Haha 😁

"Tea Strong Enough for a Mouse to trot on" 😂

It said 'the others in the family eat out.' How can they if she's spent all their points? At about 5 min in.

I wonder why it’s from?

People forget how expensive textiles were back then even without the war causing scarcity. Everyone had to know how to fix things and alter garments to fit the wearer!

Scarcity is the foundation of socialism. They took this and ran with it and are still trying to ram this down peoples throats under the guise of equality and climate change.

If she is trying to be funny, she falls very short. She also laughs like our vice president, and we don't like her.

It was a good idea then. And it is s good idea now . Many schools have vegetsble plots . And food can be grown in the smallest of spaces. I gave up growing flowers years ago . Just some at the edge to attract bees . Its good exercise snd definately not as borning as the gym.

If your parents were boomers, chances are this was your childhood.....

Does anyone on here know for sure rather the Victory Gardens in England started in October 1939 or in January 1940? Some sites claim the primal, others the latter and I am a bit confused. Any real info would be highly appreciated, I am truly in need of this one!

Is it 5"a day or a week. I think everyone used to take weekly baths?.

Aw. Bless ‘em. I did really like the patchwork dressing gown. “Mrs. Clark made her frock from a pair of her husband’s old trousers” … and unfortunately, that’s exactly what it looks like.

That’s Anna Russell talking about make do and mend isn’t it?! “ the story opens in the Rhine… IN it… and swimming around are three Rhine Maidens”

honestly this was plenty of food, you dont need any more than that a week, all local shops provided this which gave them some business too.

What a civil society that managed to double food production, come up with a fair system of rationing, and making a large portion of their people healthier, and field a huge army in the field! Amazing!

Can you reinvent clothing by repurposing

RIGHT. TO. THE. POINT. Greatest informational video ever.

:D People here saying “they appreciated what they had” can’t be British, who as we all know will find a way to grumble at anything - as grumble and complain they surely did in 39-45. Shortages, uneven distribution, shopkeepers showing preference for certain customers, how ‘all in it together’ was nonsense (always easier to get more meat, cheese, butter etc in the countryside - even some veg could be hard to find in cities, and the rich never struggled to find extras in everything). Increasingly-tatty clothes always having to be reworn and repaired and no replacements to be found (even if you’d saved the coupons), rations being tightened even more during times of crisis, battered paperbacks being read over and over because no printing etc etc. Londoners unable to find certain vegetables or adequate coal during the harsh winters (one man in 1943 started dreaming about onions so much he longed just for a taste of one) in houses kept secure by tarps for two years because they were in a lengthy queue for repairs. Govt regularly talked about criminality of the black market, but a lesser, grey market existed with shopped coupons, hoarding, exchanges and trades. Most could point to certain crimes (eg siphoning petrol) as “wrong” but there were a lot of vaguer instances, technically illegal but okay as far as public feeling went. The reality is they hated it, they griped about it, they dreamt of times of plenty, they longed for it to be over, they were tired out - they were human. Think of how grudging people were about lockdowns, seeing the necessity but definitely not a fan, oh bloomin’ no. There were blackout cranks just as much as there were 5G conspiracy cranks. Don’t swallow myths of this big happy society that we should emulate or return to, the truth is far more interesting. Every gripe & moan you hear from today existed back then, about queues, about sexism, about pay, about empty shelves, about food, about government control etc etc etc. We’re not so different, these are our relatives and we’re all chips off the old block ;)

That saddened part is everyone rationed for NOTHING! Chamberlain said it was for food for the soldiers. That was a lie, it was to make the people feel they were doing their “part” for the war!!! It WASNT necessary at at!!! Propaganda at the expense of the people

Oops, that poor guy lost his trousers to the war effort.

People have forgotten how to budget, and how to live within their means. They prefer to scrounge. No pride left.

Who would have thbought this would be relevant in 2022!

Born in WWII my mother would extend the life of bedsheets that were worn in the middle by cutting in half down the center and sewing the outside edges together. She made raincoats for us from material "scavenged" from shot down barrage balloons.

This actor did the film on coughs and sneezes spread diseases catch them in your handkerchief

I like to Britain history studies

I like to study history of Britain

My mother had house hold milk it was still going around as National Dried milk in the 1970s . It put her off milk for the rest of her life.

A film about potatoes , not boring at all.

I make do and mend . Clothes are expensive. So , if it gets ragged I mend .

That cot with a couple of chairs and a sack may of worked back then, but would be considered child endangerment now. Everything else is on point though. Make do and mend!

I'm trying! Both the waist to get around and the waste not to as well!

Awww... but mashed potatoes sandwiches are my favorite!

Life was hard for sure, but you spent less on frivolous things and more on things you actually needed or truly wanted. And you appreciated what you had more back then.

I couldn't be a shop keeper. =P

Not much for bathes, but I do the "get wet, turn water off. Suds up. Turn water on and rinse" and that's it. That might be even less water, I am not sure.

Never could keep bread for very long myself. The solution? Eat it all before it has a chance to spoil!

I've tried powdered milk. Not to my liking. I'd rather go with out. Would be good for mashed potatoes though.

The Irish practically lived on potatoes alone. A bit of butter milk or greens to help round out the nutrients, but by and large a diet of potatoes. Easy to prepare, many different ways and delicious. I simply bake mine. Easy peazy lemon squeezy! A power house of nutrition and cheap!

now baby, good behaviour pls

Honestly need this mentality back before our entire planet is taken over by cheap plastic garbage

That ending killed me! 🤣🍫

As a point of interest the 'Dad' was played by the late Moore Marriot who was a co-star in most of Will Hay's films.

A little bit more serious when our military was suffering because they did not have adequate clothing to keep them warm in the Winter Women from America They made clothes for the military and lined them with love And it kept them warm. Is beautiful example of how humanity can be better

Do you remember the sitcom of Carol Burnett She dawned a famous gown made of curtain Everybody enjoyed watching it and loved her so much more for it. Still loved today

So wonderful. Patches shoes and jeans everything made to last. My mother made me dresses out of flour sacks when I was a girl. The most beautiful comfortable dressing 👗 I had. One day someone made her feel Ashamed and she stopped making them. I'm sure whoever that was was a devil of somekind.

Good times

Do you understand the value of appreciation? It's a precious gift. Appreciation is Admired by God. Sometimes things must be taken away to teach appreciation.

They appreciated the smallest of things

I liked these days. People understood quality over quantity

watching this today in October 2021 after my grocery ran out of toilet paper and all the meat was limited to 2 items per person...