Learning our prices

To do this History Study to live like 1943 we need to know our prices for food and clothing, toiletries and most anything.  I will post a few clips so you can write down what things cost for this study.  I would suggest a small notebook and write down the prices so when you go shopping you can look up the 1943 price for your study.  If there is something that you cannot read or is not here and need to know a price you can email me.  Please title the email "Question" so I can get back to you a little faster. 

You can go to your public library to the research room and look at the microfilms to find the 1943 newspapers if your library offers this or you can go online to newspapers.com and they have a very reasonable fee of just $11.95 a month and well worth what all you get to research your history project. 

We have many people now that have gotten a monthly membership to newspapers to do this year of living like 1943 and are enjoying researching their home towns, the town they live in, genealogy and all kinds of things.  I am not getting anything from them to say this, I just appreciate that there is such a wonderful online research place.  

I have other prices that I will try and type up a list of hardware items, oil for the car etc.  

I mentioned on yesterdays post that I would post the price of city water in 1943.  It is .75 cents for 2000 gallons inside the city and 1.00 for 2000 gallons outside the city. At this time we do not know what the fees are over 2000 gallons and working on getting that figure.

I am very happy that so many of you are really digging in on this history study.  Grandma Donna