Originally Posted by caliquocat
Originally Posted by Up North
We are soon going to be just like those who went through the recession before, using old cloths and scraps, to bad we no longer have feed bags to purchase or we would also do that. Lets hope we do not have to go through rashining and get those little stamps to purchase things.
"those little stamps" makes you about the same era as me. (40's?) I still have my ration book & the few stamps still inside. My Mom saved them for my brother & I to recall later.
Those were ration books issued during WWII for things that there was a shortage of because they were used up in the war ( not the depression which was over by then.) like : gasolene, shoes, sugar, coffee, shortning for cooking, It was meant to prevent hoarding, and to make sure everybody got an equal share.
Actually the same kind of depression is happening now....prices of everything went up, so that people did not have enough money to buy everything they needed or wanted to buy.