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I remember the rationing.
We had 4 oz sugar and 1 egg a week. Butter was scare and we had 2 oz of cheese.
We all had a ration book.
When you went shopping you had to take your book so the coupons could be cut out.
There were queues for certain items like bread.
There were a couple of bakeries near us and my oldest sister and I would have to go and queue.
We had dried egg similar to scrambled egg. The powder was all yellow.
We never had chocolate and hardly any sweets and they were rationed, so even if you did have enough money to buy them sometimes there weren't any.
My mum had a job making the money go round and keeping us all.
We were happy though.

We didn't have any radio and my dad would play the mouth organ. We would all gather round and sing.
Our neighbours wanted to come to our house.
We played singing games.
You would stand at the wall and everyone else would do the actions and then another person would be picked out and join in and they would pick another person until everyone was standing at the front joining in.

We had coupons for clothes.
You were allowed 15 or 18 coupons.
You needed 7 coupons for a pair of shoes, 15 for a coat. So if you bought a coat you only had a few left.

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