks really funky.