[jblum315]

I was born just before World War II. My father owned a general store in rural Virginia. He still had "due bills" in ledgers from the Depression and he never tried to collect on them or cut those people off because they were still poor as dirt. I remember the ration books during the war and my thrifty Mom became even thriftier. Everything was recycled to make do - paper bags, aluminum foil (they called it tinfoil), clothing was patched up or made into quilts, Bell canning jars were used over and over again.