About gDonna
The photo is my son and myself. Now days you can get a photo made to look old like this one. This photo was taken when this was the new look.

Harry S Truman was president when I was born and world war II had ended. I grew up in a time when lunch was put in a brown paper bag and a sandwich was wrapped with wax paper. There was no such thing as pantyhose, we wore stockings that attached to the rubbery clippy things that attached to the girdle. Convenience stores were not common and when we took a trip we packed a picnic basket because many places did not have fast food. Highways had places to pull over and stop, some with picnic tables. Read more ....

My Favorite Blog and Books

Down to Earth "Blog"

Down to Earth Book

The Simple Life by Rhonda Hetzel

WWII GAS AND SHOE RATIONING AND MORE

June 30, 2015

If you have been following along my web posts I have explained that my husband and I are living the era of 1943 for one year. We are trying our best to follow all the rationing guidelines they had in 1943 as well as living as they did as much as possible. Here are a few more articles about the rationing.

***** NOTE ***** Since posting this article I found a later newspaper article that says that gasoline was reduced from 4 gallons to three gallons. I will scan that article and post it as soon as I can, but since I do not have internet this is difficult. I work mostly from the library.