This little package was during the second WW. And yes, we squeezed the little red colored ball. We saved our sugar for candy at Christmas. My grandmother took the elastic from my grandfathers worn out underwear so I could have elastic in my undies. Otherwise it was buttons. We were rationed shoes (the leather was for the military boots), sugar, coffee and some other things I can't remember. It was all for the "war effort." We saved used cooking grease, that was used in ammunition. I was 9 when the war started and 14 when it ended. My father was in the Army and we lived in a converted chicken coop in Gainesville TX, just so we could be a family. (It had been cleaned and fixed up tho) We had good times tho. Yes I remember....