I came across this picture and I thought I’d share it with you. For the uniniciated, 1 ounce (oz for short) equals just under 3 grams and a pound (lb for short) is a little under a half a kilo.
I came across this picture and I thought I’d share it with you. For the uniniciated, 1 ounce (oz for short) equals just under 3 grams and a pound (lb for short) is a little under a half a kilo.
But, we are confused. There is no mention of toilet paper ration amounts?
Good point!
One egg per fortnight? I have one every day, a staple of my diet. Well, I guess I’d have survived?
You wouldn’t have had a lot of choice Trish!
Lest we forget…
And speaking of toilet paper, I suppose the grade of newsprint used in the war years was poor enough to work fairly well? Or did you all have indoor plumbing by then?
I hope you are not suggesting I was around then Christine! Okay, I admit there was this rationing when I was a baby!
I thought your parents would have talked of “the good old days.” My birth parents didn’t have indoor plumbing, so even I can tell my grands about “the good old days f the Sears catalogue.” 😉
I gather rationing went on for a long time after the war, well into the 50s. Have you read the book 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff? Very interesting!
They rarely spoke of them Christine and I never actually asked them much about it. I was born at the end of the ’40, so yes it was happening. I’ve heard of the book but not read it – I think I should!
Hi Keith – yes little was said of those days … yet we made use of everything and never threw things away. Toilet paper – Izal … the hard stuff … actually in the War I think they used newsprint (coal tar) too – especially in childbirth … as it had anti-bacterial properties. How they had to make do … and forage … as well as walk or bike everywhere … few cars. Take care – those were the days … thankfully not mine. All the best – Hilary
I’d forgotten about Izal, it was like greasepaper! And we think we’ve got it bad now. It doesn’t compare. Cheers Hilary.
LOl @ GBGV comment heheh!
Have a rationtastic safe week 😷😷😷
Yep, spot on! Cheers, Steve.
Wow. Can’t you imagine??
No! It reminds me how fortunate we are these days.
Wow. I would have been so thin back then. Bitchy as hell, but thin!
Me too, which wouldn’t a bad thing right now!
My understanding is that it was very difficult, but that as a group, the British people were at their healthiest ever under rationing.
That’s what they say Mimi!
Well done. My thought was no good deed goes unpunished.
Have a fabulous day, Keith. 🙂
Thanks Sandee!
Near the bottom of the list it gets worse! Heard from a blogger in the UK they used newspaper as toilet paper. My parents were in Japanese intern camp and got one, sometimes 2 bowls of rice per day. When I was young I always knew whose parents of my friends had still issues about the war. Food (and especially not liking a certain food) was a big thing!
The newspare/toilet paper thing is still talked about, especially during the recent panic buying of loo rolls which saw supermarket shelves empty! Thanks for your interesting comment Junie.
This strange subject has not yet died on this side of the pond either! It (toiet paper) was today at the thanksgiving table brought up by the millennials among us:)
Judging by the standard of some of our newspapers, that’s probably still the best use for them!
Haha, that’s a good one!
Wow, so very interesting. Thanks for sharing this with us.
It certainly is! My pleasure.
Oh my gosh- I cannot imagine…one must have had ( I hope ) a Victory Garden? Cheers!
That certainly would have been useful! Thanks Kathe.