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re: depression era stories you have a hard time believing
Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:48 am to Jack Daniel
Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:48 am to Jack Daniel
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They had squared toilet paper in the depression era?
i don't know. i just heard you got one square per BM - guess everything was being rationed for the war back then
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Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:53 am to LSU1NSEC
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i don't know.
they did, but probably lots of people couldn't afford to spend what little they had on very much of it, I'll bet it wasn't even available to the poor folk that lived way out in the sticks, like my parents families
Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:57 am to 777Tiger
Drank a glass of sugar water after dinner in order to feel full.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:58 am to LSU1NSEC
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was being rationed for the war back then
which was not the depression
Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:59 am to ksayetiger
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which was not the depression
true
Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:00 am to BOSCEAUX
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Drank a glass of sugar water after dinner in order to feel full.
makes no sense. anyone who's ever drank a coke when there were thirsty knows sugar water just makes you more thirsty.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:01 am to CAD703X
I believe he said to curb hunger, not thirst.
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Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:01 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
just cant let it go can u
Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:02 am to LSU1NSEC
If you've never shite it your hand, you ain't living
Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:02 am to CAD703X
I may or may not be Jeff Bezos
Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:03 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
i heard a lot of fathers just jumped on a train and deserted their families. couldn't deal with the situation
Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:16 am to LSU1NSEC
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How do you crap and use one square of toilet paper
High fiber diet.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:18 am to LSU1NSEC
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my grandma said they didn't even have toilet paper - they used corn cobs
Mine said they used old Sear & Roebuck catalogs.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:22 am to VetteGuy
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My Pop used to tell us that he worked picking up Tung nuts for $.50 a day.
Your Pop must be from around Folsom. There were several tung plantations in that area. The Global Wildlife Center is on what used to be a tung plantation.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 11:29 am to LSU1NSEC
My grandpa always told me that during the depression he got so good at rabbit hunting, he could run alongside them and feel how fat they were before he shot them
Posted on 7/2/14 at 12:04 pm to LSU1NSEC
My grandmother said because the couldn't afford clothes they would make them themselves out of flour sacks. I always thought bullshite until I was doing my genealogy and found some pictures with her and her sisters and damn if they weren't wearing them, crazy! No shoes either.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 12:08 pm to Scream4LSU
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My grandmother said because the couldn't afford clothes they would make them themselves out of flour sacks
my grandmother told me that too, I thought it was cool, and got her to make me one out of a feed sack, with the cow centered on the back, when I was 6-7,
Posted on 7/2/14 at 12:46 pm to LSU1NSEC
My Grandfather said he would pick potatoes at a farm and get paid with a few potatoes. At night they slept in the open fields. The story he usually told us around Thanksgiving or Christmas was how he woke up and had to strangle a rat as it climbed up his pants leg.
This post was edited on 12/2/15 at 1:52 am
Posted on 7/2/14 at 12:57 pm to Karnac
My grandpa said the floor of their house had holes in it and you could see the chickens pecking under the house
Posted on 7/2/14 at 12:57 pm to LSU1NSEC
Two words: Roof Rabbit. Also, for when sleeping in the rough, it became common to wear a metal nosepiece. Because otherwise, depression-era Americans risked having their noses gnawed off by hungry rats.
Imagine waking up and finding your nose gone...
Imagine waking up and finding your nose gone...
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